blessing if they do and warns of judgement if they don’t. This is clear, for example, from the letters to the seven churches in Revelation (Rev. 1–3). God is not indifferent to how we live as His people, whether in the sixth century B.C. or the twenty-first century A.D. A danger in studying Daniel is that we bring our preconceived ideas to the text. In Christian culture Daniel is portrayed as a hero of the faith. Hymns like Dare to be a Daniel are great but can