7@7 #121: Clarity from Chaos 3

How strong is your faith? Will it hold through the coming trials? Pastor/Professor Andrew Marquez explores Daniel's pursuit of Clarity amidst Chaos in Daniel 7:19-27. In these verses an angel illuminates Daniel about the details of his vision. The terrible fourth beast will come along with the little horn. This horn will displace 3 other leaders, dishonor God, distress the saints, and seek to dissolve the times and the law. God will delineate the tenure of this beast and its horn. At the end of the set time, a heavenly court will convene. The beast's incumbency will be cancelled. Christ's celestial kingdom will come. Looking at the future, we know that often things get worse before they get better. God encouraged Daniel with a vision of the final kingdom. We too are encouraged to focus on the kingdom that never ends in the presence of the One who saves us.

Dr. Andrew Marquez is Director/Dean of Wayland Baptist University's Arizona Campuses (www.wbu.edu/arizona) and Executive Pastor of North Swan Baptist Church (www.northswanbaptist.com).