Daniel Info

By David Maas
{BACKGROUND}

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{INTRODUCTION}
  1. Introduction to Daniel - {PDF Copy} - (An introduction to the book of Daniel with a brief overview of how the book of Revelation applies passages from it)
  2. Empires Rise and Fall - {PDF Copy} - (Imperial hubris is the legacy of the Tower of Babel, humanity’s first but certainly not attempt to establish the World Empire)
  3. Land of Shinar - {PDF Copy} - (In Daniel, the arrogant acts of Nebuchadnezzar parallel the incident at the Tower of Babel from Genesis)

{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 visions. Is it the same figure each time or two different individuals?)
  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. The Son of Man - {PDF Copy} - (The images of the “Son of Man” figure from Daniel are applied to Jesus and his “saints” in the New Testament – Daniel 7:13-14)
  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. Daniel in Revelation - The Time of Fulfillment - {PDF Copy} - (How the Book of Revelation applies prophecies from Daniel)
  8. Little Horn - Identity - {PDF Copy} - (The Little Horn described in Daniel fits the known history of the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV Ephiphanes)
  9. Unsealing Daniel - {PDF Copy} - (Daniel was commanded to seal the scroll, but John is told NOT to do so since the season is at hand)

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