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John R. Brokhoff
Those who do weekend sailing on a very wide body of water have a way of charting their course. They keep their eye on a distant, fixed object on the shore. No matter how whimsically the wind blows, no matter how tricky the cross-currents in the water, they can keep their direction by that immovable landmark at the water’s edge. Otherwise, they would be swept far off their course by the wind and th...
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George Paul Mocko
Were you confused by that passage read from the Book of Daniel? Don't feel bad. You are in good company. Daniel has been confusing people ever since it was written. It confused those rabbis who in the year 90 met in the coastal town of Jamnia to cast their votes on which of the historical writings were to be designated "sacred scripture." Daniel made it into the Bible by a majority vote, but many...
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Alton F. Wedel
Our first reaction to the reading of a paragraph like this one from the book of Daniel is to shake loose from the long, blank stare of disbelief and ask, "Just what was that about?" If we heard aright, it seemed to paint the picture of an old man sitting on a throne of fiery flame, surrounded by ten thousand times ten thousand equally strange looking creatures, and it seemed to say that this was s...
4. Possession Is Nine-tenths Of The Law
Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28
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Robert P. Hines
The book of Daniel belongs to that strange genre of biblical literature we call "apocalyptic." To the modern ear it sounds very different, and its language is somewhat bizarre. Some interpreters have tried to use this literature to predict with certainty the future, but some find this to be an inappropriate use of scripture. Apocalyptic literature is much easier to understand, and more helpful ...
5. Whispers From A Dream
Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28
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Thomas G. Rogers
As Tishra rocked her young son, it was all she could do to hold back her tears. She thought back to her earliest memory of God. As a young girl she heard the rabbi read the story of creation from the holy scroll. She learned that, in the very beginning, God made all the world and the world that God made was good. As a child, Tishra experienced a world that had indeed seemed good to her. It was a s...
6. Robert Paul, You Were Right!
Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28
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Richard Hasler
Professor Robert Paul and his family had just returned to Hartford Seminary from a trip to the Rocky Mountains. As a doctoral student in church history studying with him I had always been stimulated by his lectures and seminars. Now, I was anxious to talk with him and with his gracious and perceptive wife, Eunice, to get their impressions of the trip. Paul, a native of England, was ecstatic about ...
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Today on the church calendar is designated All Saints’ Sunday. It is a time for remembering persons who through the generations have been so outstanding in faith and ministry that their lives have been a special blessing to all who have known them. As someone has said, they have adorned the Gospel of Jesus Christ, though it might be better to say they received the Gospel so fully that it adorned a...
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"But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingly power and shall retain it for ever, for ever and ever." But we are not there yet; neither were the people of the text. Because they were not yet there and we are not yet there, we gather here to reflect that some are already there but the rest of us are not yet there. We have enough trouble without the troublesome word "saint" - "the saint...
9. Saintly Visions!
Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18
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John Wayne Clarke
On All Saints, we are visited through the Hebrew Scripture by Daniel. For most of us, Daniel is a book to either be avoided altogether or used sparingly. It falls into that category of books, like the book of Revelation, that is difficult to understand and is often misrepresented. Daniel is not included in that list of books known as prophets because the authors of the prophetical books were men ...
10. Oh, By the Way…
Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18
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R. Kevin Mohr
The book of Daniel presents us with the words and visions of the prophet Daniel, who lived and worked in the Babylonian em­pire during the exile of the Jewish people there in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Obviously, that was a difficult time for God's people, but, oh, by the way, the book of Daniel itself was probably put in its final form perhaps 300 years later during the persecution of the ...
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Mark Ellingsen
This is a story written for people who had been or were about to be persecuted, if not enslaved. (The book of Daniel was probably written in the mid-second century B.C. during a period of Seleucid [Syrian] domination in Palestine.) It tells them and us how their ancestors had once faced a similar slavery under the oppression of the Babylonians centuries earlier. The implication was that if these a...
12. Beasts, Saints and Chaos
Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14
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Paul W. F. Harms
"But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingly power and shall retain it for ever, for ever and ever." But we are not there yet; neither were the people of the text. Because they were not yet there and we are not yet there, we gather here to reflect that some are already there but the rest of us are not yet there. We have enough trouble without the troublesome word "saint" - "the saint...
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