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How do NT authors use Daniel, and do they treat Daniel 7-12 as a unified prophetic corpus?

Inspired: ISA 28:22; LUK 1:70; 2TI 3:16; 2PE 1:21
Sure fulfillment: EZK 12:22-25,28; HAB 2:3; MAT 5:18; 24:35; ACT 13:27,29
Of apostasy: 1JN 2:18; Jude 1:17,18
False teachers: 2PE 2; 3
Messianic fulfillment chain: ISA 9:7 with DAN 7:14,27 with LUK 1:32,33 (kingdom prophecy)
Messianic OT-to-NT passages: PSA 2:1,2 with ACT 4:25,26; PSA 110:1 with MAT 22:44; HEB 1:13; ZEC 12:10 with JHN 19:37; MAL 3:1 with MAT 11:10; MRK 1:2; LUK 7:27
Relevance: Establishes the pattern of OT prophecy fulfilled in NT. DAN 7:14,27 explicitly linked to LUK 1:32,33 in the Nave's entry.

Described: DEU 13:13; HEB 3:12
Caused by persecution: MAT 24:9,10; LUK 8:13
Shall abound in latter days: MAT 24:12; 2TH 2:3; 1TI 4:1-3
Unclassified scriptures: DEU 32:15; 1CH 28:9; ISA 1:28; JER 17:5,6; EZK 3:20; MAT 13:20,21; 24:10,12; MRK 4:5-17; LUK 8:13; 11:24-26; JHN 15:6; ACT 7:39-43; 1CO 9:27; 2TH 2:3,11,12; 1TI 4:1,2; 2TI 3:1-9; 4:3,4; HEB 6:4-8; 10:26-29; 2PE 2:1,15,17,20-22; 3:17; Jude 1:4-6
Instances: Judas MAT 26:14-16; 27:3-5; ACT 1:16-18
Relevance: 2 Thess 2:3 is classified under "shall abound in latter days." The apostasy precedes the man of sin. Matt 24:12 "anomia shall abound" also classified here — linking Olivet anomia to 2 Thess 2 anomia.

Prophecies of: DAN 4:8,9; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; MAT 24:15
Wisdom of: DAN 1:17; EZK 28:3
Devoutness of: DAN 2:18; 6; 9; 10; 12; EZK 14:14
Relevance: MAT 24:15 is directly listed under Daniel's prophecies — Nave's recognizes Jesus as citing Daniel. The listing of Dan 7-12 as a continuous block of prophecies is itself relevant to the unified corpus question.

Idolatry: DEU 7:25; 27:15; 32:16
Unjust weights: DEU 25:13-16; PRO 11:1
Unclassified: PRO 3:32; 6:16-19; 8:7; 11:20; 12:22; 15:8,9,26; 16:5; 17:15; 20:10,23; 21:27; 24:9; 28:9; 29:27
Relevance: The core meaning of shiqquts (Hebrew) is idolatry/detestable thing. The abomination of desolation in Daniel carries this fundamental meaning of idolatrous intrusion. Rev 17:4-5 uses bdelygma (G946) in a context linking "ABOMINATIONS" to the harlot system.

God reveals himself: EXO 3:1-6,14
The sonship of Jesus revealed: MAT 3:17; 16:17; 17:5
Relevance: The concept of divine revelation (apokalypsis) connects the genre of Daniel's visions to John's Apocalypse. Both are "revelations" of future events.

General scriptures: DEU 7:10; 32:15; ROM 1:21,22,28; EPH 4:18; HEB 10:26,27; JAS 4:4
DAN 5:23: Daniel-specific entry — Belshazzar's godlessness
Relevance: The trajectory from godlessness to full apostasy is the backdrop for the man of sin.

Characteristic of antichrist: 2JN 1:7
Characteristic of the apostasy: 2TH 2:10
False teachers are workers of: 2CO 11:13
Relevance: Nave's explicitly connects deceit to both antichrist (2 John 1:7) and the apostasy (2 Thess 2:10). This reinforces the vocabulary chain across Johannine and Pauline writings.

ANTICHRIST: Referenced under APOSTASY ("See ANTICHRIST")
ISRAEL, BACKSLIDING OF: Connected to APOSTASY instances
CONFIDENCE, FALSE / DECEPTION / FALSEHOOD / HYPOCRISY: Connected to DECEIT
The PROPHECY entry's messianic section links DAN 7:14,27 directly to ISA 9:7 and LUK 1:32,33, establishing the kingdom-given-to-saints motif in the canonical index.