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 Year in the Bible. I'm Alexa and I'm here with my co-host Beth.

Hey, everyone. So far this week, we have learned a lot

about Daniel 7, 13, through 14 and Matthew 24, 29, through 31. We have seen how Jesus is the

son of man who will establish God's everlasting kingdom. And today, we will discuss how these things we

learned can be applied to our everyday lives. So Beth, how do you plan to

apply these passages this week? I think my primary takeaway this week is to take heart and have hope

in the midst of earthly turmoil and chaos. I don't know about you, but I find the state of the

world to be really overwhelming and depressing if I don't regularly keep my mind on the promises

of God. Even now, there is turmoil

in so many countries. There are several wars that are either happening or seem like they're about to

happen. There's a great deal of political unrest in our country. And I also personally get brought

down by the culture's idolatry of consumerism and our obsession with success and knowledge and technological

advancement. And then there's also a mental health crisis among young people, and the list just

goes on and on. There's a lot of bad in the world. But when I read Daniel 7, I can imagine these

beasts representing all of those things. But the message of what we have read today is that God is still

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