Sometimes in the lives of adults, their childhood innocence, is revealed, when they are astonished with an event’s occurrence. Nothing is more childlike than an adult’s utter amazement and surprise at a matter’s seemingly miraculous development. I believe something like this occurred, when the warworn, fierce and no doubt sometimes cruel, Darius came to the mouth of the den of lions and feebly, even mournfully, called out to Daniel: Are you there, Daniel? Was your God, whom you serve continually, able to save you? Then Daniel responded, saying God had sent his angel and closed the mouths of the lions, and they couldn’t hurt him. To which, Daniel contended proved his innocence in so far as hurting the king’s prospects for unity in the kingdom was concerned, as that pertained to the new territories the king had conquered (Daniel 6:20-22). Read the rest of this entry »
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