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Hope in the Midst of a Hostile World: The Gospel according to Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Like Daniel and the Israelite exiles in Babylon, we too are strangers and exiles in this world. We too are waiting for the coming of the Son of Man, who has received the kingdom from the Ancient of Days, to establish his kingdom on earth. Schwab demonstrates how believers living among unbelievers, and as citizens of countries with increasingly hostile governments, have opportunity to reveal...

Daniel 1 sets the pattern for the rest of the book of Daniel. It is Daniel’s own introduction, and it is important not to rush through it. This is where the reader is introduced to God, and the only place in the book where God is said to act directly. Throughout the rest of Daniel, the omniscient narrator goes out of his way not to ascribe direct action to God. Outside of the first chapter, God is not an actor in the stories; he is transcendent, and his actions
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