Daniel’s Wacky Dreams

How they Prove the Past and Foretell Our Future. 

Probably my favorite movie of all time is Inception, the 2010 Leonard DiCaprio film with the dreams within dreams within dreams. 

The plot of that movie is a tangled web if there ever was one. You have to take it nice and slow, understand things one piece at a time, and once you understand all the smaller parts, you can put it all together and finally understand what’s going on. 

You might need to watch it a few times to get it all, but trust me, it all fits together. And even if you don’t always understand what you’re looking at, the Hans Zimmer music is usually enough to keep you interested.

Dreams can be kind of loopy sometimes. And heavily symbolic. And you don’t always understand what’s going on when you’re in them. That was certainly the case for the Prophet Daniel in his book. 

Daniel has a few truly wacky dreams and visions throughout his story. They involve ferocious beasts, a goat having a showdown with a ram, and a statue made of many types of metals. 

These dreams are so hard to understand, they cause many Christians to just kind of read past them and move on to the next chapter as quickly as they can. 

But these dreams are not just the effects of eating that leftover Chinese food. Daniel’s dreams were from God. They actually had real-world predictive power. The details Daniel saw in his dreams were specific to things to come. 

And some of these things he dreamed about have already happened; there are others that actually haven’t happened yet. 

So we’re going to dig into Daniel’s dreams in chapters 2, 7 and 8 of his book, and I’ll explain what they mean today. And just like trying to understand Inception, we’re going to do that by taking things nice and slow; understanding one piece at a time, and then putting all those pieces together. Maybe with a little help from Leonardo DiCaprio. 

So if you’ve ever found Daniel’s Dreams to kinda weird, and would like to know why they’re in the Bible, then turn with me to Daniel 7, and let’s get weird.

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0:00 - Introduction

3:15 - Daniel 7 and the Four Beasts

11:25 - Daniel 8 and the Ram and Goat

14:50 - Daniel 2 and the Statue

21:15 - Closing Thoughts

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