GOD is SOUL, Part 2
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Spiritual Harmony from Water
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I was thinking through why Daniel took leave temporally of his duties in order to rest on the shores of the Hiddekel River in Daniel 10. At this point in my study for this book, I went with my wife to a concert in which a guitarist played and sang a song that gave me the answer I was seeking. One line from over forty minutes of playing stood out to me: “he found peace by the river in his soul.”
I recall in my younger days sitting by a swiftly flowing stream and simply relaxing with music from the waters, letting go of all the wind-flung chaff of stress that constantly had been choking me for a while. Shaddai, or God of the Mountains, from which the Hiddekel flows, can also be translated as Spirit or Soul. So as Hiddekel, the Word of God, exits the source of harmony and beauty, the river’s chorus and musical instruments play a heavenly concert that speaks in a language often incomprehensible to ordinary ears. In my own experience, the orchestra of blending instruments at one point seemed to feature a faint solo of a clarinet. As he moved upstream, the faint solo seemed to be from a piccolo. All from the soothing, perfect harmony reflecting the science of music!
Did Daniel have such an experience when he visited the bank of the Hiddekel? Was a sense of harmony flowing from Eden what he was seeking and needed after receiving those two long-into-the-future prophecies in Daniel 8 and 9…