This parable stresses the importance of the signs signifying Jesus’ return.

What a contrast this coming is with the Lord Jesus’ first coming: as a baby, in humility and obscurity, riding a donkey into Jerusalem rather than a horse, coming to die rather than to reign.

The midpoint of the Tribulation period is most important, for at that time an event will take place that was prophesied centuries ago by Daniel.

They wanted to know when He would return to the temple having been accepted rather than rejected by the nation. Specifically, they wanted to know what would signify His return, what would be the harbinger of His advent.

“To Job the supremely important thing is that God has come to him in his suffering, showing him that he is not isolated from God by his suffering.

It’s important to study the prophecies that Daniel wrote, but it’s also important to understand the life that Daniel lived. Knowing God’s future plan and obeying God’s present will should go together.

Fulfilled prophecy is one of the proofs of the inspiration of the Bible, for only an omniscient God can know future events accurately and direct His servants to write them down.

Who was this man? Was he an angel sent to assure Daniel that God’s heavenly armies would care for the Jewish people and see to it God’s will was accomplished? Was it Gabriel, who had already visited Daniel? Or was it a preincarnate appearance of Jesus...

Whether Daniel understood all that he heard is not revealed to us, but Gabriel’s message assured him that the nation of Israel would be restored to their land, the city of Jerusalem and the temple would be rebuilt, and God would make provision for the...

God doesn’t have to wait for the entire nation to repent and cry out for mercy; He will start to work when He hears the believing prayers of one faithful intercessor.