DANIEL

V. GOD'S REASON FOR SHOWING NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE COMING

WORLD EMPIRES IN THE FORM OF AN IMAGE
A. COMMON PRACTICE OF KINGS TO CREATE GREAT IMAGES OF
THEMSELVES
This would be as a reminder of their greatness after they were gone.
B. NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THE GREAT CONQUEST OF
EGYPT.
 In Egypt he had seen several images of kings.
C. A GREAT IMAGE WAS MAN'S WAY OF PORTRAYING GREATNESS
Strength, endurance, and his ideal of man's accomplishments were thus portrayed.
VI. THE STONE CUT OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN
A. THIS WAS BEYOND THE COMPREHENSION OF MAN
B. THIS WAS BEYOND THE ABILITY OF MAN
C. THIS WAS BEYOND THE LIMITATION OF MAN
D. THIS WAS BEYOND THE CONTROL OF MAN

NOTE: As the cutting out of this stone from the mountain was super-natural and the
growth of this stone into a great mountain was super-natural, so will be the destruction of
all world empires brought into subjection to this stone, which represents Christ. None of
this wi11 be brought about by his own initiative nor his own efforts but by God Himself.
NOTE: The marked difference between 'the image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and
images which men of that time built:

 1. All of man's images were of stone; this image was made of metals, to show
that it was not man-made.
 2. This image showed that these empires would be blotted out by God and not
by man.
 3. Gold, signifying divinity, shows that the very beginning of this image (the
head, the beginning of world events), was so ordered and controlled by God.
 4. The stone being cut out of the mountain (Christ) without hand shows that He
was taken from among men but not a product of man. "For He came not by the
will of man but of God" - John1:13.
 5. As the stone grew into the mighty mountain and filled all the earth, so Christ
at His coming will put down all earthly rule and He Himself will rule over the
entire world.
VII. DANIEL'S DREAM - 7
"In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions or his
head upon his bed. This indicates what time of Daniel's life he had the dream. God is
about to show him the coming empires as God Himself looks at them: as wild and
ferocious beasts.
“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night and behold the four winds of the
heaven strove upon the great sea. And four beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from
another.” In the Bible we find that wind symbolizes war and strife and conflict in the spirit
world. The sea represents people, beasts represent kingdoms, heads represent governments
and horns represent kings or rulers. These four beasts came out of the great sea: a great
number of people.

A. BEAST NUMBER ONE

1. Like a lion.
2. Had wings as of an eagle.

B. BEAST NUMBER TWO

1. Like a bear.

2. Had three ribs in its mouth.

3. Raised itself up on one side.

4. Devoured much flesh.

C. BEAST NUMBER THREE

1. Like a leopard.
2. Had four wings on its back as wings of a fowl.
3. Had four heads.

D. BEAST NUMBER FOUR

1. Dreadful, terrible and exceedingly strong.

2. Had iron teeth.

 3. Devoured, broke in pieces and stamped out with its feet what remained of the other
three beasts.

4. Was different from all others before it.

5. Had ten horns.

6. Out of one horn came a little horn: it pulled up three of the others by the roots.
a. It had eyes like a man.
b. Its mouth spoke great things.

THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM:

NOTE: Instead of starting with the first beast -Daniel starts with the fourth because he is
so troubled in his soul over the ferociousness of it.

BEAST NUMBER FOUR - THE NON-DESCRIPT BEAST

1. The fourth empire that would arise on earth.

2. Out of it would come ten kings.

3. A little horn (king) would come out of the ten kings.

a. It overthrew three other kings:

b. It spoke great words against God.

c. It persecuted the saints - Rev. 13:7.

d. It changed times and laws.

e. It continued in power until destroyed by the Ancient of Days.

HISTORY: This was the Roman Empire and the three former beasts were the three
empires before it.

A. THE LION

1. Corresponds to the head of gold - Babylon.

2. Wings designate the-speed of its conquest.

B. THE BEAR

1. Corresponds to the arms and chest of silver - Medo-Persian empire.

2. Three ribs between its teeth represent the other three great powers the Medo-
Persians overthrew.

a. Lybia

b. Egypt

c. Babylonia

C. THE LEOPARD

1. Corresponds to the belly and thighs of brass - Grecian Empire.

2. Four wings show that the speed of its conquest is twice that of Babylon's.

3. Four heads represent the kingdom being divided into four parts.

D. THE NON-DESCRIPT BEAST

1. Corresponds to the legs of iron - the Roman Empire.

2. The ten horns correspond to the ten toes on the image - ten kings arising of the
Roman Empire.

3. The little horn - something new added to what God showed Nebuchadnezzar.

IX. DANIEL'S VISION - THE TWO BEASTS

BEAST NUMBER ONE - A RAM

1. Had two horns.

2. One horn came up higher than the other.

3. The ram pushed westward, northward, southward.

4. No beast could stand before it.

 BEAST NUMBER TWO - A HE-GOAT
1. Had a notable horn between its eyes. 
2. Came from the west.
3. Covered the face of the whole earth. 
4. Touched not the ground.
5. Came to the ram with rage.
6. Smote the ram and broke its two horns
a. No power in the ram to stand before it.
b. Cast the ram to the ground.
c. None could deliver the ram out of its hand.

7. Notable horn was broken off. • .

8. Four horns came up in place of the broken one.

9. A little horn comes out of one of the four.

X. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE VISION

NOTE: God is beginning to single down the events to come; instead of dealing with all
four wild beasts He is now dealing with the two major ones.

A. THE RAM : MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE

1. The two horns were the first two kings.

2. The second king was greater than the first: signified by one horn coming out higher
than the other.

HISTORY: of the Medo-Persian Empire:

1. First two kings were Darius and Cyrus

2. A Persian king appeared in 'front of his army bearing a golden figure of a ram's

head.

3. Medo-Persians believed the guardian spirit of the nation was in the ram.
 B. THE HE-GOAT - THE GRECIAN EMPIRE

1. Notable horn was Alexander the Great.

2. Conquest was toward the east.

3. Conquered the whole earth.

4. Conquest was very speedy (touched not the ground).

5. Came with rage because Medo-Persia was his main enemy.

6. Completely defeated Medo-Persia.

7. Alexander the Great died.

8. Four generals seized 4 parts of Alexander's empire.

a. Cassander: Greece and Macedonia.

b. Lysimachus: Asia Minor (present Turkey) and Thryce.

c. Seleucus: Eastern parts of empire: Syria, Iraq and Iran.

d. Ptolomy: Egypt.

9. The little horn is explained later under its own heading (C.)

HISTORY of the Grecian Empire:

 A picture of a goat appears on old coins found from this Empire.

 Capital city was called Aegae, meaning 'goat-city'.
 Adjacent waters were called Aegean, meaning 'goat-sea'. _
 Son born to Alexander the Great and Roxanne was called Aegun, .showing
that he was the descendent of a goat.
 Palestine became a buffer zone between Syria and Egypt after the division of
the Empire. War continued between Syria and Egypt for about 450 years,
ending in 165 B.C. with the reign of Antiochus Ephiphanes, king of Syria.

C. THE LITTLE HORN - THE ANTICHRIST

NOTE: The angel said concerning the little horn: "In the latter day of their kingdom, a
little horn stands up: (a notable king arises). This shows that it was not to be in their
present time but in the latter day of their kingdom. Those nations would receive power as
Kingdoms again at a later date:
The rise of the anti-christ will be from one of the four divisions of the old Grecian Empire:
Greece, Turkey, Syria or Egypt.
The stage was now set for the fulfillment of the first part of Daniel chapter 11, which
shows the conflict between Syria and Egypt.
By further study of the 11th chapter of Daniel we trace it all down: there we find the Bible
singles the conflict down to the king of the north and the king of the south, showing which
country the antichrist will come from.
XI. THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL - Dan.9:24-27
A. SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED (OR MARKED OFF) UPON:

1. Thy people - the Jews.

2. Thy holy city - Jerusalem.

NOTE: The literal meaning of these words in the Hebrew is 'seven sevens'. The word
week is used because English has no exact equivalent of the Hebrew which signifies
the period of seven weeks. In Prophetical Chronology a day stands for one year-
Numbers 14:34.

B. SEVENTY-WEEK PERIOD WAS TO BEGIN FROM THE GOING FORTH OF

DECREE TO REBUILD JERUSALEM

1. This bears the idea of its being more than just a man's decree but rather a divine
decree.

2. There were four different decrees:

a. The first, made by Cyrus, king of Persia, who said the Lord had told him to
build a house.

b. The second, made by Darius in 519 B.C., is recorded in Ezra 6:1-12, 5:1-17,
and again was a decree to build a temple.

c. The third, that of Artaxerxes in 453 B.C., in a letter to Ezra giving him
permission to go up to Jerusalem, take priests and Levites and collect gold and
silver to purchase bullocks, rams and lambs for the offering in the temple;
 if necessary to draw out of the king's treasury to the extent of a hundred talents
of silver. There was nothing in that decree about the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

d. The fourth decree, made by Artaxerxes Longimaeus in 445 B.C., gave

permission to return to Jerusalem and build it. This is referred to in verse 25
'rebuilding the street in troublous times'.

C. SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DIVIDED INTO THREE DIVISlONS:

1. Seven weeks - 49 years, the period of time it took to rebuild Jerusalem.

2. Three score and two weeks - 434 years, from the end of the rebuilding until
Messiah was cut off (Christ's death).

3. One week - 7 years.

NOTE the period of time of 69 weeks - 434 years. From the time of the going forth of
the decree of Artaxerxes Longimaeus to the time when Christ was crucified was 483
years - 69 weeks. This leaves the last week of Daniel's seventy weeks yet to be
fulfilled.

XII. THE PURPOSE OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS.

A. TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION:
NOTE: The seventy weeks has nothing to do with the Church or the Gentiles; it is only
for the Jews in Jerusalem.

1. They are still in transgression.

2. It will not be finished until as a nation they repent and return to God.

B. TO MAKE AN END OF SINS

C. TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY

This means the wickedness and unrighteousness of the nation, not individuals.
D. TO BRING ABOUT EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS
There can be no everlasting righteousness until the millennial kingdom of Christ
is set up.
E. TO SEAL UP THE VISION AND PROPHECY
This is to make an end of it by fulfilling all of the vision and prophecy.
 F. TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY
This is the cleansing of the sanctuary by Christ when He comes.

XIII. THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS - Dan. 9:27

A. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PRINCE TO COME - v. 26
 He shall confirm the covenant; make a firm covenant, a peace treaty.
 He shall do this with many for one week: the many people of the city, for 7
years.
 He will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease: he will bring an end to
their temple worship.
NOTE: He does this in the middle of the week, after 3 ½ years, even though the treaty
was for 7 years.
 For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate: instead of
the daily sacrifice he sets up idol worship in the temple, declares himself god
and demands worship.
B. THE KNOWLEDGE WE GAIN THROUGH THIS VERSE
1. It pinpoints for us the beginning of the seventieth week (with the signing of the
peace treaty).
2. It lets us know there are seven years of time left before the Battle of Armageddon
and Christ's return (after the signing of the treaty).
C. THE OUTCOME OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE 'PRINCE'
He who caused the desolation shall be brought to a full and complete end.

XIV. PROPHECY ALREADY FULFILLED - Daniel 11

v.2 - A. "Behold there shall stand up 3 kings in Persia'  
HISTORY: 1st - AhaSuerus Artaxerxes _
2nd - Darius, known as Cambyses - 529-522 B.C.
3rd - Pseudo-Smerdis
B. 'and the 4th shall be richer than they all"  
HISTORY: 4th - Xerxes - Bible name, Ahasuerus.
1. Bible name:-Ahasuerus:.

a. The son of Darius Hystaspes.

b. Because of wealth he was able to maintain very large army.

c. Invaded Grecia in 480 but failed.

d. The husband of Esther, the Queen

v.3 - A. "a mighty king".

HISTORY: Alexander the Great - 333-323 B.C. 
B. "shall stand up"
HISTORY: He conquered all of the then-known world. 
v.4 –
A. "his kingdom"  
Grecia*

B. "shall be broken"  

not to remain in one piece.

C. "divided toward the four winds of heaven"  

will be split up to north, south, east, west

D. "not to his posterity"  

will not be handed down in his family

E. "nor according to his dominion which he ruled"  

will not remain the Grecian Kingdom

THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL

62 WEEKS   MYSTERY   1 WEEK  

or   OF GOD:   or  
434 YEARS 3 1/2 years 7 YEARS
THE  
SILENT PERIOD CIIURCII AGE • 3 1/2 years

7 WEEKS  
or  
49 YEARS
TROUBLESOME TIMES  
RE-BUILDING OF WALLS

Rom. 16:25
Epli. 3:1-10
Col. 1:25-27
2:2
4:2,3
OF
69 WEEKS
or 483 -NINTH 70th WEEK
YEARS WEEK:
BEING or
9:9
21:1-9
12:12-15
CRUCIFIXI
ON
CLOSE OF BEGINS ENDS
ENDING WITH SIGNI WITHWITH CIIRIST'S RE
NG TURN AND BATTLE
OLD SIXTY
OF PEACE OF ARMAGEDDON
TESTAMEN TREATY WI
 T
CANON TH ISRAEL Joel 3:1-2
MESSIAH
Dan 9:27 3:9-13
CUT OFF
8:25 Rev. 16:16
CIIRIST'S
II Thess 5:3 17:14
Zech Matt. J
ohn

BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS:

GOING FORTH OF
THE DECREE TO REBUILD
JERUSALEM UNDER ARTAXERXES LONGIMAEUS

7 DAYS 7 YEARS GEN. 29:20, 27, 28  

God works on a timetable -- "fulness of time was come” - Gal. 4:4  
God's time scale -- Numbers 14:35

FIRST PERIOD - DAN. SECOND PERIOD - DAN THIRD PERIOD - DAN

9:25 9:25 9:25