We have already seen that, to use Ryrie’s terminology, that the Holy Spirit has the “appellation” of deity, that is, He is called God (Acts 5:3,4). Peter tells Ananias that in lying to the Holy Spirit
Continue reading...Does it matter if the Holy Spirit is a person or not? It absolutely matters, for three reasons: 1) The testimony of Scripture is that He is a person, 2) The testimony of Scripture to the Triune personality
Continue reading...He is the ruach (breath) of God. The breath that made Adam alive. So Eliphaz, that terrible friend and counselor to Job, yet rightly said, The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives
Continue reading...Beginning in chapter 10 Daniel has been given a vision or revelation about the near and far future of his people who have returned from Babylon/Persia to their homeland Israel. He has been told by the
Continue reading...This very long and complex vision is a remarkably detailed prophecy of what will happen to the holy land in the future, something Daniel could not have known otherwise than by divine revelation. 11:2 “Now
Continue reading...“…there is an invisible world that is just as real as the visible world. There’s an invisible world. There’s a world that you can’t see and that I can’t see that’s just as real as
Continue reading...Daniel has been confessing Israel’s sin and asking Yahweh for mercy and the return of his people to their land according to the prophecies of Jeremiah (25:11-13; 29:11). Yahweh sends an angel, Gabriel,
Continue reading...Jeremiah 25:11-13 says, “11 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 Then after seventy years are completed, I will
Continue reading...We come across another little horn in this passage, but it is not the little horn we saw in chapter 7, which came out of the revived Roman empire, the fourth beast of chapter 7, the iron/clay feet of chapter
Continue reading...Twice Daniel mentions how concerned, “anxious,” “alarmed,” and frightened he is of this vision of the four beasts. This must be due, in part, to the other unique aspect of this vision, which is
Continue reading...Why did Jesus often refer to himself as the Son of Man? Like when Jesus asked the man born blind, whom he had healed, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” And the healed man said, basically, tell me
Continue reading...This vision corresponds to the vision Nebuchadnezzar had in chapter 2, of the statue of various metals, depicting the four successive world dominating kingdoms, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
Continue reading...Can you imagine being the people who conquered all the other peoples around you and yet one of these conquered peoples, a Jew no less, gets put in power over you? Nothing ever changes. 6:1 It pleased
Continue reading...Have your knees ever knocked from fear? Or like the driving instructor says to his inept student, “No, that’s not the engine knocking, that’s my knees.” Maybe your knees don’t knock when you
Continue reading...Keil and Delitzsch note: Abydenus, in the fragments preserved by Eusebius (a church father)…announces as a Chaldee tradition…that Nebuchadnezzar, after the ending of his war in the farther
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