Sermon Tone Analysis

Have the last two years taught us anything?

The word “apocalypse” is a transliteration of apokalypsis in Greek.

Generally, the Greek word is translated as “revelation”.

However, the English word “apocalypse” has taken the place of “Doomsday” to mean the end of the world.

We can think of the Greek version of the word “apocalypse” as “a reveal that causes change”.

The Hebrew version of the word means the same thing.

The Hebrew word is used for when dreams are revealed and also for when nakedness is revealed.

Matthew 11:25–27 (CSB)

At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed [apokalypto] them to infants.

Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.

All things have been entrusted to me by my Father.

No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal [apokalypto] him.

Galatians 1:11–12 (CSB)

For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin.

For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation [apokalypto] of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 1:1 (CSB)

The revelation [apokalypto] of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place.

He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Various “apocalypses” happen throughout the Bible:

Adam wakes up from sleep to meet his wife, Eve.

God appears 4 times to Abraham with promises.

Jacob saw the stairway to Heaven, waking to learn that God was for him.

Moses encounters a revealed God on Mt.

Sinai.

Samuel, David, Solomon, Micaiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Zechariah, and more have revelatory dreams.

Besides healthcare, what issues have been revealed about the society because of the pandemic?

How has the pandemic affected the poor?

Has society learned from past disasters?

The book of Daniel, named after and written by Daniel in the sixth century B.C., records the events of his life and the visions that he saw from the time of his exile in 605 (1:1) until the third year of King Cyrus (536; 10:1).

Daniel, whose name means “God is my Judge,” was a young man of noble blood who was exiled from Judah during the time of King Jehoiakim (609–597 B.C.) and lived thereafter at the Babylonian court.

After the fall of the Babylonian Empire, he served the Medo-Persian Empire that succeeded it.

In chapter 2, King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream and told his “magicians, mediums, sorcerers, and Chaldeans” to tell him the interpretation of his dream without him first telling them the dream.

dan2:14-19

At this terrible crossroads, God gives Daniel a revelation.

What did Daniel do in this situation?

Now, this next part is even wilder.

That is what happens to the king.

There is a theme within the Bible of peace in relation to animals.

Adam has peace with the animals.

(creation)

Noah had peace with the animals.

(re-creation)

Solomon spoke of animals.

(1 Kings 4, wisdom)

Jesus speaks of animals.

(Luke 12, wisdom)

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dan7:11-15

What similarities do you see with Daniel’s life and the dreams of others?

What similarities do you see with Daniel’s life and his own dreams?

Application

What does Daniel’s dream teach us about COVID?