Daniel’s concern about how God’s covenant people fit into the framework laid out in chapters 2, 7 and 8 is answered by the angel Gabriel and the details of the 70th week.

Over the last several months, President Trump has acted to withhold federal funds from a raft of elite universities: Harvard ($2.26 billion), Cornell ($1 billion), Northwestern ($790 million), Brown ($510 million), Columbia ($400 million), Princeton ($210 million) and the University of Pennsylvania ($175 million). His complaint is the “abject failure of these institutions to deal with antisemitism on campus, but the president has also demanded a broader crackdown on DEI compulsions and an expansion of viewpoint diversity among predominantly progressive faculty.”

Daniel presents a four-kingdom sequence for world history with history ending with the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth.

Anna Louie Sussman of the New York Times writes, “Scientists are doing human embryo research that could, for instance, help prevent miscarriages. Companies are pushing the boundaries of what kind of testing can be done on embryos in the name of optimizing future lives. Embryos are at the center of divorce cases that are part property dispute, part custody battle.

Introduction to Prophetic Scripture: 27% of the Bible is Prophecy and God establishes five benefits associated with studying prophecy.

Ideas have consequences and the battle for ideas is important in any age, but especially in our own day, when relativism, secularism and intentional disinformation are rampant in our world. Thus, in an astonishing and shocking act, President Trump, on 15 March 2025, ordered the termination of grants for Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Voice of America, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and Television Marti), the Open Technology Fund and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks are also being dismantled.

For my wife, Peggy, and me, one of our favorite pastimes is to visit our local Barnes and Noble bookstore. We spend about 60 to 90 minutes perusing the multitude of books throughout the store. I often read and skim a new book to determine if I wish to purchase it. During a recent visit, I read through the new book by religious writer Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine (Emeritus) Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She gives focus to practice and tradition, not necessarily specific theological doctrine or content. She has done extensive research into Gnosticism and its connection to Christianity. She has argued that “belief is overrated” and that is what is most important is what we practice. Perhaps her most important book is The Gnostic Gospels.

God completes His interrogation of Job, with Job responding in humility, confession and repentance, after which God restored Job’s health, wealth and position.

The eruption of antisemitism on the left—dressed up as opposition to Israel’s tactics in a war started by its enemies—is the most potent form of antisemitism in America. Wall Street Journal columnist, Gerard Baker writes, “Antisemitism has a strong pedigree on the left: The equation of capitalism’s evils with the supposed avarice of Jewish financiers is a popular theme, and to it has been added the modern ‘settler colonialist’ narrative that alleges Zionist rapine in Palestine.” Baker adds that “our universities are run by leaders who are models of the left-wing ideology that dominates so much of our politics and culture. It deems the rights of certain people less worthy of protection than others, it divides the world into oppressor and oppressed. You can call for the murder of all Jews, but say sex is biological and you will be punished . . . ‘Truth’ has been deposed and replaced with the monomaniacal ideology of the ‘My Truth’ crowd.”

Elihu chides Job for his pride and his failure to grasp God’s transcendence.