9:1–27 Daniel’s remarkable prayer and the Messianic prophecy of the seventy sevens. 10:1–12:13 A revelation of the future dealing with the exploits of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Antichrist.

In a later vision, in Daniel 9, Daniel is meditating on the Book of Jeremiah, which described among other things the destruction of Jerusalem. Daniel devoutly confesses and regrets the sins of his ...

Daniel and his friends resisted the king’s table, Seow says, as a tangible expression of their reliance on God’s power instead of the king’s. “They needed to establish their own identity.