DANIEL
(Answers)
Updated 01/2024
CHAPTER 1
- They would be trained for
three years before they served before the king.
- Daniel and his friends
refused to eat the wine and delicacies of the king.
- Daniel was given the ability
to interpret visions and dreams.
CHAPTER 2
- If they could tell him his
dream then he would know that their interpretation was true and accurate.
- Daniel was the only one who
could reveal the king's dream to him.
- Four more kingdoms would come
after the kingdom of Babylon but not be as strong as Babylon. But, all
would be destroyed or subdued by the final kingdom that would rule
forever.
- The coming of Jesus and the
spreading of the gospel is the final kingdom that will rule over all other
kingdoms.
- The four empires to come
(Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman), all void of the true God, and
each kingdom in a steady decline from gold to clay.
CHAPTER 3
- Nebuchadnezzar made an image
of gold (of his god).
- a. All those who rule over
people and the people themselves were to worship the image. They were to
bow down to it when they heard the assortment of musical instruments. b.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego refused to worship the gold image.
- Anyone who did not worship
the image would be thrown into a fiery furnace and burned alive.
- Nothing happened to Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego; not a hair was singed nor did they even smell of
fire or smoke. An angel of God was inside with them and protected them
from harm.
CHAPTER 4
- a. Nebuchadnezzar would lose
his sensibility and be driven from his kingdom and people to graze in a
field eating grass like an ox for a period of seven years. b. God did this
to remove Nebuchadnezzar’s pride, produce righteousness in him, and to
make him realize that the kingdoms of men are rule by the Most High God
and He gives it to whomever He chooses.
CHAPTER 5
- Belshazzar had the gold and
silver vessels of the house of the Lord God brought to his banquet so he,
his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.
- Belshazzar knew all that had
happened to his father Nebuchadnezzar and how God had humbled him.
- Belshazzar days were numbered
as king, he was found lacking before God, and his kingdom would be given
to the Medes and Persians.
- Belshazzar was slain that
very night he was given the message by Daniel.
CHAPTER 6
- Daniel was one of three
governors over the satraps of the kingdom.
- The king was considering
setting Daniel up over the whole realm.
- For the next thirty days no
one was to petition any god or man except the king or he would be thrown
into a den of lions.
- The king labored until the
sun went down to deliver Daniel from the den of lions.
- The king found Daniel safe
and unharmed by the lions. An angel sent by God had protected him.
- The king threw the accusers
of Daniel, their wives, and their children into the den of lions and they
were quickly devoured.
CHAPTER 7
- The beasts represent four
kingdoms that will arise to power in the earth. Babylon, then Persia,
Greece, and Rome (this is the same interpretation as in the dream of
Nebuchadnezzar in chapter two).
- The ruler out of the ten
kings will be more prominent than the other kings and will subdue three of
them. He will oppress the saints and even speak against God. (This is the
Anti-Christ to come – Rev 13 and 27).
- The word and truth of God,
which will reveal the darkness of the kingdom. a. God is the Ancient of
Days. b. Jesus is the one coming in the clouds.
- The coming of the Son of Man
will subdue all kingdoms and He will rule forever.
- The fourth kingdom ruler
will attempt to change religious ordinances and feasts.
CHAPTER 8
- Gabriel is the angel
messenger.
- The vision is for the time of
God's wrath in the latter days of the Grecian empire after it is broken up
into four kingdoms.
- The ram is the empire of the
Medes and Persians (the larger horn is Persia). The goat is the Grecian
empire that will take over the Persian Empire.
- The little horn will cast
down and trample the holy people and the priests. Some will be killed.
- The horn will exalt himself
as the High Priest (or as high as God) and will do away with the daily
sacrifices and desolate the sanctuary.
CHAPTER 9
- Daniel receives this vision
in the first year of King Darius of the Medes in the year after Babylon
was taken (Daniel 5:31).
- Daniel prays for forgiveness
of his people and their sin.
- Daniel realizes the curse and
the oath as written in the Law of Moses has been poured out on the people
because of their sins (Lev
26L14-46; Deuteronomy 28:15).
- Gabriel comes to explain
Daniel’s second vision
- Gabriel foretells to Daniel
about the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the coming of the Messiah (Jesus), and
the destruction again of the city and the temple by the people of the
prince to come (Roman Empire).
- The prince who is to come in
the last week (period of seven years) will make a covenant with the holy
people but will break it in the middle of the week (in three and a half
years). He will put an end to sacrifice and offering and cause the
abomination of desolation. (This is the Anti-Christ to come.)
CHAPTER 10
- Daniel fasted and prayed
for three weeks.
- Daniel saw a great angel at
the Tigris River.
- Michael a chief prince came
to help the angel against the prince of Persia.
- The angel must go again to
fight with the prince of Persia and then the prince of Greece after him.
CHAPTER 11
- The kingdom of Greece is
broken up and scattered into four kingdoms.
- The kingdom of Greece had
been split. The Northern kingdom was over Syria; the Southern kingdom was
over Egypt.
- The king of the south gives
his daughter in marriage to the king of the north.
- The kingdom of the south is
betrayed when the daughter of the king of the south is killed and also her
son. (After the king of the south dies the king of the north divorces the
daughter of the king of the south. Then a conspiracy occurs with his
former wife. She poisons the king of the north and has the daughter of the
king of the south and her son assassinated. She has her son made king of
the north)
- The vile king of the north
entices people to break their holy covenant; he profanes the sanctuary and
sets up the abomination of desolation.
- Some of the wise that
instruct many will be killed in the persecution of the king of the north.
There will be some who will need to be purified, cleansed, and whitened.
- The king of the north will
not serve the gods of his native land nor consider the desire of women.
(He will serve his own god, the god of war. He will ignore the desire of
women, which was to bear children. He will kill both mother and child.)
CHAPTER 12
1. Michael
will stand up for the people under the time of great trouble. (This is the time
of destruction and persecution under the rule of Rome or it is the time of the
Great Tribulation under the Anti-Christ.)
2. The
end is in the latter days. (From the abomination of desolation to the defeat of
the Anti-Christ there shall be 1260 days. Before Jesus sets up the kingdom
there will be the bowls of wrath and a time of judgment of the nations, 1290
days and 1335 days respectively.)