“The sovereign Lord guides the faithful Daniel and friends to positions of power in Babylon.” This is a good summary of the story, but it fails to capture the message of Daniel 1. What is the message the exiles were to hear through this story? Imagining ourselves in the predicament of these suffering exiles, we hear the message, The sovereign Lord, who guided the faithful Daniel and his friends to positions of power in Babylon, will guide his faithful people even in exile.20 The question now is,
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