Tucker said at beginning of a video that 'Denial' is one of the most powerful forces in human nature. In describing Daniel's trek in Babylon, John Lennox said reality, history, and human existence can only be described from outside the human 'System.'
For example, a box full of even numbers can only be defined from outside the box where odd and even numbers exist. Inside the box, one can only perceive a very limited scope of even numbers. Human history is the same. Inside our knowable spaces of length, width, and depth framed by time present, we see what happened in history. Not the why or how. People make guesses and in Paganistic Plutonic (New Age) thought, people use mysticism framed in philosophy to describe the why. Yet, too often in New Age, identity and deity are discovered in themselves. In their system.
The book of Daniel is a prophet’s description of WHAT happened in Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar’s court. Yet, Daniel does not stop there. He also describes the WHY. Let’s look at that. Taken from Judah as a captive after King Neb’s first siege of Jerusalem, Danil lands in ‘Babylon U’ for 3 years. This was secular, cultural, mystical, and religious immersion in the Babylonian system… During the height of Babylonian power and wealth. It’s a lot like what we do today by sending our kids to public University for that flavor of Godless cultural immersion. As for the Babylonian system, keep in mind that New Age Paganistic Plutonism began in Babylon. Though Paganistic Plutonism is Greek Mythology and mysticism framed by Plato’s philosophies, the mythology and mysticism originated in Babylon. In Babylon, it was licentious, mystical, and deeply impacted people.
Put college kids in the middle of that and the results are… what we see on our university and college campuses. In spite of the dismaying effects and results, the most important subtle problem is that students are not taught how to think. Daniel and his friends, in their late teens to early twenties retained their faith and their wits, in a relativistic free for all, rising to the top of the heap. They anchored their ability to think outside the ‘system’ to the creator beyond space time.
Scroll forward to Daniel in his early eighties. 60 years have passed. With Persian Armies besieging Babylon, King Belteshazzar hosted an orgy, using some of the gold dishes from the ‘Holy Place’ from the destroyed Jerusalem Temple as plates and drinking cups. This reveals how Babylon had lost its ability to think. Enemies besieged the city, and the King had a party. Belteshazzar saw the ‘writing on the wall’, his knees knocked together in fear, and called Daniel out of retirement to interpret. By the way, ‘knees knocking together’ is the ancient euphemism for crapping your pants. The loosening of bowels in Isaiah prophetically predicted this over a century before it happened. I call it divine humor from outside the system.
At this point, Daniel interpreted, telling the King he had been weighed, found wanting, and the Persians would conquer Babylon. At that point, in a remarkable currency decline, Babylonian gold coins had more bronze than gold in them. Think hyperinflation, stealing the wages of the poor, cultural morass, and licentious behavior as the norm.
That night, Persian General Guburu successfully diverted the Euphrates north of Babylon, marched in knee deep water under the walls of Babylon, and took the city without fighting a battle. Cyrus mentions this accomplishment in the Steele column that detailed his reign of Persia.
Bottom Line: Babylonians could only define their greatness inside their city walls… Inside their ‘System.’ They lost the ability to think outside the walls, even losing their will to defend their empire and win… Until the Persian Army was inside Babylon, destroying their system.
Where are we in this story? I think we are Babylon.
Daniel was different. He reveals that combating denial using God’s word puts an information system in our hands that originates outside our human system, coming from beyond Space Time.
Jay
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