About this Series
Daniel: God and Government The setting of Daniel is the sixth century B.C. when the Jews are in exile in Babylon. You might wonder what such distant events might have to say to us today. First of all the book of Daniel will help us reflect on God’s rule in our world. It raises issues such as persecution, evil, suffering, power politics and forces us to think about how we are to live as Christians in a hostile world. Sec-ondly Daniel and his friends are models of faithful, wise and courageous men who offer us insights on how we might respond to the temptations and trials that we face. Thirdly, Daniel provides some of the background thinking to what Jesus has to say about the kingdom of God, his identity as “the Son of Man” and the end of the world. So there are many good reasons for reading Daniel. We will do chapters 1-6 in the coming weeks and look at chapters 7-12 over summer.
Mark Sneddon | Daniel 5 | Victorians are preparing to vote in the State election on Nov 27th. Christians recognize that governments are a gift from God to help order society and restrain evil. Not all governments or political leaders act for the common good and many have no sense that their authority is delegated from God. In today’s read-ing from Daniel 5 we see how power and authority can be misused and how haughty arrogance leads to a king’s downfall. This is not ancient narrative from the dusty pages of the Old Testament. This is still real life today.
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