I've been studying Daniel (through a Beth Moore BS) with a group of women almost every Wednesday morning for the past 3 months. To read Daniel again over and over, my eyes have been opened to a new level of prophecy and promise that I just never was in tune with before. It reminds me a little of a Pixar cartoon.
Stick with me - being a mom now, we treat our kids to movies in the theater maybe twice a year. We have to see cartoons and even then we have to be careful about content. Pixar does an amazing job of drawing kids in and endearing them to talking cars, scary monsters, the works. BUT I never leave feeling like it was a waste of my time-these are funny movies! They put in humor for parents, the irony and the references to pop culture so lost on kids put a smile on mom & dad's faces.
Where am I going? Daniel has it all. The cute boys who refuse the king's food and become healthier looking than the others, dreams with meanings, the firey furnace, the huge statue, a king who goes mad and lives like an animal, the lion's den. Oh yeah, and all the prophecy, eschatology, and imagery an adult could hope for. Without Revelation, we would be most lost on what the second half of the book is even refering to when it talks about the little horn, the 4 beasts, the Ancient of Days who comes to judge. IT'S AMAZING! Now, I'm not saying the first stories I mentioned are just for kids either. They were real, they were potentially gruesome, they were miraculous. I'm just thinking that it's great how relevent God is to all ages and how in awe I am that I can still study His Word day after day and learn new things about my Savior. It gives me hope - I pray I am never perceived as a "little miss know-it-all". I am still learning and will continue until Christ's return.
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