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The story of Daniel from the Bible, narrated as an ‘Ancient’ news channel
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In high-tension talks with Judah’s King Jehoiakim, the Babylonian leader, intent on dominating Mesopotamia, insisted that Judah relinquish its alliance with Egypt.
In high-tension talks with Judah’s King Jehoiakim, the Babylonian leader, intent on dominating Mesopotamia, insisted that Judah relinquish its alliance with Egypt.
Jerusalem’s exiled young elite arrived in magnificent Babylon after a two-month-long march. The curriculum ensured a thorough indoctrination in Babylonian thought and culture.
The often-unpredictable ruler made the decision in what eyewitnesses described as a fit of rage because his advisors were unable to tell him the details of a dream he had the night before.
In an unprecedented turn of events, King Nebuchadnezzar reversed his decision to execute his advisors. Daniel claimed to have been shown King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream by his God, YAHWEH.
Three years after their hometown of Jerusalem was attacked and they were exiled to Babylon, D-Day came for an elite group of young Hebrew men. Graduated as top of the class, each trainee was interrogated by King Nebuchadnezzar himself.
King Nebuchadnezzar commanded all seven classifications of Babylonian governmental officials to bow down and worship an enormous statue that was recently built in the image of his god, Nabu. Violators would be thrown in a furnace!
“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” The Babylonian monarch has emerged from seven years of living like an animal in the wild, with other animals. The monarch was struck by a severe psychosis for the entire period.
Once a larger-than-life figure on the world stage, the late King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is now a fading memory. Belshazzar’s style of government is very different and his subjects are being forced to adjust to a “new normal” under his reign.
A hand has appeared and written, supernaturally, on a wall, “Mene, mene, tekel, parsin.” The queen has suggested that the king summon Daniel, the old interpreter of Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams, to help make sense of things.
Cyrus of Persia, who put Darius the Mede on the throne, seems to have a more respectful policy to refugees, foreigners, and exiles. He issued a decree that those who wish may return home and rebuild the temple, their place of worship to YAHWEH.
A plot against Daniel’s life was uncovered in the Medo-Persian courts of the city of Babylon. Much of the influence that he had in the Babylonian court of Nebuchadnezzar, the new king, Darius, also has given Daniel.
The new law that required everyone to pray to only Darius for the next 30 days. Daniel prays in full view of the public, three times a day. Will he continue to do so, despite the law. Daniel does not keep us in suspense for long.
The widely-respected Hebrew statesman, Daniel, was thrown into a lions’ den. King Darius appears to have been caught off guard by Daniel’s arrest. Before Daniel was thrown into the pit, the monarch told him that he hoped Daniel’s God would save him.
Daniel, the highly-respected statesman, has died. The Medo-Persian empire, its leaders and the Jews mourn his passing. Tributes poured in from every corner of the empire and it’s impossible to put into words how everyone feels this morning.
Reports have indicated that certain prophetic writings of the late Daniel have been discovered. He interpreted the dreams of kings, but it appears he was also given some prophetic dreams by his own God. We wonder what they could reveal?
We take a closer look at Daniel’s nightmare, where he dreamed of four animals representing four political powers, coming out of an ocean. The first, a powerful lion, shows deterioration on a humiliating scale for whatever power this beast represents.
Today we further unpack our previous episode. AWR confirmed that the first of four animals representing four political powers in Daniel’s dream, was a lion that represented Babylon as a Mesopotamian superpower that eventually lost political power.
The deceased statesman Daniel’s dream was dominated by four beasts, the first two of which were a lion and a bear. We bring you breaking news as researchers have tied the third beast, a leopard, to another great world empire.
We dig deeper into Daniel’s writings that describe his dream involving four beasts that come out of an ocean. Today the AWR news-team will share details of a fourth terrifying beast with metal teeth that devoured the third kingdom, Greece.
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