RSS

The Book of Daniel

from Google Images

The Book of Daniel is mainly about one prophecy, Nebuchadnezar’s dream of four empires in chapter two of the book. Certainly there were other empires, but these four: Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, brought the Jews from the days of their soverienty to the last days. The last days are the last days of the Old Covenant, not the end of time. It was the time of the end of the Jewish nation representing God to the nations and the time when the saints inherited the Kingdom, namely those folks, Jews and gentiles who were willing to submit to the Lord, their God.

So, all the other prophecies of Daniel, beginning with chapter seven to the end of the book, magnify and elaborate on the first prophecy found in the book, Nebuchadnezar’s dream in chapter two. Just as that prophecy brings us from the Babylonians Empire to Christ, so do the prophecies in chapters seven through twelve, and thies is also where the book ends: at Christ’s ministry and work through his disciples, which culminates in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70, ending the Old Covenant, and establishing the New Covenant, not with a nation, but with individuals of all races, whose hearts are yielded to the Lord, God of Israel.

  1. Seventy Years of Babylonian Rule
  2. The Ten Horns of Daniel 7
  3. The Little Horn of Daniel 7
  4. Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy
  5. Daniel Foretold the Coming of Herod
  6. Daniel Brings us from Herod to Golgotha
  7. The 1260 Days of the 70 Weeks Prophecy
  8. The 1290 Days of the 70 Weeks Prophecy
  9. The 1335 Days of the 70 Weeks Prophecy
  10. The Abomination of Desolation
  11. Abomination that Makes Desolate

THESE STUDIES HAVE BEEN REVISED AS OF 2024

Related Studies:

  1. End Time Chronology Errors
  2. The Seventy Weeks Prophecy Fulfilled–looking at the Angels words of Daniel 9
  3. The Four Passovers in Jesus’ Public Ministry
  4. The Significance of Stephan’s Death
  5. A Chronology of Jesus’ Last Days!
 

4 responses to “The Book of Daniel”

  1. mrknowyourbible

    August 18, 2011 at 01:15

    I too agree that the 70 week prophecy ended at the death of Stephen (the first christian martyr). Some teach that the latter 3.5yrs after Christ died will occur after the rapture, as portrayed in the popular movie “left behind” but I don’t see any basis for this in the bible.

     

  2. Ed Bromfield

    August 18, 2011 at 08:20

    Greetings Leonard,

    Thank you for reading and especially for taking the time to leave a comment. I agree that it is a modern error that the 3 1/2 years of Daniel’s 70 years prophecy is cut off to indicate the end of our age, just prior to Jesus’ second coming. It is a shame that so many brethren have fallen for this false doctrine, and please don’t get me talking about the “Left Behind” series. They preach fear, and God simply would not leave his children behind. What good parent would leave their children behind–unprotected and uncared for–while they take a vacation? Anyway, I appreciate your stopping by to say hello.

    Lord bless,

    Eddie

     

  3. Ken Palmer

    July 16, 2014 at 13:43

    Hey Edward,

    I disagree with your assessment of the AOD. In Rabbinical literature it was never referred to as the people being swayed or hellenized from Judaism (neither is this evident in any of the verse you have provided), but rather the explicitly erection and desecration of the holy of holies i.e.homage to Zues via a sacrificed pig). Good article nonetheless about the 70 weeks, in that I agree! It ended with Stephen.

     

  4. Eddie

    July 17, 2014 at 09:54

    Greetings Ken, and thanks for reading and your kind words in your comment.

    Concerning the Abomination of Desolation, I have to disagree with Rabbinical literature. Rather, I believe as it is written in 2Maccabees 4:7-17 and 5:17-20 that, because the priests had neglected their Temple duties (service to God), God had taken away his protection of the nation and the Temple itself. It was the Jew’s own sins of abandoning God that was the abomination that brought the desolation. Moreover, I consider it telling that Rabbinical literature misses this point. Could it be that, because they were blind of their sins at the time of Antiochus Ephiphanes, that they were also blind to their abandoning God by persecuting the nascent Church and thereby brought upon themselves the destruction of their nation and the Temple?

     

Leave a comment