Book of Daniel – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Daniel 12:1-13, The Time of the Great Tribulation

Beginning in chapter 10 Daniel has been given a vision or revelation about the near and far future of his people who have returned from Babylon/Persia to their homeland Israel. He has been told by the

Daniel 11:2-45, The Near and Far Antichrist

This very long and complex vision is a remarkably detailed prophecy of what will happen to the holy land in the future, something Daniel could not have known otherwise than by divine revelation. 11:2 “Now

Daniel 10:1-11:1, The Invisible War

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/ By Randall Johnson

“…there is an invisible world that is just as real as the visible world. There’s an invisible world. There’s a world that you can’t see and that I can’t see that’s just as real as

Daniel 9:20-27, The Seventy Weeks

Daniel has been confessing Israel’s sin and asking Yahweh for mercy and the return of his people to their land according to the prophecies of Jeremiah (25:11-13; 29:11). Yahweh sends an angel, Gabriel,

Daniel 9:1-19, Daniel’s Confession

Jeremiah 25:11-13 says, “11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 Then after seventy years are completed, I will

Daniel 8:1-27, The Vision of the Ram and Goat

We come across another little horn in this passage, but it is not the little horn we saw in chapter 7, which came out of the revived Roman empire, the fourth beast of chapter 7, the iron/clay feet of chapter

Daniel 7:15-28, The Interpretation of the Vision

Twice Daniel mentions how concerned, “anxious,” “alarmed,” and frightened he is of this vision of the four beasts. This must be due, in part, to the other unique aspect of this vision, which is

Daniel 7:9-14, The Kingdom of the Son of Man

Why did Jesus often refer to himself as the Son of Man? Like when Jesus asked the man born blind, whom he had healed, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” And the healed man said, basically, tell me

Daniel 7:1-8, Vision of the Four Beasts

This vision corresponds to the vision Nebuchadnezzar had in chapter 2, of the statue of various metals, depicting the four successive world dominating kingdoms, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.

Daniel 6:1-28, Daniel in the Lion’s Den

Can you imagine being the people who conquered all the other peoples around you and yet one of these conquered peoples, a Jew no less, gets put in power over you? Nothing ever changes. 6:1 It pleased

Daniel 5:1-31, End of the Babylonian Kingdom

Have your knees ever knocked from fear? Or like the driving instructor says to his inept student, “No, that’s not the engine knocking, that’s my knees.” Maybe your knees don’t knock when you

Daniel 4:1-37, The Humbling of Nebuchadnezzar

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Keil and Delitzsch note: Abydenus, in the fragments preserved by Eusebius (a church father)…announces as a Chaldee tradition…that Nebuchadnezzar, after the ending of his war in the farther

Daniel 3:1-30, Refusal to Bow

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It was common in the ancient near east for kings to be revered as the “son” of their national god, and common for statues of gods to be erected for worship. But it seems suspicious that Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 2:25-45, The Dream and Its Interpretation

“The appearance of colossal figures, often the statue of a deity, is fairly common in dream reports from the ancient Near East. Pharaoh Merenptah saw a giant statue of the god Ptah, who gave him permission

Daniel 2:1-24, To Dream the Impossible Dream

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Wikipedia: “The Babylonians and Assyrians divided dreams into “good,” which were sent by the gods, and “bad,” sent by demons. A surviving collection of dream omens entitled Iškar

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