the Empowered School
The Book of Daniel
14 lessons through the book of Daniel — the narratives as prophecy acted out in advance, and the visions chapter by chapter to the time of the end.
Purpose
To equip you to teach the whole book.
The method: Teaching you to teach others: simplify, big picture, juice — and never a chapter lifted out of the book it belongs to. Every week you find one student of your own and teach them what you have just learned. You keep a short log of it.
To graduate: Teach a small-group class on the book of Daniel, or on one chapter of it. Every weekly assignment builds toward it: each week you find a student of your own and teach them what you have just learned.
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Syllabus
The 14 lesson plates
How to Read Daniel
The shape of the book: narratives 1–6, visions 7–12, repeat-and-enlarge, and Daniel's five visions in five words.
Enrol to openDaniel 1 — Babylon's Table
Babylon does not begin with a decree. It begins with a menu and a new name.
Enrol to openDaniel 2 — The Trailer
The whole of history in one statue — and the only kingdom that no one builds.
Enrol to openDaniel 3 — The Image on the Plain
An image, a liturgy, a death decree, and a delivered remnant — the complete type of the last crisis.
Enrol to openDaniel 4 — The Tree Cut Down
Is not this great Babylon, that I have built — the sentence that runs from Babel to Revelation 18.
Enrol to openDaniel 5 — The Fall of Babylon
One night in 539 BC gives Revelation 16–18 its entire vocabulary.
Enrol to openDaniel 6 — The Death Decree Against Prayer
A law that touches nothing but worship, aimed at a man they cannot fault in anything else.
Enrol to openDaniel 7 — The Beasts and the Court
Four beasts, a little horn with eight marks, 1260 years, and a courtroom that sits in heaven.
Enrol to openDaniel 8 — The Sanctuary Attacked
The vision that narrows history down to one question: what happens to the sanctuary?
Enrol to openDaniel 9 — Seventy Weeks
One decree, four candidates, and a timeline that arrives at a baptism, a cross and a stoning.
Enrol to openDaniel 10 — Behind the Veil
The curtain is pulled back: history has a second story, and prayer is heard in it from the first day.
Enrol to openDaniel 11, Part I — The Long War
Kings unnamed in Scripture, named in the pagan chronicles — Persia, Greece, the Ptolemies and Seleucids, Rome, and the 1260 in royal chronicle.
Refreshed against the owner's dated Daniel 11 teaching; the newer ruling governs earlier presentations.
Enrol to openDaniel 11, Part II — The Time of the End
The one verse that holds the sixth era of Revelation 17: the south pushes, the north answers like a whirlwind.
Refreshed against the owner's dated Daniel 11 teaching; the newer ruling governs earlier presentations.
Enrol to openDaniel 12 — Michael Stands Up
Why standing is the most solemn verb in the book — and the charge to go and teach it.
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Live Q&A with the instructor
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Schedule to be announced — the owner will set the weekly time.