Devotional: Daniel 8:1-14

Today’s passage: Daniel 8:1-14

Helpful thoughts:

• This vision now follows the previous from two years prior.
• The animals in this vision:
  • A ram with two horns (One higher than the other)
    • It charged every direction but north.
    • It seemed as though no one could stop it.
  • A goat with a conspicuous horn
    • He destroys the ram.
    • In his strength, the single horn was broken and four new horns grew in its place.
    • One of those horns grew a horn of its own.
      • The new horn considered himself to be as great as God Himself.
      • This new horn would stop the Temple from functioning as it should and desecrate it (More to come on that in the next passage tomorrow).
      • This desecration/transgression/desolation would last 2,300 days.

Questions to consider:

1. Knowing that Daniel had seen these visions before the the hand appeared which wrote on the wall, how do you think these visions and their meaning helped him to know the bigger picture when he spoke to King Belshazzar?
2. In what ways can the word of God give us perspective that helps us through the ups and downs in every day life?