Survey of the book of Daniel

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The book of Daniel, written by the prophet

Daniel, this is written during that Babylonian captivity. He was alive for the full 70 year captivity, and the book of Daniel actually spans that entire time.

He was taken captive as a young teenager, and what we end up seeing is that the first half of the book, the first six chapters, are really historical accounts that deal with what was going on in different periods of his life.

I know it only takes a few minutes to read the first six chapters, and yet those six chapters spanned 70 years.

So he's a young teenager in chapter one, and when he's in that lion's den, he would have to have been in his, well, close to 90s, late 80s to 90.

Why? Well, 70 years passed. So if he was taken as a 15 year old plus 70 years, he's 85, so he's going to be that old by then.

Now, the second half of the book is a lot of prophecy. First half historical, second half a lot of future prophecy of what is going to happen.

There is much that ends up happening where Daniel ends up realizing from the reading of Jeremiah, he realizes, hey, we're getting close to the 70 years, and he ends up getting prophecies of the future.

Now keep in mind that Daniel spread through not only the Babylonian captivity, but into the Medo -Persian captivity, and most known is the prophecy of the great tower, which gives a layout of the four major empires.