Looking for Daniel

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46) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 2:

The king then elevated Daniel and gave him many fine gifts, and he made him the ruler over all the province of Babylon and the chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. And at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the administration of the province of Babylon, but Daniel served in the king’s court.


- God blesses Daniel who becomes more important each time !


- But whatever happens, Daniel never forgets his companions !


- A cement necessary for a top relationship to God is humility, humility and humility !-


- No humility, no strong relationship to God !


- There is no better quality !


- A rare one in this world !

 

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• Remember:
• Daniel is a great example of integrity!
• His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
• An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
• So different from today’s world!
• But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
• It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
• Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

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Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

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47) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 5:

- This time Daniel must help King Belshazzar.


- He does as usual!


- He is told by God!


- Then he tells the interpretation!

- He doesn’t care about the king’s gifts!


- He works for God!


- And he always tells the message from God!


- Good or bad!


- The king is killed by Darius the Mede!


- But Daniel will keep his position!


- God keeps blessing him!


- And his qualities and abilities are appreciated!

 

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• Remember:
• Daniel is a great example of integrity!
• His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
• An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
• So different from today’s world!
• But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
• It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
• Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

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Remember:

• If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
• They used to write differently!
• They used to speak differently!
• They used to think differently!
• They used to act differently!

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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:

• Point of time (a specific day)
• time period of a whole or half a day:
  • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
  • Sunrise to sunset
  • Sunset to next sunset
• General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
• A year "lived a lot of days"
• Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"

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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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48) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 6:

- Daniel is chosen to be part of the three high officials of Darius’ administration.


- Thanks to his special relationship with God, he distinguishes himself over the administration!


- As a consequence, the king intends to elevate him over the entire kingdom!


- Because of that, some high officials and satraps are jealous of him and try to find an accusation!


- But Daniel is not corrupted!


- As a matter of fact, the conclusion is clear: they must find something in the law of his God!


- They tell the king to establish a royal decree and to enforce a ban to prevent people from making a petition to any god or man except to the king for 30 days!


- There is no law!


- They make the king have a law especially against Daniel!


- And it attacks the relationship Daniel has with his God!


- And what does Daniel do as soon as he hears about the law?


- He openly prays to his God!


- He won’t change anything about his relationship to his God because of men!


- His relationship to God is his top priority!


- And he does everything to keep it!


- The men who accuse him can’t prevent God from saving him!


- On the contrary, the king has them thrown into the lions’ pit!