12/09/2011

Annotated Outline of Daniel

Daniel
  1. Personal history of Daniel  (1:1-21)
    1. The time: first deportation (2 Chr. 36:5-8; Jer. 25; 52:28-30)  (1:1-2)
    2. Daniel and his companions chosen (Isa. 39:7 fulfilled)  (1:3-6)
    3. Change of their names  (1:7)
    4. Daniel's purpose  (1:8-11)
    5. The ten-day test  (1:12-14)
    6. The result: their provision  (1:15-16)
    7. God's blessings (cp. Dan. 1:20)  (1:17)
    8. Their superiority to others  (1:18-21)
  2. Nebuchadnezzar's dream  (2:1-49)
    1. Chaldeans brought in  (2:1-3)
    2. Nebuchadnezzar's demand  (2:4-9)
    3. Inability of the wise men  (2:10-11)
    4. Nebuchadnezzar's resentment  (2:12-13)
    5. The prayer for wisdom  (2:14-18)
    6. The dream revealed to Daniel  (2:19-23)
    7. Daniel brought in  (2:24-26)
    8. Object and subjects of the dream: testimony of God  (2:27-30)
    9. The great image: five parts (cp. Dan. 7:1-14)  (2:31-35)
    10. The interpretation  (2:36-38)
      1. Head of gold: third world empire to persecute Israel-Babylon (Dan. 7:4; Isa. 13:1, refs.)  (2:36-38)
    11. Breast and arms of silver: fourth world empire-Medo-Persia (Dan. 5:25-31; 7:5; 8:20; 11:1-2; Isa. 13:17; 21:2; 45:1; Jer. 51:11)  (2:39)
      1. Belly and thighs of brass: fifth world empire-Grecia (Dan. 7:6; 8:21; 11:1-4; Joel 3:6; Zech. 9:13; Rev. 13:1-2; 17:3, 16-17)  (2:39)
    12. Legs of iron: sixth world empire-Rome (Dan. 7:7, 17-24; 9:26; Lk. 2:1; Jn. 11:48)  (2:40)
    13. Feet of iron and clay: seventh world empire-Revised Rome (Dan. 7:8, 20-24; Rev. 13:1-18; 17:12-17)  (2:41-43)
    14. The stone: ninth and last world empire-the kingdom of heaven on earth under Messiah (Isa. 9:7, refs.)  (2:44-45)
    15. God exalted: Daniel promoted  (2:46-49)
  3. Daniel's brethren tested: the fiery furnace (Heb. 11:34)  (3:1-30)
    1. Image made and set up  (3:1)
    2. The dedication services  (3:2-3)
    3. Command to worship  (3:4-7)
    4. Accusation of the three Jews  (3:8-12)
    5. Command to worship the image  (3:13-15)
    6. Refusal of the three Jews  (3:16-18)
    7. The harmless furnace  (3:19-23)
    8. The king amazed  (3:24-25)
    9. The king convinced  (3:26-28)
    10. Nebuchadnezzar's decree  (3:29-30)
  4. Nebuchadnezzar's deposition  (4:1-37)
    1. The king's proclamation  (4:1-3)
    2. The dream  (4:4-5)
    3. Interpretation desired  (4:6-7)
    4. The dream recited  (4:8-15)
    5. The dream interpreted  (4:16-26)
    6. Advice given to the king  (4:27)
    7. Advice rejected by the king  (4:28-30)
    8. Dream fulfilled  (4:31-33)
    9. The king's praise to God  (4:34-37)
  5. Fall of Babylon (Isa. 13:1; 41:2)  (5:1-31)
    1. Belshazzar's feast  (5:1-4)
    2. The writing on the wall  (5:5)
    3. Its effect on Belshazzar  (5:6)
    4. The wise men: their inability  (5:7-9)
    5. The queen's advice  (5:10-12)
    6. Advice heeded: Daniel called  (5:13-16)
    7. Belshazzar rebuked  (5:17-25)
    8. The writing interpreted  (5:26-29)
    9. The writing fulfilled  (5:30-31)
  6. Daniel tested: the lions' den (Heb. 11:33)  (6:1-28)
    1. His prosperity in Medo-Persia  (6:1-3)
    2. Ancient politics  (6:4-5)
    3. The decree obtained  (6:6-9)
    4. Steadfastness of Daniel  (6:10)
    5. Daniel accused: a lawbreaker  (6:11-13)
    6. The king's efforts  (6:14-15)
    7. Cast into the lions' den  (6:16-17)
    8. Daniel delivered by God  (6:18-22)
    9. His enemies destroyed  (6:23-24)
    10. Darius' decree: seven reasons  (6:25-28)
  7. Daniel's first vision: the four beasts(cp. Dan. 2:31-35)  (7:1-28)
    1. The vision (Dan. 7:1-14)  (7:1-3)
      1. Four winds and the four beasts (Dan. 7:17; cp. Dan. 2:31-35)  (7:1-3)
    2. First beast: a lion; third world empire to persecute Israel-Babylon (Dan. 2:36, refs.)  (7:4)
    3. Second beast: a bear; fourth world empire-Medo-Persia (Dan. 2:39a)  (7:5)
    4. Third beast: a leopard; fifth world empire-Grecia (Dan. 2:39b; Rev. 13:1-18; 17:3, 8-17)  (7:6)
    5. Fourth beast: non-descript; sixth world empire-Rome (Dan. 2:40, refs.)  (7:7)
    6. Ten horns and the "little horn": Revised Rome and Revived Grecia   (7:8)
      1. (see notes Dan. 7:24 and Rev. 13 and 17)  (7:8)
    7. The judgment  (7:9)
      1. A. The judge  (7:9)
    8. B. The judgment administered  (7:10)
    9. C. The "little horn" destroyed (Dan. 8:25; 9:27; 11:45; 2 Th. 2:8; Isa. 11:4; Rev. 19:19-21; 20:10)  (7:11)
    10. D. The beasts preceding the reign of the "little horn"  (7:12)
    11. Second coming of the Messiah (Isa. 9:1, refs.; Mt. 24:29; 25:31; notes, 2 Th. 1:7)  (7:13-14)
    12. The interpretation (Dan. 7:15-28)  (7:15-16)
      1. The angelic interpreter  (7:15-16)
    13. The four beasts: four kings or kingdoms (Dan. 7:19, 23; 8:21; 2:31-45)  (7:17)
    14. Ninth and last world empire (Dan. 2:44-45; Isa. 9:6, refs.)  (7:18)
    15. Daniel's inquiry  (7:19-20)
    16. Daniel's further vision of the "little horn" who makes war with the saints "until"three things happen  (7:21-22)
    17. Fourth beast: fourth kingdom of Daniel and the sixth of Rev. 17:8-17-Rome (Dan. 2:40, refs.)  (7:23)
    18. Ten horns: ten kings of the ten kingdoms making the fifth world empire of Daniel and the seventh of Rev. 17:8-17-Revised Rome (Dan. 2:41, refs.)  (7:24)
      1. "Another...after" the ten horns: the little horn, the Antichrist, the king of the sixth kingdom in Daniel and the eighth of Rev. 17:8-11-Revived Grecia (Dan. 2:39b and 7:11, refs.)  (7:24)
    19. His war with the saints and the time and length of his reign (Dan. 8:23-25; 9:27; 11:35-45; 12:1, 7; Mt. 24:15-31; 2 Th. 2:1-12; Rev. 13:1-18; 14:9-11; 15:2; 19:11-21)  (7:25)
    20. The judgment of the nations ending the reign of the "little horn" or Antichrist and all earthly kingdoms and the establishment of the eternal kingdom of Messiah (Dan. 2:44-45; 7:9-14, 18; 8:25; Mt. 24:29-31; 25:31-36; Isa. 9:6, refs.; Lk. 1:32-33; Rev. 11:15; 22:5)  (7:26-28)
  8. Daniel's second vision: the ram and the he-goat  (8:1-27)
    1. The vision (Dan. 8:1-14)  (8:1-2)
      1. The time  (8:1-2)
    2. Ram: Medo-Persia (Dan. 8:20)  (8:3-4)
    3. He-goat: Grecia (Dan. 8:21)  (8:5)
    4. War: Medo-Persia, Grecia  (8:6-7)
    5. The four horns (see Dan. 8:22)  (8:8)
    6. "Little horn": Antichrist  (8:9-14)
    7. The interpretation (Dan. 8:15-27)  (8:15-16)
      1. The angelic interpreters (Dan. 7:15-16)  (8:15-16)
    8. Time of fulfillment (Dan. 2:27-30; 7:26-27; 8:26; 11:35; 12:1-9)  (8:17-19)
    9. The ram: Medo-Persia (Dan. 2:39a and 7:5, refs.)  (8:20)
    10. The he-goat: Grecia (Dan. 2:39b; 7:6, 24b and 7:25, refs.)  (8:21)
    11. The four horns: Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt  (8:22)
    12. The "little horn" (Dan. 7:11, 21-22, 24b and 7:25, refs.)  (8:23)
    13. His power and war on the saints (Dan. 7:25, refs.)  (8:24)
    14. His exaltation (Dan. 7:25; 2 Th. 2:4; Rev. 13:1-7, 12, 15-18; 17:8-17)  (8:25)
      1. His war with Messiah (Dan. 2:44-45; 7:26-27; 2 Th. 2:8; Rev. 17:14; 19:11-21; Zech. 14)  (8:25)
    15. The time of the vision  (8:26-27)
  9. Daniel's third vision: the seventy weeks of years  (9:1-27)
    1. Time and occasion  (9:1-2)
    2. Daniel's prayer and confession for himself and Israel: twelve sins of Israel  (9:3-19)
    3. The angelic interpreter (Dan. 8:15; 10:12)  (9:20-23)
    4. Seventy weeks of years upon Israel and Jerusalem to accomplish six things  (9:24)
    5. Beginning of the first period of 7 weeks to rebuild Jerusalem after the captivity, following which was the second period of 62 weeks from the rebuilding of Jerusalem to the Crucifixion of the Messiah, a period of 483 years (Neh. 2; Jn. 19:30-31)  (9:25-26)
    6. The third period of one week in which Antichrist will make and break a covenant with Israel ending with the second coming of the Messiah (Rev. 4:1-19:21; Mt. 24:15-31)  (9:27)
  10. Daniel's fourth vision: Israel in the last days under the Antichrist  (10:1-21)
    1. Time, place, and occasion  (10:1-4)
    2. Vision of Messiah (Rev. 1:13)  (10:5-6)
    3. The effect (Isa. 6; Ez. 1; Rev. 1)  (10:7-11)
    4. Angelic interpreter (Dan. 8:15; 9:20-23)  (10:12)
    5. Gabriel detained by the angelic forces of Satan over Persia  (10:13)
    6. Object and subject of the vision (Dan. 8:17-19, refs.)  (10:14)
    7. Further effect on Daniel  (10:15-19)
    8. The Prince of Grecia  (10:20)
    9. Michael and Gabriel  (10:21)
  11. History from Darius to the future Antichrist (Dan. 11:1-34)  (11:1-45)
    1. Five years before Gabriel had helped Michael overthrow the satanic forces over Babylon so that the Prince of Persia might come  (11:1)
    2. Four more kings over Persia before Alexander the Great  (11:2)
    3. A mighty King: Alexander the Great (Dan. 8:21)  (11:3)
    4. Division of Greece into four kingdoms (Dan. 8:22)  (11:4)
    5. King of the south: Ptolemy Lagidae, one of Alexander's generals who seized Egypt on the death of Alexander. King of the north: Seleucus I, one of Alexander's princes and a general who seized Syria, Babylon, and Media and became greater than Ptolemy of Egypt  (11:5)
    6. League between Egypt (south) and Syria (north) through the marriage of Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, to Antiochus Theos, the third king of Syria  (11:6)
    7. Branch of her roots: a brother of Berenice, Ptolemy Euergetes, who invaded Syria (north) to avenge the murder of Berenice by Laodice who was divorced by Antiochus so he could marry Berenice  (11:7-9)
    8. Defeat of Antiochus the Great by Ptolomy III of Egypt (south)  (11:10-12)
    9. Antiochus the Great (Syria, north) renews the war after fourteen years and defeats Ptolemy V (Egypt, south)  (11:13-16)
    10. Antiochus the Great and Ptolemy V come to terms: Antiochus gives Ptolemy his daughter who later helps her husband defeat the plans of Antiochus  (11:17)
    11. Antiochus next makes war on Greece but is turned back by the Roman prince Scipio who defeats him at Magnesia near Smyrna  (11:18-19)
    12. Seleucus, the son of Antiochus the Great sends Heliodorus to plunder the temple at Jerusalem and exact money from Israel(2 Macc. 3:4). This king is soon poisoned and is succeeded by Antiochus Epiphanes  (11:20)
    13. Antiochus Epiphanes and his dealings with Israel are pictured in Dan. 11:21  (11:21)
      1. A. He obtains his rule by flattery  (11:21)
    14. B. He makes a league with the high priest; deals deceitfully and becomes strong  (11:22-24)
    15. C. Makes war against Ptolemy of Egypt who is betrayed and killed and his army defeated  (11:25-27)
    16. D. Antiochus returns in glory and victory and sets his heart to break his Jewish covenant and plunder Palestine  (11:28)
    17. E. He leads a second expedition into Egypt but is turned back by a mandate from Rome in league with Cyprus. He then turns against the Jews and many apostate Jews help him to pollute the temple and place the abomination of desolation: a sow on the temple altar and doing away with Jewish sacrifices  (11:29-31)
    18. F. He is resisted by the Maccabees who do exploits but are oppressed by him many days  (11:32-34)
    19. Wars between Syria and Egypt in the last days: a prophetic description of the last king of the north, Antichrist, and his conquests of the nations and his dealings with Israel  (11:35)
      1. The time of the vision  (11:35)
    20. The character of "the king" of the north (Dan. 7:25 and 8:25a, refs.)  (11:36-39)
    21. War between Syria (north) and Egypt (south) at the end time: Antichrist (Syria, north) is victorious over Egypt (south) and many countries up to the middle of Daniel's seventieth week when the "eighth" or Revived Grecian Empire is formed (Dan. 7:24; 8:23-25; Rev. 11:7; 13:1-18; 16:10; 17:3, 8-14, 16-17; 19:19-21)  (11:40-43)
    22. New adversaries in the north and east in the middle of the week after he has conquered and gotten control of the ten kingdoms of Revised Rome. He conquers these in the last three and a half years and then brings them into Palestine to destroy Israel as he intended to do in the middle of the week when he broke his covenant with them and planted his tabernacle in the glorious holy mountain (Dan. 11:45; 2 Th. 2:3-4; Mt. 24:15)  (11:44)
    23. Sets his throne in the Jewish temple at Jerusalem (2 Th. 2:4; 7:25 and 8:25a, refs.)  (11:45)
  12. The great tribulation of the last 3/ years of the 70th week. The translation of the 144,000 of Rev. 7:1-8; 12:5; 14:1  (12:1-13)
    1. The resurrections (Jn. 5:28-29; Rev. 20:4-6; 1 Cor. 15)  (12:2)
    2. Rewards for the righteous  (12:3)
    3. The book sealed to the end  (12:4)
    4. Question of the angel  (12:5-6)
    5. Answer: 3 1/2 years tribulation (Mt. 24:15-21; Rev. 13)  (12:7)
    6. Daniel's question  (12:8)
    7. The answer: two additional periods following the 3 1/2 years  (12:9-13)

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