To discern where the lines should be drawn. Each day God’s people faceĪ hostile culture, and it is up to us to prayerfully study God’s Word as we seek Promote biblical values are boycotted and slandered. Meditation while prohibiting Christian clubs from meeting. Schools introduce children to the five pillars of Islam and Eastern Political agendas promote causes that rebel against God’s created Even inĪmerica, a nation founded on Christian principles, the culture is increasingly Period of history that is much like what ours is fast becoming. We should study the book of Daniel to understand God’s sovereignty over troubled times.Ī study of Daniel is highly relevant because it portrays a Through Daniel, God revealed His plans to provide hope for all mankind in the future reign of “One like the Son of Man”-His Son, Jesus Christ-whose kingdom “shall not be destroyed” (Daniel 7:13, 14). But the final element of his vision was the eventual establishment of “a kingdom which shall never be destroyed”-a kingdom that “shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever” (Daniel 2:44). Without his prophecy, we can’t understand Matthew 24–25, Luke 21, Mark 13, or most of the book of Revelation.ĭaniel’s bird’s-eye view reveals successive earthly kingdoms interlocked together-the Babylonian kingdom succeeded by the Persian, the Persian by the Greek, and the Greek by the Roman-exactly as it happened in history. Some people immediately turn to Revelation for prophecy, but Daniel is the key to unlocking it. We can fit them together to form an accurate picture of the End Times. The Word of God is now complete, which means we hold all the puzzle pieces. Was missing some of the necessary pieces to complete his own prophecy. His prophecy contains the puzzle’s edge pieces-the frameworkįor what is detailed in Matthew 24 and 25 and the book of Revelation. He already knew everything God meantįor him to know. Refused, saying, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed He asked to know more, but his angelic messenger When Daniel received his end-times revelation, he admitted Won’t be revealed in advance, but each author’s pieces are essential to
If we want to see the whole picture, we have to fit them all together.Įven then we won’t capture every detail because some aspects of the Last Days God gave different pieces to several biblicalĪuthors. Understanding end-times prophecy is like putting together a We should study the book of Daniel to understand end-times prophecy. Armed with an understanding of his prophetic accuracy, we can be confident about the reliability of his remaining predictions. Throughout history, Daniel’s prophecies have proven to be astonishingly precise. Jesus killed before the destruction of the temple There is not one prophecy of Jesus Christ left unfulfilled that is standing in the way of His return! Here’s where you find Jesus in Daniel: ScriptureĪnnounced to His people 483 years, to the exact day, after the decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem Himself, who quoted him and referred to him as “Daniel the prophet.”ĭid you know there are more than 350 Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, and thirteen of those are found in the book of Daniel? Written centuries before the birth and life of Jesus Christ, these prophecies offer us a renewed passion and resolve to live boldly for God today, knowing that we are alive at a special time in history. In Matthew 24:15, Daniel received an endorsement from Jesus Long before the destruction of the temple in A.D. Proof is the fact that the book was known to exist and was accepted by Jews Tried to suggest it’s a fraud, written after the prophesied events occurred.īut there is considerable evidence to support Daniel’s authenticity. His book is so accurate and so specific that critics have Messiah, and the cruelty of Antiochus Epiphanes that prompted the Maccabean Generals who divided Greece after Alexander’s death, Israel’s rejection of the
His visions anticipated the reign of Alexander the Great, the four Rise and fall of four successive empires, beginning with Babylon (Daniel 7:1-8,ġ5-28). Rome also was a small city-state, and Persia was emerging on the world stage.įrom this vantage point, Daniel accurately predicted the Newly formed Greek city-states were squabbling with each other over land. At that time, Babylon was the world’s greatest superpower, having conquered the Assyrian capital of Nineveh around 612 B.C. We should study the book of Daniel to understand its prophetic accuracy.ĭaniel lived in the fifth century B.C.
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