More Than Meets The Eye

The last few weeks we have been reading and listening to the final six chapters of the book of Daniel. These chapters contain three visions that Daniel receives from God—visions that reveal to him, in stark and troubling images, the hand of God at work among the nations. The first two visions occupy a chapter each, but the final vision is spread across the last three chapters of the book. Daniel describes it as "a great conflict." Chapter 10 sets the scene for this final vision. And in it, Daniel is shown a shocking truth: there is more going on than meets the eye. Behind the scenes of human history there is a spiritual conflict taking place between principalities and powers. And remarkably, Daniel's prayers are caught up in God's purposes within that unseen conflict. What Daniel sees is troubling. What he cannot see is even more significant. Because behind the visible events of history, God is at work.