Daniel, the Sky reader!

I like to write from the writers of scripture and find their spirituality that way! To overhear the tone of each writer’s spirituality or relationship with God, helps me get at a clearer interpretation of their messages. I studied Daniel for about three years.

So Daniel says: I want to understand more Lord, so i will “fix my gaze to gain understanding.” You come to me in dream, through your angels you bring understanding through trances. I can now see up to a certain point in both directions in history. I will share as much as you allow me with others, and rule this land in my season on earth according to what you show me.

So Daniel wrote down what he saw and understood from God, even through reading Jeremiah and other prophets. His book records it. And Jesus called Daniel a prophet.

Daniel was a practical mystic as well, who lead the subculture of seers in that nation who would later become the wise men. Years later some of these wise men, could read the sky well enough to find Messiah! Sky readers are rare in our days. Daniel wanted to understand how all of history tied together, and how it concerned his own people. He saw very broadly through space and time.

Daniel could read through time. And could see, but also understand. When he couldn’t he sought out understanding, and often the angels would explain what he was seeing.

Seeing and understanding work in tandem. Yet, many can see without understanding. When they go together, you have a high prophet like Daniel.
In our times, post industrialism distraction have increased, and most of the world is now lost under forms of consumerism, materialism and other forms of distraction from the Ultimate. But God is One, and has revealed His Story forever to those who would seek it out! “Love is no secret!” Yet, few are even trying to understand the times, much less read the skies. We float adrift with no context without the wise to interpret the Skies! The skies of history require us to seek out understanding, as the wise men, and Daniel did.

Daniel was able to, and while practically serving in government. A practical mystic, i would call Daniel, who fixed his gaze to gain understanding! He could see and interpret his times.

In turbulent insecure times, we need people who can interpret the times, and read the skies, and restate the ancient narrative told in them. To contextualize our own times in the long story is needed now more than ever. Unfortunately few are doing so. We need more sky readers now!

Prayer helps us to see more dimensions of things; then we seek out understanding and interpretation to fill in what we have encountered with His meaning. We see, then seek to understand what we see. Where there is prophecy, understanding is nearby; they work in tandem in God. That’s what Daniel modeled. He had both sight and understanding! The wise men could both see and understand The Star they were following.

So in prayer, if we are shown something, ask what it means. You can learn to both see and interpret in and by His Spirit! Let’s become sky readers, friends!

Once we see that Father is Lord over space and time, we can meet Him in every direction! Developing a cosmology of meeting God in both space and time was part of what Daniel modeled for us in his personal spirituality!