Outline of the Book of Daniel                                            

Original outline by Ted Stewart, my friend and a Great man

Intro

1. Mystery & Abuse

2. Wisdom: challenge of understanding

3. Evidences: prophetical fulfillment increases faith

4. God's sovereignty of history & nations

5. God's Son: the coming Messiah who will rule the world.

6. God's kingdom: the everlasting kingdom of Christ versus the fallen kingdom of man.

7. God's man: integrity & courage of a real man

B. Outline of Contents

1. God's man in the kingdom of men: chs. 1-6

2. God's rule of the kingdom of men: chs. 7-12

I. Chapter I_____God's Punishment & Protection of His People.

A. God's Punishment of His unfaithful people 1:1-17

B. God's protection of His faithful people 1: 8-21

A. The King's Dream 2: 1-3

B. The Wise-man's Failure. 2:4-13

C. Daniel's Prayer and Dependence on God 2:14-18.

D. The Revelation of the dream. 2:19-35.

E. The Interpretation of the Dream. 2:36-45.

1. Babylon the World Empire. 2:36-38

2. Medo-Persian World Empire. 2:39a (5:28; 6:12f)

3. Grecian World Empire. 2: 39b (8: 20-21)

4. Roman World Empire. 2:40-43 (Lk. 2:1; 3:1)

5. Christ's World Empire. 2:44-45 (Mrk. 1:15; 9:1; Col. 1:13; Rev. 1:6,9)

F. Praise of God & Promotion of Daniel & his Friends. 2:46-49

A. The King's Image. 3: 1-7

B. The World's Accusation. 3: 8-12

C. The Courage of the Faithful. 3:13-18.

D. The Deliverance from the Fiery Furnace. 3: 19-27

E. The Decree of the Defeated King. 3: 28-30.

A. The King's Decree to God. 4: 1-3

B. The Mysterious Dream of the Fallen Tree. 4:4-18

C. The Divine Interpretation. 4: 19-27 (In opposition to the Jehovah's Witnesses' Interpretation of the 7 times (A.D. 1914)

D. The Historical Fulfillment: Humbling of a Proud King. 4: 28-34.

E. The King's converted Recognition and Praise of God. 4: 35-37

A. The Sacrilege of a Disrespectful King. 5: 1-4.

(Historical Evidences for Belshazzar as co-ruler of Babylon: official Babylonian archives confirm)(here)

B. The Handwriting on the Wall. 5: 5-9

C. The Remembrance of Daniel. 5: 10-17

D. The Interpretation of the Handwriting. 5: 18-29

1. Mene (50 shekels) + Mene (50 shekels) = 100 shek.

The verb means to number: thus the kingdom was numbered with a value of 100 shekels.

2. Tekel means 1 shekel; the verb from means to weigh: thus the king was weighed in the balance and found only to weigh 1 shekel, far inferior to the 100 shekel kingdom over which he ruled. A 1 shekel king does not measure up to a 100 shekel kingdom and thus God (YHWH) would remove him as king.

3. Peres (from Upharsin = 1/2 shekels in plural); the verb here means to divide; thus the 100 shekel kingdom of Babylon was to be divided up into 1/2 shekels and was to become part of the Medo-Persian Empire.

E. The fall of Babylon (fulfillment of prediction of the handwriting on the wall). 5: 3-31.

1. Belshazzar dies (Cyrus diverts the waters of the Euphrates and captures the city and kills Belshazzar while he is having a feast).(here)

2. Darius (Gubaru is his Medan name) is appointed by Cyrus to rule over Babylon.

A. Daniel's Rise in the Medo-Persian Government. 6: 2-4.

B. The Plot to Kill Daniel. 6: 5-9.

C. Daniel's Courageous Obedience to God. 6: 10-13.

D. Distress of a Trapped King. 6: 14-18

E. God's Deliverance of Daniel. 6: 19-23

F. The End of the Wicked. 6:24

G. Darius' praise of God. 6: 25-27
H. The Prosperity of Righteous Daniel. 6: 28

A. Visions of Daniel. 7: 1-14.

1. Visions of the 4 Animals. 7: 1-8 (here)

a. Lion with Eagle's Wings

b. Bear raised on one side with 3 ribs in mouth

c. Leopard of 4 heads and 4 wings

d. Dreadful beast of 10 horns and an 11th. (here)

2. Visions of the Judgment of the 4th Beast by the Court of Heaven. 7: 9-12.

3. Vision of the Son of Man & God's Eternal Kingdom. 7: 13-14.

B. Interpretation of the Visions. 7: 15-28

1. Angelic Help. 7:15-16

2. Meaning of the Four Beast: Parallel to Image of Daniel 2. 7: 17-18. (here)

The Kingdoms of Daniel 2 and Daniel 7

3. Meaning of the 4th Beast & Ten Horns ( here) 7: 19-25

a. 10 Horns= 10 Kings of the Roman Empire. 7: 19-24

(1) Augustus. Lk. 2:1

(2) Tiberius. Lk. 3:1

(3) Caligula.

(4) Claudius. Acts 11:28; 18:2

(5) Nero. Phil. 4:22; 1st Peter. 2:13, 17

(6) Galba

(7) Otho

(8) Vitelius

(9) Vespasian

(10) Titus

b. 11th Horn= Domitian

(1) Uproots 3 kings (Domitian helped his father Vespassian, defeat Galba, Otho & Vitelius)

(2) Domitian was only a little horn because he inherited the throne from his father.

(3) Domitian began to persecute Christians about 3 1/2 years (in due time) by changing Roman law to coerce the whole world to worship him or be killed. (here )

(4) Domitian tried to change the Roman calendar by naming a month after himself. (here)

c. The Meaning of the Court Scene:

(a. God's court condemns Rome because of Domitian's evil actions and declares its destruction: Rome fell in the 4th and 5th centuries.

( b. God's court declares that Christians receive ultimately the glory of the nations.

d. Meaning of the Throne Scene:

(a. The Son of Man (Christ) rules over all the world and nations in the place of Rome. Rev. 1:5; Eph. 1:19-22; Acts 2:34-36; Ist Cor. 15:25.

(b. Men from all nations submit to His rule (Through the gospel Christ's kingdom is spread to the whole world where men of all nations bow their knees in submission to Him. Mr. 16: 15-16; Matt. 28: 19-20.

c. Christ's kingdom is eternal in contrast to the Roman Empire and the other kingdoms that fell and no longer exist.

A. The Vision of the Ram and the Goat. 8: 1-14 (here)

1. The Fight Between the Ram and the Goat

2. The Breaking of the Horn & the forming of 4 Horns

3. The Appearance of the Little Horn

4. The 2300 days of the Little Horn & the Holy Place (here)

B. The Angel's Interpretations (in contrast to the interpretations of the 7th Day Adventists: 1844 A.D. (here) (2300 years dated from 456 B.C. ) 8: 15-27.

1. The Ram = Medo-Persian Empire

2. The Goat = Grecian Empire

3. Horn = 1st King, or Alexander the Great (here)

4. 4 Horns = 4 divisions of the Grecian Empire

(a. Egypt = Ptolemy

(b. Syria = Seleucus

(c. Asia Minor = Lysimachus

(d. Macedonia = Cassander.

5. The Little Horn: Antiochus IV Epiphanes

a. Comes out of one of the 4 divisions of the Grecian Empire and thus is not Rome (as the 7th Day Adventist claim) 8:9

b. Appears in the latter half of the Grecian Empire (331 to 146 B.C.); Antiochus IV reigned c. 175 to 163 B.C.

c. He attached Jerusalem desecrated the Temple and persecuted the Jews (God's People) from 169 B.C. to 163 B.C. , a period of 2300 days or 61/3 years as predicted in Daniel 8:13-14. (See I Macc. 1:20-28; 6:16) (here)

d. Some think the time should end when the Temple was cleansed in 164 B.C., but the world "cleansed" or "restored" is better translated "vindicated" which would include not only the cleansing of the Temple but also the punishment of the desecrater (See Dan. 8: 25, which includes the "breaking" of the little horn.)

e. Antiochus Epiphanes died without "human agency: (8:25) . Grieved by his defeat by Macabean led forces of Judah. He died in bed from a mysterious illness. (here)

A. Daniel's Discovery of the time of Jerusalem's Desolation.

B. Daniel's confession of sin. 9:3-19

C. Daniel's Vision of 70 Weeks. (here)

1. Gabriel's Interpretation of that Vision. 9: 20-23

2. Events for God's People & City during 70 Weeks. 9:24 ( here)

a) Finish the Transgression. Matt. 23: 32-34

b) Make an end to sin. Heb. 9:26

c) Make atonement for iniquity. Rom. 3:25

d) Bring in an everlasting righteousness. Heb. 9:12

e) Seal up vision and prophecy. Matt. 5: 17.

f) Anoint the Most Holy Place. Heb. 9:23-25.

a. A Figurative Division

536 B.C. 400 B.C. 26 A.D. 70 A.D.

b. Literal Division

457 B.C. 408 B.C. 26 A.D. 30 A.D. 70 A.D.

Pre-millennial Division

445 396 38 A.D. then who knows!

E. Last Week. Dan. 9: 26-27

a) Anointed One: Christ anointed with the Holy Spirit at baptism. Lk. 3:21-22; 4:18.

b) Messiah cut off in middle of week. Isa. 53:8

c) Covenant in midst of week through His death. Zech. 11:10; Col. 2:14; Heb. 8: 1-13; 9:15-16; 10: 9-10.

d) As a consequence of rejecting the Messiah, the temple will be destroyed. Matt. 24 (A.D. 70)

e. Abomination of desolation will indicate temple's destruction. Matt. 24:15 (Roman soldiers killed Christ and destroyed the Temple.)

f) Eventually, the destroyer of the Temple will be destroyed (either the Jews who desolated it spiritually or the Romans who desolated it physically).

A. Daniel's Mourning & Fasting. 10: 1-3

B. Appearance of the Celestial Figure. 10: 4-9.

C. Message from Heaven. 10: 10-21.

A. History of Persian Empire Foretold. 11: 1-2

1. 3 More kings After Cyrus

a) Cambyses

b) Smerdis

c) Darius the Persian

2. 4th King: Xerxes (Ahasuerus of Ester)

a) richest of Persian Kings

b) Invades Greece in 480 B.C.

B. History of Greece Foretold 11: 3-4

1. Mighty King: Alexander the Great (used attack of Xerxes as justification to attach Persia)

2. 4 points of Compass: 4 divisions of the Greek Empire.

C. History of Southern & Northern Divisions of the Greek Empire Foretold. 11: 5-45

1. King of the South (Egypt) Ptolemy 11: 5a, 8

2. King of the North (Syria): Seleucus. 312 B.C.. 11:5

3. Wars between the North and the South. (Syria and Egypt) 11:6-20

4. Antiochus IV Epiphanes. 11: 21-45.

a. Rise of Antiochus. 11: 21-45

b. Conquering of Egypt. 11:25-27

c. First desecration of the Temple. 11:28

d. Failed invasion of Egypt. 11: 29-30

e. Final Desecration of Temple & Abomination of Desolation. 11:30b-31.

f. Macabean Revolt. 11: 32-35

g. Summary of Arrogance, Life & ultimate Death. 11: 36-45

by Lane Rogers