Spiritual Harmony – Waters and Music, Part II
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Daniel took leave temporally to rest on the shores of the Hiddekel River.
When this author went with his wife to a concert in which a guitarist played and sang a song, he felt an awakening that gave him the answer he had been seeking about Daniel’s time at this river. One line from over forty minutes of playing stood out to him: “he found peace by the river in his soul.” This song was “I’ve Got Peace Like a River in My Soul,” (“It Is Well With My Soul”, also known as “When Peace, Like A River,” is a hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss in 1876)
The author recalls in his 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 him for a while. Shaddai, or God of the Mountains, from which the Hiddekel flows, can also be translated 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 the author’s 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?
“Living Water” Leading to “Everlasting Life”
Between the spiritual significance of whatever concert Daniel experienced by Hiddekel’s waters and his devout prayers, the prophet’s thought was being prepared to see into the eternal NOW again, to receive and share four of the greatest prophecies in the Bible, from righteousness standing on the waters of Hiddekel, all four about the Second Coming of Purity, the impersonal Christ.