DANIEL

CHAPTER 1: DANIEL’S TRAINING IN BABYLON

• After Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon has conquers Judah. He orders several of the young Jews to be brought into his court for training.
• After being served some of the royal food and wine, Daniel one of the Jews protests that he thinks they should strictly be eating vegetables and drinking water.
• The court official supervising their training decides to listen and test Daniel’s suggestion on him and his friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. After 10 days he finds that the Jews who strictly eat vegetables and water are healthier then those eating the royal food and wine.
• At the end of the training Daniel and the other Jews were far superior in skill than the rest of the trainees.

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CHAPTER 2: DANIEL BECOMES AN ADVISOR

• Nebuchadnezzar has dreams and summons his advisors to interpret the dreams. He says if they cannot he will kill them but if they can he will make them rich. The advisors say only the Gods can interpret his dreams so Nebuchadnezzar sentences them to death.
• Daniel hears of this and intervenes telling the King he can interpret the dream.
• After Daniel interprets the dream the King makes him an advisor in his court, and gives his friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego high positions as well.

CHAPTER 3: JEWS DENOUNCE FALSE IDOLS

• Nebuchadnezzar builds a gold idol and orders all his officials to bow before it, and those who do not will be thrown into the furnace. But the Jews Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego do not.
• Nebuchadnezzar is furious and throws them into a furnace, however they don’t burn.
• Nebuchadnezzar then praises the Lord and reveres him. He then promotes Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego t o higher positions in his government.

CHAPTER 4: NEBUCHADNEZZAR ACCEPTS GOD

• Nebuchadnezzar has another dream, and calls on Daniel to interpret it.
• Daniel interprets and tells the King that his Kingdom will be taken away from him until he accepts the one true God, repents from his Sin and treats the people justly.
• Within a year these things come to pass. When Nebuchadnezzar repents and accepts the Lord he his returned to his throne with even greater power then before.

CHAPTER 5: THE WRITING ON THE WALL

• Some time later Nebuchadnezzar’s Son Belshazzar comes to power. While having a banquet a hand appears and starts writing on the wall. Belshazzar is horrified and calls upon all his advisors to help him read the writing but none of them can.
• Then his wife calls upon Daniel, to interpret the writing. Daniel comes and reads it and tells the King he has to repent from his sins and humble himself before the Lord. The King then promotes Daniel to the third highest position in the Kingdom.
• Later that night Belshazzar is murdered and King Darius of Persia takes over the Kingdom.

CHAPTER 6: THE LION’S DEN

• King Darius appoints 120 governors to rule over his Kingdom, with three administrators above them. Daniel was chosen to be one of the three.
• Over time due to his skill and success King Cyrus plans to give Daniel power over all the Kingdom. Because of this the other governors and administrators conspire against Daniel. They make a plan to turn Cyrus against him by having Cyrus issue a law that requires everyone in the Kingdom to strictly worship him.
• Daniel refuses to do this, so the governors pressure Cyrus to arrest him. Cyrus is saddened but decides to enforce the law and throws Daniel into a den of Lions. Cyrus prays that his God will protect him.
• The next morning when Cyrus returns he finds Daniel still alive. So he takes him out of the den and throws the governors who conspired against Daniel in.

CHAPTER 7: DANIELS VISION

• Daniel has a vison of several Kingdoms ruling over the Earth, but a eventually a single Kingdom ruled by saints of the most high establishing itself and lasting forever.

CHAPTER 8: ANOTHER VISION

• Daniel has a vision of a Ram with two horns and a Goat that attacks it. The Goat has one horn that is very large but then it breaks off and becomes four horns.
• A angel named Gabriel interprets the vision, and tells Daniel that the two horned Ram represents the Kingdoms of Persia and Media. The Goat represents a Kingdom from Greece that attacks the Persians. The single horn represents the first King and the four horns represent four Kings that replace him.

CHAPTER 9: DANIEL PRAYS

• Daniel prays to the Lord.
• The angel Gabriel comes and talks him about rebuilding Jerusalem and the end times.

CHAPTER 10: ANOTHER VISION

• While at the Tigris river Daniel has another vision, and a man appears to him and tells him a prince from Greece will come and attack the price from Persia.

CHAPTER 11: ANOTHER VISIONS

• Daniel has a vision of several Kings in Persia. They eventually go to war with Greece.
• Another rule will rise. But his Kingdom will be broken up into multiple other kingdoms. Those Kingdoms will war amongst eachother.

CHAPTER 12: SAME VISION CONTINUED

• The man tells Daniel about the end times, and instructs him to hide this scroll until then, and that he will receive his inheritance.