Warning: the internet is full of crazy stuff based on this book.
But here’s something very helpful from Dave Bish’s blog: Scribblings on the Book of Daniel.
A few past posts from this blog:
In terms of commentaries the best are probably:
- John Goldingay (World Biblical Commentary)
- Joyce Baldwin (Tyndale OT Commentary)
- Sinclair B Ferguson (Preachers Commentary)
- Edward J Young (Geneva)
- Andrew Reid (Reading the Bible Today)
A few more random thoughts:
- In Daniel 9 the wise man’s first reaction to reading numbers in the Bible is not to get out a calculator and a calendar and come up with an elaborate scheme of end time events but to seek the Lord in prayer and deep repentance.
- The awesome man Daniel meets in chapter 10 is generally acknowledged to be the pre-incarnate Christ (rightly it seems to me when compared with Ezekiel and Revelation) – a very exciting chapter.
- In relation to all the rather complicated predictive stuff in chapters 8 and 11 about kings and kingdoms and horns and whatever, I found Mike Reeves summary of Jonathan Edwards’ thoughts on this period of history very helpful:
…since the Coming One would not just be the hope of Israel but the firstborn of the New Creation, all creation went into labour to give him birth. History entered its most tumultuous stage as Babylon fell to Persia, Persia to Greece, and Greece to Rome. In those pagan empires Satan was permitted to rise to his full strength in readiness for his final defeat. (On Giants’ Shoulders, p. 116)
Let’s preach Christ from Daniel…
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