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Daniel and Revelation: Complete Prophecy Timeline

Daniel and Revelation trace kingdoms, conflict over worship, judgment, and Christ’s victory. Compare their visions with the Bible in context. Historical identifications require interpretation; the prophetic periods overlap, and future events are not assigned dates.

Kingdoms of prophecy

The head of gold (Daniel 2) and the lion (Daniel 7).
Historical note: Daniel himself identifies Babylon (2:38).

The Messiah

Prophetic periods

The judgment hour

Final events

Eternity

How Seventh-day Adventists Understand This

This timeline presents a historicist Seventh-day Adventist understanding of the kingdoms, overlapping time prophecies, 1844 heavenly judgment, final worship crisis, and millennium. Later identifications, the ordering of final events, and the understanding of final punishment differ among Christians. No date is assigned to Christ’s return.

Follow the Lamb, not fear

Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8–10). No date is set for His return (Matthew 24:36).

Open the Bible. Read the context. Compare Scripture with Scripture. Examine the evidence. Test every conclusion. Follow Jesus.

The great time prophecies

7 weeks

457–408 BC

62 weeks

408 BC – AD 27

1 week

AD 27–34 · cross AD 31

70 weeks = 490 years (Daniel 9:24–27). No year zero between 1 BC and AD 1.

490 years

457 BC – AD 34

1,810 years

AD 34 – 1844

Historic Adventist reading: the 70 weeks are cut off from the start of the 2,300 years (Daniel 8:14; 9:24).

1,260 years

AD 538 – 1798

Time, times, and half a time = 42 months = 1,260 days.

Second Coming

Righteous raised

1,000 years

Earth desolate

Final judgment

Second death

New earth

Revelation 21

The Adventist sequence of Revelation 20.

Daniel and Revelation parallels

In the historicist reading presented here, the visions repeat and enlarge their themes.

Daniel 2	Babylon	Medo-Persia	Greece	Rome	Divided Rome	God's Kingdom
Daniel 7	Lion	Bear	Leopard	Fourth Beast	Ten Horns · Little Horn	Judgment · Kingdom
Daniel 8	—	Ram (Medo-Persia)	Goat (Greece)	Little Horn	Sanctuary	2,300 Days
Revelation 12–14	Dragon	Sea Beast	Earth Beast	Image · Mark	Three Angels	Harvest