“But there is a God in heaven...”
(Dan. 2:28)
Daniel was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar at the age of around twenty years old most Bible teachers believe. He was one of a small band of Jewish captives carried off from his native homeland Jerusalem to distant pagan Babylon. He lived through the seventy-year Babylonian captivity. He was both a godly and handsome young man. He was a political prophet; “God rules in the affairs of men,” said he.
There is much debate among the apostates as to the authenticity of his writings, as well as the existence of such a person as himself. But Jesus vouchsafed both. That is the only authority I need, though there are many other proofs.
In spite of his lot in life, whatever that might entail, his testimony from youth to old age was, “There is a God in heaven.” Taken from home never to return again, made a slave, lied about, and put into a lion's den, he never questioned his God’s dealings with him. He was resolute. Daniel’s faith was not passive. He not only believed God COULD; he believed God WOULD. He carried this unwavering faith from youth down to his hoary hairs of old age. He was preeminently a man of prayer!
O, that our Lord might grant us the godly character of this“greatly beloved,” man of God, a man with a spiritual backbone. As the old-timer said, “The lions didn’t eat Daniel because there was too much gristle in his backbone.”
“But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.”
(Dan. 11:32)
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