The Impact of Daniel
The Outline:
I. THE STORIES (1:1-6:28)
II. THE VISIONS (7:1-12:13)
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The Book of Daniel: Summary and Review
Text: Daniel 1:8a; “But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself …”
Daniel 12:13; “But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age.”
I. The Examples of the Remnant – Daniel:
Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah:
Text: Daniel 4:34–35; “But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever;
For His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
And His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
35 “All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
II. The Character of God:
III. The “Times of the Gentiles” Foretold
Text: Daniel 9:24–27; “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 25 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. 26 “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”
A. Revealing the Unrevealed – The Church as “The Mystery”
The Principle of Prophetic Parenthesis: Messiah’s First and Second Comings
See: Genesis 3:15; “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”;
Notice: It is clear now after all that Jesus did not his first coming, these two actions are separated and in a reverse order of history; The Serpent ‘bruised Him on the heel’ at the crucifixion which was a temporary win; But the Seed of the woman will ‘bruise the Serpent on the head’ meaning a complete victory
The Principle of Prophetic Parenthesis: The First and the Last Resurrections
The Principle of Prophetic Parenthesis: The Postponement of the 70th Week
See: Daniel 9:26–27; “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”;
Notice: Two events are clearly predicted to occur after “the sixty-two weeks” of years are ended and before the “prince who is to come” makes his seven-year treaty as the last of the Seventy Weeks Cycle;
The Messiah is “cut off”
The City and the Sanctuary is “destroyed” by the “people of the prince”
The Setting Aside of Israel
B. The New Administration of Grace
The Mystery Revealed to Paul; Ephesians 3:1-12;
“For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles— 2 if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you; 3 that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. 4 By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; 6 to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, 7 of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power. 8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things; 10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.”
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