Summary:  The “troublous times” Gabriel tells Daniel would befall Jerusalem (v. 25) came when the Jews tried to obey the command to restore Jerusalem (Neh. 2:1-6; 4:1-3, 10; 6:1-3).  Gabriel also told Daniel it would take 7 weeks of years … Continue reading →

  Summary: These “weeks” are weeks of years (Gen. 29:27; Lev. 25:40).  So Gabriel is telling Daniel, “It will be 490 years until something happens to your people (Israel) and your city (Jerusalem).” Then God will “finish the transgression.”  Transgressions … Continue reading →

  Summary: The “evil” God brought on Israel (v. 14) isn’t the sinful kind.  It’s war, the opposite of peace (cf. Isa. 45:7).  When God’s people persisted in sinning against Him, He allowed Baby-lon to make war with them and … Continue reading →

  Summary: We know the “books” Daniel was reading (v. 2) were the books of the Bible, for he mentions the Book of Jeremiah. He may have been hearing from God directly in visions, but he still made time to … Continue reading →

  Summary: The “man” here (v. 15) is identified as the angel “Gabriel” (v. 16 cf. Lu. 1:26), and “the man’s voice” must have be-longed to God, for only He can order angels around.  But here we have a dispensational … Continue reading →

  Summary: Daniel wrote Daniel 2:4-7:28 in Syriack so the Gentiles nations could read their future in their language.  But beginning here in Daniel 8:1, he resumes writing in the Jewish language of Hebrew, for He is about to start … Continue reading →

  Summary: Daniel’s vision “troubled” him (v. 15) so he asked a bystander what it meant (v. 16).  His vision took place in heaven (v.13,14) so this bystander must have been part of the “cloud” of angels that brought the … Continue reading →

  Summary: “Darius” (6:1) conquered Babylon (5:31) and set up 120 princes. That doesn’t contradict Esther 1:1-3, for that took place 17 years later after they conquered 7 more provinces. How is “Daniel” alive (6:2)? He refused to be a … Continue reading →

  Summary: Nebuchadnezzar was actually Belshazzar’s grandfather, not his “father” (v. 2), but Daniel was writing in Chaldean, and there was no Chaldean word for grandfather, nor any Hebrew word for it (cf. II Sam. 9:6, 7) or Greek word … Continue reading →

  Summary: In an official proclamation to his people, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon told how the signs and wonders he saw in Daniel 2,3 made him realize that Daniel’s God was God, and that he was only king of the … Continue reading →