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Signs and Wonders: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

From start to finish, Robert A. Anderson’s commentary depicts Daniel as an exemplar of loyalty to God, a faithful Jew in an alien culture. As such Daniel is a source of inspiration for those who find themselves in parallel circumstances—beset by the disadvantages of their subservient position, faced with the threat of dire physical suffering and even death, and enticed to apostasy. Like Joseph in...

of God to rescue the three; but it acknowledges that it may not be the will of God to do so. So far as this latter point is concerned, it is in keeping with the assertion of Ps. 115:3: ‘Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases’. Neither here nor anywhere else in the Hebrew Scriptures is there an underwritten guarantee that every faithful Jew will be delivered from the consequences of his or her devotion to God should circumstances produce a threat to that person’s life. Practical experience
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