The Prophet Daniel

By Arno Clement Gaebelein

Questions and Answers

QUESTIONS ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL

We suggest to our readers who desire to study the book of Daniel in a thorough way that they first read through this exposition as they would read any other book. Then give it a second careful reading, studying every chapter in its details. After this is done to refresh the memory these questions may be taken up. The answers to the questions are found, following this catechism.

1. What is Prophecy?

2. What has resulted from the neglected study of the prophetic Word ?

3. Why is the study of Daniel of such importance?

4. What does Higher Criticism claim?

5. Whom do most critics follow in rejecting the authenticity of this book?

6. What is the Highest authority that Daniel wrote this book?

7. Give the Divisions of the Book?

8. In how many languages is it written?

9. What is the First Chapter?

10. Who was chosen to take Jerusalem?

11. How often did he come against the City?

12. When did the times of the Gentiles begin?

13. Give a leading characteristic of the times of the Gentiles?

14. Through whom was the work and calling of the King of Babylon announced?

15. Is the church mentioned in Daniel and why not?

16. What occasioned the dream of Nebuchadnezzar ?

17. How was the forgotten dream revealed?

18. What does the phrase "latter days" mean?

19. How many parts were to the dream image?

20. What happened to the image?

21. What does the image represent?

22. Give a corresponding term of this age found in the New Testament?

23. Give the prophetic meaning of the different metals ?

24. What lesson does it teach?

25. What is to be the final form of the times of the Gentiles?

26. Has this been reached?

27. What does the clay represent?

28. What is to be the end of the times of the Gentiles ?

29. Who is represented by the stone?

30. Give a N. T. passage which verifies this?

31. Why is the striking stone not the type of the First Coming of Christ?

32. What has to be before the stone can smite the image ?

33. Could the stone mean the peaceful extension of the kingdom?

34. When does the kingdom come?

35. How did Nebuchadnezzar acknowledge God?

36. What happened to Daniel and his companions?

37. State the typical meaning of Chapters iii-vi?

38. Give the dimensions of the image of gold the king set up?

39. According to Revelation will this be repeated?

40. When and how?

41. Has the ancient Babylonish worship been reproduced on Gentile ground?

42. Who refused to worship the image?

43. What does the fiery furnace foreshadow?

44. Will this be repeated in the end of the age ?

45. What is reported in Chapter iv ?

46. What happened to Nebuchadnezzar?

47. Why was he humbled?

48. What do the seven times mean?

49. What is the moral characteristic foreshadowed in this chapter?

50. What is the last record about Nebuchadnezzar?

51. Who was Belshazzar?

52. What did the critics claim and how were they defeated ?

53. Why is he called the son of Nebuchadnezzar?

54. What did Daniel announce in interpreting the handwriting on the wall?

55. When did it happen?

56. What characteristic is foreshadowed |in this event ?

57. What decree was made by Darius the Mede?

58. What position did Daniel receive and what was his age?

59. What does Daniel in the lions' den and his deliverance foreshadow ?

60. What is the characteristic of the sixth chapter?

61. Has this been repeated?

62. Will it find a repetition in the future?

63. What does Daniel's deliverance also foreshadow ?

64. Who came then upon the scene?

65. Who had announced this king a hundred years before his birth?

66. Give the second part of the Book of Daniel.

67. How many visions does it contain?

68. How many visions are found in Chapter vii ?

69. Name them?

70. What did Daniel see again?

71. What additional revelation was given to Daniel?

72. Who is the Ancient of days?

73. What judgment is here revealed?

74. Who is the Son of Man?

75. When will the kingdom be established?

76. Who is the little horn?

77. What has to happen first before this horn can appear ?

78. Where else is this revealed?

79. Name the three great actors of the end time?

80. What will happen to the little horn?

81. Who will receive the kingdom?

82. What vision is found in the eighth chapter ?

83. Who is the Ram?

84. Name the corresponding characteristics with the second beast in Chapter vii ?

85. Who is the he-goat?

86. Name the corresponding characteristics with the third beast in Chapter vii ?

87. Who is the notable horn?

88. What happened to his empire?

89. Out of what division did a little horn come forth?

90. Is this little horn the same as in Chapter vii ?

91. Why not?

92. What is the fulfillment?

93. What do the 2 300 days represent ?

94. Is there to be a future fulfillment?

95. When?

96. Who is the King with the fierce countenance?

97. What other portions of Prophecy confirm this?

98. From where will this King of the North arise?

99. In what other chapter do we find this king mentioned ?

100. What was Daniel's occupation in the first year of Darius?

l01. What did he discover?

102. Give the leading characteristic of his prayer.

103. What else did he express?

104. How was his prayer interrupted?

105. What did Gabriel bring to him?

106. What was announced in this prophecy?

107. What does the term "Seventy weeks" mean?

108. What is to be accomplished in this period of time?

109. Has this anything to do with the church?

110. Give the division of these seventy weeks.

111. When did the Seventy weeks begin?

112. When was the rebuilding of the City of Jerusalem accomplished?

113. What have the critics invented to deny the revelation in this chapter?

114. When was Messiah to be cut off?

115. How do we know that the term "Messiah the prince" means Christ?

116. When did the 483 years expire?

117. How was the prediction of the destruction of the city fulfilled?

118. Who is the Prince that shall come?

119. What else was predicted?

120. What interrupted the course of these seventy weeks ?

121. What is the unreckoned period between the 69th and 70th week?

122. Who confirms a covenant during the last week?

123. Why can it not mean Christ ?

124. When will the prince break the covenant?

125. By what other name is the last half of the 70th week called?

126. What is the abomination?

127. Who is the desolator?

128. What is that which is determined upon him?

129. What does the tenth chapter contain?

130. Where was Daniel?

131. For how long did he mourn and fast without receiving an answer?

132. Who is the certain man clothed in linen?

133. With what other vision does this correspond?

134. What is the mystery of the delayed answer?

135. Who is the prince of the kingdom of Persia?

136. Who is Michael?

137. What is the important statement in the angelic message ?

138. What happened to Daniel?

139. What are the contents of Chapter xi :2-35 ?

140. Have these prophecies been fulfilled?

141. When were they fulfilled?

142. Where in Chapter xi is the time of the end introduced ?

143. Who is the wilful King?

144. Why is he not Antiochus, or the two little horns ?

145. Where has this king his seat?

146. What N. T. prophecy describes this king?

147. Where is he described in the Book of Revelation?

148. What is yet to be fulfilled?

149. Who is the King of the North?

150. What will be his end?

151. What period of time is before us in Chapter xii?

152. Who will act in behalf of the people Israel?

153. What does the rising from the dust mean?

154. What two classes of Israelites are described?

155. What else will happen in this time of the end?

156. What are the 1290 days and the 1335 days?

THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS.

1. Prophecy is history prewritten.

2. A most powerful weapon against infidelity has been lost and an unscriptural optimism as well as worldliness of the professing church has resulted.

3. Because the Book of Daniel is the key to God's purposes concerning the earth.

4. That Daniel did not write this Book during the captivity, but that the author was a pious Jew, who wrote after Antiochus had appeared.

5. Porphyry, a pagan philosopher.

6. The Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew xxiv:i5.

7. First Part : Chapters i-vi. Second Part : Chapters vii-xii.

8. In two languages: Aramaic and Hebrew.

9. The Introduction to the Book.

10. Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon.

11. Three times. The first time in 606 B. C.

12. With his first coming against Jerusalem.

13. Jerusalem being trodden down by the Gentiles.

14. Through Jeremiah, Chapter xxvii:5, etc.

15. No. Because the church was not revealed in former ages. Ephes. iii.

16. He thought upon the future and what should come to pass.

17. After the prayer of Daniel and his companions.

18. The end of the times of the Gentiles.

19. Four parts. The image composed of Gold, Silver, Brass, Iron and in the feet iron and clay mixed together,

20. It was destroyed by a stone which fell out of heaven.

21. The Times of the Gentiles.

22. Man's Day. Margin of i Corinth. iv:3.

23. Gold: The Babylonian Empire. Silver: The Medo-Persian. Brass: The Graeco-Macedonian. Iron: The Roman Empire.

24. The lesson of deterioration. The times of the Gentiles do not improve.

25. Ten toes representing ten kingdoms.

26. Not yet.

27. The rule of the people in opposition to the iron rule, the monarchical form of government.

28. A great judgment catastrophe.

29. The Lord Jesus Christ.

30. Matthew xxi:44.

31. Because when the Lord came the first time the Roman Empire was a unit and the division into the East Roman and West Roman empire had not yet taken place, nor were there the ten toes in existence.

32. The ten kingdoms and a revival of the Roman Power.

33. No. For the stone smites the whole image and under its powerful blow it collapses completely.

34. After the stone has done its smiting work.

35. He acknowledged God in a three-fold way.

36. They were promoted.

37. The moral and religious characteristics of the times of the Gentiles are foreshadowed in these chapters.

38. Sixty cubits high and six cubits broad.

39. Yes. See Revelation xiii. The second beast sets up an image.

40. During the time of the end, the great tribulation. The number of the Antichrist is 666.

41. Yes in the Romish church.

42. The three companions of Daniel.

43. The tribulations and persecutions of Saints under pagan and papal Rome, the other Babylon.

44. Yes during The great tribulation.

45. Another dream of Nebuchadnezzar.

46. He was degraded and became a beast.

47. On account of his pride.

48. Seven years.

49. Great pride and self -exaltation.

50. He praised God.

51. Belshazzar was the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar; his father was Nabonnaid and his mother a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar.

52. They denied for a long time his existence. The annalistic tablets of Nabonnaid silenced them.

53. Because the Aramaic language has no word for grandson or grandfather.

54. The doom of Babylon.

55. That very night when Belshazzar died and Babylon was taken by the Medes.

56. Impiety and blasphemy.

57. That he should be addressed in prayer for 30 days.

58. One of the presidents. He was over 80 years of age.

59. The blessed Gospel and Him who went into death as well as the tomb, which was sealed.

60. Man-worship.

61. Yes throughout the times of the Gentiles.

62. Yes, during the great tribulation. The Antichrist will demand worship for himself.

63. The deliverance of the Jewish remnant of the future.

64. Cyrus, the Persian.

65. The Prophet Isaiah. Chapters xliv and xlv.

66. Chapters vii-xii.

67. Four. The visions of the seventh chapter. The Ram and He-goat vision in Chapter viii. The prophecy of the seven other weeks and the final vision.

68. Four visions.

69. The vision of the three beasts. The vision of the fourth beast. The vision of the Ancient of days and the vision of the Son of Man and His kingdom.

70. The Times of the Gentiles in their political history. This corresponds to Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

71. He saw a little horn on the fourth beast, the Roman Empire.

72. The Son of God.

73. Not a universal judgment, but the judgment of the nations at the second coming of Christ.

74. The Lord Jesus Christ.

75. After He has come the second time.

76. The head of the reconstructed Roman Empire.

77. The church to leave the earth and the Roman Empire must be revived.

78. In Revelation xiii.

79. The head of the Roman Empire, the Antichrist and the King of the North.

80. He will be broken to pieces.

81. The Saints of the Most High.

82. The vision of the ram and the He-goat.

83. The Medo-Persian Empire.

84. The bear had one paw higher, like the one horn of the ram, which was stronger. The three ribs the bear had denote the three directions in which that empire conquered.

85. The Graeco-Macedonian empire.

86. The leopard had wings, denoting the swiftness of the he-goat, which touched not the ground.. The four heads on the leopard correspond to the four-fold division of the territory of the he-goat empire.

87. Alexander the Great.

88. It was divided among his four generals.

89. Out of Syria.

90. No.

91. Because this little horn comes out of one of the divisions of the Graeco-Macedonian empire, while the little horn in Daniel vii comes forth out of the ten horns on the fourth beast, the Roman Power.

92. Antiochus Epiphanes fulfilled the description and predictions in this part of the chapter.

93. Literal days and not years. The days of the tribulation under Antiochus.

94. Yes. The second half of the chapter proves this.

95. During the end of the indignation, when the transgressors are come to the full, that is, during the great tribulation, the time of the end.

96. The final Assyrian or King of the North.

97. Isaiah x, Micah v, Joel ii, and some of the Psalms.

98. Out of a part of the territory of the former Grecian empire, the country which is now ruled over by Turkey.

99. In Chapter xi.

100. He read in books concerning the promises of God concerning the end of the captivity.

l01. That the time had almost expired.

102. Humiliation and confession of sin.

103. He identified himself with the sin and failure of his people.

104. By the appearing of the man Gabriel.

105. A great Prophecy.

106. The exact time of the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem, the coming of Messiah the Prince, His death on the cross, the destruction of the city and the temple by the Romans, the miseries which should come upon the nation, the final events of the great tribulation.

107. Seventy times seven years, that is, 490 years.

108. See Verse 27, Chapter ix.

109. Nothing whatever. It concerns "Daniel's people."

110. Seven weeks — sixty-two weeks — and one week. In years: 49 years — ^434 years and 7 years.

111. In the year 445 B. C. When Artaxerxes in the 20th year of his reign gave the command to rebuild the city.

112. 49 Years after.

113. That it has nothing to do with Christ, but Onias HI., the high priest is Messiah the Prince.

114. Immediately after the 69 year weeks.

115. We know it from the remarkable fulfillment of this prophecy.

116. They expired on the day the Lord Jesus entered into Jerusalem. A few days later He died on the cross and there was nothing for Him in connection with the nation and the earthly kingdom.

117. By the Romans in the year 70.

118. The little horn on Daniel vii. The head of the Roman empire.

119. The dreadful history of the Jewish people down to the end of the times of the Gentiles.

120. The rejection and death of Christ.

121. The present Christian age.

122. The Prince that shall come; the little horn of Daniel vii.

123. Nowhere else is a statement made that Christ should make a covenant with the many for seven years.

124. In the middle of the week, after 1260 days or 42 months have passed.

125. The Great Tribulation.

126. The setting up of idols and idol worship.

127. The King of the North, the final Assyrian.

128. His judgment by the Coming of the Lord.

129. The introduction to the final vision.

130. At the banks of the River Hiddekel.

131. For three full weeks.

132. The Son of God.

133. With the vision the Apostle John had in the isle of Patmos.

134. The prince of the kingdom of Persia kept the heavenly messenger back.

135. A powerful demon prince.

136. The Archangel with special mission in connection with Israel.

137. That the vision concerns the latter days.

138. He fainted and then was strengthened.

139. The predictions of the great wars of the Ptolemies and the Seleucidae.

140. Yes.

141. During the centuries which followed Daniel's vision and up to the coming of Antiochus Epiphanes.

142. With Verse 36.

143. The personal Antichrist.

144. Because he is totally different from the other persons.

145. In Jerusalem.

146. Second Thessalonians ii:i-7.

147. In the thirteenth Chapter, the second half. The second beast out of the land.

148. The closing verses of Chapter xi.

149. The final Assyrian; the King with the fierce countenance of Daniel viii.

150. He will be broken by the coming of Christ.

151. The great tribulation.

152. Michael, the prince of Daniel's people.

153. The national restoration of the people Israel.

154. The Apostates and the faithful remnant.

155. The rewards will be given to the faithful remnant and there will be much running to and fro and knowledge will be increased.

156. Literal days.