9 - Prophecy

1. Why does God tell us His plans in advance?

"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe" John 14:29

2. Who is one prophet Jesus said we ought to understand?

"Daniel" Matthew 24:15

3. In the second chapter of Daniel, why was King Nebuchadnezzar troubled?

"The king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream" Daniel 2:3

4. What did he ask the wise men to show him?

"The dream, and the interpretation" Daniel 2:6

5. Who had given him this dream?

"God" Daniel 2:28

6. What was the dream to reveal?

"What shall come to pass" Daniel 2:29

7. What did Nebuchadnezzar see in his dream?

"A great image" Daniel 2:31

8. Of what was the image made?

"This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay" Daniel 2:32, 33

9. What did Daniel tell the king the image’s head represented?

"Thou art this head of gold" Daniel 2:36-38

10. What nation did Nebuchadnezzar represent?

"Babylon" Daniel 1:1

11. According to the interpretation, what would arise after Nebuchadnezzar’s golden kingdom?

"Another kingdom" Daniel 2:39

12. When Babylon did fall, what two nations, symbolized by the image’s silver breast and arms, shared world rulership?

"The Medes and Persians" Daniel 5:28

13. By what animal is Medo-Persia symbolized in Chapter 8?

"A ram" Daniel 8:3, 4, 20

14. What animal smote the ram?

"An he goat" Daniel 8:5-7

15. What nation does this goat represent, which would conquer Medo-Persia?

"Grecia" Daniel 8:21

16. Like the others, how extensively, figuratively, would this third kingdom rule?

"Over all the earth" Daniel 2:39

17. When the first king of Grecia fell, the kingdom would be divided into how many parts?

"Four" Daniel 8:8, 21, 22

After the death of Alexander the Great, the territory he conquered was divided into four smaller kingdoms.

18. What then came forth?

"A little horn" Daniel 8:9

19. What kind of king was represented by this little horn?

"A king of fierce countenance" Daniel 8:23

This last kingdom to rule the world was the Roman empire.

20. The ram was "great" (verse 4), the goat was "very great" (verse 8). How did the little horn compare with them?

"Exceeding great" Daniel 8:9

21. From its point of origin, what directions did this kingdom spread?

"Toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land" Daniel 8:9

22. According to Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, this fourth kingdom would be as strong as what metal?

"Iron" Daniel 2:40

23. What would then happen to this kingdom?

"The kingdom shall be divided" Daniel 2:41

Rome eventually succumbed to the invasions of barbarian tribes that eventually became the modern nations of Europe.

24. How does the prophecy describe the attempts of later kings to unite themselves?

"They shall mingle themselves with the seed of men" Daniel 2:42, 43

25. What prophetic statement has prevented modern kings from uniting under one world government?

"They shall not cleave one to another" Daniel 2:43

26. When will God set up His eternal kingdom?

"In the days of these kings" Daniel 2:44

27. What will God’s kingdom do to the kingdoms of men?

"Break in pieces and consume" Daniel 2:44

28. What represented God’s kingdom in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream?

"The stone" Daniel 2:45

29. What did Daniel say about the certainty of the dream and its interpretation?

"The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure" Daniel 2:45