Daniel chapter 6

1. Daniel chapter 6 Question and Answers

2. Review • Daniel chapter 2 The Image • Daniel chapter 3 The furnace • Daniel chapter 4 The tree • Daniel chapter 5 The handwriting • Daniel chapter 6 The lion’s den

3. Review – The memory verses Daniel2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Daniel4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

4. Daniel Chapter 6Questions & Answers 1.Who is the Darius of Daniel 6:1 and is he the same Darius as in Daniel 5:31? • In the previous verse, Daniel 5:31 Darius is identified as "Darius the Median" and that alone would suggest that we need to discriminate between them. • Further Darius is not a name but a title meaning In a recent discovery of a chronicle of Nabonidus from Harran, it refers to "the king of the Medes" and Cyrus as king of the Medes. • This however doesn't identify who was the Darius in Daniel chapter 6 and archaeologists and historians are also uncertain but scripture supports Darius in Daniel 5:31 was the father-in-law of Cyrus and in Daniel chapter 6 Darius was Cyrus.

5. Chapter 6Questions & Answers 2. How old was Daniel at this time? • Daniel would have been between 80 to 90 years old when taken captive around 607 BC.

6. Chapter 6 3.Do you think we should follow Daniel's example of praying three times a day?(Support your reasoning.) • It is a great privilege to have this form of communication with our Heavenly Father. The following Scriptures are helpful in answering this question: • JAM 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify yourhearts, ye double minded. • ECC 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. • Note the balance between drawing nigh to God while remembering that God is in heaven and we upon earth. • Mark the importance of cleansing our hands, heart and mind. This we see especially with Daniel but Simon in Acts 8:24 is helpful when we know our heart isn’t right. • Acts8:24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me. • DAN 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

7. Chapter 6Questions & Answers 3.Do you think we should follow Daniel's example of praying three times a day? (Support your reasoning.) • Daniel's example is a good one, however to follow it, implies following his life style, including prayer and preparation. The importance of having clean hands, heart and mind are fundamental. • This is accomplished by obeying God's commandments and applying ourselves to the word in “truth” (= doctrine - correct understanding) in “spirit” (right attitudet) and life style (clean hands, hearts and minds that draw nigh to God. • John 4:23 … for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 … and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. • NEH 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. • NEH 1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

8. Chapter 6Questions & Answers 4. Who enjoyed the most power, Nebuchadnezzar or Darius? • From this story, we see Darius couldn't deliver Daniel from the lion's den even though he tried hard. This is one of the reasons gold was the symbol of the Babylonians and silver for the Medo-Persians.

9. Chapter 6Questions & Answers 5. How can we learn from the way Darius was trapped by these princes? • We need to be especially alert when everything is going really well and people say good things about us. • There is more to it than just the words of flattery. • We are flesh and prone to its weaknesses. The problem is that when things are going well God is not in our mind as much. It is all too easy to think it is I and we end up with I ictus!

10. Chapter 6Questions & Answers 6. Daniel's adversaries suffered the same fate that they had wanted for Daniel. Give both an O.T. and an N.T. example where “what goes around comes around”. • In the Old Testament, the obvious example is Haman who was hanged on the gallows he built for Mordecai and a not so obvious with king Asa. • King Asa imprisons the prophet Hanani in stocks because he reprimanded Asa and for this, God smote Asa in the feet so in essence King Asa was put in stocks. • In the New Testament, Caiaphas said that if they let Christ alone, the Romans would come and destroy their nation. What happened is that the Romans did come in AD 70 and destroyed their nation.

11. Chapter 6Questions & Answers 7. How did the experiences of Daniel foreshadow those of Jesus? • Daniel & Christ incited the envy of their contemporaries • Both their enemies attacked through their worship of God. • A stone was used to close the opening in both cases. • Both were brought out of the pit alive. • Both escaped with no manner of hurt - not a bone broken.