STUDY RESOURCES
- Tim Martin’s Sermon Series
- Arthur Ogden’s “Prophetic Language” dictionary
Books
- The Prophecy of Daniel in the Preterist Perspective (Jay Daniels)
- Daniel in the Preterist’s Den (Thomas A. Howe)
PRELIMINARY DETAILS IN THE TEXT
- “Abomination of Desolation”
- “70 weeks”; ‘time, times, & half a time’
- 1,290 Days & 1,335 days
- ‘Writing on the wall’
- ‘Time of distress’; tribulation
- Nebuchadnezzar
- “Shattering the power of the holy people”
- “Until the end”
- Time statement – “far off” (500 years, see, Dan. 12)
ESTABLISHING CONTEXT
(5W’S & 1 H)
Who – Daniel
What – prophetic text; future of Israel after Babylonian captivity
Where – Babylon
When – 606 B.C. – 516 B.C.
Why – God tells things that are going to happen through the prophets (see, Amos 3:7); keep the faith
How – visions, writings, statue, etc.