the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Daniel 7:15-28
If these prophetic subjects appear difficult to us, let us imitate Daniel, who had the desire to know the truth (v. 19) and who asked that he may do so (v. 16). These events, now so near to hand, should interest us for more than one reason. Firstly they concern the form this world of ours will take after the Church has been removed. We can already clearly see arising these trends which will lead to this frightening final scene: oppression and violence (v. 19); the denial of all relationship with God (beasts; read 2 Peter 2:12); the senseless exaltation of man (this horn which rises up and speaks very great things).
Next let us not forget that witnesses called "the saints of the most High" will live through this tragic period. They will have to suffer; they will be worn out (v. 25), but then they will receive the kingdom, and judgment will be given in their favour (vv. 18, 22; Revelation 20:4). And what in v. 14 has been given to the Son of Man will equally be given to the people of the saints of the most High (v. 27). They will have been trodden down (v. 23) by these same "dominions" (v. 27): they in their turn will receive this dominion when the Lord, who beyond all others has been faithful unto death, will associate His own with Himself in grace, in order to reign with them (Psalms 149:5-9).
