Today's class covered the prophet Daniel. We looked at the overall structure of Daniel (1–6 the historical narratives, 7–12 the apocalyptic prophecies), and then chapters 1–6 and a bit of chapter 7. There is a powerful revelation of Christ in chapter 2, where we see Christ as the "rock" who will destroy all kingdoms of the earth and establish a kingdom for his people that will last forever. And then we see Christ as "one like a Son of Man" (Dan 7:13–14) who appears "coming with the clouds of heaven" and receiving an eternal kingdom from "the Ancient of Days." Christ refers to himself often as "the Son of Man" in the gospels, and this points directly back to Daniel 7:13–14. We also saw in Daniel some powerful examples of faithfulness in the face of all manner of testing and even death. 

Daniel