Download audio Download sermon Daniel 12:1-13 Tonight we conclude our series of sermons on Daniel. I preached my first series of sermons on Daniel in 1983, some thirty-four years ago. It is remarkable how superior the current stock of commentaries on Daniel are to what was available in 1983. Back then there were was really […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 11:36-45 We return to Daniel after missing a Lord’s Day, so let me remind you that chapter 11 contains the content of the vision that had been given to Daniel in the third year of Cyrus, that is, 535 B.C. The vision covered the years and the political developments in […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 11:2-35 The previous chapter serves as an introduction to the vision, the substance of which is now provided. But the introduction, impressive as it is for its account of the overwhelming impression the vision had on Daniel, for the appearance of an angel and references to other spiritual beings […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 10:1-11:1 Daniel chapter 10 is, in effect, the introduction to the final section of the book of Daniel. Chapters 10-12 are a single unit. They amount to a prophecy of the future, with commentary, and, as we will find when we consider chapter 11, a prophecy in some ways unlike […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 9:20-27 We begin our reading this evening with the paragraph with which we concluded our reading last Lord’s Day evening. It reminds us that what follows in vv. 24-27 is a revelation brought to Daniel by the angel Gabriel in response to Daniel’s prayer. It also raises an obvious question: […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 9:1-23 Daniel, as we have already seen, is an interesting mix of different sorts of material. We first had the famous stories of the first six chapters – remember, I don’t ever use the word “story” to mean that what we read was not true history; I mean only that […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 8:1-27 At the beginning of this second vision, given to Daniel two years after the first, the book reverts to Hebrew. From chapter 2, verse 4 to this point the book was written in Aramaic. It remains Hebrew to the end of the book. The brute fact is: no one […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 7:1-28 With chapter 7 we enter the second half of the book of Daniel and leave behind the more familiar and popular parts of the book. The final chapters of Daniel record visions of the future that Daniel received at various times. As the stories in the first six […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 6:1-28 Chapter 6 and the story of Daniel in the lions’ den is the part of the book of Daniel that everyone best remembers from Sunday School. It is one of the most beloved stories in the entire Bible. When I was a boy, we often sang in Sunday School […]
Download audio Download sermon Daniel 5:1-31 Some years have passed since the events recorded in chapter 4 and Daniel is now an older man. We wonder what his life was like through those long years. He was there at the beginning of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign and was there to the end. Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 B.C. […]