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What are the four beasts of Daniel 7, what is the little horn that arises among the ten, and what is the judgment scene of Daniel 7:9-14? How does this chapter expand Daniel 2's succession principle and introduce the heavenly court that both Daniel 8:14 and Revelation build upon?

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JUDGMENT

THE GENERAL: 1CH 16:33; JOB 14:17; 21:30; 31:13-15; PSA 9:7; 50:3-6; 96:13; 98:9; ECC 3:17; 11:9; 12:14; EZK 18:20-28; DAN 7:9,10; AMO 4:12; MAT 3:12; 7:22,23; 8:29; 10:15; 11:22; 12:36,37,41,42; 13:30,40-43,49,50; 16:27; 22:11-13; 23:14; 25:1-46; MRK 4:22; 8:38; 13:32; LUK 3:17; 10:10-14; 11:31,32; 12:2-5; 13:24-29; 19:12-26; 20:45-47; JHN 5:22; 12:48; ACT 2:19-21; 10:42; 17:31; 24:25; ROM 2:5-10,12-16; 14:10-12; 1CO 3:13; 4:5; 6:2; 2CO 5:10; 2TH 1:7,8; 2TI 4:1,8; HEB 6:2; 9:27; 10:27; 1PE 4:5,7; 2PE 2:4,9; 3:7,10-12; 1JN 4:17; Jude 1:6,14,15,24; REV 1:7; 6:15-17; 11:18; 20:11-15; 22:12

ACCORDING TO OPPORTUNITY AND WORKS: GEN 4:7; JOB 34:11; PRO 11:31; 12:14; 24:11,12; PSA 62:12; ISA 3:10,11; 5:1-6,15,16; 24:2; 28:24-28; 59:18; JER 17:10,11; 32:19; EZK 7:3,4,27; 9:4-6; 16:59; 18:4-9,19-32; 33:18-20; 39:24; HOS 4:9; 12:2; AMO 3:2; ZEC 1:6; MAT 10:14,15; 11:24; 12:37; 21:33-36; 23:14; 25:14-30; MRK 6:11; 14:21; LUK 9:5; 10:12-15; 11:49-51; 12:47,48; 13:6-9; 19:12-27; 20:47; 21:1-4; JHN 3:19,20; 5:45; 9:41; 12:48; 15:22,24; ROM 2:5-12,27; 1CO 3:8,12-15; 4:5; 2CO 2:15,16; 11:15; GAL 6:5-10; EPH 6:7,8; COL 3:25; 1TI 1:13; 2TI 4:14; HEB 2:2,3; 10:26-30; 12:25; JAS 2:12,13; 1PE 1:17; 2PE 2:20,21; REV 2:23; 20:12,13

Cross-references: See GOD, JUDGE; See JESUS, JUDGE; See PUNISHMENT, ACCORDING TO DEEDS

ANCIENT OF DAYS

An appellate of Jehovah: DAN 7:9; DAN 7:13; DAN 7:22

Note: This title appears exclusively in Daniel 7, used three times to designate God the Father presiding over the heavenly judgment court.

THRONE

  • Of Pharaoh: GEN 41:40; EXO 11:5
  • Of David: 1KI 2:12,24; PSA 132:11,12; ISA 9:7; JER 13:13; 17:25; LUK 1:32
  • Of Solomon: 1KI 2:19; 2CH 9:17-19
  • Of ivory: 1KI 10:18-20
  • Of Solomon, called THE THRONE OF THE LORD: 1CH 29:23
  • Of Herod Agrippa I: ACT 12:21
  • Of Israel: 1KI 8:20; 10:9; 2CH 6:10
  • Abdicated by David: 1KI 1:32-40

FIGURATIVE (of God): 2CH 18:18; PSA 9:4,7; 11:4; 47:8; 89:14; 97:2; 103:19; ISA 6:1; 66:1; MAT 5:34; 23:22; HEB 8:1; 12:2; REV 14:3,5

Of Christ: MAT 19:28; 25:31; ACT 2:30; REV 1:4; 3:21; 4:2-10; 7:9-17; 19:4; 21:5; 22:3

HORN

  • Used to contain the anointing oil: 1SA 16:1; 1KI 1:39
  • Used for a trumpet (See 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

Note: The symbolical usage spans Daniel 7 (ten horns + little horn), Daniel 8 (ram's two horns + goat's great horn + little horn), and Revelation (beast with seven heads and ten horns). The Zechariah reference (1:18-21) uses horns as symbols of Gentile powers that scattered Israel.

BLASPHEMY

General scriptures: EXO 20:7; LEV 19:12; 22:32; 24:10-16; DEU 5:11; 2SA 12:14; 2KI 19:22; 2CH 32:19; JOB 9:16,17,34,35; 10:2-7; 13:7-9,25-27; 15:13,25,26; 16:9,11,14; 19:6,7,21,22; 21:13,14; 22:12-14,17; 30:21; 33:10,11; 34:5,6,9,16-19,37; 37:20; 40:2; PSA 5:1,2; 10:11,13; 50:21; 73:9,11; 74:18; 78:19,20; 94:7; 139:20; PRO 30:7-9; ISA 8:21,22; 29:15,16; 36:15,18,20,21; 37:10,23; 40:27; 45:9; 52:5; 65:7; JER 4:10; 17:15; 20:7; 23:10; EZK 8:12; 9:9; 18:25; 20:27; 33:17-20; 35:12,13; DAN 7:25; 11:36,37; HOS 7:13; ZEP 1:12; ZEC 5:3,4; MAL 3:13,14; MAT 10:25; 12:31,32; 15:19; MRK 3:29,30; 7:21-23; LUK 12:10; JHN 19:7; ROM 2:24; 1CO 12:3; COL 3:8; 2TH 2:4; 2TI 3:2; HEB 10:29; JAS 2:7; 3:10; 5:12; 2PE 3:3,4; REV 13:1,6; 16:9,11,21; 17:3

Prophecy of: REV 13:1,5,6; 16:9,11,21; 17:3

The man of sin: 2TH 2:3,4

Note: Dan 7:25 ("speak great words against the most High") and 2 Thess 2:3-4 ("who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God") are both listed under BLASPHEMY. Rev 13:5-6 directly echoes Dan 7:8,25 with "a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies."

DANIEL

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

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Compared: - To a man who sowed good seed: MAT 13:24-30,38-43; MRK 4:26-29 - To a granule of mustard seed: MAT 13:31,32; MRK 4:30,31; LUK 13:18,19 - To leaven (yeast): MAT 13:33; LUK 13:21 - To a treasure: MAT 13:44 - To a pearl: MAT 13:45 - To a net: MAT 13:47-50 - To a king who called his servants for a reckoning (an audit): MAT 18:23-35 - To a householder: MAT 20:1-16 - To a king who made a marriage feast for his son: MAT 22:2-14; LUK 14:16-24 - To ten virgins: MAT 25:1-13 - To a man, traveling into a far country, who called his servants, and delivered to them his goods: MAT 25:14-30; LUK 19:12-27

"My kingdom is not of this world": JHN 18:36 Children of the kingdom: MAT 18:3; 19:14; MRK 10:14; LUK 18:16 Rich people cannot enter: MAT 19:23,24; MRK 10:23-25; LUK 18:24,25,29,30 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

Note: Dan 7:14 and 7:27 describe the same kingdom -- given to the Son of Man and to the saints of the most High, everlasting, never to be destroyed. This parallels Dan 2:44 ("the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed").

HEAVEN

GOD'S DWELLING PLACE: DEU 26:15; 1KI 8:30,39,43,49; 1CH 16:31; 21:26; 2CH 2:6; 6:18,21,27,30,33,35,39; 30:27; NEH 9:27; JOB 22:12,14; PSA 2:4; 11:4; 20:6; 33:13; 102:19; 103:19; 113:5; 123:1; 135:6; ECC 5:2; ISA 57:15; 63:15; 66:1; JER 23:24; LAM 3:41,50; DAN 4:35; 5:23; ZEC 2:13; MAT 5:34,45; 6:9; 10:32,33; 11:25; 12:50; 16:17; 18:10,14; MRK 11:25,26; 16:19; ACT 7:49; ROM 1:18; HEB 8:1; REV 8:1; 12:7-9; 21:22-27; 22:1-5

THE FUTURE DWELLING PLACE OF THE RIGHTEOUS: - Called A GARNER: MAT 3:12 - THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND OF GOD: EPH 5:5 - THE FATHER'S HOUSE: JHN 14:2 - A HEAVENLY COUNTRY: HEB 11:16 - A REST: HEB 4:9; REV 14:13 - PARADISE: 2CO 12:2,4 - The wicked excluded from: GAL 5:21; EPH 5:5; REV 22:15

NEW HEAVENS: ISA 65:17; 66:22; 2PE 3:13; REV 21:1-4

JESUS, SON OF MAN

Topic not found in Nave's under this exact heading. However, Jesus uses the "Son of man" title over 80 times in the Gospels, drawing directly from Daniel 7:13. Key cross-references include: - Matt 26:64 -- Jesus quotes Dan 7:13 before the high priest - Mark 14:62 -- Parallel account - Rev 1:13 -- "one like unto the Son of man" (echoing Dan 7:13) - Rev 14:14 -- "one sat like unto the Son of man" on a white cloud - Acts 7:56 -- Stephen sees "the Son of man standing on the right hand of God"

JESUS, JUDGE

Not found as a separate Nave's topic. The JUDGMENT topic includes Jesus as judge: JHN 5:22 ("the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son"); ACT 10:42; ACT 17:31; 2TI 4:1.