Scripture:
Daniel 12:1-13
Sat, 4 February 2023

Unto the Den, Until the End

Observation:

What significant observations can you make about “the end times”?

Deeper Reflection
The visions in Daniel 7-12 are complex. But they are not unrelated. Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 2 parallels to Daniel’s vision in Daniel 7: Both are about four kingdoms in history with God’s everlasting kingdom as the climax (2:31-45; 7:1-14). “The visions of Daniel 2, 7, 8 and 10-12 are to be understood as complementary presentation of the same realities.”5 Daniel 9 consists of Daniel’s prayer of confession at the end of the “seventy years” of Babylonian exile (9:1-3) and God’s response with the vision of “seventy sevens/weeks” (9:23-27). And “the four-kingdom sequence in Daniel 2, 7, 8 and 10-12 will establish the framework within which the seventy weeks of Daniel 9 must be understood”6.One key focus in Daniel 7-12 is an anti-God king – referred to as “another horn, a little one” (Dan 7:8), “a rather small horn” (Dan 8:9), “the prince who is to come” (Dan 9:26) and “a despicable person” (Dan 11:21). This anti-God king is very arrogant. With “a mouth uttering great boasts” “he will speak against the Most High” (Dan 7:8, 25; 11:36) and “fling truth to the ground” (Dan 8:12). He will wage war against the people of God to wear them down and overpower them (Dan 7:21, 25).These visions pertain “to the time of the end” (Dan 8:17, 19; 10:14; 12:4, 13). When God’s people are persecuted by the anti-God king, they are to be faithful unto the den (like Daniel) – falling “by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder” (Dan 11:33). And be faithful until the end – to “keep waiting and attain to the 1,335 days” (Dan 12:12).
5 ames M. Hamilton Jr., With the Clouds of Heaven: The Book of Daniel in Biblical Theology, New Studies in Biblical Theology (IVP, 2014), 104 6 James M. Hamilton Jr., 87
Application:

How do I live in the end times?

Prayer:
Write a prayer to God as your response from your meditation on and application of the Scriptures.
Prayer Pointers:
  • Give thanks and praise
  • Pray for Church Board: To be strengthened to be faithful to God until the end
  • Pray for significant people
  • Pray for those in need
  • Pray for self
 

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Daily Devo
Daily Devotional Journal
Sun, 31 December 2023

Sunday Journal

Past Week’s Review
  • What was my high point and my low point for the week?
  • What gave me life and what drained me?
  • How was the Spirit of God at work?
Reflect

What is one key thing that God said to me this week in light of what has happened?

Respond

What is one thing I need to do in light of what God is saying?
Commit in prayer.

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