Dry Bones and Fiery Furnaces: Reflections on the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel (The Daily Quiet Time Reflections Series, Band 15) - Softcover

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Two young exiles were carried off to Babylon in the same wave of deportations. One became a priest-turned-prophet, commissioned to warn a stubborn community of fellow captives that worse was coming before it got better. The other rose through the ranks of a pagan court, remaining faithful through the reigns of four kings and two empires, until emperors themselves knelt to confess that his God ruled the kingdoms of men. Ezekiel and Daniel never appear together in Scripture, but their books tell the same story of exile and vindication from two different vantage points — one from a valley of dry bones, the other from the mouth of a fiery furnace.

Dry Bones and Fiery Furnaces: Reflections on the Books of Ezekiel and Daniel is the fifteenth volume in The Daily Quiet Time Reflections Series, continuing the same daily, one-reading-at-a-time approach used throughout — most recently in Judgment and Mercy: Reflections on the Books of Jeremiah and Lamentations. Drawn from more than a decade of daily Quiet Time writing and Sunday School teaching at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Eugene Han and Eunmi Kim walk through both books across twenty chapters and four parts: Ezekiel's judgment on Judah, judgment on the nations, and restoration, followed by a fourth part tracing Daniel's twelve chapters from the king's table to the lions' den to the visions of the end of days.

This is not a technical commentary written for seminarians. It is a layman's companion for ordinary believers who want to read two of the Bible's strangest and most rewarding books slowly, and be met by both their severity and their hope.

Each chapter includes:

• A close, readable walk through that day's passage, grounded in careful study but written for everyday readers
• Cross-references tracing how the New Testament picks up Ezekiel's and Daniel's imagery — from the new heart promised in Ezekiel 36 to the resurrection hope of Daniel 12 and its echoes in Revelation
• Honest engagement with both books' hardest material, including Ezekiel's enacted sign-acts and Daniel's apocalyptic visions, alongside their most treasured promises of restoration and deliverance
• Reflection and discussion questions, ideal for personal devotion or small-group Bible study

Whether you are reading through Ezekiel and Daniel for the first time, leading a Bible study, or continuing the journey begun in earlier volumes of this series, this book offers twenty chapters of careful, faithful reflection on two prophets who never stopped believing that the God who allowed the exile was the same God who would bring his people through it.

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