In most college classes and some high school classes you were furnished a syllabus on the first day. The syllabus laid out the entire course of study including all the assignments. One common feature was a list of prerequisite reading. The student was expected to read certain material before coming to the first lecture or be at a serious disadvantage. Next week we will begin Jesus’ great sermon preached from the Mt. of Olives called “The Olivet Discourse.” This sermon begins with Jesus’ disciples questioning him about the end-times. To get the most out of this great teaching, there is a prerequisite. We need to familiarize ourselves with several prophecies in the Book of Daniel culminating in the final chapter. Jesus quotes Daniel and makes it clear that the events he speaks of were already addressed by Daniel. The Book of Daniel is the Rosetta Stone for understanding Matthew 24-25. This is prerequisite study that the disciples would have done in their synagogue studies. Jesus will draw upon this knowledge and further explain God’s great mysteries concerning the future.

1. Daniel’s Discourse

2. Daniel 12:1-4
Troubled Times and
Contrasting Outcomes

3. Key Teachings
•The Significance of Michael
•The names written in “The Book”
•The two “contrasting” outcomes

4. Daniel 12:5-13
Broad Questions and
Confusing Answers
When? What?

5. Daniel 12:5-8a
Broad Questions and
Confusing Answers
When?

6. The Angels

8. 1 Week of Years = 7 years
•Solar Month: 28, 29, 30 or 31 days
•Lunar Month: 28 Days
•Prophetic Month (Moed): 30 Days
•Time = 360 days
•Times = 360 x 2 = 720 days
•Half a Time = 180 days
Total = 1260 days/ 3½ yrs.

9. Daniel 12:8b-13
Broad Questions and
Confusing Answers
What?

10. What will be the outcome?
•The answer will become clearer
when the events are closer!

11. What will be the outcome?
• The answer will become clearer when
the events are closer!
•The distance between the good
and the evil will grow!

12. What will be the outcome?
• The answer will become clearer when the
events are closer!
•The distance between the good and
the evil will grow!
•Blessing will come to those
who persevere!

13. Matthew 24:3
As he sat on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to him privately,
saying, “Tell us, when will these
things be, and what will be the sign
of your coming and of the end of
the age?”

14. Daniel’s Discourse