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Face2Face with Daniel: Encountering the Jerusalem Exile Living in a Babylon World is unavailable, but you can change that!

At an early age, Daniel was taken from the city of Jerusalem to live the remainder of his days in Babylon. But while living in Babylon, Daniel continued to live for Jerusalem. In Babylon, he lived for the God of grace he had come to know in Jerusalem. Going face to face with Daniel requires Christians to go face to face with this piercing question: Are we willing to live for God while we live in...

as Babylonians in this Babylonian world. Because all of us are so inclined in this direction, we must ever keep the example of Daniel before our eyes. Daniel 1:3–16 shows how Daniel and his friends demonstrated Jerusalem values on the issue of food. They were enrolled in a special school that would train them to serve the king (v. 5), and Babylonian food was placed before them. It all sounds so innocent and harmless. Daniel and his friends were in Babylon; why not eat Babylonian food? But Daniel
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