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The Mosaic Covenant: A Conditional Covenant meaningNovember 13, 2020

This covenant is an agreement between God and Israel, adding various conditional promises to the unconditional promises of God.

Daniel 10:15-21 meaningNovember 4, 2020

Daniel feels unworthy of being visited by this angelic messenger. The angel reassures Daniel that he is esteemed by God and should be courageous. He strengthens Daniel and begins to tell him the message about Israel's future.

Daniel 10:10-14 meaningNovember 4, 2020

The angel revives Daniel and tells him he has come to give Daniel a message from God in answer to Daniel's prayers. A demon had prevented the angel for three weeks from reaching Daniel. The angel's message is about Israel and the future.

Daniel 10:4-9 meaningNovember 4, 2020

Daniel sees a vision of a man dressed in wealthy clothing, whose skin and eyes are shining and dazzling. Daniel faints when he sees this heavenly visitor.

Daniel 10:1-3 meaningNovember 4, 2020

During the reign of King Cyrus, Daniel receives another message from God about a great conflict in the future.

Daniel 2:46-49 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Nebuchadnezzar professes God as the God of gods and rewards Daniel and his friends for the interpretation of his dream.

Daniel 2:44-45 meaningNovember 2, 2020

After the fourth kingdom, God will set up His eternal kingdom.

Daniel 2:40-43 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Daniel explains the fourth kingdom (Rome), which will crush the kingdoms before it. It will be a mighty and fierce kingdom that is prone to shatter into pieces.

Daniel 2:39 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Nebuchadnezzar's dream reveals that after Babylon, an inferior kingdom will rise to prominence (Medo-Persia), and then a third kingdom will rise (Greece), ruling over all the earth.

Daniel 2:36-38 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Each piece of the statue in the dream represents a kingdom. This dream covers from the current time of Daniel, all the way through and past the time in which we currently live. Thousands of years, so far. It also covers the end of our current age, and introduces the Kingdom of God which will be established upon the earth.

Daniel 2:31-35 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Daniel describes the king's dream: an extravagant statue made of precious metals. A rock destroyed the statue and grew into a mountain.

Daniel 2:24-30 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Daniel is taken to King Nebuchadnezzar to interpret his dream. Before doing so, Daniel tells the king again and again that it is only because of the one true God that he is able to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

Daniel 2:17-23 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Daniel seeks wisdom from God and gives thanks when it is given to him.

Daniel 2:14-16 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Daniel seeks an audience with the king so that he might, with wisdom from God, interpret the dream

Daniel 2:7-13 meaningNovember 2, 2020

Nebuchadnezzar demands that the wisemen tell him what he saw in his dream. The wisemen tell the king that only gods can accomplish this task. Because of their failure, the king orders that all the wisemen be killed.

Daniel 2:1-6 meaningNovember 2, 2020

The King of Babylon has a dream and demands that his wisemen not only tell him what it meant, but also tell him what he saw in the dream.

Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 meaningOctober 17, 2020

Solomon expresses his displeasure with how Time obscures the value of reason and experience. When it comes to relieving mankind's compulsion to understand, wisdom is as vaporous as madness and folly.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 meaningOctober 17, 2020

Solomon ends with an admonition to trust and obey God because this is what makes the most sense for our lives. God will judge all things, both hidden and visible, and He will decide whether it is good or evil, not us.

Ecclesiastes 12:11-12 meaningOctober 17, 2020

Mastering wisdom brings integrity to life. But Solomon warns of endless writings and how study can be a distraction from fruitful living.

Ecclesiastes 12:9-10 meaningOctober 17, 2020

The Preacher has carefully crafted words of truth in order to share them with God's people, to invite them into wisdom in the face of mystery.

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