Since foreknowledge is supernatural, there can, therefore, be no foretelling, no prophesying. These critics, as well as present–day unbelievers, assume the premise that the supernatural does not exist. Driver, developed this type of criticism of the book. The German critics seized upon this hypothesis and, along with Dr. That would place its writing around 170 B.C., almost four hundred years after Daniel lived. declared that the Book of Daniel was a forgery written during the time of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabees. ![]() Porphyry, a heretic in the third century A.D. The Book of Daniel has been a battlefield between conservative and liberal scholars for years, and much of the controversy has had to do with the dating of the writing of the book. Both of these prophecies are very important in Scripture and have been especially attacked by unbelievers. Isaiah has been called the prince of the prophets, and I would like to say that Daniel, then, is the king of the prophets. The Book of Daniel is a very important one, and it has therefore been the object of special attack by Satan in the same way that the Book of Isaiah has been. The Book of Daniel, particularly, is the subject of many such sensational writers on prophecy. And those who do go into the study of prophecy often come up with that which is sensational and fanatical. They dismiss it with a wave of the hand as being unimportant. ![]() As a result, we find men in a great many of our denominations today who are ill–equipped to speak on prophecy. The author, knowing that he has not such qualifications for the work, purposes to confine himself in a great measure to a historical survey of the different schemes of interpreting the Scriptures prophetically.” That certainly was a startling and sad admission on the part of Dr. This task cannot be satisfactorily accomplished by anyone who has not made a study of the prophecies a specialty. Charles Hodge, a great theologian at Princeton in the past, made this statement: “The subject cannot be adequately discussed without taking a survey of all the prophetic teachings of Scripture both of the Old Testament and of the New. This is largely because the teaching of prophecy has been neglected by the great denominations. Many of the cults have gone off the track in prophetic areas. The neglect of the study of prophecy has produced certain harmful results which I think are quite evident today. I do not believe that one can have a full–orbed view of the Bible or be a well–rounded student of Scripture without a knowledge of eschatology, or prophecy. These are the great subjects of prophecy. Then, of course, there are the subjects of the Kingdom, the Millennium, and eternity future. The church is also a subject of prophecy however, the church is never mentioned in the Old Testament, and therefore there will be no reference to it in the Book of Daniel. Other topics include Israel, the gentile nations, evil, Satan, the Man of Sin, the Great Tribulation period, and how this age will end. ![]() The main subject of prophecy is the Lord Jesus Christ. They are like planes flying into an airport from all sections of the world, and you can go to the Book of Revelation and see all these great subjects brought to a final fruition. There are certain great subjects of prophecy. We will find a great deal of fulfilled prophecy in Daniel. Therefore, the prophecy in Scripture can be divided into fulfilled and unfulfilled prophecy. One fifth of the content of Scripture was predictive at the time of its writing a large segment of that has been fulfilled. One fourth of the books in the Bible are of prophetic nature the subject and statement of the books are eschatological, that is, they deal with prophecy. Because prophecy bulks large in the Bible, I would like to say a word about it before we look at the Book of Daniel specifically. The Book of Daniel is one of the most thrilling books in the Bible, and it is, of course, a book on prophecy.
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