Studies on the Book of Daniel; A Course of Lectures

by John Nelson Darby

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... NINTH LECTURE. Chap. XII, 2--13. In reading this chapter, one is struck with the particular character of the book, and more especially, with the care which God evinces to comfort, or rather to shew the most entire sympathy with the remnant, in the afflicting circumstances in which they are found. It is certain that Daniel still remained in captivity at Babylon, (which, indeed, it appears he never left, ) when the remnant had returned to Jerusalem. So that typically he far more represents the state of the people in captivity under the Gentiles, than the prophet of the people, when God was acknowledging them. (/") It is quite true that the remnant will escape at last; but this Daniel saw afar off. He represents specially the suffering remnant, and the sympathies of God with them. We find in other prophets, as Isaiah and Zechariah, magnificent promises for this remnant to whom the Lord will reveal Himself, when Christ has appeared: He shall make " the house of Judea as his (/) It is worthy of remark, that in the prophets of the first captivity, God by the Spirit, never calls Israel " my people: " He declares they shall be, and the Spirit remains among them as when they came up out of Egypt; but " 1/oammi" remains unrecalled. goodly horse in the battle," and "he that is feeble among them shall be as David." Zech. x, 3; xii, 8. There we see the power of God in manifestation among the people at Jerusalem; but it is not so in Daniel. The last thing we see here relative to Jerusalem, is that the king of the north " plants his tabernacles in the glorious holy mountain." There is no detail in this book of the subsequent full and remarkable deliverance; but it is rather occupied with the Jewish remnant in the land, beaten by the tempest of the...

36 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2008

About the author

John Nelson Darby (18 November 1800 – 29 April 1882) was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism ("the Rapture" in the English vernacular). Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren,[1] and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.[2]

He produced a translation of the Bible based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby.