Daniel 7:9-14

The first six chapters of Daniel is a chronology of events which transpired over a seventy year period that serves as a record of the workings of God in Daniel’s life. Chapters 7 through 12 is also a chronology. It consists of prophecies which the Lord gave to Daniel beginning in the first year of Belshazzar and extending through the third year of Cyrus king of Persia. Secular historians date Belshazzar’s reign to be from 553 B.C to 539 B.C.