10 Interesting Facts About The Old Testament

10. Daniel Predicted the Empires of World History

Daniel was a Jewish prophet in the Old Testament famous for miraculously escaping the lions den. He was also famous for his ability to interpret dreams and predict the future. Daniel could be rightly called, "the Empire Predicting Prophet" because of his accuracy in predicting the 4 world empires of history, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Daniel was a Hebrew prophet who was captured and deported to the land of Babylon during the first Babylonian captivity in 607 BC. During this time King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had a dream and God revealed to Daniel through this dream the empires that would rise to power in world history. At that time Babylon ruled the ancient world. Daniel saw in the dream that Babylon would be defeated by the Medes and the Persians, who would be the new rulers of the world. After this the king of Greece would come and conquer the world, like a leopard quickly springing upon its prey. Later God revealed to Daniel that the Romans would become the next rulers of the world. But there would not be another world empire until far in the future when a final world governing empire would rise that would be another Roman Empire, but different in that it would consist of ten kings, and then finally one king who would rise to power. This one king would be a man referred to in the Bible as the antichrist. All of this would take place in the final seven-year period known as the 70th week of Daniel, which ends with the coming of the Son of Man (Jesus Christ) to set up his kingdom. The dream revealed a small stone that crushed every kingdom and grew into a mountain that would fill the whole earth. According to Daniel the final world empire will be the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, "an everlasting kingdom, which will never be destroyed."

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Also see Summary of the Book of Daniel

The Son of Man will Come to set up his Kingdom

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