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Living in the Age of Signs
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Distracted by the Urgent
Today’s Audio Devotion:
Distracted by the Urgent
Distracted Driving Awareness now has its own month—April. During this month, police will be especially vigilant, and public service announcements will fill the airways. Too many people have been involved in wrecks because they took their eyes off the road to look at some “urgent” matter on their phone.
This is a metaphor for the way a lot of us are living. Instead of focusing on our ultimate destination of heaven, which keeps us on the straight and narrow path, we become consumed with all the urgent matters around us. While we need to be about our Father’s business on earth, we must also anticipate our Father’s home in heaven. Pondering heaven will help us navigate earth. Rev. J. C. Ryle, a prominent nineteenth-century British theologian, said, “I pity the man who never thinks of heaven.”
The best way to keep heaven in our mind’s eye is to read and rehearse the truths about heaven found in the Bible. If we do that, we’ll live more joyfully and productively. Spend time in Scripture today reading one of the Bible’s great passages about our heavenly home.
Before we go to our eternal home we should try to become acquainted with it.
J. C. Ryle
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Some 2,600 years ago, God gave King Nebuchadnezzar a dream. In this dream, the king saw a five–part statue made of five different metals (see Daniel 2). Each section represented an empire, beginning with Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon. Four of these empires have already risen and fallen in history—a clear fulfillment of Daniel's prophetic interpretation. The fifth and final empire indicates a future Europe—a ten nation coalition that will unite under the Antichrist's rule.
You can read about the King's dream and Daniel's interpretation in Daniel 2, but let's take a quick visual look at what you will find:
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King Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon
Daniel's words to the king are clear. "You are this head of gold" (Daniel 2:37–38).
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Medo–Persian Empire
The Medo–Persian Empire conquered Babylon in 539 BC and remained in power for approximately two hundred years (Daniel 5:28).
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Grecian Empire
Greece's Empire succeeded the Medo–Persians (Daniel 8:21).
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Roman Empire
When the Grecian empire was conquered by Rome, all the lands and peoples of the previous kingdoms were assimilated into the Roman Empire through the strengths of the "iron legions of Rome" (Daniel 2:40).
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Future European Coalition
This empire has not yet risen. Daniel foretells a time when the Roman Empire—Europe—will consist of ten kingdoms or leaders. The future Roman Empire will be present on the earth when God sets up His earthly kingdom (Daniel 2:44).