Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well we are going to begin a new series with this episode.

There's going to be five messages teachings I gave exploring different parts of the book

of Daniel in the Hebrew scriptures, the Old Testament.

I don't know what you know about the book of Daniel or what associations you have.

For some church traditions, the book of Daniel only gets brought out when it's time to talk about

timelines and charts and so on.

That's unfortunate because while the book of Daniel is one of the last books of the Old Testament to be written,

it does relate to the future hope that the whole story of the line is building towards

what it wasn't meant to do was get God's people debating and angry at each other about timelines.

It was meant to culminate the whole storyline of the Bible and project it out towards a bold hope.

It's a way of God's kingdom and resurrection, new creation, hope for the world.

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