Tag: 4th Quarter 2004

Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Dec 18-24 Background Considerations: Chapter 12 of Daniel contains the last revelation that was given to him. Several interesting parallels may be drawn between his life and career and...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Dec 11-24 Background Considerations: Many students of the Bible consider Daniel 11 to be one of the most difficult chapters in the Bible. The chapter is unusually long, full...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Dec 11-17 Background Considerations: This chapter is dated to the third year of King Cyrus or 536 BC. The first exiles have already returned to Palestine because of the...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Dec 4-10 Background Considerations: The chapter is dated to the year 538 BC when the world was ruled by a new empire, the Medo-Persian. Following Babylon’s fall there were...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Nov 20-Dec 3 Background Considerations: Daniel chapter eight dates to the third year of Belshazzar, or 547 BC, two years after the date of the vision from chapter seven....

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Nov 6-19 Background Considerations: Daniel has a vision in which he sees four wild beasts rising out of the ocean. Three have identifiable forms, while the fourth is a...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 30-Nov 5 Background Considerations: The story recorded in chapter six of Daniel has many parallels with the story from chapter three at the levels of structure, vocabulary and...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 23-29 Background Considerations: Chapter five in Daniel contains a story that is closely related to the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. In fact, this is the only place...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 16-22 Background Considerations: This chapter contains an open letter from the king with a long confession of a personal experience and praises to God in the style of...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 9-15 Background Considerations: Background Considerations Unlike the previous chapter, this one is not dated even though we can safely assume that it also comes from the first phase...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Oct 2-8 Background Considerations: The event of his chapter is dated in the second year of King Nebuchadnezzar, or 602 BC. Historians refer to this king in the first...

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Corresponds with Sabbath School Study Guide: Sep 25 – Oct 1 Background Considerations: The story of this week finds young Daniel marching as captive on one of the dusty roads from Jerusalem to Babylon. Babylonian...

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Does not correspond with Sabbath School Study Guide Background Considerations: The exact time of Daniel’s birth is not known, but many students of the Bible believe that it was around 622 BC during one of...

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