How is Daniel unique among Old Testament books?
The book of Daniel has an overall message regarding the historical sovereignty of God. The general theme is about the superiority of God’s sovereignty over all the earthly kings. The book is also providing a general sovereignty overview and answer to the fundamental question concerning how God keeps on working His plans whenever they are looking lost. Therefore, David is unique in his way, considering his eschatological view of passage (Daniel Carroll R., 2015). According to Daniel’s perspective, he is different from the other eschatological passages. These other passages refer to the future perspective of the Israelites as well as the covenant promising to God’s people. However, Daniel’s eschatological passage has a different perspective regarding the purpose of empires in the secular world. He is also different in explaining the coming of the last kingdom of God. The book attempts to call for obedience and patience during the hard times different from the others advocating for the importance of repenting to God’s people.
Discuss the problems in interpreting Daniel.
Daniel is regarded as one of the few books of the bible take addresses the accounts that take place at the judgment period. While else the other books attempt to foretell the period while others take the accounts before the period. Therefore, this results in the challenges of interpreting the book of Daniel. One of the primary challenges is to understand the contrast in the book between Daniel’s purity of faith and the culture of Idol worshiping (Maiaweng, 2016). The book of Daniel is hard in interpretation, especially because it begins with history, making the transition of chapter 7 containing visions for upcoming accounts essential to the culture of the Jews. Particularly, Daniel, in his eschatological passage, is providing a meticulous timeline regarding Israel’s messiah. The book of Daniel also outlines the accounts that would come along after the coming of the Messiah. Overall, in all accounts prophetic and historic, Daniel is presenting a solid case for the absolute God’s sovereignty