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🗓️ 13 September 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.3 | The major profit Daniel lived through some of the most well-known Old Testament stories |
0:17.6 | and wrote some of the most perplexing Old Testament prophecies. |
0:21.7 | Before we talk about his book, let's talk about him as a person. |
0:25.6 | Daniel's life and ministry span the entire 70-year period of Babylonian captivity, and he |
0:30.8 | was one of the people deported. |
0:32.7 | He handled his circumstance as well though, really well. |
0:35.8 | He was a man of prayer, faith, courage, and integrity, and Ezekiel, another major profit |
0:40.9 | who lived during the same time period, had only good things to say about him. |
0:45.8 | As for his book, the first half is filled with the stories we know and love, and it's |
0:50.3 | referred to as hope literature. |
0:52.9 | The back half of the book is filled with apocalyptic prophecies, so this is sometimes referred |
0:57.4 | to as the apocalypse of the Old Testament. |
1:00.3 | What does that word mean anyway? |
1:02.3 | The Greek word apocalypsis is where we get our English word revelation, so the book of |
1:07.5 | revelation in the New Testament is actually named apocalypse. |
1:12.0 | We associate that word with destruction and war, but its original meaning is quite different. |
1:16.7 | It means to reveal or to unveil things previously unknown, hence revelation. |
1:22.6 | And that's exactly what Daniel is doing in these apocalyptic prophecies. |
1:26.4 | He reveals to us what God has revealed to him about God's plan for the future. |
1:30.8 | A lot of what God reveals to him is revealed in dreams and visions. |
1:35.1 | Let's jump into chapter 1. |
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