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🌅MORNING– The Son of Man Arrives “I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven one like a Son of Man was coming, and He came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him. And to Him was given dominion, glory and a kingdom” Daniel’s earlier visions…

🌅MORNING– An Excellent Spirit “Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.” By the time we reach Daniel 6, Daniel is no longer a young exile trying to survive Babylon. He is now an elderly…

🌅MORNING– The Tree That Forgot Its Root🌳 “The tree🌳 that you saw… which became large and grew strong… it is you, O king.” Years ago, when I was in seminary in Mill Valley, California, I would drive north to Petaluma where I lived. The road wound through a long corridor of eucalyptus trees🌳. They were…

🌅MORNING– Even If “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire… But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods…” In 2014, during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa,…

🌅MORNING– Settled Before the Test “But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food…” Daniel’s decision was never really about vegetables. It was about allegiance. He was a young exile living inside the most powerful empire on earth. Babylon intended to reshape these Hebrew captives completely —…

🌅MORNING– The River Brings Life🌳 “And by the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees🌳 for food.  Their leaves 🍃will not wither, and their fruit will not fail.  They will bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be…

🌅MORNING– When Hope Has Dried Up “Son of man, can these bones live? … I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life.” The Spirit of the Lord brings Ezekiel into a valley filled with bones. They cover the ground in every direction. Not bodies from a recent battle, but bones…

🌅MORNING– Sing For Us Again “Behold, you are to them like a sensual song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them.” Ezekiel had an audience. People gathered to hear him. They talked about him in the doorways of…

Ezekiel speaks these words to people living far from home. Jerusalem had been shattered. Many had been carried away into exile. But the deepest problem was not geographical. Their real danger was inside them. Even after judgment, many still resisted God. Their hearts had grown hard over years of compromise, idolatry, and rebellion. So the…

🌅MORNING– A Vision of Glory “Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.” Ezekiel is thirty years old (1:1), the age when a priest would normally begin temple service. Instead of stepping into ministry in…