Every generation thinks that it is worse now than it has ever been. Lamentations was written so that each generation can weep and wail over their misery. Every generation also thinks that it is so bad now that this must be the end! Daniel was written so that each generation can see that it may not be time yet!
Lamentations and Daniel are very different books – but they share at least one thing in common.
In our Bibles they are placed among the prophets – while the Hebrew Bible placed them among the writings.
We saw that the book of Lamentations does not contain much that would be called “prophecy” – either in terms of predicting or in terms of preaching.
Daniel also does not read like one of the prophets. Sure, there are dreams and visions – but those are actually rather rare among the prophets. Daniel fits better in the genre of "apocalyptic" – something that you find at the end of Ezekiel, or in the book of Revelation.
But in spite of some of the strange features of the book, Daniel is not a difficult book to understand.
The point of the book is quite obvious.
Sinclair Ferguson puts it well: "The heart of the book’s message is…the good news of the kingdom of God. Nations and empires, thrones and dominions will rise and fall, but the city of God will endure. His kingdom will last forever, and the gates of hell shall not withstand it. The stone cut without hands will break into pieces the idols of man’s creation and ultimately grow into a mountain that will fill the whole earth.... The Christian who sees and believes this will soon learn how to sing the Lord’s song in whatever foreign land He places us in." (19)
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