As we continue the vision of chapters 10 and 11, chapter 12 gives the dramatic ending. One of the laws of highly effective people is to start with the end in mind. If ever there was a time to keep the end in mind, it is now. God wanted Daniel to have the end of the “thing” (great conflict) to be blazed into his mind and ours. (more…)
Daniel 11 is a continuation of what Gabriel was explaining to Daniel in chapter ten. “But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth.” Daniel 10:21 It covers the same historical period as Daniel 2 but with different symbols. (Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, divisions of Greece, pagan Rome, the Church of the Dark Ages). The point is that different nations would arise, but that Satan is behind them all. (more…)
Daniel 10 occurred in the year 538 B.C. when Daniel was nearly 90 years old. (more…)
Daniel’s experience in Chapter 9 happens in the first year of Darius which was 534 B.C. It was 13 years after the visions of chapter 8. (more…)
Two years expired between the events of Daniel 7 and Daniel 8. Now it’s the third year of Belshazzar. (more…)
This chapter begins the six chapters that are prophesies. Daniel had a dream. He saw four beasts. These beasts parallel the dream of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2 except Daniel’s dream adds the perspective of what would happen with God’s people and not just the kingdoms of the world. (more…)