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 The following PDF files are designed as handouts for Sunday School programs taking the fascinating journey through the book of Daniel.
These files require Adobe Reader version 4 or higher, available as a free download from Adobe Systems.
- Introduction (473Kb)
- A look at the historical setting of events leading up to the start of Daniel's account, including the activities of the remaining kings of Judah while Daniel was in Babylon.
- Chapter 1 (215Kb)
- Daniel arrives in Babylon as a young man. He and his friends Shadrach Meshach and Abednego set themselves apart from the crowd with a commitment from the heart.
- Chapter 2 (252Kb)
- King Nebuchadnezzar has a troubling dream. Only Daniel is able to interpret it with God's help.
- Chapter 3 (257Kb)
- Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are asked to conform to the patterns of the world or face a fiery death.
- Chapter 4 (249Kb)
- A chapter in the venerated Jewish Scriptures written by the king of a pagan nation. Not just any king, but the one who burned down the temple, detroyed the city of Jerusalem and took its people captive.
- Chapter 5 (220Kb)
- God's kingdom stands forever unchanged, but man's kingdoms fall in the twinkling of an eye. As Belshazzar throws a defiant party, Cyrus of Persia quietly enters the city and overthrows the Chaldean empire.
- Chapter 6 (219Kb)
- Daniel is thrust into a place where political correctness means he must not show allegiance to his God. The penalty is death.
- Chapter 7 (231Kb)
- Daniel is given the same vision that was given to Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 2, only this time we see these kingdoms from God's point of view as a series of voracious beasts rather than the statue of a man.
- Chapter 8 (224Kb)
- Greece and Persia at war, in a detailed account written 200 years before the events they describe took place.
- Chapter 9 (217Kb)
- One of the most astonishing chapters in the Bible, Daniel 9 includes a mathematical prophecy about the coming Messiah that could easily have been tracked and anticipated to the very day.
- Chapter 10 (223Kb)
- One of the spookiest chapters in the Bible, this is a look at the spiritual battles that rage around us constantly, invisible to mortal human eyes yet every bit as real as the tangible things.
- Chapter 11 (257Kb)
- Incredibly detailed prophecies about future battles between Seleucus and Ptolemy, so precise that critics have no options but to argue that they must have been written after the fact.
- Chapter 12 (212Kb)
- A detailed look at the events surrounding the last days before the return of the Messiah.
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