When Daniel lived as a prophet in Babylon from 605 B.C. to about 530 B.C., God gave him a series of prophecies that outline the future of the Gentile world as well as the future of Israel. Daniel was given the dual revelation of God’s program for Israel, culminating in Christ’s second coming, and God’s program for the Gentile empires of the world, likewise culminating in Christ’s second coming. This was a more far-reaching description of the future than that given by other prophets. Daniel came on the scene after two great empires, Egypt and Assyria, had come and gone. Through the prophet Daniel, God revealed that there would be four additional great empires—Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. The scope of the prophecies reaches all the way to Christ’s second coming. They give no details of the present age between Pentecost and the rapture. Rather they tell of the seven years preceding the Second Coming and describe the finale for Gentile power in world government. These prophecies are very important in understanding God’s plans for the future.
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