Friday, 11/27/15
These long readings from the Book of Daniel were meant to e prophesies
of the kingdoms that would rule the Middle East for four hundred years from the
reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The four beasts that rose from the sea would have been
the Babylonians, the Medes, the Persians, the Greeks.
The ten horns would be those of the Seleucan dynasty that
followed Alexander. While the arrogant horn that pushed three others aside
would have been Antiochus the Fourth.
There doesn’t seem to be anything about that history lesson
that merits it a place in the Bible. However, we must rightly be impressed by
the prophesy of the “one like a son of
man coming on the clouds of heaven.”
It is thrilling to picture the lord of the universe coming
to us in human form. We should given silent time to considering how wonderful
it is to have him coming to us on the clouds of heaven.
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