Daniel — Book Overview
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The anointed king of Judah is defeated and captured. And most shockingly, the holy vessels from the house of God are carted off as plunder and installed in the temple of a pagan idol. This is Yahweh being weighed in the balances against the gods of Babylon and found wanting. Our political discourse is a shrieking contest, our cultural institutions are committing ritual suicide, and the average man feels like a cork bobbing in a tempestuous sea. The daily news cycle is designed to induce panic, to make you believe that history is a runaway train with a lunatic at the throttle. When modern Christians come to a passage like Daniel 12, they often bring a set of assumptions that have been shaped more by newspaper headlines and dispensationalist charts than by the grammar of the New Testament. But this is to read the Bible with a profound historical dislocation.
This overview explores the whole book. Read the explanations sampled in this summary: