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Sunday we complete our Daniel series with a summary message of chapters 9-12.  Looking forward to it.  Here’s a challenge: Read these final chapters of Daniel back to back to back to back in succession.  Some might say wild and bizarre, not only out of this world but some of it about the end of the world.  Yet, we must proceed with humility for only God knows how the fulfillment of the history will unfold.  However, within these visions and dreams, from these visions and dreams, we can gain some general knowledge about God and his ways in his world.

And so, the plan is to spend our message time after we summarize these final chapters on The Meaning of History.  Here is where the conversation will go as we move from one truth revealed in Scripture to another about God and history: History isn’t circular or existential, it’s linear.  History is the working out of God’s purposes.  God is the Lord of history and Jesus is the center of it.  All of history is moving toward a goal – a new heaven and a new earth.  We live now in the continuation of the already and not yet of God’s kingdom come and coming.  And all of our judgments of history must be provisional.  Our activity characteristic of this present age is missions, it’s a time of salvation and of grace.  There will be continuity between this age and the next, what is good and redemptive will last.  The Christian understanding of history is basically optimistic… Where did I get all this good stuff?  Tell ya Sunday.