If you read the book of Daniel and only see a den of lions and strange visions, you have missed the main character in the book—the sovereign God! Daniel wrote this book not to glorify himself but to exalt the Lord. In every circumstance, in every crisis, Daniel points us to a God who is at work in human history. To say that God is sovereign simply means that nothing happens that is not planned or permitted by God. That is true of kingdoms and it is true of our lives. Daniel’s God
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