Daniel And The Lion 's Den

5). David's trust in God is established from antecedent experiences with God who has redeemed David (v. 8, 22) and who has demonstrated faithfulness (v. 3). The affidavit of trust continues in verses 6-8. After David put himself in God's hands he reminisced that God has not given him into the hands of his enemies (v.8). Verses 9-13 delineate the astute condition of David as he prays. David speaks of how his life is consumed by anguish and tells of his suffering of his whole being that has been going on for a lifetime (v. 9-13). As the passage continues David permutates into declarations of trust, "my times are in your hands" (v. 15) while in verses 16-18 David calls to God asking him to deliver him from his enemies once again. The psalms conclude on various admirable annotations of praise and trust (v. 19-24).

As we examine the heroes of the faith outlined for us in the Old Testament, we would be hard pressed to find a more faithful man that King David. After the death of King Saul, David became the King of the Hebrew people. David, who was meek and pious, steadfastly believed in the true God and tried to do His will. He had endured much persecution from Saul and other enemies but did not become bitter, did not lift his hand against Saul, as he was the Lord’s anointed, but placed all his hope in God, and the Lord delivered him from all his enemies.

This paper will research and seek to determine the prophetic meaning by analyzing the material found within the passage Daniel 9:24-27 point by point, verse by verse. Daniel 9:24-27 holds the title of the utmost important prophecy to be found in scripture. In a nutshell, this passage chronologically foretells the future of the nation of Israel over a seventy-week timeframe. This vision given to Daniel is historically and biblically fulfilled further declaring its importance to the Bible.

When you think about all of this, you realize that it points to God in multiple ways. First of all, performing open heart surgery points to God. When you learn to do something great for others, God is pleased. And second, allowing African Americans into hospitals points to God. God made all people equal, and looking down on a particular race is wrong. Daniel helped stop that wrong. So Christian or not, Daniel’s actions pointed to

David knew that no amount of good works he had done, could rectify his guilty state before God. His position of prophet and king did not obligate God to him. David’s longing to be reconciled to God was granted by God’s compassionate acquittal of David despite his guilt. Moo explains that, “David’s words from the psalm confirm Paul’s basic point…a person’s relationship with God comes not by works but by God’s gracious act.” A further examination of David’s proclaimed blessing reveals the state of “being fortunate, happy because of circumstances, favored, and privileged.” William Sanday represents this state of blessedness well by stating, “…David in Psalm 32 describes how God pronounces happy (in the highest sense) those to whom He attributes righteousness without any reference to work.” Paul’s focus on the blessed state of the forgiven sinner in verse 6 is qualified by his citing of David’s proclamation of blessing in psalm 32:

As Samuel grew in age he intended to appoint one of his sons as the king of Israel. His sons however did not follow the ways of their father or God. “They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice” (I Samuel 8:3). The people of Israel desired a king, “a king like all the other nations” (Hindson and Yates, 2012. P.164). The people had grown tired of oppression and felt that “the lack of a strong human leader as the cause and did not realize that the reason for the oppression was a spiritual on-their failure to serve God” (Harbin, 2005, p.219). Saul was not God’s choice for the throne but “he was the people’s choice” (Hindson and Yates, 2012. P.164). Saul’s appointment as king was against the “old

The birth of my spiritual formation is sitting and talking with grandmother, Jessie Will Rogers, about God after Sunday dinner. Jessie felt that it was important for the grand children to attend West Union Missionary Baptist Sunday school and church and she had these summary books of bible stories in which we read after dinner and discuss. I can remember explaining Daniel in the Lion’s den as it relates to racism and oppression. This was transformative learning through experiences and community support.

Daniel is one of the most respectful and humble kids I have had the opportunity to be around. In the classroom, he did all of his work well and on time. On the football field, Daniel was one of the hardest workers. Other players gravitated to him because of his work ethic and humble attitude. He was asked to play several different positions at different points of his playing

Later Daniel impresses King Darius and receives a promotion, which causes jealousy in the other wise men. They then talk the King into making a new rule where they had to worship Darius every day. Daniel had to then again go against

a. At a young age, Daniel witnessed his father and uncle be crucified. He made a vow to seek vengeance for his father’s death and to fight the Romans that killed him. He was bound to Amalek as a blacksmith. He ran away to the caves and was rescued by Rosh. His sister was possessed by demons. Because his grandmother died he had to start taking care of Leah. He started working in Simons shop as a blacksmith in the village. He made a pact with Joel and Malthace to fight for Gods victory. He witnessed a boy’s arm be miraculously healed.

Why did Daniel and his friends want to become part of the King’s service? Did God tell them to do so? Did God give Daniel the understanding of dreams and visions just to tell Nebuchadnezzar about his? Why did the Chaldeans not just give Nebuchadnezzar a false meaning of his dream? Was God upset with Nebuchadnezzar because he was wicked enough to kill his own people if they could not tell him the meaning of his dream?

Daniel was a man who was destined to be a hero. A hero, not for men, but for God. Daniel was well educated,he shown great wisdom, and he demonstrated profound leadership in his day. Along with his education,wisdom, and leadership, he also had the ability to interpreted dreams. Daniel, who name means " God is Judge" was a man who show complete and unshakable faith in his God. He was a man who showed courage and resisted evil, even when his life was threaten repeatedly. You see, this man was not picked by accident. He was destined to show the people of Babylon,others, and us today, that he serves the one almighty God(the one who controls all).

Daniel and his friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego honor God by not eating the Kings food of choices and wine. But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice of food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself (Daniel 1: 8, NASB). However, Daniels was in God’s favor so the Commander them vegetables and water for the next ten days. Please test our servant for the ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink (Daniel 1: 12, NASB). He honor God and King by not defiling himself and his belief. He stood only for His God and Not

This was just the type of first-hand account information that Daniel needed to present to his parents!

Louis Valles Ms.Gelaude Religion 9 8 December 2016 The Book of Daniel is from the prophetic book in the Old Testament this book was written in 2nd Century BC. Daniel in this book is a prophet and a wise man he helped secure and helps tell his interpret his dreams and do many other things for him and there are other prophets in the book that helped him along this and some of them die. God is very present in this book because he speaks out and helps and saves Sam Wiseman in this book and through the 8 chapters is very alive and helps Daniel through all of these tough times.