It's the End of the World as We Know It....
and I Feel Fine? (6)
Series: Daniel-Kingdoms, Chaos and the Sovereignty of God
Tim Badal
Mark 13:1-37
It's a pleasure to have each and every one of you with us this morning. I'm going to ask you to turn in your Bibles to the Gospel of Mark this morning. You say, "Wait a minute. I thought we were in the book of Daniel." We are in the book of Daniel, but we're going to take a half-time huddle. We're halfway through the book of Daniel and we need to prepare ourselves for the weeks to come. What we have here is a change in genre that doesn't often happen right in the middle of a book of the Bible. For the last six chapters, we have been studying the historical narrative of Daniel's life.
For a brief review, Daniel, a real person, was enslaved by the empire of Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar. He was taken into captivity with all the other Israelites in his day; they were taught a lot of new things. They had to figure out how to live in a pagan world where their God was not held in high esteem. And what great lessons we've learned from watching them be faithful, establishing themselves on the firm foundation of Who God is and knowing He would not let them down-and He won't let us down either.
As we head into Daniel 7, we move from historical narrative to apocalyptic literature. What we're going to see in these upcoming chapters is a series of Daniel's visions and dreams. These are going to be amazing and at times, kind of scary. God is going to interpret these dreams, which will have their fulfillment in the future. That means we have to do things a little differently with this genre of Scripture. What Daniel is going to be talking about is what we call the end of days, the apocalypse. It's the thing that movies are made about.
When I was a teenager, there was a song by the group R.E.M regarding the end of the world, using the phrase "the end of the world as we know it." Then the refrain said, "I feel fine ...
and I Feel Fine? (6)
Series: Daniel-Kingdoms, Chaos and the Sovereignty of God
Tim Badal
Mark 13:1-37
It's a pleasure to have each and every one of you with us this morning. I'm going to ask you to turn in your Bibles to the Gospel of Mark this morning. You say, "Wait a minute. I thought we were in the book of Daniel." We are in the book of Daniel, but we're going to take a half-time huddle. We're halfway through the book of Daniel and we need to prepare ourselves for the weeks to come. What we have here is a change in genre that doesn't often happen right in the middle of a book of the Bible. For the last six chapters, we have been studying the historical narrative of Daniel's life.
For a brief review, Daniel, a real person, was enslaved by the empire of Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar. He was taken into captivity with all the other Israelites in his day; they were taught a lot of new things. They had to figure out how to live in a pagan world where their God was not held in high esteem. And what great lessons we've learned from watching them be faithful, establishing themselves on the firm foundation of Who God is and knowing He would not let them down-and He won't let us down either.
As we head into Daniel 7, we move from historical narrative to apocalyptic literature. What we're going to see in these upcoming chapters is a series of Daniel's visions and dreams. These are going to be amazing and at times, kind of scary. God is going to interpret these dreams, which will have their fulfillment in the future. That means we have to do things a little differently with this genre of Scripture. What Daniel is going to be talking about is what we call the end of days, the apocalypse. It's the thing that movies are made about.
When I was a teenager, there was a song by the group R.E.M regarding the end of the world, using the phrase "the end of the world as we know it." Then the refrain said, "I feel fine ...
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