Ancient News: Daniel

Neo-Babylonian forces, led by King Nebuchadnezzar, arrived in Jerusalem the capital of the Kingdom of Judah, earlier in the day.

News Bulletin 01 - Exiles

Jerusalem’s exiled young elite arrived in magnificent Babylon after a two-month-long march.

News Bulletin 02 - Diet

King Nebuchadnezzar stunned Babylon today by ordering the execution of every member of his advisory council.

News Bulletin 03 - King's Statue Dream

In an unprecedented turn of events, King Nebuchadnezzar reversed his decision to execute his advisors.

News Bulletin 04 - Daniel Interprets Statue Dream

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.

News Bulletin 05 - Daniel Graduates

King Nebuchadnezzar commanded all seven classifications of Babylonian governmental officials to bow down and worship an enormous statue (90 feet high and nine-feet wide) that was recently built in the image of his god, Nabu. The image is built entirely of gold, no doubt indicating Babylon, in seeming defiance of the dream given to the king by YAHWEH, which featured a statue of a variety of metals that indicated a transition of power to different future kingdoms.

News Bulletin 06 - Fiery Furnace

"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." These words may have been spoken by Israel's King Solomon hundreds of years before, but they definitely applied to “mad” king Nebuchadnezzar, as many Babylonians have taken to thinking of him.

News Bulletin 07 - Psychosis

Once a larger-than-life figure on the world stage, the late King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is now a fading memory.

News Bulletin 08 - Belshazzar

Babylonian power seems to have been hanging precariously in the balance while Viceroy, Belshazzar, Nabonidus’s son, appears to be the life of the party.

News Bulletin 09 - The Writing on the Wall

Cyrus of Persia, who put Darius the Mede on the throne, seems to have a more respectful policy to refugees, foreigners, and exiles. In regard to the Hebrew exiles in Babylon's reign, he issued a decree that those who wish to may return home and rebuild the temple, their place of worship to YAHWEH. One can only imagine how this pleased Daniel, who nevertheless, seems to have remained in Babylon, in service of the palace.

News Bulletin 10 - Exposé on Darius

A plot against Daniel's life was uncovered in the Medo-Persian courts of the city of Babylon.

News Bulletin 11 - Plot Against Daniel

The new law that required everyone to pray to only Darius for the next 30 days.

News Bulletin 12 - Daniel in the Lion's Den

The unthinkable happened this day in history, as the widely-respected Hebrew statesman, Daniel, was thrown into a lions' den. Well-liked by King Darius himself, Daniel was thrown into the pit for breaking a decree that prohibited prayer to anyone but the king for 30 days.

News Bulletin 13 - Daniel Survives the Lions

Daniel, the highly-respected statesman who, over a lifetime, went from Hebrew captive to major influencer throughout Mesopotamia, died. The Medo-Persian empire, its leaders and Daniel's fellow Jews set about mourning his passing.

News Bulletin 14 - Daniel Dies

While Medo-Persia is still processing the death of long-term statesman, Daniel, reports have indicated that certain prophetic writings of the late Daniel have been discovered and given to the Hebrew exiles for safe-keeping, but not without some access to them first by Babylonian analysts. It appears that while he was known to have interpreted the dreams of kings with the help of YAHWEH, Daniel was given some prophetic dreams of his own by his God. We have heard so much about Daniel’s public life but it seems we may now be taking a journey into His private life.

News Bulletin 15 - Vision 1 - Overview

As mentioned in our previously, certain prophetic writings of the late Daniel were discovered by the Medo-Persians. Today we take a closer look at the statesman Daniel's nightmare, the details of which were found in his records.

News Bulletin 16 - Vision 1 - Lion

Today we shine a light on some of the details of the late statesman Daniel's dream that we were unpacking in our previous episode.

News Bulletin 17 - Vision 1 - Bear

The deceased statesman Daniel's dream was dominated by four beasts, the first two of which were a lion and a bear.

News Bulletin 18 - Vision 1 - Leopard

We are digging deeper into the late statesman, Daniel's writings that describe a dream he had. It involved four beasts that come out of an ocean one by one.

News Bulletin 19 - Vision 1 - Fourth Beast

We mentioned the little horn in the late statesman, Daniel's dream in our last broadcast. In case you missed the most recent show, our ancient history correspondent, Dr. James Smith, identified the fourth beast of Daniel's dream as the Roman Empire, and its ten horns as tribes within the Empire that evolved into the nations of modern Europe.

Ancient News: Daniel

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