The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Daniel 8:15-16, 26-27,
"While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. And I heard a man's voice from the Ulai calling, 'Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.' ... 'seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.' I, Daniel, was worn out. I lay exhausted for several days. Then I got up and went about the king's business. I was appalled by the vision; it was beyond understanding."
"While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. And I heard a man's voice from the Ulai calling, 'Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.' ... 'seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.' I, Daniel, was worn out. I lay exhausted for several days. Then I got up and went about the king's business. I was appalled by the vision; it was beyond understanding."
Daniel had a vision (prior to the account in chapter five, about the hand writing on the wall), that concluded with someone calling the angel Gabriel to explain it to him. The vision included details of things to come, beginning with the kings of Media and Persia, and on to Alexander the Great, his four successor generals, and Antiochus Epiphanes.
It is no wonder the book of Daniel has had such opposition from unbelievers (so called "scholars"). Here we have a conversation that takes place between an angel and a man, Gabriel and Daniel! Think about that for a minute... where the things of heaven are cloaked from those of us "living under the sun" (using a description from Ecclesiastes), heaven and earth meet between these two.
A nexus, a bridge, that, if accepted, requires one to embrace the realities of heaven, our Creator God, angels, the Son of God come to earth, the foretelling of events on earth in sacred literature, the gospel message itself.
It is no wonder the book of Daniel has had such opposition from unbelievers (so called "scholars"). Here we have a conversation that takes place between an angel and a man, Gabriel and Daniel! Think about that for a minute... where the things of heaven are cloaked from those of us "living under the sun" (using a description from Ecclesiastes), heaven and earth meet between these two.
A nexus, a bridge, that, if accepted, requires one to embrace the realities of heaven, our Creator God, angels, the Son of God come to earth, the foretelling of events on earth in sacred literature, the gospel message itself.
The rejection of the book of Daniel is an absolute requirement for those who pretend God does not exist! On the other hand, the book of Daniel is yet another of many reasons why those of us who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are vindicated.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
Trevor Fisk
trevor.fisk@gmail.com
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