Praise the Lord and Pass the Tylenol! - Reading Between the Lions Part 9

There are people who always want to know the future? Most people would like nothing more than to have a magic 8 ball to consult whenever they want to know what’s in store for them. This is why books on Revelation or other Biblical prophecy that make specific predictions usually become best sellers. Some of them even assign exact dates to events they say are going to take place. But the imagery in apocalyptic literature is used to both conceal and reveal. And while the original audience would have understood all of the imagery, sometimes we can’t define some symbols definitively, and we need to be okay with that and just trust God. We saw this in the differing views on the beasts from chapter 7. Sometimes, apocalyptic texts in Scripture are so complex, they can make our head hurt! Such is the case with Daniel 9. In fact, chapter 9 of the Book of Daniel has been called the most difficult and most debated chapter in the entire Old Testament. So you may want to pop a couple of Tylenol before diving into this with us!