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Daniel's Scary Vision

     We pick it up in chapter 10:4 of the book of Daniel. If you think God and his angels are always meek and mild, read on...

     Daniel, with a remarkable life of service to God while Israelites were forced to live in Babylon, wrote: "I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris. I looked up and there before me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of the finest gold around his waist." 

     "His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude. There were others with me, so overwhelmed by such terror they fled and hid themselves." 

     Daniel continues: "I had no strength left, my face turned deathly pale, and I was helpless. I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground. A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees."

     "He said, 'Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you."

     If a friendly angel can do that, we don't want to meet an angel sent to escort us to hell. The rest of Daniel chapters 10 and 11, the angel tells him what will happen on the world stage over the next 500 years. And history records it. 

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