Daniel In the Lions Den (Podcast)

Daniel In the Lions Den Podcast by Pastor John MacArthur for Grace to You

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We’re looking at Daniel chapter 6 tonight. What a wonderful and exciting adventure it is to go through this chapter. I’m often torn as I approach these narrative chapters about the possibility of splitting them down and covering them over a period of time, and yet the story is so wonderful as a whole that I find myself pressed to deal with all of it, and so we sort of run our way through these great narrative sections of the book of Daniel. This is the last of those. This sixth chapter ends the historical narrative portion, and from seven on, we get into some deep and exciting prophetic truth. We’ll be touching on that beginning next Lord’s day.

We’re looking at Daniel chapter 6, the famous chapter in which we find Daniel in and out of the lions’ den. Just as an introduction, let me make a couple of comments relative to what we’ll learn in the text. Nations are born, they live, they die. They rise and they fall with great regularity. In fact, as you study history, you are more and more impressed with the fact that nations rapidly pass from off the scene. We look back to the Empires of the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and finally the Babylonians, where we find Daniel first taking the role of prime minister. They were followed by the Persians, and the Medes, and the Greeks, and the Romans. All of them came and all of them went.

On our own continents, in the Western Hemisphere, we find tales told of the great Mayan, the great Inca, the great Aztec civilizations, but little or no trace remains except for some archaeological artifacts. They have come and they have gone.