The ‘normal’ part of Daniel is finished—the six highlights from his life as an exile in Babylon. And now the apocalyptic—the revelatory—section begins. And I want to encourage us not to be scared of handling this section, even if parts of it might be beyond our comprehension. This is God’s word, and it pulls back the curtain of history so that we can see the reality: the grim and repetitive violence of human aspirations to be God, the cool and reassuring comfort of seeing God and his chosen king in control, and the exhortation to keep on plodding by praying in line with the promises of God, so that his significance is proclaimed. This, in itself, provides great practical exhortation. As you wake each morning, and the news feeds scare the living daylights out of you, what can you say? ‘The Son of Man is enthroned, and I will approach today on my knees!’