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You can find many stories on the Internet or in the pages of church history about “prophets” who claimed to know when Jesus would return or when the end of the world would come. So far, they have all been wrong! God has revealed enough about the future so that we have confidence in his wisdom,

While Daniel was praying, an angel came to him, interrupted his prayer and gave him a message. He also explained why Daniel had waited three weeks for God’s response to his prayer. For just a moment, the curtain is removed between our visible world and the invisible world of angels and demons.

The conquest of Babylon by the Medes and the Persians was no surprise to Daniel. God had already revealed that the head of gold would be replaced by the chest and arms of silver (chapter 2) and that the bear would conquer the lion (chapter 7). What arrests Daniel’s attention is a prophecy

Daniel’s vision of the future gets very personal beginning in chapter 8. The first seven chapters stressed the destinies of the Gentile (non-Jewish) world powers. In chapters 8–12 the emphasis is on the destiny of Israel, Daniel’s own people.

The prophets of the Bible were given amazing glimpses of the future from God’s perspective . The vision Daniel receives in chapter 7 starts as a terrifying dream.