The Book of Daniel (The Smart Guide to the Bible Series)

maybe it's the Book of Daniel describes a man who's glowing with topaz.

The Son of--he's the Son of Man, which basically just means he's a human being. That's going to change in Daniel chapter 7. But for now, whenever the Lord God calls Ezekiel, Son of Man, he's just talking like, hey bro, you're a human being.

when it comes to prophecy, is that it is always shrouded in mystery, and it's always shrouded in imagery because it almost always means something more than we just see on the surface.

We have Daniel, we have Ezekiel, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Judith, Zephaniah, Nahum, Jeremiah, Joel.

Daniel, of course, writes from the place of exile.

Daniel in 605, and we can get into that a little bit. Daniel, of course, writes from the place of exile.

Some of them will have stories, like Daniel will follow his story, but others will kind of have just, no, here's the words of the prophet calling the people to repentance, reminding them of God's future restoration.

You've studied that last year. Can you tie how Daniel is apocalyptic and how revelation is apocalyptic?

For those exact same reasons that you mentioned, right? The extreme use of numbers, the extreme use of animal imagery, those are all part and parcel of the apocalyptic tradition.

It's almost like it's a different language that you have to learn. I mean, it's written in English or whatever language you're reading it in, but it uses numbers, seven, 12, four, 10, 144,000, 1000. And these numbers, if you take them literally, you miss the point of what the number is trying to say.

The numbers are metaphorical. They're symbolic. They're a language unto themselves.

You got four horsemen that are white, red, black, and pale. Those colors mean something symbolically.

I don't know what the Lord wants me to do first Peter 2 1 just told you when you get those five then come back and then ask me about the book of Daniel in the book of Revelations.