It has been two weeks since my last broadcast due to surgery, subsequent illness, reconfiguring our internet, Thanksgiving gatherings, etc. I’ve missed sharing in God’s Word with you! This session examines God’s response to Daniel’s marvelous model prayer in chapter 9, verses 4-19. We often tend to want to know when the things promised by God will come to pass. God feels no obligation to satisfy those desires, however, rather wanting us to simply trust Him and be about what He’s told us to be doing! In today’s passage, though, He does reveal to His servant Daniel an outline of the remainder of history leading up to its close.
Much effort, study, and debate has raged through the centuries and across the theological spectrum about the interpretation of the things told Daniel by the angel Gabriel. We will not lay those speculations to rest here! Rather I will strive to keep our attention focused on the “so what” of the matter: given the truths that are plain, how must we then live out our lives, our work, and our ministry in 21st Century Babylon? Some things are very clear. Other details are not. Let us stand and act on what assurances we have!
The study notes provided below are far more extensive than previously given. They include commentaries from sources I trust.
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