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Title: The Derision of Heaven
Subtitle: A Guide to Daniel
Author: Michael Whitworth
Narrator: Chris Brinkley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-24-13
Publisher: Start2Finish Books
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Every day, it seems the world becomes increasingly hostile to Christianity. Values are being scuttled, faith is scorned, and God's people are being marginalized. These difficult times pose two questions to Christians: How can we be the "light of the world" in such abject darkness? And how can God still be in control of all things?
This book will help you answer these questions. More than a guide to Daniel, The Derision of Heaven is an urgent message for the exiled church. As you journey through the story and visions of Daniel, you will be awe-struck by the sovereign rule of God, emboldened to live a life that glorifies him, and encouraged to serve in the eternal Kingdom of Heaven.
Members Reviews:
Derisively Delectable
Whitworthâs book comes at a time when many Christians worry that their ârightsâ are shrinking, that a huge persecution is coming, that the privileges that we have long held are going to soon be lost, and that we just wonât know what to do about it. The Derision of Heaven, which takes applied scholarship and shares it in a very understandable, relevant language, points to the book of Daniel as a source of answers for the questions we might be havingânot questions about what will happen through the reading of âsecret propheciesâ, but about what is supposed to happen and what it means when it happens. Danielâs book is about kingsâall kingsâand how God laughs at derision when they refuse to acknowledge his majesty (recalling the 2nd Psalm). America included.
we upset that God is no longer honored?
Or that we are no longer a powerful majority?â
Whitworth opens with this sobering question for Christians in America anxious over possible exile. Maybe, he says, America has become drunk on her own power, and maybe God is humbling us. He uses Daniel as a model for dealing with an overwhelming society: âConviction, not compromise. We never flaunt our piety like a sash before a raging bull,â and yet we should exalt God no matter the circumstances.
Whitworth uses pointed scholarship to demonstrate the significance of the details of Danielâs story, but pointing out as well the significance of what they mean to us:
The colonization of the minds of Israelâs young men by indoctrination and forced name changes
But also the reminder that a Christian can attend public schooling and remain faithful
Danielâs fast from the Kingâs feast
not merely kosher eating, but a subversive gesture of disloyalty to the ugly teat of empire.
The symbolism of Nebuchadnezzarâs dream
Not so much which kingdoms are prophesied, but the focus on the rock (Christ) that subverts them.
But Daniel is not the hero of the story, Whitworth reminds us. God is. Even Daniel knew this, as he credited God for his powers, prayed to God for thanksgiving, and acknowledged God as ruler of the very stars the kingâs wise men could not read. The proper response to troubling national and global events, Whitworth reminds us, âis not indignation and social media rants, but appealing to God for mercy.â David was humble in his faithfulness, not prideful.
Whitworth hammers this crucial point in, that Daniel and his friends are examples of the balance of faithful discipline in the midst of changing cultural currents, neither giving in to cowardice or pride.