Reading
SAA Notes
The Maccabean Jews saw their revolt against the oppression of Antiochus IV as fulfilment of these words, especially v. 32. The power of the great Hellenistic kingdoms was overcome by Rome.
SJA Notes
* God of grace and mercy, please show us more of who You are today from Your word.
“Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.”
The message for God’s people at the time of Daniel’s vision is the same message to us today.
It is a message we read in the new testament book of Revelation, of the Beast and the Dragon.
It is a truth that God layers over and again throughout all of His word.
Evil will not last, even when it seems as though it will.
God is Sovereign.
Jesus is King over all.
The Lord is EVERLASTING. He is the ALPHA and the OMEGA, all in all.
His word is CREATION and the same word is DESTRUCTION.
The evil powers we see about us today, they shall not last.
God endures, unchanging on. Steadfast and faithful. Mercy without end.
How good a word that is for us His people, Hallelujah!
How sharp a word that is for those who have rejected Him.
* Gracious Father,
Thank You that the powers about us will not last, they are limited.
Thank You Lord for the hope that we have in Jesus, an inheritance like no other – Life in glory, life to the full!
Please save the lost around us, our family and friends, our loved ones, the people we see throughout the work, those we don’t like and those we do.
May they never hear that final word of judgement, of destruction.
May they instead hear that word of life, of joy, calling us home to glory.
Amen.