Friday, October 25, 2019

THe Light Doth Shineth Through the Clouds


“Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise.  And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued” (Dan. 12:1).

Hey Gang:  I love the Book of Daniel.  I believe it is a book for this moment, along with Zechariah, the major prophets, minor prophets, Revelation and a whole bunch of other ones.  In other words, I am saying the Bible is a book for this very hour - as it has been since it was first penned. 

The Bible is filled with the words and actions of very anointed saints of God. Each designed to be an encouragement to those who, with contrite hearts, step up to His altar and say, “Father, forgive me for I have sinned.  Daniel first got my undivided attention when the cards were all stacked against him but stood firmly on the God whom he had learned to love and trust before becoming a captive in the king’s court in Babylon.

In Daniel 1:8 we learn how deep was his resolve to place his very life in the hands of his God.  We read, “Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or wine”.    Be advised the Babylonians were not known for their hospitality but rather for there attitude of ‘My way or no way’.  Since an attitude in the young whipper snapper, who was consider a slave within the nation, would have been viewed as an act bordering on refusal or rebellion and a trip to the ‘separator of the heads’ department.  

For me, it was a message one should sit up and listen, for this was a very special envoy from the throne room of heaven.  On graduation from indoctrination school, the whole beauracratic maize of the headship was in a dither.  One might call it a life or death dither, for the king was in a rage.  He had a dream, and the wise-heads could not interpret what it meant.  
   
Now, one might say they were given a raw sort of assignment, for he did not tell them what the dream was.  His assumption: if they were so wise and smart they would know what the dream was.  Obviously, he had experience with their dream interpreting skills and was not about to let them off the hook this time.  The dither in the court, he attached an asterisk to his demand- if you don’t produce, you and your family will “be torn from limb from limb and your houses made rubbish” (Dan. 2:5b). 

It was a definitely “woe is me” time in the Babylonia court.  But God had placed a young Hebrew kid in the court for that very reason.  Did you know that God does that?  Did he know about the dream?  You bet your sweet bippy!  He placed it in the king’s head.  God’s intent?  Elevate a young Hebrew kid to second in command in the kingdom. 

Now, one would tend to believe that the head-folks in the court would be forever beholding to Daniel.  He did save their jobs, their influence, but far more their very lives and that of their families.   But, as we will soon learn, what it really did was build a head of stream in the head- folks to get rid of this young twerp who, in their eyes, had usurped their influence with the king.  Do you see a correlation with a later story in the Bible involving a young Hebrew man who bought the wrath of the religious leaders down upon Himself because He claimed to be the Son of God? And proved that He was indeed the Son of God who came to take away the sins of the world.  

Well, my friends, I did not get to the point where I felt God was taking me so will close this for today and pick it up in later Gramps Morning Message.  I close with a challenge to you.  If you have not availed yourself to the wondrous messages hidden in the words of Daniel, I challenge you to do so.  It is truly, another of those books that is coming more alive with each passing day.

Blessings,
Gramps 


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