
Faithfulness in Exile: Daniel Part 3 - Super Beast & the Son
Exploring My Strange Bible
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The Dream of Daniel Chapter 7
In the first year of Bell Shatsar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed. This fits into a whole motif that runs throughout the Bible of people having dreams - symbolic dreams. So we're used to this as readers of the Bible, of peopleHaving dreams that often feature animals and these are symbols of what? Well it's going to play itself out. And so for anybody who's read through the books of the prophets like Daniel has, images of powerful beasts destroying and trampling like you've heard of this before. For example, I just pick one example at random from the book of the prophet Isaiah when he describes the
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