Daniel Info

Editor: David Maas
{BACKGROUND}

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{INTRODUCTION}
  1. Overview of Daniel - {PDF Copy} - (An introduction to the Book of Daniel with a brief overview of how Revelation applies passages from it)
  2. Empires Rise and Fall - {PDF Copy} - (Imperial arrogance is the legacy of the Tower of Babel, humanity’s first but certainly not last attempt to establish the World Empire)
  3. Land of Shinar - {PDF Copy} - (The arrogant acts of Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel parallel the incident at the Tower of Babel in Genesis)
  4. One Beast - {PDF Copy} - (The Beast is a single history-spanning entity that has existed since at least the dawn of human civilization)
  5. He Removes Kings - {PDF Copy} - (Yahweh, the God of Israel, changes the times and seasons, removes kings, and sets up kings to achieve His purposes)

{TOPICAL STUDIES}
  1. In Plain Sight - {PDF Copy} - (The “word to return and restore Jerusalem” is identified clearly at the start of the “seventy weeks” prophecy in chapter 9 of Daniel)
  2. Second Little Horn? - {PDF Copy} - (The Little Horn is named in two of Daniel’s visions. Is it the same figure each time or two different individual rulers? - Daniel 7:7-8, 8:9-14)
  3. Desolating Abomination - Context - {PDF Copy} - (Literary context is vital for understanding the Abomination that Desolates in the book of Daniel)
  4. The End of the Indignation - {PDF Copy} - (The war against the saints will terminate after the period of a time, times, and part of a time – after the tribulation - Daniel 7:25)
  5. That Son of Man - {PDF Copy} - (The one like a Son of Man in Daniel is the source of Christ’s self-designation as the Son of Man and his authority)
  6. The Missing Seventy Weeks - {PDF Copy} - (The book of Revelation does not apply the Seventy Weeks to any of its images or chronologies)
  7. The Little Horn - (The description of the Little Horn fits the known history of the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV, who waged war on the Jewish nation) - {PDF Copy}
  8. Unsealing the Scroll - {PDF Copy} - (Daniel was commanded to seal the Scroll, but the angel sent by Jesus commanded John NOT to do so since the season is now – Revelation 22:10)
  9. Understanding the Times - {PDF Copy} - (Jesus of Nazareth, the Crucified One, is the interpretive key that unlocks the Hebrew Scriptures and unveils the Unseen God)

{EN FRANÇAIS}
  1. Desceller le Livre - {PDF} - (Daniel reçut l'ordre de sceller le Livre, mais l'ange envoyé par Jésus ordonna à Jean de ne PAS le faire puisque la saison est là - Apocalypse 22: 10)

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[Photo by Werner Sevenster on Unsplash]


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