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Hearing the Message of Daniel: Sustaining Faith in Today’s World is unavailable, but you can change that!

In many corners of the world these days the climate of hostility hangs over any overt Christian faith commitment. Any kind of Christian commitment is now assumed to imply intolerance and often prompts reactions that range from a low-grade hostility and exclusion in the West to the vicious and murderous assaults on Christian believers in Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Syria and Iraq and...

So what is going on in the “top half” of Daniel’s split-screen vision? He sees thrones. Thrones speak of kingship and sovereign authority. The plural form probably simply intensifies that truth. This is the seat of effective government and executive power. He sees the Ancient of Days. We put the words in upper case because we know they refer to God, but the words simply mean “a very old person.” And age, of course, in that culture, was a mark of great wisdom and authority. The whiteness of his clothing
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