A Prophecy to Profit Me

We go batty with adrenalin reading Daniel 2 and 7, with a focus on the legs of iron and the fourth beast. It's both boring and exciting all at the same time.

Unfortunately we miss the point entirely when we narrow our view and miss God's desire for our hearts, in that pointing the fingers at who we think the present evil forces in the religious world are was never God's purpose for revealing this information to us. We like to read, interpret and then grin at how smart we are when we interpret correctly. We fail at applying this information to our own lives. 

What made these kingdoms and their rulers so destined to eternal nothingness in the end? Is it merely that they are written in prophecy? Or are their problems with greed, money, depravity, power, idolatry and evil just the same as what we as individuals struggle with? Daniel 7:9 onwards describes the judgment based on their behaviours. They are swept away into non-existence rather than enjoying eternity with their maker, the God of heaven. What's to say it's any different for us? 

The book of Daniel is not about beasts and kingdoms alone. It's about seeing ourselves in these beasts and kingdoms, and placing us on the prophetic timeline to show us that we, by God's grace, have a little time now to return to His plan for our eternal happiness. We, like the rulers of this kingdom, try to find happiness and joy in all the wrong places. The only place where our joy may be full is in the presence of God (Psalm 16:11), and we will never experience that if we allow ourselves to cling to the same temporal wants that those depicted in the prophetic books of the bible and correspondingly history did. (Daniel 2:44; Daniel 7:11,12).

Knowing who the anti-Christ is won't save you, not being anti-Christ will.