{BOOK OF DANIEL}
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- Empires Rise and Fall - (Imperial hubris is the legacy of the Tower of Babel, humanity’s first but certainly not attempt to establish the World Empire) - {PDF Copy}
- Babel Rises Again - (The arrogant acts of Nebuchadnezzar parallel the incident at the Tower of Babel) - {PDF Copy}
- Babylon Past and Present - (The story of Ancient Babylon’s demise is reflected in the sixth trumpet and the sixth bowl of wrath in Revelation) - {PDF Copy}
- Five Kingdoms - (The King's dream revealed a "great image" representing four successive empires that precede the kingdom of God) - {PDF Copy}
- The Great Golden Image - (Nebuchadnezzar implemented his dream by “setting up” the great golden image as he imagined it to glorify his majesty and realm) - {PDF Copy}
- The First Three Beasts - (Daniel saw four creatures with animalistic features ascending from a wind-tossed sea, representing four successive kingdoms) - {PDF Copy}
- Fourth Beast - Little Horn - (The fourth beast is the focus of the vision, especially its little horn with a mouth speaking great things) - {PDF Copy}
- The Little Horn - Interpretation - (The second half of the seventh chapter interprets the vision that concluded in a judgment and with a declaration) - {PDF Copy}
- Time, Times, Half-a-Time - (The war against the saints will endure only for the allotted time – a time, times, and part of a time) - {PDF Copy}
- The Ram, the Goat, and the Little Horn - (Daniel receives a vision of a “ram” and a “goat.” The ram represents the kingdom of the “Medes and Persians,” and the goat the kingdom of Greece) - {PDF Copy}
- King of Fierce Countenance - (A malevolent ruler will arise from the Greek world who will deceive and persecute the people of God until he is “broken without hand”) - {PDF Copy}
- Little Horn - Identity - (The description of the little horn fits the known history of the Seleucid king, Antiochus IV, Epiphanes) - {PDF Copy}
- Desolating Abomination - Context - (Literary context is vital for the understanding of the “Abomination that Desolates” in the book of Daniel) - {PDF Copy}
- The Contemptible King - (The war between “North” and “South” culminated in the rise of a “contemptible” ruler and the “abomination that desolates”) - {PDF Copy}
- Mouth Speaking Great Things - (The mouth speaking great things in Daniel appears in Revelation in the description of the Beast from the sea and its war against the saints) - {PDF Copy}
- Two Little Horns? - (The little horn is named in two visions. Is it the same figure each time or two different individuals?) - {PDF Copy}