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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.

Jordan, and among them came Jesus of

Nazareth. John recognized him by a sign from

heaven, and as he came out of the water the

heavens opened; and he saw the heavenly

dove resting on his head, and heard the voice

proclaiming him the Son of God.

The sixty-nine weeks had closed. Those who

were at that time studying the prophecies of

Daniel were looking for him, and believed the

words of John when he said, “Behold the Lamb

of God, which taketh away the sin of the

world.” Christ also said, “The time is fulfilled,”

referring to the prophetic period of the sixty-

nine weeks of Daniel. But the nation as a

whole was blind. “He came unto his own, and

his own received him not.” They might have

known. The book of Daniel was for them to