The End Times Archangel Michael The whole chapter is a prophesy of the end times. v1: Archangel Michael is assigned to protect the Jews during the tribulation period (10:13,21;Rev 12:7). AntiChrist v1: […a time of distress..] referring to when antichrist broke his covenant with the Jews in the middle of the seven years covenant. Greatest … Read more
The WilFul King (AntiChrist) About Persia (v1-2) Kings of Persia: Cyrus – Ezra 1 Cambyses (529-522) Pseudo Smerdis (522-521) Darius I Hystapes (521-486) Xerxes (496-465) – the Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther About Greece (v3-4) A mighty King is referring to Alexander the Great In 332 BC, Alexander the Great defeated Persian. In 323 … Read more
Daniel’s Vision of Christ The mourning of Daniel (v1-3) The 3rd year of Cyrus was 536 BC. In the 1st year of Cyrus (538BC), he gave a decree to allow the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple (Ezra 1). The reason why Daniel mourned for three weeks was probably he learned that … Read more
Seventy Shabuwa Reading of the Book of Jeremiah (v1-3) v1: The 1st year of Darius is 539BC v2: God had foretell Daniel regarding the fall of Babylon in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (ch 2), in Daniel’s dream of four beasts (ch 7). Actually Isaiah and Jeremiah had already prophesied the falls on Babylon. That may be the … Read more
Daniel’s Dream of Four Beasts Chapter 7 and 8 happened during the reign of Belshazzar, which happened between chapter 4 and chapter 5 (v1). The great sea (v2) was referring to Mediterranean sea. To the ancient world, it represented the nations of the world. This chapter prophesied six kingdoms in human history: Babylon – Lion with eagle wings … Read more
Lion’s Den Daniel Was Appointed As the Highest Ruler in Persia (v1-3) v1: Bible students in general agree there are two possibility of who Darius the Mede was. First, Darius was the title of a man called Gubaru, whom was appointed by King Cyrus as ruler of the city of Babylon. Second, Darius refers to … Read more
King Belshazzar’s Banquet (v1-4) King Belshazzar and party drank from the goblets from Jerusalem Temple, and while doing that, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone (v4). God’s Fingers Wrote on The Wall (v5-6) No One Could Read the Writing (v7-9) Daniel Read The Writing (v10-30) If Daniel … Read more
The Second Dream of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar Praises the Most High God (v1-8) Pay notice that Nebuchadnezzar used the first person pronounce in chapter 4. This chapter is essentially his autobiography. Some believe that the second dream mentioned in chapter 4 happened twenty or thirty years after the furnace incident in chapter 3. Nebuchadnezzar Second Dream (v9-18) … Read more
v1: “King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, ninety feet high and nine feet [fn] wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.” It is amazing how prideful Nebuchadnezzar was, he built a statue of himself that is 3/5 of the height of the statue of liberty, even after he … Read more
