Daniel study section
Daniel related passages
Daniel’s Son of Man, everlasting kingdom, and resurrection are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Within the Bible
- Previous: Ezekiel prophesied among the exiles about God’s glory and restoration; Daniel, a contemporary in the royal court, reveals God’s sovereignty over the very empires that hold His people captive.
- Next: Hosea opens the Minor Prophets, returning to the earlier days of the northern kingdom and God’s persistent love for an unfaithful people.
- Thematic Connections:
- Revelation - The New Testament apocalypse that draws heavily on Daniel’s beasts, Son of Man, and visions of the end.
- Mark 13-14; Matthew 24 - Jesus’ teaching on the end and His trial, quoting Daniel 7’s Son of Man coming with the clouds.
- Jeremiah 25; 29 - The seventy years of exile that Daniel prays over in chapter 9.
Cross-Testament Connections
Daniel’s visions are fulfilled in Christ:
- The Son of Man: The heavenly figure who receives an everlasting kingdom (7:13-14) is fulfilled in Jesus, “the Son of Man,” who applied the vision to Himself (Mark 14:62; Matthew 26:64).
- The everlasting kingdom: The stone that fills the earth and the kingdom that shall never be destroyed are Christ’s kingdom, which crushes all rivals and endures forever (Daniel 2:44; Luke 1:33).
- Atonement for iniquity: The seventy-weeks prophecy of an “anointed one” cut off to atone for sin points to the death of Christ (Daniel 9:24-26; Romans 3:25).
- God with His people in the fire: The fourth figure in the furnace foreshadows God’s saving presence with His suffering people, fulfilled in Christ, “God with us” (Daniel 3:25; Matthew 1:23).
- The resurrection: Daniel’s promise that the dead will awake to everlasting life is fulfilled in the risen Christ, the firstfruits of the resurrection (Daniel 12:2; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23).
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