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Wars, conflicts, global catastrophes, and senseless human suffering—all these have the potential to shake our faith. The message of the book of Daniel is that God desires to reveal himself in his people’s difficult situations, whether in the Babylonian exile of Daniel’s day or the crises of our own. In Glimpsing the Mystery, Barbara M. Leung Lai unpacks the stories of the first half of Daniel and...

Interpreting the world of/within the text, 10:1 provides a framework for our construction of the sequence of events laid out in 10:2 to 12:13—the message is true, and it concerns a great war (10:1b); the vision is meant for the understanding of the heavenly message. After the introductory verses (10:1–2), the bulk of 10:1 to 11:1 is about Daniel’s reaction to the vision of the great war. It is the most intense and elaborate of his first-person reports, and afterward, Daniel is in mourning for three
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