Now, let me tell you what’s happened. First of all, you had King Nebuchadnezzar. Then you have Belshazzar. Then you have Dashas. So the Mes and the Persians have already come in now and taken over Babylon. Not only Nebuchadnezzar but his son also. They’ve lost the kingdom. And so Das appoints 120 sat traps or servants who will answer to him.

And he appoints uh three commissioners over all these 120. And Daniel is one of those commissioners. And so the scripture says in verse three of Daniel 6, then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and sat traps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit. And the king planned to appoint upon him over the entire kingdom.

That is Daniel had excelled himself to the degree that he was going to be appointed the prime minister over all of Babylon. So what happens? What normally happens, the other commissioners and saint traps began to be very jealous and sought, the Bible says in verse four, a ground of accusation against Daniel. So they found one.

They found out that three times a day he opened his wonder up in his home and he prayed toward Jerusalem to Jehovah God. They found out about it. They went to the king. They said, “Oh king, live forever.” Real pious hypocrites. “Oh king, live forever. We think it’d be a wonderful idea if you would establish a decree that says for 30 days anyone who bows down to anyone else but you and your gods and worship them, they should be thrown in the lion’s den.

He said, I think that’s a wonderful idea. So he signed the edict and he wrote it according to the law of the Mes and Persians, which meant there was absolutely no way to revoke that law for 30 days. There were to be absolutely no exceptions to the law. Well, what did they do? Well, listen to this wonderful verse. Verse 10.

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house. Now in his roof chamber, he had windows open to Jerusalem. And he continued kneeling on his knees three time. Listen, he continued, he didn’t start it to impress anybody. He continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God as he had done previously or had been doing previously.

Now, of course, what they did is they waited till they saw him do it, went straight to the king and they said, “Oh king, we caught Daniel praying toward Jerusalem to his God.” So, they arranged Daniel before the king. The Bible says that Daniel is placed into the lion’s den, thrown into the lion’s den by the king. But it’s interesting what the king said.

Verse 16, then the king gave orders and Daniel was brought in and casted into the lion’s den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, now here’s the king who’s throwing him into the lion’s den. He said to Daniel, “Daniel, your God whom you constantly serve will himself deliver you.” Can you imagine the kind of witness that Daniel had already had in Babylon? With the king saying, “Daniel, I have seen such in your life.

I believe that even though I throw you in the lion’s den, your God is able to deliver you.” Well, you remember what happens the next morning? The king can’t wait. Verse 19, the king rose early before dawn at the break of day, went in haste to the lion’s den. When he came to the den of lions, he he cried out, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you constantly serve, been able to deliver you from the lions?” Listen to this.