Prince of Dreams: Daniel

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Daniel had heard Prophet Jeremiah prophesy words from the Lord. “Behold, I will send for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring him against this land, and against its inhabitants, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a desolation.”

Now it had all come true. Yesterday, Daniel had seen the Babylonian soldiers plundering the temple. This morning, he was awakened by shouting in the street outside his family’s apartment. “They want you out front,” His father told him sadly. All of the young men from his apartment complex had been rounded up. A Babylonian scribe was taking names, and Babylonian soldiers were unloading bronze leg irons. Daniel and his friends were now prisoners of war and would be marched in shackles all the way to Babylon.

Troubling days were coming, but would they continue to serve Jehovah? Could they refuse to eat unclean meat offered to idols in Babylon? Would they drink the king’s wine? And what about keeping the Sabbath? Could God make a way for them to be faithful to Him? Of course He could, and that meant they would need to put their trust in Him fully, even in the face of death.