Page 17 - 09 THE EIGHTH OF DANIEL

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.

displayed when the nation magnified itself

against the host (church) of heaven, “Yea, he

magnified himself even against [mar.] the

prince of the host.” “He shall also stand up

against the Prince of princes.”

God’s people are precious in his sight, and he

who touches them touches the apple of his

eye. Rome first deprived the Jews of the right

to worship, grinding that nation beneath the

heel of oppression. Then Christ came, when

the oppression was the most severe, that

Rome might see God in human flesh. He came

to identify himself with that downtrodden

people, and to show to men that God is always

with the oppressed and enslaved. He came to

illustrate the workings of the Spirit in the

human heart, and to prove that it is possible to