WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.199 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.679 Two dudes talking Bible, making it real. 6 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:19.760 One mission, one mission, there's us. 7 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.039 Today we're talking about Daniel in the Lions, then one 8 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:23.199 of the. 9 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:28.199 Most classic that's rough. Yeah, so lions, politics, faith, under fire. 10 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:30.239 That's what we're talking about, because I think it's gonna 11 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:32.079 be great. But before we do that, we have a 12 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:33.960 segment by Desiree and that. 13 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.200 What's a terrible rolling? By the way, was it? 14 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.880 I keep going, Okay, I don't mind it. 15 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:40.560 No, no, no, no. 16 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:45.000 Desiree said that today because we're talking. 17 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.479 About lions and the lions. Then here's what she. 18 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.600 Says, Uh, let's do a draft of your favorite animals. 19 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:53.079 Do rock, paper sciss. 20 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:55.600 You gets first pick, and then choose five animals each 21 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:56.039 totly cat. 22 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:58.079 Let's just say, Chris right off the top. Your teddy 23 00:00:58.079 --> 00:00:58.840 bear doesn't count? 24 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:01.359 Teddy Bear? What are you talking about? 25 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:05.200 Okay, okay, right, we got ready, okay, one two three? 26 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:05.560 Shoot? 27 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:09.040 Oh we both went scissors one two three shoot? Oh 28 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:12.680 Well that was that was slow. That was slow. I 29 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.280 was going to do rock and switch to scissors, and 30 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.239 you had paper, of course, one two three, shoot scissors again, 31 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.200 one two three shoot. Oh you got me rock over scissors. 32 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:24.040 All right, very good. 33 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.760 So my first animal is going to be a an otter. 34 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:29.760 Really, I thought you were gonna do cats. 35 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:35.920 Nos are great, okay, playful, they're spontaneous, they're always Have you. 36 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:37.879 Ever taken one of those personality tests that tells you 37 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.760 what what your personal yes? Are you ant? That's what 38 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.359 I thought? Yep, okay, is my dominant? Yeah, speaking of 39 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.760 that lion for me of course, of course, yeah, lions. 40 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.680 I love lions. I love lions. I've had the opportunity 41 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.480 privilege to see many of them in the wild in Africa, 42 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:58.439 and I'm just totally amazed every time. 43 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:00.400 Yeah, so you're a D. 44 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:04.480 I Actually I'm a very high I in D is 45 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:05.400 almost the same. 46 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:06.760 Well that means your order? 47 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:12.120 Ye? Well no, so a high eye high high high 48 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.319 D is a different thing, is a different thing. Yeah yeah, 49 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.919 huh okay, So sorry because yeah, anyway, sorry. 50 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.080 About that little journey everybody. But okay, here's my second animal. 51 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.159 I'm gonna choose a cat. 52 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.800 I already chose the lion. What I'm laying claimed all 53 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:33.240 the felines, domestic cat, domestic cat. Okay, all right, I'm 54 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:39.280 going to say grizzly bear. Why because the only other 55 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:41.080 time I was intimidated by an animals when I was 56 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:41.960 by a grizzly bear. 57 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:45.120 I was by a lot of animals. 58 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.039 I was like one hundred yards away from this grizzly bear, 59 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:50.400 two hundred two hundred yard away from this grizzly bear, 60 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.800 and thinking I don't think I'm far enough away. Yeah, yeah, 61 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.759 it was scary. Yeah. Huge. 62 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.159 I've actually gotten intimidated by a donkey one time. 63 00:02:59.080 --> 00:02:59.319 Really. 64 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.080 Yeah. It was feeding it and it's bucking and yeah. 65 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.840 Show his teeth and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I got some choppers. 66 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.599 You said, the only other animal is a grizzly. 67 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:11.120 Okay, that's not true at all. That's true. I got 68 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.240 intimidated by a cobra. Okay, that was scary. 69 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.319 Wow. All right, So my third animal, I'm gonna choose 70 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:19.120 a dog, a domesticative dog. 71 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:20.800 I love dogs. 72 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:25.960 Okay, so you're domestic cat and domestic dog. Yes, next one, 73 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:30.800 I'm predicting. I'm predicting goldfish. 74 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:32.360 I have not. 75 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.240 Okay, okay, okay, so I was gonna say. Next for 76 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.199 me is giraffes. Again. Being in Africa, many times I'm 77 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.000 riveted by drafts. I can watch drafts for hours, Like 78 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.800 every time we pull our truck away, when we leave 79 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.680 a group of drafts, I'm disappointed. So they're just they 80 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:55.879 look so goofy, But then when you're with them, they're 81 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.080 so huge and so graceful. They're really really amazing. 82 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.080 Yeah, I agree, I've seen my shirt draft. Yeah, and 83 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.719 then how about this, I'm gonna go with shark. 84 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.919 Oh that was my next one? Which is that was 85 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:07.680 my next one? 86 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.879 It was it was the it's the it's it's the 87 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:11.960 goldfish on steroids. 88 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.479 Yeah, exactly, it's not not a gold fish. 89 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:16.959 Actually, believe it or not. One of my things on 90 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.759 my bucket list is to dive in a cage. 91 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:21.560 I want to go. I want to do that too. 92 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:25.279 We should do it together. Fifty fifth birthday. Let's do it. Hey, 93 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.879 you want to Okay, we gotta do it. Yeah, that's expensive. 94 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.319 We're gonna have to have some rich friends that want 95 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:30.759 to do it too. 96 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.639 Okay, all right, hey, okay, this is our invitation. 97 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:37.720 Okay, rich cave, cave like a cage, dive with them. 98 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.000 Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I want to do that too. 99 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:42.920 Yeah okay, So how many did you do? You did four? 100 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:44.000 I did four? 101 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.560 Yeah yeah okay, And so this is my fourth one. 102 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:51.000 I think gorillas. Oh yeah, I love gorillas. Yeah, they're great, 103 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.560 They're very interesting to me. Yeah yeah, okay. And then 104 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:55.639 how about this? 105 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.720 So I went like friendly dog cat, I did orders 106 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.879 cause I love otters. I did shark, which are awesome. 107 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:07.759 So I'm gonna go with duck bill platypus. 108 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.800 So I will say the duck billed platypus is almost 109 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:16.639 it's almost like, well we got a bunch of extra 110 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:18.680 spare parts. Just look at that. 111 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:20.959 Well, you know the One's why I chose it to 112 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:21.480 make you laugh? 113 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.120 Yeah, because nobody, nobody would have chosen that one. Yet 114 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:27.959 that's a great one. Yeah okay, let me think of 115 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:32.160 the last one. Oh you know what I'm gonna say, Yeah, 116 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.879 Panda bears. Oh yeah, okay, So they're dumber in the 117 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:38.199 box rocks and they're mean. Yeah, but my wife cried 118 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:39.959 when I took her to the San Diego Zoos to 119 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.560 see him. Oh yeah, so wow, gives me nice memory. 120 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:45.120 Now, have you ever seen Tropic Thunder? 121 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:45.759 No? 122 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:47.439 The movie with Ben Stiller. 123 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:51.600 I know about it, yes, okay, so he it's it's hilarious, right, 124 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:53.360 not the cleanest movie in the world. It's got some 125 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.399 customers in it, but but in terms of like humor, 126 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.720 it is one of the classics. And Ben Stiller uh 127 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.000 uh sees this the beady eyes in the forest, and 128 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:04.040 he attacks this animal. 129 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:05.600 He doesn't know what it is, and then come to 130 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.959 find out he kills a panda. Oh no, and then 131 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.759 and then all of a sudden he wears the skin 132 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:13.199 of it. You know, it's hilarious, terrible, it's terrible. 133 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:14.000 That's terrible. 134 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:16.040 But he feels so bad because he sees this. The 135 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:17.120 lightning flashes and there. 136 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:18.639 So that's what you think, I say, panda, and you 137 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:19.519 want to kill the panda? 138 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:22.279 I think of tropic immediately. 139 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:25.759 Okay, well there you go. So now if we had 140 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:29.560 ours fight against each other, oh yeah, I think mine 141 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:29.959 would win. 142 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.319 Well, that wasn't the assignment, was it. 143 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.360 Well that that's next everything between you and me, he's 144 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:37.120 leading to a fight. I'm let me to say that. 145 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:40.199 I'm pretty sure a grizzly versus a duck boat platypus 146 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:42.399 wouldn't be too much of a god. 147 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:44.319 But you've got sharks. As long as mine stay out 148 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:45.959 of the water will be good. But yeah, that's right, 149 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.439 that's funny. Okay, well, actually sharks would win. Yeah, talking 150 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:52.160 about staying out where the animals are. 151 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:56.839 Oh hey, it's an easy transition in this one. 152 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:00.959 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So today we have of Daniel 153 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.680 engaging with lions, and I'm going to guess if he 154 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:06.480 played this game, he would not say lions were his favorite. 155 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.079 No, although maybe he did become friends with them after 156 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:11.160 the end of chapter six. 157 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:12.000 Maybe maybe. 158 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:12.199 So. 159 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:16.680 In Daniel, if you didn't know, we're going kind of 160 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.360 through all the key passages in the Bible, and we've 161 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:22.160 been in the Old Testament for quite some time now. Yeah, 162 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.120 we're all the way up to Daniel chapter six, and 163 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:28.319 it says this, Darius the Mea. Do you remember the 164 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:32.519 Meds and the Persians overtook overtook the Babylonians. I don't 165 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.120 remember personally, but remember when we read about Belshazzar. Yes, yeah, okay, 166 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:40.439 so it says here Darius the Mead decided to divide 167 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:42.680 the kingdom into one hundred and twenty provinces, and he 168 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.399 appointed a high officer to rule over each province. The 169 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:48.399 King also chose Daniel and two others as administrators to 170 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:52.480 supervise the high officers and protect the King's interests. Daniel 171 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.600 soon proved himself more capable than all the other administrators 172 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.240 and high officers, and because of Daniel's great ability, the 173 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.759 King made plans to place him over the entire empire. 174 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.120 Then the other administrators and high officers began searching for 175 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.680 some fault in the way Daniel was handling government affairs, 176 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:10.240 but they couldn't find anything to criticize or condemn. He 177 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:14.439 was faithful, always responsible, and completely trustworthy. So they concluded 178 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.240 our only chance of finding grounds for accusing Daniel being 179 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:20.639 connection with the rules of his religion. So the administrators 180 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.600 and high officers went to the king and said, long 181 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.360 live King Darius. We are all in agreement, we administrators, officials, 182 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.639 high officers, advisors and governors, that the King should make 183 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:33.480 a law that will be strictly enforced. Give orders that 184 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:35.879 for the next thirty days, any person who prays to 185 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.960 anyone divine or human, except to you, your Majesty, will 186 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.600 be thrown into the den of lions. And now your 187 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.399 Majesty issue and sign this law, so it cannot be changed, 188 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.799 an official law of the meeds and Persians that cannot 189 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:51.600 be revoked. So King Darius signed the law. But when 190 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.240 Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home, 191 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.559 knelt down as usual in his upstairs room with his 192 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.799 windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, 193 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:02.519 just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God. 194 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.480 Then the officials went together to Daniel's house and founding 195 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.120 praying and asking for God's help. So they went straight 196 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.320 to the king and reminded him about his law. Did 197 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.159 you not sign a law that for the next thirty days, 198 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.440 any person who prays to anyone divine or human except 199 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:16.639 to you, your majesty, will be thrown into the den 200 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.159 of lions. Yes, the king replied that decision stands. It's 201 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.879 an official law the means and Persians that cannot be revoked. 202 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.879 Then they told the king that man Daniel, one of 203 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:28.399 the captives from Judah, is ignoring you and your law. 204 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.759 He still prays to his God three times a day. 205 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:33.879 Paying this the king was deeply troubled, and he tried 206 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.080 to think of a way to save Daniel. He spent 207 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:38.120 the rest of the day looking for a way to 208 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.120 get Daniel out of this predicament. In the evening, the 209 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.279 men went together to the King and said, your majesty, 210 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.399 you know that according to the law Means and Persians, 211 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.919 no law that the King signs can be changed. So 212 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.159 at last the King gave orders for Daniel to be 213 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.759 arrested and thrown into the den of lions. The King 214 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:56.639 said to him, mayor, God, whom you serve so faithfully, 215 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.080 rescue you. A stone was brought and placed over the 216 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:02.559 mouth of the den. The king sealed the stone with 217 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.519 his own royal seal and the seals of his nobles, 218 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:07.000 so that no one could rescue Daniel. Then the king 219 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.639 returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He 220 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.039 refused his usual entertainment and couldn't sleep at all that night. 221 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.120 Very early the next morning, the King got up hurried 222 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.200 out to the lions den, and when he got there, 223 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:21.080 he called out and anguished, Daniel, servant of the Living God, 224 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.639 was your God, whom you served so faithfully able to 225 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:27.080 rescue you from the lions? Daniel answered, long live the King. 226 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.000 My God sent his angel to shut the lion's mouths 227 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:31.840 so that they would not hurt me. For I have 228 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.639 been found innocent in his sight, and I've not wronged you, 229 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:38.120 your majesty. The king was overjoyed and ordered that Daniel 230 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.360 be lifted from the den. Not a scratch was found 231 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.720 on him, for he had trusted in his God. Then 232 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:45.480 the king gave orders to arrest the men who maliciously 233 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:48.200 accused Daniel. He had them thrown into the lions den, 234 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:51.919 along with their wives and children. The lions leaped on 235 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:53.919 them and tore them apart before they even hit the 236 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.919 floor of the den. Then King Darius sent this message 237 00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.480 to the people of every race in the nation and 238 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:02.000 languish throughout the world. He's some prosperity to you. I 239 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.720 declare that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear 240 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:08.320 before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, 241 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:11.360 and he will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, 242 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.080 and his rule will never end. He rescues and saves 243 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.759 his people. He performs miraculous signs and wonders in the 244 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.399 heavens and on earth. And he has rescued Daniel from 245 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.240 the power of the lions. And so Daniel prospered during 246 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:28.000 the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian. Well, 247 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.080 there you go, that's a good one. 248 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:32.840 I'll tell you what I like that one. I I 249 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:38.000 literally almost getteria. I'd reading that it is. It is unbelievable. 250 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:40.440 This I'd like to see this played out in a movie. 251 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.080 You know why because when it says that the king 252 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.039 had spent all day trying to find a way to 253 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:49.279 rescue Daniel, I mean I want to feel that comment. 254 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:51.360 Like he's looking for loophole. He's looking for. 255 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:56.039 He's desperately trying his best. And so think think of that, 256 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.360 the entire day of him worrying and fretting and trying 257 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.200 his best to you know, legally look for a loophole. 258 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.039 And so his love for Daniel and his appreciation for 259 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.519 him is I mean, think about it. Think about like 260 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:12.759 the the feelings and emotions as he's you know, going, uh, 261 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.240 he has to obey the decree that he signed. He 262 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.559 feels like he's been tricked and manipulated. And so as 263 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:21.960 he's lowering Daniel and he says, may the God, may 264 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:26.480 the living God whom you serve faithfully rescue you. And 265 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.960 and then and then and then has you know the 266 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:33.399 the rock the stone placed over the mouth of the light. 267 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:37.120 I'm telling you that's that's an emotional thing. And and 268 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:40.279 then he can't sleep all night, he refuses to be entertained, 269 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.039 gets up the next morning, cries out in desperation. I'm 270 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:46.320 telling you this is this is amazing. 271 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.240 The sometimes people will listen to go, well, he was king, 272 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:50.240 he can do whatever he wants to do. 273 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:50.759 Right. 274 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.879 Uh. In their culture, the you know, it was clans. 275 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.720 It was groups of leaders that would all agree to 276 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.399 follow a strong king. And the way that they balanced 277 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:04.960 out the king's power was once the king signed a law, 278 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.519 he couldn't revoke it, which meant kings rarely signed laws. Right. 279 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.000 They might have statutes, they might have requirements, they might 280 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.679 have they'd find all these other ways. But once a 281 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.679 law was signed, the law of the Meds and the 282 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.440 Persians could not be changed even the king. The king 283 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.320 couldn't do it. If the king did it change his 284 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.639 own law, he would most likely be executed. He would 285 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.919 certainly lose his position. And that's how they balanced his 286 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.759 power where he wasn't just going off making all kinds 287 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.159 of stupid laws all the time. If that's the case, 288 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:37.600 you would be very slow to ever sign an actual law. 289 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.480 And so he was an extraordinarily Darius. We know this Darius. 290 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.559 There's several Dariuses in history. This Darius was known to 291 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:49.320 be a very effective leader. But in this situation, they 292 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.919 tricked him into saying, hey, you're pretty important, dude. Why 293 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.399 don't you have people pray to you? Make you a guy? 294 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.960 Which means either he believed in like a pantheon of 295 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:01.120 God's tons and tons of the gods, and you know, 296 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:04.639 if you have tons of gods, it may be easy 297 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:06.320 to kind of play around with that just a little 298 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.480 bit and make yourself a god. Or he didn't really 299 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.279 believe in religion at all, and so, oh that sounds 300 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.879 like fun, right, right, he knows everybody else does. But 301 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.559 he's a king. Kings are smart, we don't need the gods. 302 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.320 And so it might have just been, hey, that's a 303 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.480 good idea. These are super religious people. Let's make them 304 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.039 pray to me for a while. That'll make their loyalty 305 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:27.480 be even stronger. Right, It was an expedient decision, and 306 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:28.320 so he does it. 307 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:31.200 But so, how old is Daniel at this point? 308 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:32.840 He's an older guy. 309 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.440 He's an older guy. Yeah, yeah, So it says that. 310 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:41.480 He is on his third king right since his kept capture. 311 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.000 So as you can remember, in Daniel chapter one through four, 312 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:49.759 he was under King Nebu Kidnezzer from Babylonia Schevyck, Meechek 313 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:51.639 and Bendigo we're throwing in the furnace. We know that 314 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.440 Nebu k Nezer became insane for seven years, I mean, 315 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:58.159 so this is a long time. And then after that 316 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.320 we discovered in Daniel chapter five and then seven and 317 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:06.000 eight they big reference to Belle Shazar right from Babylonia, 318 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.799 and then and then Darius comes later from Meto Persia, 319 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.480 and then and then afterwards we're going to see in 320 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.919 the later chapters Daniel's tent through twelve he actually is 321 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:23.279 under King Cyrus from the same empire. So four administrations, yeah, 322 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.919 four administrations, and so Daniel is, yeah, he's an older 323 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:27.600 guy right now. 324 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:29.840 I looked it up. It says Daniel was likely in 325 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.840 his early eighties when he was thrown in the lions. 326 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.679 Then wow, and here's why. He was a teenager, probably 327 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.639 somewhere between fourteen and seventeen years old when he was 328 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.360 taken to Babylon during the first Exile, which we know 329 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.720 historically is six oh five BC. Yes, and then the 330 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:45.600 events of Daniel six take place under the reign of 331 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.240 Darius the Mead, shortly after Babylon fell to the Medo 332 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.240 Persian Empire in five point thirty nine BC. That means 333 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.799 around sixty six years from the time he was taken 334 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.600 from Darusa to the time he was serving Darius. And 335 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.000 it was sometime after Darius becomes king that he gets 336 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.039 in it. So if he was fifteen at six oh five, 337 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.919 he'd be about eighty one years old in the five 338 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:08.080 point thirty nine Wown't that neat? 339 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:09.200 Yeah? It was very neat. 340 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.000 Yeah. So then it says old man, steal backbone, faith 341 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:12.519 like fire. 342 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:15.679 There it is there, it is old man. 343 00:16:16.120 --> 00:16:17.919 Yeah, steal back bone, steal back. 344 00:16:17.879 --> 00:16:18.720 Bone, faith leg fire. 345 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:19.679 Yeah. That's awesome. 346 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.440 So yeah, I mean imagine that. So now that that 347 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:25.559 paints a whole different picture. Now, so King Darius most 348 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:29.240 likely is younger than eighty right, So he looks to 349 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.679 Daniel in a lot of ways, probably like a mentor. 350 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:32.000 Right. 351 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:36.039 So Daniel proves himself more capable. Think about all the wisdom, 352 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.000 you know, God had blessed member Daniel with favor and 353 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:45.440 wisdom and everything else. And so now Darius loves Daniel 354 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.440 so much that he plans on making Daniel over the 355 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:50.279 entire empire. 356 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.240 Yeah, at eighty one. 357 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.200 At eighty one, yeah, which means, you know, I mean, 358 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:58.080 he had to be pretty strong, pretty you know what 359 00:16:58.639 --> 00:16:59.399 your heavier. 360 00:16:59.120 --> 00:16:59.960 Wits about the figure. 361 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.039 Yeah, I mean, And I'm only saying these things because 362 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:04.960 you and I and everybody else knows a lot of 363 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:05.920 eighty one year olds. 364 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.839 Who you know probably shouldn't be in office, oh. 365 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:13.640 Right, or or or even you know, a lot of 366 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.480 eighty one year olds personally that you know that aren't 367 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:17.960 necessarily on the top. 368 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.920 Of their game, or a lot of them aren't wanting 369 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:25.200 that anymore. Right, The just the fierceness, the struggle of that, 370 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.119 the responsibility of that. You know, Hey, you said at 371 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:31.000 a point you want to enjoy your retirement, right and right? Yeah? 372 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.240 So he anyways, Uh, Daniel is an older gentleman at 373 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.000 this point. And there's a note in here that I 374 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:44.720 loved it says, and we love the Life Application Study 375 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.200 Bible so verst tenses Dan Daniel stood alone although he 376 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.680 knew about the law against praying to anyone except the King. 377 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.680 It says that he knew it. When Daniel learned that 378 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:55.279 the law had been signed. Yes, he went in and 379 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:59.119 prayed anyways, And it says he continued to pray three 380 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.519 times a day as always had. He didn't change his character, 381 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.440 he didn't change his routine, he didn't change his walk 382 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:10.920 with God. Daniel had a very disciplined prayer life. Our 383 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.200 prayers are usually interrupted not by threats, but simply by 384 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:17.400 the pressure of our schedules. Don't let threats or pressures 385 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.759 cut into the into your prayer time. Pray regularly, no 386 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.519 matter what, for prayers your lifeline to God. You think 387 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:28.440 about he's so powerful at the time, the most powerful 388 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:33.039 kingdom in that region, and that the king is thinking 389 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.559 about putting him in charge of everything. How busy is 390 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:40.480 that guy? I bet he's busier than I am, right right, 391 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.759 And yet he still took time every single day to pray. 392 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.440 And so you wonder how did Daniel ascend to such 393 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:50.839 a heights. I think it's because he walked with God 394 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:52.880 and made time to do so, so he had the 395 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:53.880 favor of God in his life. 396 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:55.000 Yeah, that's awesome. 397 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.079 And let's talk about the fact that they threw a 398 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.960 rock over the lions den, and so you would imagine 399 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:05.480 that it would be completely dark in there, right, yeah, 400 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:10.119 I mean a den is not going to have light. 401 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.920