There is a “slogan” of sorts heard often in years gone by: “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.” While the gist of this statement is correct, the first part of it should have an asterisk attached, directed toward the qualification that God has given us in His Word through the prophetic scriptures a glimpse of some of the general movements of the future.

Such is the case with a dream Daniel had in the middle of the sixth century B.C., a dream with content similar to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream some fifty years earlier. Both dreams outline the flow of world history through four great empires—all of which eventually crumble—and its culmination in a fifth empire, which will last forever.

So we can know something of what the future holds through careful Bible study, challenging as it may sometimes be. However, what is most encouraging of all is that we indeed know Who holds the future.

With that in mind, let’s roll up our sleeves and dive into Daniel chapter 7 for this fifth episode of a six-part series, “When Worlds Collide: Studies in the Book of Daniel,” an episode entitled, “A Frightful Dream with Forever Details.”

which are not just stories, but accounts of actual events, there is an overarching theme of the book of which these various accounts are a demonstration. That theme is summarized in verse twenty-one of chapter two: And he [God] changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to those who know understanding.

“The wise” are those who look around them at current events in the world and ask the question, “Who’s in charge here?” And “the wise” are those who realize the correct answer to that question: “GOD is in charge here!”

Especially in this present time the words of the hymn, “This Is My Father’s World,” are particularly relevant, comforting, and encouraging: “This is my Father’s world, O let me ne’er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.”

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