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Daniel is a difficult book. But it is a book about the meaning of history, and people today need its message. The whole church needs reassurance, especially in view of Marxist claims to be able by human effort to introduce a utopian world government. “When the church lets part of its message go by default people look elsewhere for a substitute,” writes Joyce Baldwin. “All the more reason, then,...

The book opens with two verses which connect with world history. With characteristic brevity reference is made to the first ominous encounter between Nebuchadrezzar and the Davidic king of Jerusalem. All that the prophets had spoken indicated that this would not be the last of such encounters. Though on this occasion Jerusalem and its king had to give in to the superior might of the Babylonians, worse
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