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Lesson Summary:

Daniel receives the interpretation of the final vision: the timeline of events from Persia to the Antichrist and the time of the end.

Focus Passage: Daniel 11:2-45.

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Outline and Lesson Goal

Context of Daniel Chapter 11

Principles and Applications

I. The Ram and the Goat Revisited: Ahasuerus and Alexander (Daniel 11:2-4)

Principle: We can trust God’s Word because it is consistent.
Application: What encouragement do you receive from the consistency of God’s Word?
Scripture Reference

Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.
Psalm 119:89

II. North and South (Daniel 11:5-20)

Principle: We can trust God’s Word because is accurate and it endures forever.
Application: What encouragement do you receive from the accuracy and endurance of God’s Word?
Scripture Reference

The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8

III. The Madman: Antiochus Ephipanes (Daniel 11:21-35)

Principle: God works through the faithful remnant who know Him and know the truth.
Application: What encouragement do you receive from the examples of faithful people in God’s Word?
Scripture Reference

23 Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;
24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:23-24

IV. The Last King: Antichrist and the Time of the End (Daniel 11:36-45)

Principle: God’s Word is full of promises and hope for those who know God.
Application: What encouragement do you receive from the promises in God’s Word?
Scripture Reference

For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:4