1. Welcome to 12:13!

2. Small Talk
Can you think of a time when you saw that others were about to do something wrong and you took a stand for righteousness?

3. Our Rules
Need to use the bathroom? Ask a parent volunteer Need handouts from last week? Need to borrow a pen? Loan us a shoe and we will loan you a pen! Need to talk with a friend? Wait for the right time...you will!

4. Q: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
New City Catechism #18
Q: Will God allow our disobedience and idolatry to go unpunished?
A: No, every sin is against the sovereignty, holiness, and goodness of God, and against his righteous law, and God is righteously angry with our sins and will punish them in his just judgment both in this life, and in the life to come.

5. The Greatest Story Ever Told
How To Read And Understand THE PROPHETS
(Daniel, Part 2)

6. The Purpose Of The Prophets
Prophets are God’s spokesmen and messengers
“They were like ambassadors from the heavenly court, who relayed the divine sovereign’s will to the people.” (Fee, 170)
What was their main job?
Remind Israel to keep their covenant with God
Blessings for obedience (health, prosperity, security, etc.)
Curses for disobedience (disease, destruction, death, etc.)
Deuteronomy 4:25-31
Not primarily to predict future events

7. Trivial Pursuit (Art & Culture)
Who is the oldest man in the Bible?
What’s the name of Henry Huggins’s dog?
What does the flag wave over in all three verses of The Star Spangled Banner?
What’s the name of the tiger who pursues Mowgli in The Jungle Book?

8. KING OVER ALL: NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S HUMILIATION
The dream
The interpretation
The boast
The judgment
The confession
The restoration

9. KING OVER ALL: HANDWRITING ON THE WALL
Belshazzar’s feast
Blasphemy
Fear the fingers!
Witless wise men
Daniel’s verdict
“That very night…”

10. KING OVER ALL: IN THE CLOUDS
Four kingdoms
Ancient of Days
Beast destroyed
Son of man in the clouds
“His kingdom is an everlasting dominion…and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.” (Daniel 7:14)

11. KING OVER ALL
“At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven…and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, ‘What have you done?’” (Daniel 4:34-35)