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Learning to Live in Exile Week Four: Intimations of Immortality Welcome! Please fill out a name tag and help yourself to refreshments. Begin reading the passage from Daniel.

Review  Week 1: The Mystery of Daniel ◦ Dating, Language, Place in Canon, Historical Accuracy  Week 2: The Court Tales ◦ How do we read the accounts in ch. 2-5? History, historical fiction, folk tales  Week 3: Apocalyptic Imagery ◦ Pseudopigrapha, Ex Eventu Prophecy ◦ The Crisis of Antiochus Epiphanes IV ◦ The “time of the end” and sealing up of messages

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Fresh Eyes and Ears  Daniel 11:29- 12:13 Resurrection? ◦ What do you notice about the wise? What are they supposed to be doing and what will happen to them? Divine Intervention? ◦ What is God or his agents doing here? Apocalyptic ◦ What does this suggest Imagination? about how we should live in exile and persecution?

Daniel in Matthew and Mark  24 As Jesus came out of the  13 As he came out of the temple, temple and was going away, his one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what large disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 Then stones and what large buildings!” 2 Then Jesus asked he asked them, “You see all these, him, “Do you see these great do you not? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here upon buildings? Not one stone will be another; all will be thrown down.” left here upon another; all will be  15 “So when you see the thrown down.”  14 “But when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of desolating sacrilege set up by the prophet Daniel (let the where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), 16 then those reader understand), then those in in Judea must flee to the Judea must flee to the mountains; mountains;

Some New Testament Questions  What did Paul do after his conversion? ◦ Galatians 1:13 – 2:10 ◦ Acts 9:19b – 9:30  What did Jesus say at his trials? ◦ Mark 14:60 – 65, 15:1-5 ◦ John 18:19-24, 18: 33-38  Who wrote the pastoral epistles?

John Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination

Same Lessons The Lord is in control Live and Remain work faithful Daniel The Lord The Lord has a is faithful purpose Be patient