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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction of the Book of Daniel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction of the Book of Daniel. Show all posts

05 January, 2018

Search The Scriptures —Study 0 — Introduction of the Book of Daniel

Study 0 From the Book of Daniel is:  The Introduction of the Book of Daniel 

The book of Daniel is rich in spiritual instruction, and will reward prayerful study. It shows first of all, how those who believe in God can take their place in the society where they find themselves, ply their part in current affairs, and yet remain true to God, thereby bringing glory to Him and blessing to me. Such men and women are needed among the nations today.
            The book of Daniel is also tonic to faith.  The overthrow and exile of the Jews raised the question ‘Where is their God?  (Ps. 115:2).  The book of Daniel reveals God as sovereign over the nation, watchful over those who trust in Him, and working all things according to the counsel of his will’. The earlier chapters helped to bring home to the Jews the great truth of the sole Deity of the Lord. This weaned them from idol-worship (cf. Ps. 115:3-11). The later chapters of the book, with their exact prediction of the course of events, were the means by which the faith of the remnant was sustained amid the troubles and persecutions that they endured. This book should help also to sustain our own faith in days of darkness.

            The book of Daniel is also an integral part of Scripture in its revelation of things to come. This assumes that the book is a true record and prophecy belonging to the time of the exile.  There has been a strong trend in recent times to dispute this, and to assign the composition of the book to a period 400 years later, when many of its predictions had already become facts of history. The older view is not without its difficulties, but the progress of archaeology has already removed some of these, and in holding to the authenticity of the book, we are in line with the New Testament, which bears witness to its miracles and predictions (see, e.g., Heb. 11:33, 34; Mt. 24:15, and quotes from or alludes to it frequently, especially in the synoptic Gospel and the book of Revelation.