10:15-17
In many ways this chapter is about the travail that was involved in Daniel receiving this message. The message was going to be so awesome and terrible, that the people reading the prophecy needed to know something of the background, and that Daniel was not just giving a random message, or something that he had made up and didn’t really care about. Daniel was on the ground again and unable to speak. The man touched him and Daniel then began to speak. He was without strength and breathless.
Now this raises an interesting question. If someone goes into great detail about what they have seen and heard, before giving the message, then I become suspicious of the message! And such a view is not without Biblical support (Col 2:18,19). Yet here we have a whole chapter essentially devoted to Daniel’s feelings and experiences, and this is part of the word of God. Perhaps it is just a warning not to automatically write off anyone who does describe “spiritual experiences”.
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