The Dreamer's Dilemma (8)
Series: Daniel - Kingdoms, Chaos, and the Sovereignty of God
Daniel 7 & 8
Tim Badal
Last week we started turning the page from the historical narrative into the prophetic and apocalyptic portion of Daniel, looking at the future, first the future in Daniel's time and the future for the people of God in the time before Christ, then we've also started to see where God has given a picture of our future in these Scriptures.
The chapter we'll be looking at today has been called the most interesting chapter in the entire Bible, so I hope you're awake and ready to take notes. We'll be reading about another vision-another dream-that Daniel had. If you're like me, dreams happen more often at certain points in life than at others. There are some dreams that are so vivid, so life-like, that when you wake up it takes a moment to decide whether what you dreamed was real or not. Have you been there before? I wake up, and I'm thinking, "Okay, Amanda is next to me. That's good. She's breathing. The kids are here. That accident or that fall didn't happen; I'm here." I go through what is in essence a mental checklist to make sure that what I dreamed isn't in fact reality.
Scholars, psychologists and writers call this the "dreamer's dilemma." In that moment, there's a bit of fear or apprehension. "Is what I just experienced real, or not?" Hollywood has dug into this dreamer's dilemma in two ways. One we see in the movie "Inception." I won't give all of it away, but there's a dream involved. The whole premise of this movie is the challenge to decide what's real and what' a dream.
Then there's the TV show "Lost" from some years ago. It disappointed a great many fans because it seemed as if much of what people had been a part of was in fact a dream and not reality. Now, at the end of the first service, after preaching some controversial stuff in our text, I knew people would come up and talk with me. So the first person who came up and said, ...
Series: Daniel - Kingdoms, Chaos, and the Sovereignty of God
Daniel 7 & 8
Tim Badal
Last week we started turning the page from the historical narrative into the prophetic and apocalyptic portion of Daniel, looking at the future, first the future in Daniel's time and the future for the people of God in the time before Christ, then we've also started to see where God has given a picture of our future in these Scriptures.
The chapter we'll be looking at today has been called the most interesting chapter in the entire Bible, so I hope you're awake and ready to take notes. We'll be reading about another vision-another dream-that Daniel had. If you're like me, dreams happen more often at certain points in life than at others. There are some dreams that are so vivid, so life-like, that when you wake up it takes a moment to decide whether what you dreamed was real or not. Have you been there before? I wake up, and I'm thinking, "Okay, Amanda is next to me. That's good. She's breathing. The kids are here. That accident or that fall didn't happen; I'm here." I go through what is in essence a mental checklist to make sure that what I dreamed isn't in fact reality.
Scholars, psychologists and writers call this the "dreamer's dilemma." In that moment, there's a bit of fear or apprehension. "Is what I just experienced real, or not?" Hollywood has dug into this dreamer's dilemma in two ways. One we see in the movie "Inception." I won't give all of it away, but there's a dream involved. The whole premise of this movie is the challenge to decide what's real and what' a dream.
Then there's the TV show "Lost" from some years ago. It disappointed a great many fans because it seemed as if much of what people had been a part of was in fact a dream and not reality. Now, at the end of the first service, after preaching some controversial stuff in our text, I knew people would come up and talk with me. So the first person who came up and said, ...
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