Daniel outline

An outline of prophetic book of Daniel

by

Greg Chiponda
under the Zunde project
www.zunde.za.org

27 December 2010

"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,

spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand),
then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains."
Jesus in Matt.24:15-16
About the Zunde project
The Zunde project was started by Greg Chiponda in December 2010. The vision of the Zunde project is
to disseminate the word of God to all corners of the world so that Jesus Christ our Lord may return a
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About the Author

Greg Chiponda is Seventh Day Adventist born in 1985 in the city of KweKwe in the Midlands province of
Zimbabwe, he home church is Kandodo SDA Church in Zvishavane in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe
Greg Chiponda is a Web Engineer at WebID a web technology company based in Pretoria, South Africa. He can
be found online on www.gregc.za.org
Daniel 1- Daniel in captivity
1. Characteristics of the Sacred Writings
2. Five Historical Facts
3. Prophecy of Jerusalem's Captivity
4. The Holy City Three Times Overthrown
5. God's Testimony against Sin
6. Condition and Treatment of Daniel and His Companions
7. Character of King Nebuchadnezzar
8. Signification of Pagan Names
9. Daniel's Integrity
10. The Result of His Experiment
11. Daniel Lives till the Time of Cyrus.

Daniel 2 -The great Image

1. A Difficulty Explained
2. Daniel Enters upon His Work
3. Who Were the Magicians?-Trouble between the King and the Wise Men-The Ingenuity of the
Magician-The King's Sentence against Them
4. Remarkable Providence of God -The Help Sought by Daniel-A Good Example - Daniel's
Magnanimity - A Natural Character-The Magicians Exposed
5. What the World Owes to the People of God
6. Appropriateness of the Symbol-A Sublime Chapter of Human History
7. Beginning of the Babylonian Kingdom
8. What is Meant by a Universal Kingdom
9. Description of Babylon
10. The Heavenly City
11. Babylon's Fall - Stratagem of Cyrus-Belshazzar's Impious Feast-Prophecy Fulfilled - Babylon
Reduced to Heaps
12. The Second Kingdom, Medo-Persia-Persian Kings, and Time of Their Reign - Persia's Last
King - Alexander the Great - His Contemptible Character
13. The Fourth Kingdom - The Testimony of Gibbon - Influences which Undermined Rome - A
False Theory Examined
14. What the Toes Signify - Rome Divided - Names of the Ten Divisions - Subsequent History -
God's Kingdom Still Future - Its Nature, Location, and Extent.

Daniel 3- The fiery ordeal

1. Nebuchadnezzar's Image vs. God's - Devotion of Idolaters
2. The Jews Accused - The King's Forbearance - The Fiery Furnace - Its Effect on the Chaldeans -
The Course of the Three Worthies - The Wonderful Deliverance - Its Effect on the King's Mind -
Integrity Honored.

Daniel 4 – Nebuchadnezzars decree

1. The Oldest Decree on Record - Humiliation Confessed - A Good Example
2. Nebuchadnezzar's Condition - God's Dealing with the King
3. The Magicians Humbled - A Remarkable Illustration - Mercy in Judgment
4. An Important Key to Prophetic Interpretation
5. Angels Interested in Human Affairs
6. The King's Acknowledgment - Daniel's Hesitation - His Delicate Answer to the King
7. Judgments Conditional - The Lesson Unheeded - The Blow Falls
8. The King's Restoration - The End Gained - Nebuchadnezzar's Death - Summary of His
Experience.

Daniel 5 – Belshazzar's Feast

1. Closing Scenes of Babylon's History - Celebration of the Conquest of Judea - The Sacred
Vessels Desecrated - God Interferes with the Revelry - The Phantom Hand
2. Change of Scene - Daniel Called
3. The Lesson to the King - The Writing Interpreted - The Fulfilment Follows

Daniel 6 – Daniel in the Lions den

1. Date of the Persian Kingdom - Cyrus Sole Ruler - Paul's Reference to Daniel's Experience -
Extent of the Persian Kingdom - A Fiendish Plot
2. Righteousness Daniel's only Fault - False Witness of the Conspirators - Daniel Undisturbed
3. The Decree Secured - The Victim Ensnared - The King's Dilemma - Daniel Cast into the Lions'
Den – His Wonderful Preservation
4. Fate of Daniel's Accusers - Daniel Doubly Vindicated - The King's Decree.

Daniel 7- The Four beasts

1. Chronological Connection - Rule of Scripture Interpretation
2. The Kingdoms Identical with Those of Daniel 2 - Why the Vision is Repeated
3. Change in Babylonish History - Deterioration of Earthly Governments
4. The Symbol of the Bear Explained-Grecia the Third Kingdom - Rapidity of Its Conquests
5. Signification of the Four Heads of the Leopard Beast
6. Signification of the Ten Horns
7. A Little Horn among the Ten - The Judgment Scene -Character of the Little Horn
8. Opposition of the Arians - The Three Horns Plucked Up - Millions of Martyrs - A Feeble
Defense - Paganism Outdone
9. Meaning of Time, Times, and a Half -Date of Papal Supremacy
10. Date of Papal Overthrow - Rome a Republic - The Power of the Papacy Waning in Its
Stronghold - A Later Judgment - The Ecumenical Council - Victor Emmanuel's United Italy
11. End of the Pope's Temporal Power - Its Coming Destruction.

Daniel 8- Vision of the Ram, He goat and the little horn

1. Change from Chaldaic to Hebrew -
2. Date of Belshazzar's Reign - Date of This Vision
3. Where was Shushan? - A Prophecy of Isaiah Fulfilled
4. The Angel Explains the Symbols -
5. How the Goat Represents the Grecians
6. Alexander the Great - Battle at the River Granicus
7. Battle at the Passes of Issus
8. The Great Battle of Arbela - Subversion of the Persian Kingdom, B.C.331
9. Alexander's Famous Reply to Darius - The World Will not Permit Two Suns nor Two
Sovereigns
10. Increase of Power - Alexander's Disgraceful Death - Division of the Kingdom -
11. The Roman Horn - How It Came out of One of the Horns of the Goat -
12. What is the "Daily"? - Two Desolating Powers Brought to View
13. When Oppression of the Saints Will End
14. The Sanctuary Explained - What the Cleansing of the Sanctuary
15. The King of Fierce Countenance
16. By What Means the Romans Prospered

Daniel 9- The Seventy weeks

1. The Short Time between the Visions -
2. Daniel's Understanding of Jeremiah's Prophecy -
3. Daniel's Wonderful Prayer
4. Gabriel again Appears - Vision of Chapter 8 Explained
5. Connection between Chapters Eight and Nine Established - The Time Explained -
6. The Seventy Weeks - The Meaning of "Cut Off" -
7. Date of the Seventy Weeks - The Decree of Cyrus - The Decree of Darius - The Decree of
Artaxerxes -
8. The Year 457 before Christ - Date of Christ's Baptism - Date of Christ's Crucifixion
9. Invention of the Christian Era - Intermediate Dates - Harmony Established - The Genuine
Reading - Ptolemy's Canon - The End of the 2300 Days.

Daniel 10-Daniels last vision

1. Time of Daniel's Various Visions
2. How Cyrus Became Sole Monarch
3. Daniel's Purpose in Seeking God - Scriptural Fasting
4. Another Appearance of the Angel Gabriel - The Effect upon Daniel -
5. Daniel's Age at This Time - The Answer to Prayer Sometimes not Immediately Apparent -
6. Who Michael Is - Daniel's Solicitude for His People -
7. The Relation of Christ and Gabriel to the King of Persia and the Prophet Daniel.

Daniel 11- A literal prophecy

1. Succession of Kings in Persia
2. The Rich King - The Largest Army ever Assembled in the World
3. Meaning of the Phrase "Stand Up"
4. Alexander in Eclipse - His Kingdom Divided among His Four Leading Generals
5. Location of the King of the North and the King of the South
6. Macedon and Thrace Annexed to Syria -The Syrian Kingdom Stronger than the Kingdom of
Egypt
7. Divorce and Marriage of Antiochus Theos
8. Laodice's Revenge - Berenice and Her Attendants Murdered
9. Ptolemy Euergetes Avenges the Death of His Sister
10. Syria Plundered - 2,500 Idols Carried to Egypt
11. Antiochus Magnus Avenges the Cause of His Father - Defeated by the Egyptians
12. Ptolemy Overcome by His Vices - Another Syrian Campaign against Egypt -
13. Rome Introduced - Syria and Macedonia Forced to Retire
14. Rome Assumes the Guardianship of the Egyptian King
15. The Egyptians Defeated - Antiochus Falls before the Romans
16. Syria Made a Roman Province
17. Judea Conquered by Pompey - Caesar in Egypt
18. Cleopatra's Stratagem - Caesar Triumphant - Veni, Vidi, Vici - Caesar's Death - Augustus
Caesar
19. The Triumvirate - The Augustan Age of Rome
20. The Birth of Our Lord - Tiberius, the Vile - Date of Christ's Baptism
21. Rome's League with the Jews - Caesar and Antony
22. The Battle of Actium - Final Overthrow of Jerusalem
23. What is Meant by Chittim - The Vandal War - The "Daily" Taken Away -
24. Justinian's Famous Decree - The Goths Driven from Rome - Long Triumph of the Papacy
25. The Atheistical King - The French Revolution of l793 - The Bishop of Paris Declares Himself
an Atheist -
26. France as a Nation Rebels against the Author of the Universe - The Marriage Covenant
Annulled - God Declared a Phantom, Christ an Impostor -
27. Blasphemy of a Priest of Illuminism - A Dissolute Female the Goddess of Reason -
28. Titles of Nobility Abolished - Their Estates Confiscated - The Land Divided for Gain
29. Termination of the Reign of Terror - Time of the End, l798 - Triple War between Egypt,
France, and Turkey
30. Napoleon's Dream of Eastern Glory - He Diverts the War from England to Egypt - His
Ambition Embraces all Historical Lands of the East -
31. Downfall of the Papacy - Embarkation from Toulon - Alexandria Taken - Battle of the
Pyramids
32. Turkey, the King of the North, Declares War against France -
33. Napoleon's Campaign in the Holy Land - Beaten at Acre - Retires to Egypt - Called back to
France - Egypt in the Power of Turkey
34. Tidings out of the East and North
35. The Crimean War of l853 - Predicted by Dr. Clarke from this Prophecy in 1825
36. The Sick Man of the East
37. Russia's Long-Cherished Dream - The Last Will and Testament of Peter the Great -
38. Startling Facts in Russian History
39. The Prophecy of Napoleon Bonaparte - Kossuth's Prediction
40. Russia's Defiant Attitude in 1870 - The Russo-Turkish War of l877 -
41. The Berlin Congress - Turkey Bankrupt - The Whole Empire Mortgaged to the Czar
42. Wonderful Shrinkage of Turkish Territory - The Revolution in Turkey -

Daniel 12- Closing scenes

1. The Reign of Christ - The Grand Signal of Its Approach -
2. The Time of Trouble - The Resurrection - The Key to the Future -
3. Some to Life, Some to Shame - Promised Rewards of the Coming Day
4. The Sealed Book Opened - Knowledge Wonderfully Increased
5. The Progress of a Thousand Years Made in Fifty
6. The Wise Understand - Daniel Stands in His Lot.