Speaker discusses the lessons of the Book of Daniel (Part 2)

Friends refusing the meat and wine, Daniel's interpreting dreams. The three friends get tossed into a fiery furnace. Daniel's reading, Writing on the Wall, and of course the Lion's Den. They are some very dramatic stories, well known. But I actually love diving into well known stories that are familiar because I think it gives us a greater excuse to dive in and like, okay, let's go deeper. Let's see what else I can see here that I haven't been inspired by before. And I just love the lessons that Daniel teaches. And then the second half of the book of Daniel, chapter seven through 12, which we're only reading seven, like the chapter seven are the prophecies of Daniel. So lots of prophecies about the last days, second coming, millennium, resurrection, all that. Last thing that I want to let you know before we go into specifics is we've got to talk about the names. We've got to talk about the names here because it's, it sometimes can be confusing or doesn't really make sense. When we read the Book of Daniel, we've got these four main characters, right? We've got Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. These are the four Jewish men, Hebrew also being another word for Jewish, that were taken out of Jerusalem. They were carried in captivity in Babylon. And these are their Hebrew names. These are, these are the names they were born with. However, as part of their three year training program, they were taught that Babylonian Chaldean culture. And they were also given new names that helped them assimilate into Babylonian culture. So Daniel, Hebrew name Daniel was given the new name of Belteshazzar. And you might be like, whoa, that's crazy. That's because Daniel in all of these chapters is referred to as Daniel by his Hebrew name. Hananiah was given the new name of Shadrach, Mishael was given the name Meshach, and Azariah was given the name Abednego. So interestingly enough, because this is how it's in the Scriptures, we commonly refer to Daniel by his Hebrew name, but we refer to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego by their Chaldean names, their Babylonian names, because that's just how it is in the Scriptures. So just a little random, there's no reason why.