Shalom!
When was the last time you
heard it said that something was "awesome"? Whatever it was, it probably was
good, but was not literally awe-inspiring. With marketing coming at us
constantly, words like "awesome" and "amazing" have lost their intended
impact on most of us. Unfortunately, this effect of exaggeration can
carry over into our understanding of the Scriptures.
Let me illustrate this
with a modern movie trend: resurrection. In modern movies people die and are
resurrected all the time. This trend essentially eliminates the finality of
death in writing and entertainment, thereby reducing every fictional
character to the level of a video game character with unending multiple
lives. This has gone so far as to become absurd, with one recent movie
killing off half the human race with a snap of the fingers, and later
bringing them all back with another snap. Really, after that what moviegoer
is going to care enough about what happens to the characters to pay the
price of another ticket?
In my opinion, all those
absurd resurrections onscreen tend to reduce the impact of the real
resurrections reported in the Scriptures. Lazarus was dead in the tomb for
four days when the Lord called him out of the tomb. We are talking a real
man, in a real tomb, who was really dead for four real days. His corpse was
really stinking - then he came back to life! That's not a video game or a
movie. That's in the real world, and that's a-m-a-z-i-n-g! When something in
the Scriptures is amazing it is not exaggerated or fictional - it is
actually amazing in the full sense of what that word means - because it is
REAL!
That brings me to Daniel 8
which prophesies something astonishing! That's the description in the
Scripture: astonishing. What does astonishing mean in this
context? Here is a pretty good
definition from vocabulary.com:
Something
astonishing is astounding, staggering, stupefying, amazing, or incredible.
It's not something you see every day. This is a pretty strong word. A dog
shaking hands is not astonishing, but a dog calling 911 for its owner
definitely is. Astonishing things are amazing; they blow your mind. When
people first walked on the moon, that was astonishing. Miracles are
astonishing. If you say, "Holy cow! I can't believe what I'm seeing," you're
probably seeing something astonishing.
In the modern world it is not
easy to astonish anyone anymore. Yet, Daniel prophesies an event for our
near future that is so totally unusual, extraordinary and shocking as to be
astonishing in the fullest sense of the word. Chances are, you will be
personally effected by this astonishing event - the entire world will be.
Trust me, it will be very much to your advantage to know about this
astonishing event in advance, to have some time to get your mind around it
before it actually happens.
Join me tonight
at Tsiyon.Net at 8:00 PM CST for this special online Tsiyon meeting.
We will be premiering our newly re-mastered presentation on Daniel Eight
entitled Astonishing Rebellion. Don't miss this! Please invite your relatives and friends to sign-up for free access at
https://tsiyon.net/register/ to view this with you.
By their very nature
astonishing things are hard to believe, but that does not mean they don't
happen. All the earlier prophesies of Daniel have happened, and this one
will happen too.
Eliyahu
Tsiyon.Org
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