This Monstrous World

This Sunday we return to our series, "Living in God's World, Even When It's Hard." This is a whole different side of the book of Daniel than what has come before. It is a vision of the future and it is dark and scary. Strange monsters devouring and destroying the world. One has lots of horns. One of the horns has eyes and a mouth and attacks the people of faith in the world. Even Daniel is deeply shaken by what he sees. But...there is a throne room, where "The Ancient of Days" and the "son of Man" who rides on the clouds rule. They will rip the kingdom from the grips of the monsters and give it to God's people. The end is justice and goodness and hope. We really need hope in this monstrous world. Daniel gives it to us in chapter 7.