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Question¶

How does the Bible instruct us to read apocalyptic prophecy? What hermeneutical principles does Scripture itself establish? And how does Daniel 2's metallic image prove that prophecy traces sequential world history from the prophet's time to the end?

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PROPHECY¶

Full Nave's Entry: - Inspired: ISA 28:22; LUK 1:70; 2TI 3:16; 2PE 1:21 - The word of the Lord came to various prophets: Elijah (1KI 17:8; 21:17,28), Isaiah (ISA 2:1; 8:5; 13:1; 14:28; 38:4), Jeremiah (extensive list of 30+ references), Ezekiel (extensive list of 38+ references), Amos (AMO 7:14,15), Jonah (JON 3:1), Haggai (HAG 2:1,10,20), Zechariah (ZEC 1:7; 4:8; 6:9; 7:1,4,8; 8:1,18) - Publicly proclaimed: JER 11:6 - Exemplified in pantomime: EZK 4; 5:1-4; ACT 21:11 - Written in books: JER 45:1; 51:60 - Proof of God's foreknowledge: ISA 43:9 - Sure fulfillment: EZK 12:22-25,28; HAB 2:3; MAT 5:18; 24:35; ACT 13:27,29 - Cessation of: LAM 2:9 - Of apostasy: 1JN 2:18; Jude 1:17,18 - OT Messianic Passages quoted in NT: Extensive chain from Genesis through Malachi with NT fulfillment references (over 40 OT-to-NT pairs) - Miscellaneous fulfilled prophecies: Birth and zeal of Josiah (1KI 13:2; 2KI 23:1-20), death of prophets and kings, drought foretold by Elijah, destruction of Ben-hadad's army, death of Ahab/Ahaziah/Jezebel, captivity of Judah (2KI 20:17,18; 24:10-16), outpouring of the Holy Spirit (JOL 2:28,29; ACT 2:1,6-21) - Captivity of Jews predicted and fulfilled: JER 25:11,12; 29:10,14; 32:3-5; DAN 9:2; with 2KI 25:1-8; EZR 1

SYMBOLS AND SIMILITUDES¶

Full Nave's Entry: - Trees of life and knowledge: GEN 2:9,17; 3:3,24; REV 22:2 - Rainbow: GEN 9:12,13 - Circumcision of the covenant: GEN 17:11; ROM 4:11 - Passover/atonement of Christ: EXO 12:3-28; 1CO 5:7 - Pillar of cloud (divine presence): EXO 13:21,22; 14:19,20; 19:9,16 - Darkness (God's inscrutability): EXO 20:21; LEV 16:2; 1KI 8:12; PSA 18:11; 97:2; HEB 12:18,19 - Rock that was struck (Christ): EXO 17:6; 1CO 10:4 - Sprinkled blood (covenant): EXO 24:8 - Bronze serpent (Christ): NUM 21:8,9; JHN 3:14 - Mosaic rites (symbols): HEB 9:9,10,18-23 - Tabernacle: PSA 15:1; EZK 37:27; HEB 8:2,5; 9:1-12,23,24 - Handwriting on wall: DAN 5:5,6,16-28 - Sticks and staves: EZK 37:16,17; ZEC 11:7,10,11,14 - Good and bad figs: JER 24 - Yokes: JER 27:2,3; 28:10 - Cooking pot/siege symbolism: EZK 4:1-3,9-15; 24:1-5 - Ezekiel's beard: EZK 5:1-4 - Two sticks: EZK 37:15-28 - Plumb-line: AMO 7:7,8 - Marrying a whore (symbolism): HOS 1:2-9; 3:1-4 - Bread/wine (Christ's body and blood): MAT 26:26-29; MRK 14:22-25; LUK 22:17-20 - Of the Holy Spirit: Water (JHN 3:5; 7:38,39), Fire (MAT 3:11), Wind (JHN 3:8; 1CO 12:11), Oil (PSA 45:7), Rain and Dew (PSA 72:6), Dove (MAT 3:16), Voice (ISA 6:8), Seal (REV 7:2), Cloven Tongues (ACT 2:3,6,11)

VISION¶

Full Nave's Entry: - A mode of revelation: NUM 12:6; 1SA 3:1; 2CH 26:5; PSA 89:19; PRO 29:18; JER 14:14; 23:16; DAN 1:17; HOS 12:10; JOL 2:28; OBA 1:1; HAB 2:2; ACT 2:17 - Key OT visions: Abraham (GEN 15:1-17), Jacob's ladder (GEN 28:12), Moses' burning bush (EXO 3:2), Isaiah (ISA 6), Ezekiel (EZK 1; 2:9; 8-10; 37:1-14; 40-48), Zechariah (ZEC 1-6) - Daniel's visions: Four beasts (DAN 7), Ancient of Days (DAN 7:9-27), Ram and he-goat (DAN 8), The angel (DAN 10) - NT visions: Transfiguration (MAT 17:1-9), Stephen (ACT 7:55,56), Paul on Damascus road (ACT 9:3-6; 1CO 9:1), Paul's vision of Macedonia (ACT 16:9), Peter's sheet (ACT 10:9-18) - John's visions on Patmos: Christ among lampstands (REV 1:10-20), Open door (REV 4:1), Throne/rainbow (REV 4:2,3), Book with seven seals (REV 5:1-5), Six seals (REV 6), Seven trumpets (REV 8-9), Two witnesses (REV 11:3-12), Woman clothed with sun (REV 12), Red dragon (REV 12:3-17), Beast from sea (REV 13:1-10), Beast from earth (REV 13:11-18), Angel with everlasting gospel (REV 14:6,7), Seven last plagues (REV 15-16), Destruction of Babylon (REV 18), White horse (REV 19:11-16), Judgment/resurrection (REV 20:1-12), New Jerusalem (REV 21), River/Tree of Life (REV 22:1,2)

HORN¶

Full Nave's Entry: - Literal use: Containing anointing oil (1SA 16:1; 1KI 1:39); used for trumpet - Figurative: Of divine protection (2SA 22:3); Of power (1KI 22:11; PSA 89:24; 92:10; 132:17) - Symbolical: DAN 7:7-24; 8:3-9,20; AMO 6:13; MIC 4:13; HAB 3:4; ZEC 1:18-21; REV 5:6; 12:3; 13:1,11; 17:3-16

DANIEL¶

Full Nave's Entry: - A Jewish captive, also called BELTESHAZZAR - Educated at king's court: DAN 1 - Interprets visions: DAN 2; 4; 5 - Promotion and executive authority: DAN 2:48,49; 5:11,29; 6:2 - Conspiracy against, cast into lions' den: DAN 6 - Prophecies of: DAN 4:8,9; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; MAT 24:15 - Abstinence: DAN 1:8-16 - Wisdom: DAN 1:17; EZK 28:3 - Devoutness: DAN 2:18; 6; 9; 10; 12; EZK 14:14 - Courage and fidelity: DAN 4:27; 5:17-23; 6:10-23

GABRIEL¶

Full Nave's Entry: - A messenger of God - Appeared to Daniel: DAN 8:16; 9:21 - Appeared to Zacharias: LUK 1:11-19 - Appeared to Mary: LUK 1:26-29

INTERPRETATION¶

Full Nave's Entry: - Of dreams: See DREAMS - Of foreign tongues: 1CO 14:9-19

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN¶

Full Nave's Entry: - Compared to: man who sowed good seed (MAT 13:24-30,38-43), granule of mustard seed (MAT 13:31,32), leaven (MAT 13:33), treasure (MAT 13:44), pearl (MAT 13:45), net (MAT 13:47-50), king calling servants to reckoning (MAT 18:23-35), householder (MAT 20:1-16), marriage feast (MAT 22:2-14), ten virgins (MAT 25:1-13), man traveling to far country (MAT 25:14-30) - "My kingdom is not of this world": JHN 18:36 - Children of the kingdom: MAT 18:3; 19:14 - Rich cannot enter: MAT 19:23,24 - Keys of: MAT 16:19 - Good news of: LUK 8:1 - Mysteries of: LUK 8:10 - Does not consist of meat and drink: ROM 14:17

PROPHETS¶

Full Nave's Entry: - Called SEERS: 1SA 9:19; 2SA 15:27; 24:11; 2KI 17:13; 1CH 9:22; 29:29; 2CH 9:29; 12:15; 29:30; ISA 30:10; MIC 3:7 - Schools of prophets: 1KI 20:35; 2KI 2:3-15; 4:1,38; 9:1 - Kept the chronicles: 1CH 29:29; 2CH 9:29; 12:15 - Counselors to kings: ISA 37:2,3 - Not honored in own country: MAT 13:57; LUK 4:24-27; JHN 4:44 - Inspired by angels: ZEC 1:9,13,14,19; ACT 7:53; GAL 3:19; HEB 2:2 - Persecutions of: 2CH 36:16; AMO 2:12 - Martyrs: JER 2:30; MAT 23:37; MRK 12:5; LUK 13:34; 1TH 2:15; HEB 11:37; REV 16:6 - Inspiration of (extensive list): GEN 40:8; 41:16,38,39; EXO 3:14,15; 4:12,15,27; NUM 12:6-8; 1SA 3:1,4-10,20,21; 2SA 23:2,3; ISA 6:1-9; 8:11; JER 1:1,2,4-10; 20:9; EZK 1:1,3,20; 2:1,2,4,5; 3:10-12,14,16,17,22,24,27; DAN 1:17; 2:19; 7:16; 8:16; 9:1-22; 10:7-9; HOS 12:10; AMO 3:7,8; HAB 3:2,16; LUK 1:15,41,67,70; 2:25-27; ACT 2:2-4,30; HEB 1:1; 1PE 1:10,11; 2PE 1:21; REV 2:7; 10:7; 22:6,8

REVELATION (from naves_semantic.py, score 0.55)¶

God's self-disclosure: EXO 3:1-6,14; 1CH 28:11-19; MAT 3:17; 16:17; 17:5
Connected to both divine voice (Sinai, Transfiguration) and prophetic vision

KING (from naves_semantic.py, score 0.37)¶

God's sovereignty over kings: DAN 2:21,37; 4:17; 5:20; PRO 8:15
Directly relevant to Daniel's four-kingdom framework

SUCCESSION (from naves_semantic.py, score 0.44)¶

Priestly succession: HEB 7:1-28
Prophetic/kingdom succession is the parallel concept in Daniel

INTERPRETER (from naves_semantic.py, score 0.41)¶

Dream interpretation as divine gift: GEN 40:8; 41:16; DAN 2:18-30; 1CO 12:10,30