Daniel

Daniel’s training in Babylon

Learning how to speak Babylonian

New names for Daniel & friends

Not eating & drinking the king’s food & drink

God’s intervention touched an official

Prayerfully negotiate

Nothing wrong with learning cultures without turning your back on God    

Allowing God to shine through you

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

Too impossible for man alone

A tough request from a pushy leader

Hollowness of astrologers revealed

Prayer is better than panic

Give God the glory for His assistance

Daniel interprets the dream

Daniel saved the lives of the astrologers

Giving God all of the credit for His answer

Giving his friends credit, too

God’s kingdom will rule forever

Unbelievers will believe by allowing God to work through you

“Daniel didn’t forget his boys when he got a promotion”

The image of gold and the fiery furnace

Nebuchadnezzar built a golden statue

Satraps, prefects and governors

A great, big, blazing furnace

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego are singled out

An enraged king

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego remains faithful to God

Nebuchadnezzar changes his mind

A fourth man in the furnace

A miracle in the furnace

Fire killed the king’s soldiers

Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged God didn’t dispose the other gods

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a tree

Empty praise

The Most High is sovereign

Daniel interprets the dream

Being able to love your enemy

Daniel pleads to the king to change his ways

The dream is fulfilled

Nebuchadnezzar confesses to God

Nebuchadnezzar restored

The writing on the wall

King Belshazzar

An offer for very high honor

No one could read the writing

Queen or queen mother

Not for personal, earthly rewards

Bold enough to tell bad news

Be careful how you use God’s property

Daniel in the den of lions

A Godly person will be respected

Co-workers plotting against Daniel

Will continue to pray

King shows sympathy

Daniel’s life was spared

The conspirators got what they deserve

Darius acknowledges God

Daniel’s dream of 4 beasts

The 4 beasts

Prophecy of Christ

People lined up for judgment

A sign of future judgment

The interpretation of the dream

New Israel will have an eternal kingdom

Ten horns & kings

Satan and/or the antichrist

Daniel’s vision of a ram and a goat

Two horns – kings of Media & Persia

Goat – Greece, large horn – Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great’s kingdom split into 4 parts

Beautiful land – Israel, small horn – Epiphanes

Prince of the host – an angel or Christ

The interpretation of the vision

Evening & morning sacrifices

Gabriel the angel

The time of the end

Antiochus IV, Ephanes and the antichrist

God will destroy evil

Daniel’s prayer

Be open in prayer

Rebellious captives

Didn’t listen to God

Obey God or pay dearly

Spiritually non-attentive

Pour out your deep feelings to God

Begging for mercy

The seventy “sevens”

God hears prayers

70 weeks (seventy “sevens”)

Trench – moat or conduit of water

The Anointed One – Messiah

Multiple views

Daniel’s vision of a man

Signs of fasting & rejoicing

An angel

Chrysolite – translucent, semi-precious stone

God will strengthen us when we are weak

Evil spirits can challenge your prayer

Spiritual fighting

The kings of the north & south

Alexander the Great

Four nations

Seleucid wars between Egypt & Syria

Seleucus II (north)  & Ptolemy IV (south)

Probably Antiochus III

Plan didn’t work

Seleucus IV

Antiochus IV & Epiphanes

Probably Onias III

Probably Antiochus IV & Ptolemy VI

Antiochus IV

Menelaus, Antiochus and the Maccabees

Facing persecution

Wise people will error to become stronger

The king who exalts himself

A bad boy

A God of fortresses

Beautiful, Holy Mountain

The end times

Suffering & deliverance

Resurrection

Shining like heaven

Sealing the scroll

No specific time

Pride breaking

Righteous learn from mistakes

An abomination

Don’t spend all of your life in wonder, be happy