29 December 2019 | The reigning Miss Zimbabwe, Belinda Potts, visited an Adventist orphanage in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Christmas Day. Potts joined representatives from well-known soccer team Highlanders Football Club as well as designer Thembani Mubochwa as the group visited Queen Elizabeth’s Children’s Home to present a gift of groceries and clothes. The gift was […] Source: https://atoday.org/miss-zimbabwe-visits-adventist-orphanage-christmas-day/
What Would Mister Rogers Do?
by Sonja DeWitt | 23 December 2019 | I’ve been thinking a lot about neighbors lately. Although I have yet to see either “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” or “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” (the documentary and feature film featuring Mister Rogers, respectively), he’s been in news persistently over the last few months. I […] Source: https://atoday.org/wont-you-be-my-neighbor/
New Year’s Eve: “The Bible In Miniature”
New Year's Eve: "The Bible In Miniature"
Message: Pr. Sujjan John
Vespers: December 31, 2019 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlRGlrHwHCI
Monday: The Structure of Daniel
The arrangement of the Aramaic section of Daniel, chapters 2-7 (parts of Daniel were written in Hebrew and other parts in Aramaic), reveals the following structure, which helps reinforce a central message of that section, and of the book:
A. Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of four kingdoms (Daniel chapter 2)
B. God delivers Daniel’s companions from the fiery furnace (Daniel chapter 3)
C. Judgment upon Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel chapter 4)
C’. Judgment upon Belshazzar (Daniel chapter 5)
B’. God delivers Daniel from the den of lions (Daniel chapter 6)
A’. Daniel’s vision of four kingdoms (Daniel chapter 7)
This kind of literary arrangement serves to highlight the main point by placing it at the center of the structure, which in this case consists of C and C’ (Daniel chapters 4 and 5): God removes the kingdom from Nebuchadnezzar (temporarily) and from Belshazzar (permanently). Therefore, the emphasis of chapters 2-7 is on God’s sovereignty over the kings of the earth as He establishes and removes them.
One of the most effective ways of conveying a message and making a point clear is by repetition. For example, God gives Pharaoh two dreams about the immediate future of Egypt (Gen. 41:1-7). In the first dream, seven fat cows are devoured by seven thin cows. In the second dream, seven ears of healthy grain are devoured by seven thin and blighted ears. Both dreams make the same point: seven years of prosperity will be followed by seven years of scarcity.
In the book of Daniel, God also uses repetition. There are four prophetic cycles, which are repetitions of an overall basic structure. In the end, this structure shows us the ultimate sovereignty of God. Although each major prophetic outline conveys a distinct perspective, together they cover the same historical period, extending from the time of the prophet to the end, as the following diagram shows:
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| What great hope do these texts present regarding our long-term prospects? Dan. 2:44, Ps. 9:7-12, 2 Pet. 3:11-13. |
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1.2 The Structure of Daniel – FROM READING TO UNDERSTANDING | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series DANIEL with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
1.FROM READING TO UNDERSTANDING |
How is the structure of the book of Daniel? What should we take care of?
1.2 The Structure of Daniel
Fascinating! What deep thoughts in structure of the book. Made from heaven!
We would like to thank the artist Maximilian Jantscher for his permission to use his paintings for the series DANIEL.
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