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God’s Unfailing Purpose: The Message of Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Where is God? This is often the question of skeptics, scoffers, and even troubled souls. Trials and tribulations of one sort or another crowd our personal lives, while corruption, conflict, and catastrophe command the world scene. Indeed, where is God in all of this? Asking the question is fair enough; answering demands caution. God’s Unfailing Purpose: The Message of Daniel is a cautious and...

grace is always individually personal, so is the dispersing of His justice. If Nebuchadnezzar’s personal story gives hope to sinners, Belshazzar’s issues a warning. Belshazzar’s is a story of condemnation. Belshazzar’s legacy is tragic. Although Daniel uses him on two occasions simply as a calendar to date visions (7:1 and 8:1), the only information giving any insight into his character or contributions concerns a drunken celebration that ends in death. He planned a banquet and
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