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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
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...Daniel 4:1-37, The Humbling of Nebuchadnezzar
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
Continue reading...Daniel 3:1-30, Refusal to Bow
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
Continue reading...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
Continue reading...Daniel 2:1-24, To Dream the Impossible Dream
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
Continue reading...Daniel 1:17-21, The Excelling of the Hebrew Young Men
This first section of Daniel’s book highlights a basic theme of the work, which is Yahweh’s care and concern for His people who obey Him while they are in exile from their homeland. Israel was in exile
Continue reading...Daniel 1:8-16, The Test of Faith
Sometime prior to 1975 I attended Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, a ministry which has since been discredited by its extreme teachings and its founder’s immorality. But it taught
Continue reading...Daniel 1:3-7, Training to Be a Chaldean
When I was 14 I began attending a new school. In each class they called roll and they had my first and last name on the roll. I went by my middle name but I answered, “here,” and so was being called
Continue reading...Daniel 1:1-2, History of Daniel’s Coming to Babylon
The book of Daniel the prophet begins by giving the historical setting and the reason for Daniel’s and his friends’ situation in Babylon. It is because of the judgment of God on Judah and the nearing
Continue reading...Malachi 4:1-6, The Great and Awesome Day of Yahweh
The Day of Yahweh is any day of God’s judgment when the wicked are destroyed and the righteous are exonerated and restored. There is going to be an ultimate Day of Yahweh, the final judgment of the wicked
Continue reading...Malachi 3:12-18, The Book of Remembrance
Does God need to keep books or lists in order to remember things of importance? Of course not. It is an action of His part that is for our benefit. We need such tools to help us remember, so God is depicted
Continue reading...Malachi 3:6-12, The Tithe
“Tithe” means a tenth. The Law required giving a tenth of one’s income to Yahweh (“A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to Yahweh”
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