## Daniel

Book Outline & Menu of Notes
Key & Guide to Notes

I. Daniel's Chronicles of his Times under Gentile Kings (ch. 1-6)
A. Daniel's personal history, 1:1-21
B. Nebuchadnezzar's pride and conversion -

1. His vision of a multi-metal image (2:1-49):
   1. hidden
   2. revealed
   3. interpreted: Four successive world empires to be displaced by the eternal Kingdom of God.
2. His image of gold (3:1-30):
   1. idolatrous worship commanded
   2. idolatrous worship refused
   3. the true God revealed through the fiery trial of His servants
3. His vision of a tree and stump (4:1-37):
   1. the proud king ...warned
   2. ...humbled
   3. ...exalts the King of heaven

C. Belshazzar's foolishness, Babylon's fall (5:1-31)
D. Darius' decrees (6:1-28):

1. For worship of himself...
   Daniel's disregard and deliverance from the lion's den (6:1-24)
2. For worship of the Living God (6:25-28)

II. Daniel's Visions concerning the Times of the Gentiles (ch. 7-12)

1. Four great beasts & the Ancient of Days (7:1-28)
   - Rise & fall of four successive Gentile empires.
   - Rise & fall of a little horn from the fourth empire.

  (The Antichrist)
- Everlasting dominion given to the Son of Man.
- The Ram, the He Goat, and a little Horn (8:1-27)
  - The second empire falls to the third empire.
  - A little horn rises from the third empire;
    his character foreshadows the Antichrist.
      (Antiochus Epiphanes)
- The Seventy Weeks (9:1-27)
  - Daniel's prayer, 9:1-19
  - The LORD's answer, 9:20-27
- The Time of the End (ch. 10-12)
  1. The Preparation for the Vision (10:1-21)
  2. The Rise of the Little Horns (11:1-45)
     1. A vile person who foreshadows the Antichrist (11:1-35)
          (Antiochus Epiphanes)
     2. The willful king at the Time of the End (11:36-45)
          (The Antichrist)
  3. The End of the Times of the Gentiles,
     The Great Tribulation... (12:1-13)
     - the deliverance of God's people,
     - the resurrections,
     - the sealed book.

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