Mike Mazzalongo

Daniel/Revelationfor Beginners

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Review

•Understanding Revelation requires understanding Daniel.

Review

•Understanding Revelation requires understanding Daniel.• Both books use “APOCALYPTIC”

language

Review

•Understanding Revelation requires understanding Daniel.• Both books use “APOCALYPTIC”

language• Prophecies made in Daniel are

fulfilled in Revelation.

Book of Daniel

•Daniel named as author - Dan. 7:1,28• Confirmed by Jesus – Mt. 24:15•Written in ARAMAIC/HEBREW

Outline

1. The Court of Nebuchadnezzar – 1:1-212. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream – 2:1-493. Four Episodes in Daniel’s Life – 3:1-6:284. Four Visions of Daniel’s Prophecy –

7:1-12:13

Daniel – The Person

- Young Jewish Noble- Kin to King Zedekiah- Could Interpret Dreams- Spent 72 yrs. in Babylon (606 BC – 534 BC)- Lived Through 5 Kings (Nebuchadnezzar – Cyrus)- God’s Witness in a Pagan Palace

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.- Daniel 1:1

2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.- Daniel 1:2

3 Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal family and of the nobles,- Daniel 1:3

4 youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing intelligence in every branch of wisdom, endowed with understanding and discerning knowledge, and who had ability for serving in the king’s court; and he ordered him to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.- Daniel 1:4

 5 The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king’s choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king’s personal service.- Daniel 1:5

6 Now among them from the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 7 Then the commander of the officials assigned new names to them; and to Daniel he assigned the name Belteshazzar, to Hananiah Shadrach, to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abed-nego.- Daniel 1:6-7

8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself. 9 Now God granted Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the commander of the officials,- Daniel 1:8-9

10 and the commander of the officials said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces looking more haggard than the youths who are your own age? Then you would make me forfeit my head to the king.”- Daniel 1:10

11 But Daniel said to the overseer whom the commander of the officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, 12 “Please test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink.- Daniel 1:11-12

13 Then let our appearance be observed in your presence and the appearance of the youths who are eating the king’s choice food; and deal with your servants according to what you see.”- Daniel 1:13

14 So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days. 15 At the end of ten days their appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food. 16 So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.- Daniel 1:14-16

17 As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of 

literature and wisdom; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.18 Then at the end of the days which the king had specified for presenting them, the commander of the officials presented them before Nebuchadnezzar. - Daniel 1:17-18

19 The king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s personal service.- Daniel 1:19

20 As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus the king.- Daniel 1:20-21

Daniel – Text : Chapter 1

- Trained by immersion in Babylon culture

Daniel – Text : Chapter 1

- Trained by immersion in Babylon culture

- Refused to eat improper food

Good Lessons:

1.Decide in advance

Good Lessons:

1.Decide in advance2.Trials and opportunities

Good Lessons:

1.Decide in advance2.Trials and opportunities3.God always rewards

Good Lessons:

1.Decide in advance2.Trials and opportunities3.God always rewards4.You never know

- King has unusual dream

Daniel – Text : Chapter 2

- King has unusual dream

- Demands interpretation without revealing dream under penalty of death

Daniel – Text : Chapter 2

31 “You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome. 32 The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze,- Daniel 2:31-32

33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

- Daniel 2:33-34

35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.- Daniel 2:35

36 “This was the dream; now we will tell its interpretation before the king. 37 You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength and the glory;- Daniel 2:36-37

38 and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.- Daniel 2:38

39 After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.- Daniel 2:39

40 Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces.- Daniel 2:40

41 In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay.- Daniel 2:41

42 As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. 43 And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.- Daniel 2:42-43

44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.- Daniel 2:44

45 Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”- Daniel 2:45

Interpretation

Head: Babylon - 606 BCChest & Arms: Medo-Persia - 536 BCBelly & Hips: Greece - 330 BCLegs & Feet: Rome -27 BCStone: Kingdom of God

Prophecy

• Claims to know future events

Prophecy

• Claims to know future events

• Exact number & order

Prophecy

• Claims to know future events• Exact number & order

• For sees the time & circumstances of the church.

Prophecy

• Claims to know future events• Exact number & order• For sees the time & circumstances of the church.

• Correctly states that none of the earthly kingdoms would survive or revive.