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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

for violence; ...they shall gather the captivity

as the sand. And they shall scoff at the kings,

and the princes shall be a scorn unto them;

they shall deride every stronghold.”

This is Babylon as Habakkuk saw it. While

Daniel watched the same kingdom in his

vision, the noble lion with its wings, denoting

power and rapidity of conquest, had been

lifted up from the earth into an unnatural

position and made to stand upon its feet as a

man, and a man’s heart was given to it. Man’s

heart without Christ is simply sin. The wings

were shorn, and then Babylon was

represented as it existed at the time of the

vision, bereft of its strength, abandoned by

God, with Belshazzar standing at the head of

the government.