Book of Daniel Prophecies

 

  1. Authenticity
    • Liberals attacked historicity of Belshazzar b/c name had not been discovered
    • Nabonidus Cylinder discovered and Belshazzar was mentioned around 553BC
    • Daniel prophecied downfall of Babylon
    • MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
    • HIS KINGDOM HAS BEEN NUMBERED, WEIGHED, AND DIVIDED
    • Sudden end of Babylon Empire was besieged by Medo-Persians
  1. The Seventy Seven = 490 Years
    • Daniel 9:24
    • “Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgressions, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy”
    • 483 year fulfilled just before the time of Christ’s crucifixion
    • Interval between Christ’s Crucifixion and destruction of Jerusalem of more than 35 years would occur, fulfilling Daniel 9:26
    • Final 7 years will begin when the ruler of the 10 nations in the Middle East will fulfill the description as being a ruler related to the people who destroy the city of Jerusalem, that is, the Roman people
    • He will make a covenant with Israel for peace that will be broken after 3.5 years
  1. Daniel 2:32-33 THE STATUE
    • Head = Gold = Babylon – (605-539 BC)
    • Breast & Arms = Silver = Medo/Persians – (539-331 BC)
    • Belly & Thighs = Brass = Greece – (331-168 BC)
    • Legs = Iron = Rome – (168 BC-476 AD)
    • Feet & Toes = Iron & Clay = Divided Kingdom – (476 -End Times)
    • Empire divided into 10 Divisions
    • Ostrogoths
    • Visigoths
    • Franks
    • Vandals
    • Suevi
    • Alamani
    • Anglosaxons
    • Heruli
    • Lombardi
    • Burgundians
    • Fruit of the 10 Divisions
    • France
    • England
    • Germany
    • Switzerland
    • Italy
    • Portugal
    • Spain
  1. Daniel 11:2-35
    • 16th Century BC
    • Prophecy of Kings before Antiochus IV
    • Qumran dispelled all doubts as to whether Daniel was written before or after events
  1. Daniel 11:2-3 (The 4 Kings)
    • Cambyses (529-522 BC)
    • Psuedo-Smudis (522-521 BC)
    • Darius 1 Hystaspes (521-486 BC)
    • Xerxes 1 (486-465 BC)
  1. Daniel 11:3-4
    • Alexander the Greats conquest was divided among his 4 generals
  1. Daniel 11:5-6
    • The 2 Kings
    • Struggle between Syria (North) and Egypt (South)
    • Ptolemy I Soter (323-285 BC) (King of Egypt)
    • Seleucus I Nication (312-281 BC) (King of North)
    • Together defeated Antigonus
    • Seleucus controlled in a military way a large area of Asiea Minor to India (See Verse 5)
    • Bernice was the daughter in Verse 6
  1. Daniel 11:7-9
    • 246-222 BC
    • Ptolemy III Euergetes conquered northern kingdom
  1. Daniel 11:10-12
    • Antiochus the Great destroyed Egypt
  1. Daniel 11:13-16
    • Conquering fortified city when Egyptian armies were defeated on Paneas at head waters of Jordan River
    • Antiochus III was able to take Sidon
  1. Daniel 11:17-20
    • Antiochus attempted to conquer Greece but was defeated in 191 BC at Thermopylae and at Magesia by Romans
  1. Daniel 11:20
    • Seleucus IV Philopator (187-175 BC) and Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164 BC)
    • Little Horn mentioned 8:9-14
  1. Daniel 11:21
    • Antiochus IV Epiphanes
  1. Daniel 11:22
    • Antiochus IV was attacked by a large Egyptian army
  1. Daniel 11:25-26
    • Antiochus attacked Egypt
  1. Daniel 11:27-28
    • Egypt and Antiochus IV made battle and then attempted to make peace
  1. Daniel 11:28
    • Antiochus opposed the Jewish religion and against the “Holy Covenant”
  1. Daniel 11:31-32
    • Another Egyptian attack that was unsuccessful
    • The attempt of Antiochus to destroy the Jewish religion