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Monday, November 18, 2013

Bible Lesson: Miracle Of The Old Testament: Daniel Rescued From The Lions.

Bible Lesson: Miracle Of The Old Testament: Daniel Rescued From The Lions.

Occasion: Mouths Of The Lions Shut.

Location: Babylon.

Bible Text: Daniel 6:1-28 NLT

Daniel 6:1-28 NLT
1 Darius the Mede decided to divide the kingdom into 120 provinces, and he appointed a high officer to rule over each province.
2 The king also chose Daniel and two others as administrators to supervise the high officers and protect the king’s interests.
3 Daniel soon proved himself more capable than all the other administrators and high officers. Because of Daniel’s great ability, the king made plans to place him over the entire empire.
4 Then the other administrators and high officers began searching for some fault in the way Daniel was handling government affairs, but they couldn’t find anything to criticize or condemn. He was faithful, always responsible, and completely trustworthy.
5 So they concluded, “Our only chance of finding grounds for accusing Daniel will be in connection with the rules of his religion.”
6 So the administrators and high officers went to the king and said, “Long live King Darius!
7 We are all in agreement—we administrators, officials, high officers, advisers, and governors—that the king should make a law that will be strictly enforced. Give orders that for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human—except to you, Your Majesty—will be thrown into the den of lions.
8 And now, Your Majesty, issue and sign this law so it cannot be changed, an official law of the Medes and Persians that cannot be revoked.”
9 So King Darius signed the law.
10 But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.
11 Then the officials went together to Daniel’s house and found him praying and asking for God’s help.
12 So they went straight to the king and reminded him about his law. “Did you not sign a law that for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human—except to you, Your Majesty—will be thrown into the den of lions?” “Yes,” the king replied, “that decision stands; it is an official law of the Medes and Persians that cannot be revoked.”
13 Then they told the king, “That man Daniel, one of the captives from Judah, is ignoring you and your law. He still prays to his God three times a day.”
14 Hearing this, the king was deeply troubled, and he tried to think of a way to save Daniel. He spent the rest of the day looking for a way to get Daniel out of this predicament.
15 In the evening the men went together to the king and said, “Your Majesty, you know that according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, no law that the king signs can be changed.”
16 So at last the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to him, “May your God, whom you serve so faithfully, rescue you.”
17 A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed the stone with his own royal seal and the seals of his nobles, so that no one could rescue Daniel.
18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He refused his usual entertainment and couldn’t sleep at all that night.
19 Very early the next morning, the king got up and hurried out to the lions’ den.
20 When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of The Living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”
21 Daniel answered, “Long live the king!
22 My God sent His angel to shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in His sight. And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.”
23 The king was overjoyed and ordered that Daniel be lifted from the den. Not a scratch was found on him, for he had trusted in his God.
24 Then the king gave orders to arrest the men who had maliciously accused Daniel. He had them thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. The lions leaped on them and tore them apart before they even hit the floor of the den.
25 Then King Darius sent this message to the people of every race and nation and language throughout the world:
Peace and prosperity to you!
26 “I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For He is The Living God, and He will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His rule will never end.
27 He rescues and saves His people; He performs miraculous signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
28 So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Over the kingdom of Darius, were 120 princes, and the kingdom divided into three parts each with a president, and over these one of higher rank, Daniel, and they all answered to him.

King Belshazszar had said of Daniel.
Daniel 5:12 KJV
Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar..."

Among princes and presidents, a sinister seed of jealousy began to grow. They tried their best to find some deficiency in his work, but they could not! Daniel was both faithful to his God, and to his King.

Oh, that we could but today, find such leaders for our country!

Having found no discredit in his work, they went on to find default in his religious worship.
Again finding nothing, they schemed how to make sure there was one.

Daniel 6:5-9 NLT
5 So they concluded, “Our only chance of finding grounds for accusing Daniel will be in connection with the rules of his religion.”
6 So the administrators and high officers went to the king and said, “Long live King Darius!
7 We are all in agreement (so, they said.)—we administrators, officials, high officers, advisers, and governors—that the king should make a law that will be strictly enforced. Give orders that for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human—except to you, Your Majesty—will be thrown into the den of lions.
8 And now, Your Majesty, issue and sign this law so it cannot be changed, an official law of the Medes and Persians that cannot be revoked.”
9 So King Darius signed the law.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

Psalm 5:9-12 KJV
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

Dear friend, if there was a law in our country tomorrow, that worshiping God, was illegal, and punishable by death, what would you do?

Psalm 55:16,17 KJV (A psalm of David-Jewish Code.)
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and The Lord shall save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice.

Daniel, continued in his worship of The Living God.

Daniel 6:10 NLT
But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.

 If the real truth be known today, all of humanity is in the presence of the lion!

I Peter 5:7-9 KJV
7 Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith..."

I Corinthians 15:57 KJV
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I John 5:4 KJV
For whatsoever is born of God over cometh the world: and this is the victory that over cometh the world, even our faith.

Daniel 6:11-13 NLT (Daniel did not hid his worship of The Living God.)
11 Then the officials went together to Daniel’s house and found him praying and asking for God’s help.
12 So they went straight to the king and reminded him about his law. “Did you not sign a law that for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human—except to you, Your Majesty—will be thrown into the den of lions?” “Yes,” the king replied, “that decision stands; it is an official law of the Medes and Persians that cannot be revoked.”
13 Then they told the king, “That man Daniel, one of the captives from Judah, is ignoring you and your law. He still prays to his God three times a day.

God's children;
II Timothy 1:7 KJV
For God hath not given (His people) the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Revelation 12:10,11 NLT
10 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens,
..the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down to earth—the one who accuses them before our God day and night.
11 And they have defeated him by The Blood Of The Lamb and by their testimony. And they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.


Daniel 6:13,14 NLT
13 Then they told the king, “That man Daniel, one of the captives from Judah, is ignoring you and your law. He still prays to his God three times a day.”
14 Hearing this, the king was deeply troubled, and he tried to think of a way to save Daniel.
He spent the rest of the day looking for a way to get Daniel out of this predicament.

King Darius, loved Daniel, and had the greatest respect for his God, but he had been tricked by means of his own conceit.

Proverbs 3:7 KJV
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear The LORD, and depart from evil.

Proverbs 28:26 KJV
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Daniel 6:15-17 NLT
15 In the evening the men went together to the king and said, “Your Majesty, you know that according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, no law that the king signs can be changed.
16 So at last the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions.
The king said to him, “May your God, whom you serve so faithfully, rescue you.”
17 A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed the stone with his own royal seal and the seals of his nobles, so that no one could rescue Daniel.

Friends, it is so good to have various versions of The Bible, and one reason here is the ease of reading Daniel's story, ( as we have here in the New Living Translation), but “never-ever,” let your King James Bible, be far away! Never!

Verse 16 (In the KJV) is translated from the original Hebrew, much differently than how the NLT translates it.

Daniel 6:16,17 KJV
16Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.
17 A stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den. The king sealed the stone with his own royal seal and the seals of his nobles, so that no one could rescue Daniel.

Compare the verses above.
In our KJV, we see the King who so greatly loved Daniel, and who so greatly tried his best to save him from the lions den said in faith, “Thy God whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee.”

Not, May your God, whom you serve so faithfully, rescue you.”but “He will deliver thee.”

King Darius had faith that the great God, that Daniel served, WOULD SAVE HIM!
(Whenever using any other version than the King James Version, compare the other verses to it (KJV) and see what- it says!)

God always honors righteousness, and faith!

Hebrews 11:6 KJV
But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

I John 5:14,15 KJV
14 And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will (The Word Of God), He heareth us:
15 And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

Daniel 6:18 NLT
Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night fasting. He refused his usual entertainment and couldn’t sleep at all that night.

Daniel, a Godly man made no protest in his arrest and sentence. Daniel's faith was in his God.

Romans 8:28 KJV
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

Daniel 6:19,20 NLT
19 Very early the next morning, the king got up and hurried out to the lions’ den.
20 When he got there, he called out in anguish ((a lamentable voice - KJV), “Daniel, servant of The Living God! Was your God, whom you serve so faithfully, able to rescue you from the lions?”

Matthew 22:32 KJV
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. 

Mark 12:27 KJV
He is not the God of the dead, but The God Of The Living..."

Daniel 6:21-28 NLT
21 Daniel answered, “Long live the king!
22 My God sent His angel to shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in His sight. And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.”
23 The king was overjoyed and ordered that Daniel be lifted from the den. Not a scratch was found on him, for he had trusted in his God.
24 Then the king gave orders to arrest the men who had maliciously accused Daniel. He had them thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. The lions leaped on them and tore them apart before they even hit the floor of the den.

Daniel 6:24 KJV
And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
(The lions broke all their bones, before the hit the bottom of the pit.)

25 Then King Darius sent this message to the people of every race and nation and language throughout the world:
Peace and prosperity to you!
26 “I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For He is The Living God, and He will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His rule will never end.
27 He rescues and saves His people; He performs miraculous signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
28 So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

The Lord Our Deliverer:

II Samuel 22:2 KJV (King David)
And he said, The Lord is my Rock, and my Fortress, and my Deliverer;

I Chronicles 29:11 KJV (King David)
Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Psalm 18:1-3 NLT
1 I love you, Lord; you are my Strength.
2 The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Savior; my God is my Rock, in whom I find protection. He is my Shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety.
3 I called on The Lord, who is worthy of praise, and He saved me from my enemies.

Psalm 40:17 KJV
But I am poor and needy; yet The Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my Help and my Deliverer..."

Psalm 144:2 KJV
My Goodness, and my Fortress; my High Tower, and my Deliverer; my Shield, and He in whom I trust..."

Do you know this great Savior, the one who can deliver you from the lions?