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THE STUDY OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS THE STUDY OF PROPHECY, AND AS SUCH DEALS WITH THE FUTURE. IN STUDYING THESE, WE AS CHRISTIANS, CAN GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE AND OF GOD. THROUGH THIS STUDY AN UNDERSTANDING IS OBTAINED OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND EVIL, AND THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF JESUS. THE PROPHETIC SYMBOLS OF DANIEL MUST BE INTERPRETED BY THE BIBLE ITSELF. MAN-MADE INTERPRETATIONS HAVE NO VALIDITY AT ALL. THE COMPREHENSION OF THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL GIVE US A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF JESUS. DANIEL, ALTHOUGH WRITING IN THE THIRD PERSON, GAVE A PERSONAL HISTORY, AS HE LIVED IT, IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL. JESUS ATTESTED TO DANIEL'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WORDS FOUND IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL, AS HIS THIRD POINT, WHEN HE TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS TO UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL, THE FIRST TWO BEING: TO STUDY THE PROPHECIES, AND THEY CAN BE UNDERSTOOD. DANIEL IS SET DURING THE REIGN OF KING NEBUCHDREZZAR OF BABYLON, WHICH BEGAN IN 605 B.C., AND EXTENDS I!NTO THE MEDO-PERSIAN REIGN, WHICH BEGAN IN 538 B.C. WE CAN DETERMINE, THEN, THAT THE BOOK OF DANIEL WAS WRITTEN SOMETIME DURING THOSE YEARS. BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, THE NATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH FOUND THEMSELVES CONQUERED BY NEBUCHADREZZAR
RE REWARDED. AN IMPLICATION NOT TO OVERLOOK HERE IS THAT THESE FOUR CHILDREN WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY. THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE KNOWN TO US TO HAVE REMAINED FAITHFUL TO GOD; WHO NEVER COMPROMISED EVEN, WHAT SEEMS TO US, THE SMALLEST ISSUE. THOSE WHO COULD NOT REMAIN LOYAL TO GOD AND WHO COMPROMISED ON THIS FIRST TEST ARE NOT EVEN MENTIONED AND EVIDENTLY COMPROMISED ON ALL THE OTHER TESTS. TODAY WE LIVE IN A TIME OF PROSPERITY, WHEN IT IS RELATIVELY EASY TO SERVE GOD. IF WE CANNOT BE OBEDIENT TO GOD IN THIS TIME OF RELATIVE EASE, CAN WE EXPECT TO BE LOYAL WHEN THE TIMES ARE DIFFICULT? DANIEL INTERPRETED NEBUCHADREZZAR'S DREAM AND IN DOING SO GAVE AN ACCURATE AND DETAILED HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM HIS DAY UNTIL THE END OF TIME. THIS PROPHECY REVEALS THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL OF THE EVENTS OF HUMAN HISTORY. DANIEL GIVES NEBUCHADREZZAR THE INTERPRETATION THAT GOD HAD REVEALED TO HIM IN HIS VISION JUST AS GOD GAVE IT TO HIM. THE PROPHECY BEGINS IN DANIELS TIME! WITH THE KINGDOM OF BABYLON, WHICH DANIEL TELLS NEBUCHADREZZAR WILL NOT LAST FOREVER BUT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY OTHERS BEFORE THE RETURN OF JESUS. WE KNOW SUCCEEDING KINGDOMS HAVE COME AND GONE JUST AS DANIEL SAID. BABYLON WAS CONQUERED BY THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM, WHO IN TURN WAS CONQUERED BY GREECE, WHO WAS FOLLOWED BY THE KINGDOM OF ROME. IN 1776, SHORTLY BEFORE THE FALL OF PAPAL ROME(1778), A NATION WAS BORN. THIS KINGDOM WILL HAVE TWO PHASES (TWO FEET). THE FIRST IS THE DEFENDER OF FREEDOM, THE SECOND IS AS A ONE WORLD CHURCH AND STATE POWER. WITH UNERRING ACCURACY DANIEL FORETOLD 2400 YEARS OF WORLD HISTORY FROM BABYLON TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE RISE AND FALL OF THESE VARIOUS EMPIRES IS CLEARLY FORETOLD IN THE BIBLE. GOD KNOWS IN ADVANCE WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND HE DEFIANTLY IS IN CONTROL OF HUMAN EVENTS. BOOK USED FOR THIS STUDY Daniel Verse by Verse Study Oliver B. Green THE GOSPEL HOUR, INC. Fourteenth printing, May 1981 508 pages NTO THE MEDO-PERSIAN REIGN, WHICH BEGAN IN 538 B.C. WE CAN DETERMINE, THEN, THAT THE BOOK OF DANIEL WAS WRITTEN SOMETIME DURING THOSE YEARS. BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, THE NATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH FOUND THEMSELVES CONQUERED BY NEBUCHADREZZAR AND THEIR PEOPLE TAKEN CAPTIVE TO A HEATHEN COUNTRY. ALTHOUGH, THE BOOK OF DANIEL WAS WRITTEN WHILE GOD'S PEOPLE WERE CAPTIVE IN BABYLON BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS, THE FOCUS OF THE BOOK IS NOT ABOUT THE CAPTIVITY, BUT ABOUT THE END TIME. THIS DISCOVERY ABOUT THE BOOK, GIVES DANIEL RELEVANCE FOR US TODAY. THERE ARE TWO DISTINCT PERSPECTIVES IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL: THE HISTORICAL, WHERE WE SEE STORIES ABOUT DANIEL'S TIME; AND THE PROPHETIC, WHERE WE SEE PROPHECIES POINTING TO THE END TIME. THE STORIES OF DANIEL ARE NOT JUST GIVEN AS SIMPLE STORIES, THEY ARE GIVEN TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT THE PROPHECIES PREDICT. REMEMBER, THE POINT OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS THE END TIME...THE ERA OF THE ENDING OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. WE STUDY! N THEY ARE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF THE KING OF BABYLON AND TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY. THESE EVENTS ARE SYMBOLIC OF THE FINAL CONFLICT THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE END TIME, WHEN IN THE LAST DAYS SATAN'S FORCES ARE AT WORK TRYING TO DESTROY THOSE WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO JESUS. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL IS EVIDENCED WHEN NEBUCHADREZZAR HAD DANIEL'S THREE FRIENDS THROWN INTO THE FIERY FURNACE. HE CLEARLY SAW A FOURTH PERSON IN THE FIRE, TO PROTECT AND DELIVER THE HEBREW CHILDREN, AND HE KNEW SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL HAD OCCURRED. NEBUCHADREZZAR IS SHOWN OVER AND OVER THAT GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL OF HUMAN EVENTS NO MATTER WHAT. THIS SAME DELIVERER IS WITH US TODAY. WHEN CHRISTIANS GO THROUGH TRIB
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