MICHAEL RYDELNIK
OUTLINE
Introduction
I. The Godly Remnant in the Times of the Gentiles (1:1-21; in Hebrew)
A. Daniel and His Friends in the Babylonian Captivity (1:1-7)
B. Daniel and the King’s Food (1:8-16)
C. Daniel and the Lord’s Reward (1:17-21)
II. God’s Sovereignty over the Times of the Gentiles (2:1–7:28; in Aramaic)
A. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream and the Wise Men of Babylon (2:1-49)
1. The King’s Disturbance (2:1-3)
2. The Wise Men’s Difficulty (2:4-11)
3. The King’s Decree (2:12-13)
4. Daniel’s Delay (2:14-16)
5. Daniel’s Prayer and Praise (2:17-24)
6. Daniel’s Revelation and Interpretation before the King (2:25-45)
7. The King’s Response to the Dream and its Interpretation (2:46-49)
B. Daniel’s Friends and the Fiery Furnace (3:1-30)
1. The King’s Demand to Worship the Statue (3:1-7)
2. The Young Men’s Refusal to Worship the Statue (3:8-23)
3. The Lord’s Deliverance from the Fiery Furnace (3:24-27)
4. The King’s Recognition of the God of Israel (3:28-30)
C. Nebuchadnezzar’s Pride, Madness, and Repentance (4:1-37)
1. The Prologue: A Declaration of Praise (4:1-3)
2. The Story: A Dream Comes to Pass (4:4-34a)
a. The King’s Dream (4:4-18)
b. Daniel’s Interpretation (4:19-27)
c. The Dream’s Fulfillment (4:28-34a)
3. The Epilogue: A Declaration of Sovereignty (4:34b-37)
D. Belshazzar’s Feast and the Writing on the Wall (5:1-31)
1. The Feast of the King (5:1-4)
2. The Writing on the Wall (5:5-9)
3. The Advice of the Queen (5:10-12)
4. The Meeting with Daniel (5:13-29)
5. The Fall of Babylon (5:30-31)
E. Daniel in the Lions’ Den (6:1-28)
1. The Plot against Daniel (6:1-9)
2. The Prosecution of Daniel (6:10-14)
3. The Punishment of Daniel (6:15-18)
4. The Protection of Daniel (6:19-24)
5. The Praise of Daniel’s God (6:25-27)
6. The Prosperity of Daniel (6:28)
F. Daniel’s Vision of the Four Beasts, the Ancient of Days and the Son of Man (7:1-28)
1. Daniel’s Vision (7:1-14)
2. The Angel’s Interpretation (7:15-28)
III. God’s People Israel in the Times of the Gentiles (8:1–12:13; in Hebrew)
A. Daniel’s Vision of the Ram and the Male Goat (8:1-27)
1. The Vision of the Ram and the Goat (8:1-14)
2. The Interpretation of the Vision (8:15-27)
B. Daniel’s Prayer and Vision of the Seventy Weeks (9:1-27)
1. Daniel’s Prayer of Contrition (9:1-19)
2. Daniel’s Vision of the Seventy Weeks (9:20-27)
C. Daniel and His Final Vision (10:1–12:13)
1. Daniel’s Reception of the Vision (10:1–11:1)
a. The Setting of the Vision (10:1-3)
b. The Messenger of the Vision (10:4-9)
c. The Hindrances to the Vision (10:10-13)
d. The Purposes of the Angelic Visit (10:14–11:1)
2. The Angel’s Explanation of the Vision of Persia, Greece, and the False Messiah (11:2–12:3)
a. The Predictions of the Persian to the Maccabean Periods (11:2-35)
(1) The Predictions about the Persian Kings (11:2)
(2) The Predictions about Alexander the Great (11:3-4)
(3) The Predictions of the Hellenistic Period (11:5-35)
(a) The Period of the First Seleucids and Ptolemies (11:5-6)
(b) The Period of Ptolemy III (11:7-9)
(c) The Period of Antiochus III (11:10-19)
(d) The Period of Seleucus IV (11:20)
(e) The Period of Antiochus IV (11:21-35)
b. The Predictions of the End of Days (11:36-45)
c. The Comfort of the Chosen People (12:1-3)
3. The Angel’s Final Instructions to Daniel Concerning His Prophecies (12:4-13)
a. The Sealing of the Book (12:4)
b. The Time of the End (12:5-13)