Chapter 9 is where Daniel prays. But it didn't start with a vision. It started with a man reading his Bible.
Daniel, an old man now, past eighty, is reading the scroll of Jeremiah. He counts the years. Seventy, Jeremiah said, seventy years of desolation for Jerusalem, and Daniel does the math and realizes the seventy are almost up. And that reading drives him to his knees in one of the great prayers of Scripture, a prayer of confession so complete that the man widely called blameless includes himself in every sin he names.
There's a lesson in that.
Let's get into it.
So much in this chapter, and the OG is especially interesting. I love how it brings out that the Lord gave His Torah before Moses. This same idea is found in the Book of Jubilees, which traces a lot of Torah back before Mt. Sinai.
So much in this chapter, and the OG is especially interesting. I love how it brings out that the Lord gave His Torah before Moses. This same idea is found in the Book of Jubilees, which traces a lot of Torah back before Mt. Sinai.