DANIEL is a ‘key’ to understanding our present time and the future.

KEY = ...

The Key Designer [Daniel]

• Born...exiled...served...died.

• Model for any believer of any day.

• E.g. ...

1 1 ------------------ 6 28 7 1 ---------------- 12 13

Sketch of The Key

Keys To The Key[Framework For The Future]

• Three key passages in Daniel provide a framework for the future1st Key 2:36-45

2nd Key 7:13-28

3rd Key 9:24-27

• Details are supplied in chapter 7, 8, 11, and 12

1st Key Passage 2:36-45

1st Key Passage 2:36-45

Lion4 Bear5 Leopard6 Unnamed7 Ten7 Little8 Ancient9-12 Son13-14

Horns Horn of Days of Man

Babylon Persia Greece Rome

Time NOT To Scale

Daniel’s Death

2nd Key Passage 7:17-22

17-18

Lion4 Bear5 Leopard6 Unnamed7 Ten7 Little8 Ancient9-12 Son13-14

Horns Horn of Days of Man

Babylon Persia Greece Rome

Time NOT To Scale

Daniel’s Death

2nd Key Passage 7:23-27

17-18

23 24a 24b-25 26 27

Time Not To Scale

Seventy Weeks

Daniel 9:24-27

Each Verse Says Something About Some Part of The 70 Weeks

3rd Key Passage 9:24-27

62 Weeks 70th Week7 Weeks After 62nd

Week

Divine Purposes Fulfilled

Restoration Jerusalem Up To The Messiah

Cycles AfterThe Messiah

Conclusion

A Few Key Lessons For You

1. Fulfilled prophecy is one of the strongest evidences in support of inspiration and inerrancy. Daniel is a key.

2. Know and understand our time. If you want to understand our time and your future, study Daniel, it is the key.

3. Purpose in your heart to live for God 1:84. Prayer is the only solution to unsolvable problems 2:185. God is sovereign over history, nations, lives. 2:28,296. Choose God’s way in matters of worship and morality

even if... 3:16-18

A Few Key Lessons For You

7. God never leaves you alone 3:25

8. The most important lesson in life 4:25-34

9. Like Daniel your faith may be examined under a microscope by others 6:5

10. Model your prayer after Daniel 9:3-19

11. Memorize 9:24-27

12. Set your heart to understand and humble yourself before God 10:12