BOOK OF DANIEL
CHAPTERS 1-6
CHAPTER 1
“BACKGROUND”
ABOUT DANIEL
DANIEL CAME FROM A ROYAL FAMILY
TAKEN CAPTIVE AT A YOUNG AGE
GREW UP IN BABYLON
WELL KEPT/GOOD LOOKING GUY
VERY WISE
TIME FRAME
3RD YEAR OF KING JEHOIAKIM WHEN KING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR RAIDED JERUSALEM
CARRIED INTO THE LAND OF SHINAR
DANIEL’S TRAINING
KING ORDERED ASHEPENAZ TO BRING THE MOST
SOPHISTICATED INDIVIDUALS FROM THROUGHOUT THE LAND
HE WAS TO TEACH THEM THE LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
OF THE BABYLONIANS
THEY RECEIVED DAILY AMOUNTS OF FOOD & WINE FROM
THE KINGS TABLE FOR 3 YEARS & AFTER THAT THEY
WERE IN THE KINGS SERVICES
THOSE CHOSEN
NAME CHANGE:
DANIEL TO BELTESHAZZAR
HANANIAH TO SHADRACH
MISHAEL TO MESHACH
AZARIAH TO ABEDNEGO
THE TEST
DANIEL DID NOT WANT TO EAT FROM THE KINGS TABLE
THE OFFICIAL HAD COMPASSION FOR DANIEL BUT TOLD
HIM HE MUST EAT THIS FOOD SO HE DOES NOT LOOK
WORSE THAN THE OTHERS
DANIEL CONVINCE GUARD TO TEST THEM FOR 10 DAYS
GIVES DANIEL & CO. ONLY FRUITS & VEGETABLES
WHILE THE OTHERS EAT MEAT & DRINK WINE FROM THE
KINGS TABLE
RESULTS
AFTER 10 DAYS DANIEL & CO. LOOKED
HEALTHIER THAN THE OTHERS
To these four young men God gave
knowledge and understanding of all kinds of
literature and learning. And Daniel could
understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
AFTER TRAINING
AFTER 3 YEARS THEY WERE BROUGHT TO
SERVICE FOR KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR
10 TIMES WISER THAN ANY OTHER
MAGICIAN OR SORCERER IN THE LAND
Daniel remained there until the first year of
King Cyrus (Persian King).
CHAPTER 2
“THE DREAM”
NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAMS
THE KING HAD BEEN TROUBLED BY DREAMS
DEMANDED HIS ASTROLOGERS INTERPRET HIS
DREAMS OR FACE DEATH
THEY REPLIED THERE IS NO ONE ON EARTH THAT
CAN INTERPRET YOUR DREAMS
THIS MADE THE KING FURIOUS AND ORDERED
THAT EVERY WISEMEN BE PUT TO DEATH
DANIEL STEPS UP
DANIEL & FRIENDS HAD DECREE OUT FOR
THEIR OWN LIVES
WHY?
IS TOLD NO ONE CAN INTERPRET THE
KINGS DREAM
DANIEL GOES TO THE KING & ASKS FOR
TIME TO INTERPRET THE DREAM
DANIEL’S PRAYER
Then Daniel praised the God of heaven and said:
“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom
and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he
deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to
the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals
deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him. I thank and praise you, God of
my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you, you
have made known to us the dream of the king.”
ONLY ONE CAN REVEAL:
Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter,
magician or diviner can explain to the king
the mystery he has asked about, but there
is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.
He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what
will happen in days to come. Your dream
and the visions that passed through your
mind as you were lying in bed are these:
THE STATUE
“Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an
enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
HEAD OF STATUE OF PURE GOLD,
CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER
BELLY & THIGHS OF BRONZE
LEGS OF IRON
FEET PARTLY OF IRON & PARTLY BAKED CLAY
A ROCK WAS CUT OUT, BUT NOT BY HUMAN HANDS
It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then was the
iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and
became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried
them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the
image became a great mountain (Kingdom), and filled the whole earth.
STATUE = KINGDOMS:
GOLD HEAD = CURRENT KINGDOM (BABYLONIANS)
SILVER = ANOTHER KINGDOM WILL ARISE (PERSIANS)
BRONZE = WILL ARISE AND RULE (GRECIANS)
FINALLY, A 4TH KINGDOM STRONG AS IRON FOR IT WILL
CRUSH & BREAK THE OTHERS
FEET & TOES WILL BE OF IRON & CLAY THEREFORE
BEING PARTLY STRONG & PARTLY BRITTLE
(THE KINGDOM WILL NOT BE UNITED)
ROCK CRUSHES ALL KINGDOMS
“In the time of those kings, the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom that will never be
destroyed, nor will it be left to another people.
It will crush all those kingdoms and bring
them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut
out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a
rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the
clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
THE ROCK
10 KINGDOMS
10 TOES = 10 KINGDOMS
REVELATION 17:12-14 “The ten horns you saw
are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom,
but who for one hour will receive authority as kings
along with the beast. They have one purpose and will
give their power and authority to the beast. They will
wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph
over them because he is Lord of lords and King of
kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and
faithful followers.”
THE INTERPRETATION
4 BEASTS IN DANIEL
Daniel 7: lists 3 Empires and calls them each by a beast….
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Lion---Babylon (Gold)
Bear---Medo-Persia (Silver)
Leopard—Grecian (Bronze)
BEAST---Lead by the Antichrist (Iron)
REVELATION 13:1-3 And I stood upon the sand of the sea,
and saw a beast rise up out of the sea (people), having
seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast
which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as
the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
the dragon (Satan) gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were
wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and
all the world wondered after the beast.
JOHN’S VISION OF EMPIRE’S
REVELATION 17:9-14 “Here is the
mind which has wisdom:
1. EGYPT
2. ASSYRIA
The seven heads are seven mountains
on which the woman (False Religion) 3. BABYLON
sits. There are also seven kings.
4. PERSIA
5. GRECIAN EMPIRE
Five have fallen,
6. ROMAN EMPIRE
7. MUSLIM CALIPHATE/OTTOMAN
one is,
TURKS
8. ANTICHRIST—BEAST
and the other has not yet come. And
(REVIVED OF THE 7TH)
when he comes, he must continue a
short time.
The beast that was, and is not, is
himself also the eighth, and is of the
seven, and is going to perdition.
THE BEAST THAT WAS:
BABYLON/PERSIA/GRECIAN
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
FORMED IN 1928 WHEN THE OTTOMAN TURKISH EMPIRE
HAD DEPLEATED OFFICIALLY OCTOBER 29,1923
NATION OF TURKEY IS THE ONLY TERRITORY LEFT OF THE EMPIRE
GOAL OF THE BROTHERHOOD IS TO RESTORE THE
OTTOMAN TURKISH EMPIRE THROUGH A CALIPHATE
CALIPHATE = KHILAFAH
JOEL RICHARDSON ON 4TH KINGDOM
When the fourth empire was to arise in history, the Bible tells us
that in doing so, it would break or crush all three of the previous
empires. So as the fourth empire arose, it would crush or break
into pieces: Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece.
If we are to think of the primary capitals or regional strongholds
of these ancient empires in modern terms we could say that
Babylon was centered largely in modern day Iraq, Medo-Persia
in modern day Iran, and the capital of the Hellenistic Greek
Empire today would be the Balkans, Greece and Turkey.
So the question must now be asked, did the Roman Empire
upon its rise—or ever—crush all three of these empires and the
regions that we are speaking of? The clear answer is no, it did
not. The Roman Empire did conquer the western-most edges of
these empires, but did not conquer the primary geographic
strongholds of two out of three of the empires.
EMPIRE MAPS
OTTOMAN TURKISH EMPIRE
RICHARDSON CONTINUES
If we take the time to study these maps, we can very clearly see that the
Roman Empire never conquered more than half of any of the three empires
and never even reached the primary geographic stronghold of the Persian
Empire. While the ancient city of Babylon, (the actual location that the
dream was given), in A.D. 116 under Emperor Trajan was taken by the
Roman troops, within months Trajan died and the troops withdrew.
All things considered, the Roman Empire, at the time of its greatest
eastward expansion, was only able to conquer the western portions of all
three of these empires. However, if we look to the Scriptural criteria given
to us to identify the fourth empire, we can clearly see that only the Islamic
Empire conquered all three of the previous empires.
Today, Babylon (Iraq), Medo-Persia (Iran) and Greece (Turkey) are all
Islamic territories. The evidence is staring us in the face, yet most have
missed this obvious reality. The Islamic Empire meets the Biblically defined
geographic description of Daniel 2:40 but the Roman Empire does not.
FINAL CONCLUSION
In case you are not convinced by the previous argument, the Lord has given us yet
another very similar geographic pointer. In Daniel 2:40, we saw the nature of the rise
of the Antichrist Empire, and in Daniel 2:34-35 we see the geographic parameters of
the Antichrist Empire as it will exist when Christ returns. Here we are told that when
Christ returns, when His kingdom crushes the empire of the Antichrist, once again, all
three of the previous Empires will be crushed as well.
So now, I ask you, if Jesus returned today and crushed the Roman Empire, would
Iraq (Babylon) also be crushed in the process? What about Iran (Persia)?
The clear answer once again is no, it would not. Yet the Bible says that “the iron, the
clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, [will be] broken to pieces together.” No matter
how hard one might try, the Roman Empire simply cannot be twisted or stretched to
meet these Scriptural geographic requirements. But if Christ returned and destroyed
the Islamic Empire, then indeed, Iraq (Babylon), Iran (Persia) and Greece (Turkey)
would all be destroyed as well. No longer can we look to Europe for the eventual rise
of the Empire of the Antichrist. The Lord has already made it abundantly clear that
the Empire of the Antichrist and the Islamic Empire are one and the same. Beloved,
the Antichrist Empire is staring us all in the face.
KING AMAZED
Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate
before Daniel and paid him honor and
ordered that an offering and incense be
presented to him. The king said to Daniel,
“Surely your God is the God of gods and the
Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries,
for you were able to reveal this mystery.”
APPOINTED POSITIONS
Then the king placed Daniel in a high position
and lavished many gifts on him. He made him
ruler over the entire province of Babylon and
placed him in charge of all its wise men.
Moreover, at Daniel’s request the king
appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
administrators over the province of Babylon,
while Daniel himself remained at the royal
court.
CHAPTER 3
“THE BURNING FURNACE”
STATUE OF NEBUCHADNEZZER
BUILT A LARGE STATUE OF HIMSELF IN BABYLON
CALLED ALL POSITIONED MEN TO COME TO THE
DEDICATION CEREMONY OF THE STATUE
“Nations and peoples of every language, this is
what you are commanded to do: As soon as you
hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp,
pipe and all kinds of music, you must fall down
and worship the image of gold that King
Nebuchadnezzar has set up. Whoever does not
fall down and worship will immediately be thrown
into a blazing furnace.”
THE RESPONSE
We do not need to defend ourselves before you
in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing
furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us
from it, and he will deliver us from Your
Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we
want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not
serve your gods or worship the image of gold
you have set up.”
REFUSING TO BOW
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow to image
as they were instructed
KING WAS FURIOUS AND DEMANDED THEY BE BROUGHT TO HIM
WILL BE THROWN INTO A BLAZING FURNACE IF THEY DO NOT WORSHIP
Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”
KING FURIOUS
KING SO UPSET HE HAS THE FURNACE HEATED 7 TIMES
HOTTER THAN NORMAL
SO HOT THAT IT KILLED SOME OF THE KINGS MEN THAT
WERE TO THROW THEM INTO THE FIRE
3 MEN FIRMLY TIED WERE THROWN INTO THE FIRE
4 PEOPLE IN THE FURNACE?
Then King Nebuchadnezzar
leaped to his feet in amazement
and asked his advisers, “Weren’t
there three men that we tied up
and threw into the fire?”
They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.”
He said, “Look! I see four men
walking around in the fire,
unbound and unharmed, and
the fourth looks like a son of the
gods.”
NOT HARMED
KING CALLS THEM OUT OF THE FIRE
WERE NOT HARMED ONE BIT
KING BELIEVED IN THE LORD
COMMANDED ANYONE WHO TALKED BAD ABOUT
THEIR GOD BE CUT DOWN TO PIECES
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego in the province of Babylon.
CHAPTER 4
“A BEAST”
KING TERRIFIED BY DREAM
As I was lying in bed, the images and visions that
passed through my mind terrified me. So I
commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be
brought before me to interpret the dream for me.
THE WISMEN TO TRIED TO INTERPRET THE
DREAM BUT COULD NOT
DANIEL CAME IN AND WAS TOLD THE DREAM
NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD FAITH IN DANIEL
THE DREAM OF A TREE
There before me stood a tree in the middle of the land.
Its height was enormous.
The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky;
it was visible to the ends of the earth.
Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was
food for all.
Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived
in its branches; from it every creature was fed.
HOLY ONE
“In the visions I saw while lying in bed, I looked, and there before
me was a holy one, a messenger, coming down from
heaven.
He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its
branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.
Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its
branches.
But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze,
remain in the ground, in the grass of the field.
MIND CHANGE
“‘Let him be drenched with the dew of
heaven, and let him live with the animals
among the plants of the earth. Let his mind
be changed from that of a man and let him
be given the mind of an animal, till seven
times pass by for him.
INTERPRETATION
NEBUCHADNEZZAR = THE TREE
YOU HAVE BECOME GREAT & STRONG
YOUR DOMINION EXPANDS THROUGHOUT
DISTANT PARTS OF THE EARTH
DRIVEN OUT AS A BEAST
THE HOLY ONE COMING DOWN TO CUT THE TREE = THE FATE OF
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals;
you will eat grass like the ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven.
Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most
High is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and gives them to anyone
he wishes.
The command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots means that
your kingdom will be restored to you when you acknowledge that
Heaven rules.
Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your
sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the
oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”
FULLFILLED
ALL OF THESE THINGS DID COME TO PASS
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS TURNED INTO A BEAST
UNTIL HE RECOGNIZED THE ONE TRUE GOD
LYCANTHROPIC DISORDER
NEBUCHADNEZZAR A WEREWOLF?
SIDE NOTES
NEBUCHADNEZZAR RECOVERS FROM ILLNESS
DIES AROUND 562 B.C. (43 YEAR REIGN)
DEATH UNKNOWN
MANY SCHOLARS BELIEVE IT WAS A NATURAL DEATH
CHAPTER 5
“WRITTINGS ON THE WALL”
BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST
BELSHAZAR WAS THE SON OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR
BELSHAZAR REQUESTED THE GOLD & SILVER VESSELS
THAT HIS FATHER HAD TAKEN FROM THE TEMPLE IN
JERUSALEM
They drank wine, and praised the gods of
gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of
wood, and of stone.
WRITTING ON THE WALL
In the same hour came
forth fingers of a man's
hand, and wrote over
against the candlestick
upon the plaster of the
wall of the king's palace:
and the king saw the
part of the hand that
wrote.
WHO CAN INTERPRET THE WRITING?
ASTROLOGERS & SCHOLARS WERE
CALLED IN TO INTERPRET THE WRITING
NO ONE COULD INTERPRET
THE QUEEN TELLS THE KING THERE IS ONE
PERSON IN THE KINDOM THAT HAS THE
WIDSOM OF THE HOLY GOD
BELSHAZZAR’S FATHER
YOUR FATHER WAS GIVING HIGH
AUTHORITY & POWER
BECAME FULL OF PRIDE
HE WAS TURNED INTO A BEAST UNTIL HE
ACKNOWLEDGED THE MOST HIGH GOD
TELLS BELSHAZZAR HE KNEW ALL THIS
AND HAS NOT HUMBLED HIMSELF
DANIEL INTERPRETS
WRITTING ON THE WALL:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and
brought it to an end.
Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and
found wanting.
Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the
Medes and Persians.”
DANIEL REWARDED:
DANIEL WAS REWARDED
CLOTHED IN PURPLE & GOLD CHAIN
AROUND HIS NECK
PUT 3RD IN CHARGE OF BABYLON
REIGN IS OVER
That very night Belshazzar, king of the
Babylonians, was slain, and Darius the
Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of
sixty-two.
PROPHECIED EARLIER
A grievous vision is declared unto me;
the treacherous dealer deals
treacherously, and the spoiler spoils.
Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all
the sighing thereof have I made to
cease.
Therefore are my loins filled with
pain: pangs have taken hold upon me,
as the pangs of a woman that travails:
I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I
was dismayed at the seeing of it.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted
me: the night of my pleasure hath he
turned into fear unto me. Prepare the
table, watch in the watchtower, eat,
drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint
the shield.
CHAPTER 6
“THE LIONS DEN”
NEW CONTROL
DARIUS PLACED 120 GOVERNORS OVER THE
KINGDOM WITH 3 ADMINISTRATORS
ONE OF THOSE WAS DANIEL
DANIEL IMPRESSED DARIUS SO MUCH HE WAS
ABOUT TO GET CONTROL OVER THE ENTIRE
KINGDOM
OTHER HIGH OFFICIALS WERE JEALOUS OF
DANIEL AND LOOKED TO FIND FAULT IN HIM
DANIEL HAD NO FAULTS
SNEAKY PLAN
DECREE READ:
Anyone who prays to any god
or human being during the
next thirty days, except to
you, Your Majesty, shall be
thrown into the lions’ den.
Now, Your Majesty, issue the
decree and put it in writing so
that it cannot be altered—in
accordance with the law of
the Medes and Persians,
which cannot be repealed.”
SEEKING GOD FOR HELP
DANIEL SAW THE DECREE AND WENT HOME
TO AN OPEN WINDOW FACING TOWARDS
JERUSALEM
Three times a day he got down on his knees
and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just
as he had done before.
Then these men went as a group and found
Daniel praying and asking God for help.
DANIEL ON TRIAL
“Did you not publish a decree that during
the next thirty days anyone who prays to
any god or human being except to you,
Your Majesty, would be thrown into the
lions’ den?”
The king answered, “The decree stands—
in accordance with the law of the Medes
and Persians, which cannot be repealed.”
KING DARIUS DISTRESSED
KING DARIUS WAS DISTRESSED OVER THE
SITUATION
DARIUS WAS VERY FOND OF DANIEL
TRIED EVERYWAY POSSIBLE TO GET
DANIEL OUT OF THE SITUATION
DANIEL & THE LIONS DEN
KING HAD NO CHOICE BUT
TO THROW DANIEL INTO
THE LIONS DEN
DARIUS TELLS DANIEL:
“May your God, whom you
serve continually, rescue
you!”
A BOULDER WAS PLACED
OVER THE DEN
KING WAS DISTRESSED &
COULD NOT SLEEP
IS HE ALIVE?
AT THE FIRST SUNLIGHT THE KING WENT
TO THE LIONS DEN AND ASKED FOR A
RESPONSE FROM DANIEL
DANIEL’S RESPONSE:
“May the king live forever! My God sent his
angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions.
They have not hurt me, because I was found
innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any
wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
PLAN BACKFIRED:
At the king’s command, the
men who had falsely
accused Daniel were
brought in and thrown into
the lions’ den, along with
their wives and children.
And before they reached
the floor of the den, the
lions overpowered them
and crushed all their bones.
KING DARIUS THRILLED
WROTE TO ALL THE NATIONS:
“I issue a decree that in every part of my
kingdom people must fear and reverence
the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God
and he endures forever; his kingdom will
not be destroyed, his dominion will never
end. He rescues and he saves; he performs
signs and wonders in the heavens and on
the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the
power of the lions.”
DANIEL PROSPERS
DANIEL PROSPERED DURING THE REIGN OF
DARIUS AND CYRUS THE PERSIAN