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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.
Daniel was no longer retained in the court.
The time of his dismissal is not stated, but in
the third year of Belshazzar’s reign, he was
living at Shushan, the capital of Elam, some
distance east of Babylon, and it was at that
place that he saw the vision which the eighth
chapter of the book of Daniel relates.
During the reign of Nabonadius and
Belshazzar, events of the greatest importance
occurred. To the Jews who accepted the words
of the prophets whom God sent, rising up
early and sending, the downfall of the
kingdom in the near future was well known. In
spite of their own oppression there was a
world to be warned, and as the host of the
redeemed gather about the throne of God,
made up, as it will be, of representatives of
