Empire of the Saints
Ancient Rome City Watercolor, by Taylor-eOS Lections: All Saints’ Sunday ( Hallowmas ), AD 2025 C Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. The Book of Daniel is an apocalypse. It utilizes prophetic imagery and sensational symbolism to unveil how God is at work behind the scenes, interpreting historical happenings—political, military, socioeconomic—through a religious lens. Daniel, in other words, is concerned with the meaning undergirding world events. Empires rise, dynasties fall, and the faithful wish to know why. We divide the Hebrew Bible, traditionally, into three parts, with the most authoritative being the Law, then the Prophets, and finally the later Writings. Judaism places Daniel in this third category, whilst Christians rank him amongst the Major Prophets. And that might seem a little odd. Why would Christians hold a Jewish b...
