Vox Binging and Daniel 7
(A hasty written-in-iPhone-notes thought... so not very in-depth. I’ve decided that my blog shouldn’t just be for more polished posts, but for more raw reflections too!) I have recently binged* Vox videos—the ones on international relations and politics. Particularly from the videos of the weaponisation of the Arctic, China’s colonisation of the South China Sea, and powers in the Middle East, I realised how much of our society is determined by those in positions of power, shaping foreign policy, vested with the power to issue decrees and press buttons that can change the course of history. At the same time I’ve been going through the book of Daniel: so inspiring is his life of faithful, worshipful service within one of the world’s greatest empires in history, the Babylonian Empire. He has many visions looking forward to the coming Messiah, and they are distinctive among the OT prophecies because of their direct contact with political power. (Edinburgh, January 2019) Today I read Da...