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 in this episode we are going to conclude this five part series of teachings

on the book of Daniel and this is a reflection on the last chapter of Daniel, chapter 12,

and how it culminates the dreams and visions that Daniel had and the two chapters previous to that.

So it's kind of a way of summarizing and bringing the book to its culmination.

Ultimately, it's a meditation on the hope of the resurrection and new creation, which is the hope

held out for God's people at the end of the book of Daniel.

So we'll explore all of the roots of those ideas of resurrection and new life throughout the Old Testament

and bring it all together.

So there you go, that's Daniel.

There's meditation on hope for the future that motivates faithfulness and the present.

At the end of this teaching, I talk about how the teaching series that's going to follow from it

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