Day 182 – April 26, 2024: Daniel 6-10 and Psalm 75

There is a transition in these chapters from a story about Daniel to Daniel telling the story, except for chapter 6 which is the most famous of the Daniel stories. Remember that Daniel is one of the highest ranking officials in the kings court. He was about to be placed over all the others and they didn’t like it. So, they decided to find a way to bring him down. He wasn’t corrupt, so that didn’t work, his work was perfect and he was efficient and hard working. So, the only way to bring him down was to bring him down because of the God that he worshipped. It worked and he was thrown into the lion’s den, really against the king’s wishes. But once he survives his enemies, the children of his enemies, and the wives of his enemies were all thrown into the lion’s den and were consumed, bones and all. Pretty brutal, but you don’t mess with God’s servants.

The story then takes on the first person with Daniel telling us what he experienced and what he saw. It is all end time stuff with meanings that had significance when this was written but takes a lot of interpretation and guess work to understand who the horn is and who the beasts are and who this large man is. But what we can’t forget is that God is in charge and will always rescue His workers. That’s kinda nice to know.