This Sunday morning we draw our sermon series in Daniel to a close. Last Sunday, in chapter 11, we went through about 300 years of history in 40-some verses. We saw how God calls the future His “truth” because it is His and He is sovereign over it. And somewhere around the end of chapter 11, the vision that the angel is giving Daniel switches from events to come in Ancient Near Eastern history to events to come in the very last days of history; that is what chapter 12 continues. And the question the text is going to ask of us in chapter 12 is the same question it has been asking throughout the book of Daniel: how do we follow God in challenging times? And how do we continue to live godly lives, and lives of hope, when the times get worse tomorrow than they already are today?
