COMMUNITY BLOG

  • The narrative story of Chapter 2 is incredibly significant as a follow up to Chapter 1, in it shows how Daniel and his three friends were sustained by God and established by God as influencers in Babylonian society.

     

    The King has a dream that so disturbed him, he calls upon all his “magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed.”


  • The prophecies against God’s people that we have just been reading about in the book of Ezekiel, and earlier in Jeremiah and Isaiah, have become reality. Babylon has defeated Judah, and we get the details of the insidious but ingenious plan of the victors to subjugate the conquered people.


  • The author of the book of Daniel has been traditionally recognized as the prophet Daniel himself. While most of the book appears written by an unnamed third-person narrator, Daniel speaks in the first person in chapters 9 and 10. A reliable source for accepting Daniel as the author is Jesus, who, in Matthew 24:15, cites to prophecies spoken “by the prophet Daniel.”