INTRODUCTION
Fleeting Power – (Only God’s kingdom will prevail and endure in the end. All other political powers are transitory. Already they are passing away)
Introduction to Daniel – (Introduction to Daniel with a brief overview of how Revelation applies it)
Empires Rise & Fall – (Imperial hubris is the legacy of the Tower of Babel, humanity’s first attempt to establish the World Empire)
The Land of Shinar – (The arrogant acts of Nebuchadnezzar parallel the incident at the Tower of Babel)
God Grants Sovereignty – (God gave the kingdom of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, including Daniel and his companions)
A Theology of History – (Both Revelation and Daniel proclaim the absolute sovereignty of God over the course of history and the fate of nations)
IN THE EMPIRE
Food Offered to Idols – (Daniel and his three companions refuse to participate in the religious rituals of the Babylonian Empire – Daniel 1:14)
The King’s Dream – (Only Daniel is able to reveal the troubling dream of the Babylonian King, unveiling the future of kings and empires – Daniel 2:1-49)
The Great Image of the King – (Nebuchadnezzar implemented his dream by setting up the great golden image as he imagined it to glorify his majesty and realm)
The Fiery Furnace – (Three Jewish exiles are cast into the fiery furnace for refusing to render homage to the great image set up by the king – Daniel 3:8-30)
Downfall and Restoration – (The King had another troubling dream that led to his downfall but only after his display of imperial hubris)
The Head of Gold Shattered – (The last Babylonian ruler summoned Daniel to read the handwriting on the wall just before the empire’s downfall)
The Next Imperial Regime – (The rescue of Daniel from ravenous lions demonstrated that Yahweh remained in firm control of history)
Fear the Living God – (The pronouncement by Darius after Daniel’s rescue from the lions is alluded to in the angel’s pronouncement to the inhabitants of the earth in Revelation)
VISIONS
Daniel’s First Three Beasts – (Daniel saw four creatures with animalistic features ascending from a wind-tossed sea, representing four successive kingdoms)
The Bear and the Leopard – (In Daniel’s vision, how do we identify the second and third kingdoms, the Bear and the Leopard?)
The Fourth Beast – (The fourth beast is the focus of the vision, especially its little horn with a mouth speaking great things)
Four Beasts – Interpretation – (The vision of the fourth beast, its little horn, and the war it wages on the saints is interpreted for Daniel by an angel)
On the Clouds – (Portions of Daniel’s vision of the four beasts from the sea and the Little Horn are applied to Jesus and his saints in the New Testament)
Time, Times, and Half a Time – (The war against the saints will endure only for the allotted time – a time, times, and part of a time – Daniel 7:25)
THAT Son of Man – (The one like a Son of Man from Daniel is the source of Christ’s self-designation, the Son of Man)
The Mouth Speaking Great Things – (The mouth speaking great things in Daniel appears in Revelation in the description of the Beast from the sea and its war against the saints)
The Desolating Transgression – (Daniel received a vision of a ram that was overthrown by a goat with a prominent horn, and of a coming transgression that desolates)
The King of Fierce Countenance – (A malevolent ruler will arise from the Greek world who deceives and persecutes the people of God until he is broken without hand)
The Word of Jeremiah – (Daniel began to inquire into the predicted end of the Babylonian Captivity recorded in the book of Jeremiah – Daniel 9:1-2)
Prayer and Visitation – (After praying for the restoration of Israel, the angel Gabriel appeared and began to explain the vision to Daniel – Daniel 9:3-23)
Seventy-Sevens Divided – (The interpreting angel outlines six redemptive goals to Daniel that must be completed by the end of the Seventy Weeks – Daniel 9:24)
The Word to Return – (The word to return marking the start of the seventy-sevens is the prophecy of the captivity recorded in Jeremiah – Daniel 9:25)
The First Sixty-nine Weeks – (The first sixty-nine weeks set the stage for the tumultuous events of the final or seventieth week – Daniel 9:25)
After Sixty-Two Weeks – (After the first sixty-nine weeks, a malevolent leader appears who corrupts the city and desolates the sanctuary – Daniel 9:26)
The Final Week – Abomination – (The final week of the prophecy includes verbal links to the other visions of Daniel, especially the Abomination of Desolation – Daniel 9:27)
In Plain Sight – (The “word to return and restore Jerusalem” is identified clearly at the start of the “seventy weeks” prophecy)
The Missing Seventy Weeks – (Despite its frequent use of the book of Daniel, Revelation does not apply its seventy weeks prophecy to any of its visions.)
Final Vision – Introduction – (Daniel chapter 10 introduces the final vision detailed in chapter 11. It includes verbal links to the vision of the Ram and Goat – Daniel 10:1-21.)
Persia Stirs Greece – (The conflict between Persia and Greece presented in the vision of the Ram and the Goat is recapped at the start of the book’s final vision – Daniel 11:1-4)
The King of the North – (The wars between the kings of the North and the South culminate in the rise of an arrogant ruler who persecutes the saints – Daniel 11:5-45)
Desolating Abomination, Context – (To understand the Abomination that Desolates, it is vital to pay attention to literary context)
The Season of Tribulation – (An angel pronounces a coming time of indignation upon the people of God such as they have never experienced – Daniel 12:1-13)
The End of the Indignation – (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)
TOPICAL STUDIES
Unsealing Daniel – (Daniel was commanded to seal the scroll, but John is told NOT to do so since the season is at hand)
The Son of Man & Jesus – (The image of the Son of Man figure from Daniel is applied to Jesus and to his saints by the New Testament)
The War on the Saints – (Like Daniel’s Little Horn, the Beast from the sea is authorized to wage war on the saints on behalf of its overlord, the Dragon – Revelation 13:6-10)
Little Horn – Son of Destruction – (Daniel’s “little horn” is the model for Paul’s “man of lawlessness“)
Two “Little Horns”? – (The little horn appears in two of Daniel’s visions. Is it the same figure or two different individuals?)
Lord of History – (Revelation and Daniel proclaim the sovereignty of God over the course of history)
Identity of the Little Horn – (The description of the “little horn” fits the known history of the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV)
The Decree to Restore Jerusalem – (The commencement of the “Seventy Week” of Daniel)
Four Beasts in One – (The single Beast from the sea in Revelation is related to but distinct from the four beasts that Daniel saw rising from the sea)
Insights into Bible Prophecy 