Introduction
C. Daniel’s most detailed vision of the future chs. 10-12
We have observed that God’s method of revealing what He wanted Daniel to know and to communicate about the future follows good pedagogy. God first gave the prophet a general picture of the future, first about humanity generally and then about Israel. Then, after Daniel had had time to think about what God had told him, He filled in more detail. In other words, God went from the known to the unknown in teaching Daniel these things. In this final vision of the book, we have even more detail about the future, particularly about Israel’s future.
"There is hardly anything in the Bible that is just like these chapters, especially like chapter 11. The word, the vision, and minute prediction are combined in a manner that is found nowhere else in the Scriptures." [Note: Leupold, p. 441.]
The first chapter (ch. 10) and Daniel 10:1 of chapter 11 introduce the vision that follows. There are two parts to this vision: the immediate future from Darius through Antiochus (Daniel 11:2-35); and the distant future, namely: the seventieth seven (Daniel 9:27), or the Tribulation Period (Daniel 11:36 to Daniel 12:4). The rest of chapter 12 provides a conclusion to this revelation.
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