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Hope in the Midst of a Hostile World: The Gospel according to Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Like Daniel and the Israelite exiles in Babylon, we too are strangers and exiles in this world. We too are waiting for the coming of the Son of Man, who has received the kingdom from the Ancient of Days, to establish his kingdom on earth. Schwab demonstrates how believers living among unbelievers, and as citizens of countries with increasingly hostile governments, have opportunity to reveal...

“eschatological dualism” and “sheer transcendentalism” as characteristics of apocalyptic writings that “purport to be revealed knowledge.”3 In contrast to prophecy, the message of apocalypse does not draw preeminently from God’s redeeming acts in history, such as the exodus or the giving of the law. Once it is realized … that knowledge is the nerve-centre of apocalyptic literature, knowledge based on a universal Jahwehism, surprisingly divorced from the saving history, it should not be difficult
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