Daniel

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to return a word to you on this. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

— Daniel 3:16-18 (KJ3)

"But if not" — Faith that doesn't demand deliverance but trusts God regardless.

And when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he went to his house. And his windows were open in his upper room toward Jerusalem. And three times in the day he was kneeling on his knees and praying, and praising before his God, even as he had done before.

— Daniel 6:10 (KJ3)

Daniel's consistent faithfulness in prayer sustained him when crisis came.

In that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

— Daniel 5:5 (KJ3)

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN — Numbered, Weighed, Divided. Babylon fell that very night.

I was looking in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man was coming with the clouds of Heaven. And He came to the Ancient of Days. And they brought Him near before Him. And dominion and glory and a kingdom were given to Him, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.

— Daniel 7:13-14 (KJ3)

The divine Son of Man receives an everlasting kingdom—Jesus' favorite self-title.

The ram which you saw with two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the shaggy goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

— Daniel 8:20-21 (KJ3)

The only Old Testament prophecy that explicitly names future empires.

And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

— Daniel 12:2-3 (KJ3)

Clear teaching on bodily resurrection and eternal rewards.

Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

— Daniel 9:24 (KJ3)

Six goals of the seventy weeks—all pointing to the Messiah's work.

And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

— Daniel 9:26 (KJ3)

"Cut off" — a violent, substitutionary death. Fulfilled in Christ's crucifixion.

Know then and understand, that from the going forth of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.

— Daniel 9:25 (KJ3)

From the decree (445 BC) to Christ's triumphal entry—precisely 483 years!