STRANGER THINGS: AREA 51 AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON US!
DANIEL 10:1-11:1, THE POWER BEHIND THE POWER
NOT EVERYTHING WE SEE AROUND US IS EVERYTHING TO SEE …
ABRAHAM KUYPER (1837-1920), BRILLIANT JOURNALIST, THEOLOGIAN AND PRIME MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS WROTE, “IF ONCE THE CURTAIN WERE PULLED BACK, AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLD BEHIND IT CAME TO VIEW, IT WOULD EXPOSE OUR SPIRITUAL VISION A STRUGGLE SO INTENSE, SO CONVULSIVE, SWEEPING EVERYTHING WITHIN ITS RANGE, THAT THE FIERCEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT ON EARTH WOULD SEEM, BY COMPARISON, A MERE GAME. NOT HERE, BUT UP THERE – THAT IS WHERE THE REAL CONFLICT IS WAGED. OUR EARTHLY STRUGGLE DROWNS IN ITS BACKLASH.”
DANIEL’S SPIRIT IS WEARY, Vv.1-4
THE MESSAGE
THE MOURNING
DANIEL SEES A HEAVENLY MESSENGER, Vv.5-7
THE DESCRIPTION … REVELATION 1:12-17
“A MAN DRESSED IN LINEN” THE PRIESTLY GARMENT WORN WHEN THE PRIEST ENTERED THE HOLY PLACE.
“ … BELT OF PURE GOLD” ROYALTY
“BODY ALSO WAS LIKE BERYL” STRENGTH, POWER
“HIS FACE HAD THE APPEARANCE OF LIGHTNING” A THEOPHANY, GOD’S PRESENCE
“HIS EYES LIKE FLAMING TORCHES” JUDGEMENT, HOLINESS, WRATH
“HIS ARMS AND FEET LIKE THE GLEAM OF POLISHED BRONZE,” STABILITY ANS STRENGTH
“SOUND OF HIS WORDS LIKE THE SOUND OF A TUMULT.” THE SOUND OF BATTLE AND THE APPEARING OF GOD
DANIEL IS STRENGTHENED, Vv.8-10
“IN THE BIBLE, INTIMACY WITH GOD ALWAYS LEAVES ITS MARK.”
LIG DUNCAN
DANIEL’S SPIRITUAL REALITIES, Vv.11-14
11, “GREATLY LOVED”
12, “PRAYERS WERE HEARD”
13, WHO IS THE PRINCE OF PERSIA?
WHO IS MICHAEL (WHO IS LIKE GOD)?
APPLYING WHAT WE HAVE HEARD SO FAR:
LUKE 11:5-13; LUKE 18:1-8
DANIEL AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE, 15-11:1
THE POWER OF GOD,
THE POTENTIAL OF THE ENEMY, EHP 6:10-20
“TAKE THE SUPERNATURAL SERIOUSLY AND REALIZE THAT WE ARE IN A WARFARE THAT CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE DOMESTICATED BY REINTERPRETING EVERYTHING IN THE BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW SO THAT IT FITS NICELY WITH SECULAR, NATURALISTIC WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT THE WORLD. BE READY FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY AS WELL AS THE ORDINARY WAYS THAT EVIL SPIRITS WORK. DON’T BE PRESUMPTUOUS, AS THOUGH DEMONS WERE WEAK: AND DON’T BE ANXIOUS, AS THOUGH THEY WERE STRONGER THAN JESUS.”
JOHN PIPER
