If the people of Israel were not such a significant part of The LORD's plan, why has most of the kingdoms and powers of the earth, past and present, try(ed) to destroy HIS people, the land and the nation i.e.Philistia, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, Germany, Modern Day Palestine (Just to name a few).
*"Be diligent to present yourself approved to GOD...rightly dividing the word of truth." (Study to show yourself approved.)
2nd Timothy Ch. 2:15
The Book of Daniel
Besieged by Babylon/Jerusalem in Captivity
Daniel Ch.1:1-2
2nd Kings Ch.24 – Ch.25; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:5-20; Jerusalem Ch.25:1
“…the land of Shinar…”
Daniel Ch.1:2
Genesis Ch.10:10; Genesis Ch.11:1-2; Genesis Ch.14:1; Zechariah Ch.5:11
“Now at the end of the (three years of training for them – Daniel; Hananiah aka Shadrach, Mishael aka Mechach; Azariah aka Abed-Nego).”
Daniel Ch.1:18
*Daniel Ch.1:5
King Cyrus – King of Persia
Daniel Ch.1:21
Daniel Ch.6:28; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:20-23; Ezra Ch.1.
Daniel Ch.2:8-9
“I know for certain that you (are bargaining for time)…”
Daniel Ch.2:20-22
Daniel Ch.2:31
Splendor: (1) brilliance (2) pomp; magnificence
The Complete Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar: from current (at that time) to end
Daniel Ch.2:37-38
*Daniel Ch.4:10-27
The Four Kingdoms throughout Time, Until the End of Time
Daniel Ch.2:37-43
Daniel Ch.7:1-8
“As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men…” – Clay (men)
Daniel Ch.2:43
Job Ch.10:9; Job Ch.33:6; *Isaiah Ch.64:8
“And in the days of these kings the GOD of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”
Daniel Ch.2:44
Daniel Ch.7:14; Revelation Ch.21:1-8, 22-27; 2nd Peter Ch.3:7, 10, 12-13
Daniel Ch.2:45
Daniel Ch.2:47
Daniel Ch.3:2-3
Satraps: the Persian major governor (2) a petty prince; subordinate ruler.
Daniel Ch.3:5
Lyre: stringed musical instrumental of the harp class used by ancient Greeks.
Psaltery: a harplike instrument.
Daniel Ch.3:15-18
Daniel Ch.3:24-25
“Blessed be the GOD of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego who sent HIS Angel and delivered HIS servants who trusted in HIM…”
Daniel Ch.3:28
Psalm Ch.37:3; Psalm Ch.71:5; Proverbs Ch.3:5
The Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar Prophesied – Second Dream
Daniel Ch.4:10-12
Daniel Ch.2:37-38; *Daniel Ch.3:20-22
Daniel Ch.4:15
Graze: to feed (livestock) on grass or pasture (2) to feed on herbage or pasture.
Daniel Ch.4:34
“No can restrain HIS hand…”
Daniel Ch.4:35
“And those who walk in pride HE is able to abase.”
Daniel Ch.4:37
*Proverbs Ch.16:18
“Then they (Belshazzar’s servants) brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of GOD which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.”
Daniel Ch.5:3
2nd Kings Ch.24:11, 13; 2nd Kings Ch.25:8-9, 13-14; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:6-7, 10, 18
Daniel the Interpreter and King Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel Ch.5:11-12
Daniel Ch.2:1-45, 46-49
“Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams…were found in this Daniel….And the King spoke, and said to Daniel, ‘Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?”
Daniel Ch.5:12-13
Daniel Ch.1:1, 4-7
In the End, King Nebuchadnezzar’s pride was Humbled Before The LORD
Daniel Ch.5:21-22-28
Daniel Ch.4:34-37
“…you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of HIS house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the GOD who holds your ways, you have not glorified.”
Daniel Ch.5:23
Daniel Ch.5:3-4; Isaiah Ch.45:5, 16, 20; Isaiah Ch.46:1-9
“Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel Ch.5:28, 31
*Daniel Ch.2:36-39; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:20
Darius the Mede
Daniel Ch.5:31
Daniel Ch.6:4
Persians and Medes, Law “…which does not alter (or change)
Daniel Ch.6:8-9, 15
Esther Ch.1:19; Esther Ch.8:8
Daniel Ch.6:14
Labor(ed): to be burdened, troubled or distressed by;
Daniel Ch.616
Daniel Ch.6:26 – 27
Daniel Ch.6:26
Steadfast: (1) unwavering (2) firmly fixed, unmovable (3) firmly settled; unchangeable; established.
In the first year of Belshazzar
Daniel Ch.7:1
Daniel Ch.5.
Daniel Ch.7:2
Four Winds: north, east, south, and west=all over
Vision of the Four Beasts
Daniel Ch.7:3-8
Daniel Ch.2:37-48; Daniel Ch.11:2-4 – Second and Third Beast(s)
*Revelation Ch.13:1-4
A Little Horn “…speaking pompous words….”
Daniel Ch.7:8, 24-25
2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:3-10; Matthew Ch.24:23-24; Revelation Ch.13:4-8
Vision of the Ancient of Days (The Lamb)
Daniel Ch.7:9-10
Revelation Ch.5:11-12
“…the beast was slain…and given to the burning flame.”
Daniel Ch.7:11-12
Revelation Ch.19:19-20; Revelation Ch.20:10
“As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.”
Daniel Ch.7:12
Revelation Ch.20:1-15
“That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve HIM….”
Daniel Ch.7:13
Revelation Ch.7:4-10; Revelation Ch.21:7, 24, 26
“And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days….to HIM was given dominion…glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve HIM….”
Daniel Ch.7:13-14
Revelation Ch.19:11-16; Revelation Ch.21; Revelation Ch.22:1-5
“Then to HIM was given dominion…”
Daniel Ch.7:13
John Ch.5:17, 19, 22 – 23 – 30; John Ch.10:30; Acts Ch.10:30; Acts Ch.10:42; 1st Corinthians Ch.15:23-28; *Micah Ch.4:7; *Luke Ch.1:31-33
“…the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.”
Daniel Ch.7:18
*Daniel Ch.7:13-14
A Little Horn Arises Out of the Fourth Kingdom
Daniel Ch.7:24
Revelation Ch.13:1
“For a time and times and half a time.” (3 ½)
Daniel Ch.7:25
In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar…”
Daniel Ch.8:1
Daniel Ch.8:2
Shushan: (According to Bible Dictionary) Hebrew for of Susa, the ancient capital of Elam, later the winter residence of the Persian kings.
Nehemiah Ch.1:1; Ezra Ch.4:9
Elam: was the large and historically important country to the East of Babylonia and comprised the plain to the South of the Iranian highlands around the region of Anshan. Its capital was Susa (Shushan). In the reign of Darius I (or 1st), the Elamite language was one of the three official languages of the Persian empire.
Horn: symbol for power
Daniel Ch.8:3-7
Four winds: All over = North, East, South, and West
Daniel Ch.8:8
Gabriel
Daniel Ch.8:16
Luke Ch.1:26-3
Daniel Ch.8:17, 19, 26
Media and Persia and Greece
Daniel Ch.8:19-26
Daniel Ch.8:3-12
“When the transgressors have reach their fullness…”
Daniel Ch.8:23
2nd Thessalonian Ch.2:3
“…but not by his own power…”
Daniel Ch.8:24
2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:9; Revelation Ch.13:4-8
The horn: “…he shall magnify himself in his heart…”
Daniel Ch.8:25
Daniel Ch.8:10-12; 2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:4
“In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasureus, of the linage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans…”
Daniel Ch.9:1
Daniel Ch.5:30-31
“…in the first year of his reign (Darius) I, Daniel, understood by the book the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD, given through Jeremiah the prophet, that HE (LORD) would accomplish seventy tears in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Daniel Ch.9:2
Jeremiah Ch.25:11; Jeremiah Ch.29:10
Daniel Ch.9:5
Precept: a rule of action or behavior. (2) Law. A writ; warrant; a written order issued following or carrying out to law.
“Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of GOD have been poured out on us….As written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us…”
Daniel Ch.9:11, 13
Leviticus Ch.26:14-17; Deuteronomy Ch.28:15-19
“And now, O Lord our GOD, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand…”
Daniel Ch.9:15
Exodus Ch.14; Exodus Ch.15:1-21
“…for we do not present our supplications (or pray humbly or make humble petition) before YOU because of our righteous deeds, but because of YOUR great mercies.”
Daniel Ch.9:18
“…yes while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning…”
Daniel Ch.9:21
Daniel Ch.8:16
Gabriel Relays The Lord’s Promise to Daniel: Reconciliation and Restoration Will Come; Then, Now and Future
Daniel Ch.9:24-25
Ezra Ch.1 – Ch.6; *Hebrews Ch.4:8-10; *Hebrews Ch.9:9-11, 15; Revelation Ch.21
“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary…”
Daniel Ch.9:26
2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:3-10; Revelation Ch13:4-8
“Then he (the people’s prince) shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who make desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”
Daniel Ch.9:27
Daniel Ch.11:31; Matthew Ch.24:15-22
King Cyrus
Daniel Ch.10:1
Ezra Ch.1; Ezra Ch.6:3-5, 14; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:20-23
*King Cyrus Reigned After King Darius the Mede
*Daniel Ch.6:28
Belteshazzar
Daniel Ch.10:1
Daniel Ch.1:7
“I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold Uphaz! His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like touches of fire, his arms and feet like burnish bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Daniel Ch.10:5-6
Revelation Ch.1:13-16; Revelation Ch.19:12
“His body was like beryl…”
Daniel Ch.10:6
Beryl: a very hard, translucent or shining light or opaque (non-transparent or unable-to-see-through) mineral, the chief ore of beryllium, usually yellow-green, silicate of beryllium and aluminum. The gems emerald and aquamarine are varieties.
“…and feet like burnish bronze in color…”
Daniel Ch.10:6
Burnish: to polish or shine.
Daniel Ch.10:14
Daniel Ch.11:18
Reproach: (1) blame (2) disgrace (3) an object of blame or disapproval.
“…and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation.”
Daniel Ch.11:31
Matthew Ch.24:15-22
Daniel Ch.11:32
Daniel Ch.11:34
Intrigue: (1) underhand planning; secret scheming; plotting (2) a crafty plot; secret scheme.
“…but the people who know their GOD…those of understanding…” (Will Be Persecuted in that Time).
Daniel Ch.11:32-35
Matthew Ch.24:9-13; John Ch.16:1-3
“And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purge them, and make white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time.”
Daniel Ch.11:35
Revelation Ch.6:9-11; Revelation Ch21:7
-The Book-
Daniel Ch.12:1
Revelation Ch.20:11-15; Revelation Ch.21:27; Revelation Ch.13:8
“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Daniel Ch.12:2
Matthew Ch.25:46; John Ch.5:27-29; 1st Corinthians Ch.15:24-26, 35-44, 50-57; *Revelation Ch.20:13-15
Daniel Ch.12:2
“…everlasting life…”
John Ch.5:24-25; John Ch.6:40; John Ch.6:47
“…everlasting contempt.”
Revelation Ch.20:14-15; Revelation Ch.21:8, 27; *Isaiah Ch.66:2-24
“Those who are shall shine Like the uprightness of the firmament (sky)…”
Daniel Ch.12:3
Revelation Ch.21:23-26
“But you Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end…”
Daniel Ch.12:4 *The opposite of Revelation Ch.22:10
“…many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
*Matthew Ch.24:14
“Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that river bank. And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, ‘How long shall the fulfillment of these wonder be?’ Then I heard the man clothed in linen…when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by HIM who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times and a half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.”
Daniel Ch.12:5-7
*Revelation Ch.10:5-6
Time, Times and a Half a Time = 3 ½
Daniel Ch.12:7
*Daniel Ch.7:25
The Abomination of Desolation
Daniel Ch.12:11
*Daniel Ch.11:31; Matthew Ch.24:15-22; Mark Ch.13:14-20; *Luke Ch.21:20-24
*"Be diligent to present yourself approved to GOD...rightly dividing the word of truth." (Study to show yourself approved.)
2nd Timothy Ch. 2:15
The Book of Daniel
Besieged by Babylon/Jerusalem in Captivity
Daniel Ch.1:1-2
2nd Kings Ch.24 – Ch.25; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:5-20; Jerusalem Ch.25:1
“…the land of Shinar…”
Daniel Ch.1:2
Genesis Ch.10:10; Genesis Ch.11:1-2; Genesis Ch.14:1; Zechariah Ch.5:11
“Now at the end of the (three years of training for them – Daniel; Hananiah aka Shadrach, Mishael aka Mechach; Azariah aka Abed-Nego).”
Daniel Ch.1:18
*Daniel Ch.1:5
King Cyrus – King of Persia
Daniel Ch.1:21
Daniel Ch.6:28; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:20-23; Ezra Ch.1.
Daniel Ch.2:8-9
“I know for certain that you (are bargaining for time)…”
Daniel Ch.2:20-22
Daniel Ch.2:31
Splendor: (1) brilliance (2) pomp; magnificence
The Complete Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar: from current (at that time) to end
Daniel Ch.2:37-38
*Daniel Ch.4:10-27
The Four Kingdoms throughout Time, Until the End of Time
Daniel Ch.2:37-43
Daniel Ch.7:1-8
“As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men…” – Clay (men)
Daniel Ch.2:43
Job Ch.10:9; Job Ch.33:6; *Isaiah Ch.64:8
“And in the days of these kings the GOD of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.”
Daniel Ch.2:44
Daniel Ch.7:14; Revelation Ch.21:1-8, 22-27; 2nd Peter Ch.3:7, 10, 12-13
Daniel Ch.2:45
Daniel Ch.2:47
Daniel Ch.3:2-3
Satraps: the Persian major governor (2) a petty prince; subordinate ruler.
Daniel Ch.3:5
Lyre: stringed musical instrumental of the harp class used by ancient Greeks.
Psaltery: a harplike instrument.
Daniel Ch.3:15-18
Daniel Ch.3:24-25
“Blessed be the GOD of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego who sent HIS Angel and delivered HIS servants who trusted in HIM…”
Daniel Ch.3:28
Psalm Ch.37:3; Psalm Ch.71:5; Proverbs Ch.3:5
The Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar Prophesied – Second Dream
Daniel Ch.4:10-12
Daniel Ch.2:37-38; *Daniel Ch.3:20-22
Daniel Ch.4:15
Graze: to feed (livestock) on grass or pasture (2) to feed on herbage or pasture.
Daniel Ch.4:34
“No can restrain HIS hand…”
Daniel Ch.4:35
“And those who walk in pride HE is able to abase.”
Daniel Ch.4:37
*Proverbs Ch.16:18
“Then they (Belshazzar’s servants) brought the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of GOD which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.”
Daniel Ch.5:3
2nd Kings Ch.24:11, 13; 2nd Kings Ch.25:8-9, 13-14; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:6-7, 10, 18
Daniel the Interpreter and King Nebuchadnezzar
Daniel Ch.5:11-12
Daniel Ch.2:1-45, 46-49
“Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams…were found in this Daniel….And the King spoke, and said to Daniel, ‘Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?”
Daniel Ch.5:12-13
Daniel Ch.1:1, 4-7
In the End, King Nebuchadnezzar’s pride was Humbled Before The LORD
Daniel Ch.5:21-22-28
Daniel Ch.4:34-37
“…you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of HIS house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the GOD who holds your ways, you have not glorified.”
Daniel Ch.5:23
Daniel Ch.5:3-4; Isaiah Ch.45:5, 16, 20; Isaiah Ch.46:1-9
“Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel Ch.5:28, 31
*Daniel Ch.2:36-39; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:20
Darius the Mede
Daniel Ch.5:31
Daniel Ch.6:4
Persians and Medes, Law “…which does not alter (or change)
Daniel Ch.6:8-9, 15
Esther Ch.1:19; Esther Ch.8:8
Daniel Ch.6:14
Labor(ed): to be burdened, troubled or distressed by;
Daniel Ch.616
Daniel Ch.6:26 – 27
Daniel Ch.6:26
Steadfast: (1) unwavering (2) firmly fixed, unmovable (3) firmly settled; unchangeable; established.
In the first year of Belshazzar
Daniel Ch.7:1
Daniel Ch.5.
Daniel Ch.7:2
Four Winds: north, east, south, and west=all over
Vision of the Four Beasts
Daniel Ch.7:3-8
Daniel Ch.2:37-48; Daniel Ch.11:2-4 – Second and Third Beast(s)
*Revelation Ch.13:1-4
A Little Horn “…speaking pompous words….”
Daniel Ch.7:8, 24-25
2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:3-10; Matthew Ch.24:23-24; Revelation Ch.13:4-8
Vision of the Ancient of Days (The Lamb)
Daniel Ch.7:9-10
Revelation Ch.5:11-12
“…the beast was slain…and given to the burning flame.”
Daniel Ch.7:11-12
Revelation Ch.19:19-20; Revelation Ch.20:10
“As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.”
Daniel Ch.7:12
Revelation Ch.20:1-15
“That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve HIM….”
Daniel Ch.7:13
Revelation Ch.7:4-10; Revelation Ch.21:7, 24, 26
“And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days….to HIM was given dominion…glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve HIM….”
Daniel Ch.7:13-14
Revelation Ch.19:11-16; Revelation Ch.21; Revelation Ch.22:1-5
“Then to HIM was given dominion…”
Daniel Ch.7:13
John Ch.5:17, 19, 22 – 23 – 30; John Ch.10:30; Acts Ch.10:30; Acts Ch.10:42; 1st Corinthians Ch.15:23-28; *Micah Ch.4:7; *Luke Ch.1:31-33
“…the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.”
Daniel Ch.7:18
*Daniel Ch.7:13-14
A Little Horn Arises Out of the Fourth Kingdom
Daniel Ch.7:24
Revelation Ch.13:1
“For a time and times and half a time.” (3 ½)
Daniel Ch.7:25
In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar…”
Daniel Ch.8:1
Daniel Ch.8:2
Shushan: (According to Bible Dictionary) Hebrew for of Susa, the ancient capital of Elam, later the winter residence of the Persian kings.
Nehemiah Ch.1:1; Ezra Ch.4:9
Elam: was the large and historically important country to the East of Babylonia and comprised the plain to the South of the Iranian highlands around the region of Anshan. Its capital was Susa (Shushan). In the reign of Darius I (or 1st), the Elamite language was one of the three official languages of the Persian empire.
Horn: symbol for power
Daniel Ch.8:3-7
Four winds: All over = North, East, South, and West
Daniel Ch.8:8
Gabriel
Daniel Ch.8:16
Luke Ch.1:26-3
Daniel Ch.8:17, 19, 26
Media and Persia and Greece
Daniel Ch.8:19-26
Daniel Ch.8:3-12
“When the transgressors have reach their fullness…”
Daniel Ch.8:23
2nd Thessalonian Ch.2:3
“…but not by his own power…”
Daniel Ch.8:24
2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:9; Revelation Ch.13:4-8
The horn: “…he shall magnify himself in his heart…”
Daniel Ch.8:25
Daniel Ch.8:10-12; 2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:4
“In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasureus, of the linage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans…”
Daniel Ch.9:1
Daniel Ch.5:30-31
“…in the first year of his reign (Darius) I, Daniel, understood by the book the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD, given through Jeremiah the prophet, that HE (LORD) would accomplish seventy tears in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Daniel Ch.9:2
Jeremiah Ch.25:11; Jeremiah Ch.29:10
Daniel Ch.9:5
Precept: a rule of action or behavior. (2) Law. A writ; warrant; a written order issued following or carrying out to law.
“Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of GOD have been poured out on us….As written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us…”
Daniel Ch.9:11, 13
Leviticus Ch.26:14-17; Deuteronomy Ch.28:15-19
“And now, O Lord our GOD, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand…”
Daniel Ch.9:15
Exodus Ch.14; Exodus Ch.15:1-21
“…for we do not present our supplications (or pray humbly or make humble petition) before YOU because of our righteous deeds, but because of YOUR great mercies.”
Daniel Ch.9:18
“…yes while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning…”
Daniel Ch.9:21
Daniel Ch.8:16
Gabriel Relays The Lord’s Promise to Daniel: Reconciliation and Restoration Will Come; Then, Now and Future
Daniel Ch.9:24-25
Ezra Ch.1 – Ch.6; *Hebrews Ch.4:8-10; *Hebrews Ch.9:9-11, 15; Revelation Ch.21
“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary…”
Daniel Ch.9:26
2nd Thessalonians Ch.2:3-10; Revelation Ch13:4-8
“Then he (the people’s prince) shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who make desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”
Daniel Ch.9:27
Daniel Ch.11:31; Matthew Ch.24:15-22
King Cyrus
Daniel Ch.10:1
Ezra Ch.1; Ezra Ch.6:3-5, 14; 2nd Chronicles Ch.36:20-23
*King Cyrus Reigned After King Darius the Mede
*Daniel Ch.6:28
Belteshazzar
Daniel Ch.10:1
Daniel Ch.1:7
“I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold Uphaz! His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like touches of fire, his arms and feet like burnish bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Daniel Ch.10:5-6
Revelation Ch.1:13-16; Revelation Ch.19:12
“His body was like beryl…”
Daniel Ch.10:6
Beryl: a very hard, translucent or shining light or opaque (non-transparent or unable-to-see-through) mineral, the chief ore of beryllium, usually yellow-green, silicate of beryllium and aluminum. The gems emerald and aquamarine are varieties.
“…and feet like burnish bronze in color…”
Daniel Ch.10:6
Burnish: to polish or shine.
Daniel Ch.10:14
Daniel Ch.11:18
Reproach: (1) blame (2) disgrace (3) an object of blame or disapproval.
“…and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation.”
Daniel Ch.11:31
Matthew Ch.24:15-22
Daniel Ch.11:32
Daniel Ch.11:34
Intrigue: (1) underhand planning; secret scheming; plotting (2) a crafty plot; secret scheme.
“…but the people who know their GOD…those of understanding…” (Will Be Persecuted in that Time).
Daniel Ch.11:32-35
Matthew Ch.24:9-13; John Ch.16:1-3
“And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purge them, and make white, until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time.”
Daniel Ch.11:35
Revelation Ch.6:9-11; Revelation Ch21:7
-The Book-
Daniel Ch.12:1
Revelation Ch.20:11-15; Revelation Ch.21:27; Revelation Ch.13:8
“And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Daniel Ch.12:2
Matthew Ch.25:46; John Ch.5:27-29; 1st Corinthians Ch.15:24-26, 35-44, 50-57; *Revelation Ch.20:13-15
Daniel Ch.12:2
“…everlasting life…”
John Ch.5:24-25; John Ch.6:40; John Ch.6:47
“…everlasting contempt.”
Revelation Ch.20:14-15; Revelation Ch.21:8, 27; *Isaiah Ch.66:2-24
“Those who are shall shine Like the uprightness of the firmament (sky)…”
Daniel Ch.12:3
Revelation Ch.21:23-26
“But you Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end…”
Daniel Ch.12:4 *The opposite of Revelation Ch.22:10
“…many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
*Matthew Ch.24:14
“Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that river bank. And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, ‘How long shall the fulfillment of these wonder be?’ Then I heard the man clothed in linen…when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by HIM who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times and a half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.”
Daniel Ch.12:5-7
*Revelation Ch.10:5-6
Time, Times and a Half a Time = 3 ½
Daniel Ch.12:7
*Daniel Ch.7:25
The Abomination of Desolation
Daniel Ch.12:11
*Daniel Ch.11:31; Matthew Ch.24:15-22; Mark Ch.13:14-20; *Luke Ch.21:20-24