Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hi, friends, welcome to a year in the

Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm here with my co-host, Beth. Everyone, we'll be continuing our conversation

about Daniel 7, 13, or 14 today. So Beth, can you share with us where this passage fits

in the overall story of the Bible? Of course. So like many of the prophetic books that we've

talked about so far, the book of Daniel takes place during Israel's exile in Babylon.

And Daniel is a weird book. There are some familiar stories like the lion's den and the fiery furnace, some

veggie tales classics there.

But in the midst of those well-known stories, there's also this wild vision in chapter 7.

Basically, Daniel receives a vision from God, and in it, there are these four terrifying and strange-looking

beast that he later learns represents the earthly nations and kings.

But as this vision continues, he sees God, who he calls the Ancient of Days, take his throne.

He is surrounded by armies and angels who are all serving and worshipping him.

And then all the beast are destroyed and their power is taken from them.

And that's when we get to verse 13, which we annotated yesterday.

Then this son of man, which is a poetic way of saying a human being, appears and approaches the throne of God.

This man is then granted authority over a kingdom that is not like the kingdoms that the beast represent.

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