Through this people He will finally be glorified because of it, when He Himself will have fulfilled all the promises He has made to this people. He has called them and redeemed them, both happened through Him. There is no people of Daniel if He is not there. This book is about the people of Daniel, but they are the people of Messiah Jesus. As a result, our lives will be able to respond more to the purpose God has with them, and that is the glorification of His Son. We will begin to see it in its true perspective, that of the future.Īs a result, motives and elements in us will come to light that we will begin to condemn and change because they are worthless or even harmful and sinful in the light of the future. If we read the book of Daniel with the same desire as Daniel to gain understanding of the future, the result will be that our lives will be screened. Thus we read that “one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation” ( 1Cor 14:3).
Prophecy is not only future foretelling or God's speaking about the future, but also God's speaking to the heart and conscience of His people with a view to living here and now. The book is also prophetic in yet another sense of the word. They are communications from the living God with Whom he lives in fellowship and through which he seeks an even closer fellowship with Him. What the communications work on Daniel shows that for him they are not theoretical trivia. All the events described in this book have that purpose. Daniel is told that the communications made to him are intended “to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days” ( Dan 10:14). First, it is prophetic in the usual sense of the word, that is, it deals with the future and especially that of Israel.
An understanding person is one who has been taught himself and can then teach others how to behave in the end time.įor this reason, this book is a prophetic book in two respects. This attitude and mind-set make him an “understanding” in the things of God.
He wants to know the meaning of what he sees. Everything made known to him by God, he experiences. However, he is not merely an observer, a spectator, but an intensely involved, a participant. He takes great interest in what has happened to God's people and what will happen to them in later times. He is so because, in complete faithfulness to God, he is most intimately connected to God's unfaithful people. We meet in this book a man who is called “highly esteemed” by heaven several times ( Dan 9:23 10:11,19).
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