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Daniel 7:25 · World English Bible

Daniel 7:25 Meaning He Will Speak Words Against the Most

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

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What does Daniel 7:25 mean?

The power that speaks great words against the Most High and wears down the holy ones is the conviction, in every person, that God is something outside himself. This belief boasts against your own I AM, tires the awareness that would wake, and keeps rewriting the plain law that your imagining is the sole cause of what befalls you.

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The power that speaks great words against the Most High and wears down the holy ones is the conviction, in every person, that God is something outside himself. This belief boasts against your own I AM, tires the awareness that would wake, and keeps rewriting the plain law that your imagining is the sole cause of what befalls you. Under it a person feels handed over, subject to a world he thinks makes him.

The measured span, a time and times and the dividing of time, is the appointed length of that long sleep, not a doom but a set season. Man's imagining, good or bad, is always carried out, because he is the only creator there is. When the season closes and the belief in an outer God is overturned, the self wakes as the Father within. What ruled you was never a devil abroad; it was your own forgetting, and it ends when you remember.

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Live Daniel 7:25 today

  1. Catch one sentence today that starts with it is doing this to me, the market, the algorithm, my boss, my family. Stop and ask what you have been assuming instead.
  2. When a friend says they have no say in their situation, do not argue. Just ask what they would want if it were fully up to them, and keep them on that answer.
  3. Under pressure, when it feels like everything is being decided somewhere above you, name quietly that the sense of being handed over is a mood, not a fact, and act from the version where you have a say.

Where have I put the power that was mine the whole time?

The same truth in other traditions

Upanishads

The one you have been looking for in temples and skies is seated in your own heart. The search outward is the only thing keeping it hidden.

Zen

Riding an ox while hunting for an ox. Everyone looking for the power somewhere else is already carried by it.

Taoism · Zhuangzi

A man dreams he is a butterfly and wakes unsure which is which. The whole weight of a world that seems to be done to you turns on how you take yourself to be.

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