Topics Research¶

Question¶

What is the historicist reading of Daniel as a complete interpretive system — not individual claims, but the hermeneutical logic, the overarching narrative, and how all the pieces fit together?

Topics¶

PROPHECY¶

Key subsections relevant to framework study: - 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 - Proof of God's foreknowledge: ISA 43:9 - Concerning the Messiah: OT passages quoted in NT — extensive chain from PSA 2:1-2 through MAL 4:5-6, with NT fulfillment references - Daniel specifically listed: DAN 1:17; DAN 2; DAN 4; DAN 5:13; DAN 7:14,27; DAN 8; DAN 9:2; DAN 9:26,27; DAN 10; DAN 11:30-45

JUDGMENT¶

THE GENERAL: 1CH 16:33; DAN 7:9,10; MAT 25:1-46; ACT 17:31; ROM 2:5-10; 2CO 5:10; REV 20:11-15; HEB 9:27
According to opportunity and works: JOB 34:11; PSA 62:12; ECC 12:14; EZK 18:4-9; MAT 25:14-30; ROM 2:5-12; 1CO 3:8,12-15; REV 2:23; 20:12,13
Key Daniel reference: DAN 7:9,10 explicitly listed under THE GENERAL judgment

ATONEMENT¶

For tabernacle and furniture: LEV 16:15-20,33
For sin: LEV 16:30,34; LEV 17:11
Day of Atonement: LEV 16:2-34; LEV 23:27; NUM 29:7-11
Through Christ: HEB 9:7,12,28; HEB 9:22
Connection to Dan 9:24: kaphar (reconciliation for iniquity) is the dominant DOA verb

DANIEL¶

A Jewish captive, also called Belteshazzar
Educated at king's court: DAN 1
Interprets visions: DAN 2; 4; 5
Conspiracies against, cast into lions' den: DAN 6
Prophecies of: DAN 7; 8; 9:2; 9:24-27; 10; 11; 12
Abstinence of: DAN 1:8-16
Prayers of: DAN 2:18; 6; 9:3-19
Referred to by Ezekiel: EZK 14:14; 28:3

REVELATION¶

God reveals himself to Moses: EXO 3:1-6,14
The law revealed: EXO 20-31
The pattern of the temple: 1CH 28:11-19
God reveals himself through prophets: NUM 12:6; 1SA 3:1; AMO 3:7,8; HEB 1:1
Through visions: DAN 1:17; DAN 7; 8; 10
Progressive: HEB 1:1 ("at sundry times and in divers manners")

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN¶

Compared to: sower (MAT 13:24-30), mustard seed (MAT 13:31-32), leaven (MAT 13:33), treasure (MAT 13:44), pearl (MAT 13:45), net (MAT 13:47-50)
Entry: MAT 18:3; MRK 10:14
Key: JHN 18:36 ("My kingdom is not of this world")
ROM 14:17 ("the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost")

FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD¶

ISA 41:21-24 ("Produce your cause... shew us what shall happen")
ISA 43:9 ("Who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?")
ISA 46:9-10 ("Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done")
AMO 3:7 ("Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets")

SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD: DAN 2:21; 4:17,25,32,35; 5:21 — God changes times, removes and sets up kings
VISION: NUM 12:6; DAN 1:17; HAB 2:2 — prophetic vision as revelatory mode
CONSECRATED THINGS / ATONEMENT connection: the DOA triad (pesha + chattat + avon) in Lev 16:21 connects to Dan 9:24