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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.

destroy Babylon, and the name of the man

whom God had chosen to accomplish the

overthrow.

Such are the messages which God sent, and

thus it was that he made use of his people.

Those whom he could not use when granted

peace and prosperity and a city of their own,

he used when slaves under the iron heel of

Babylon. Babylon was like a city on the edge of

a volcanic crater, but she believed it not. In the

year 539 B. C., the general of the combined

forces of the Medes and Persians started

toward Babylon. The news reached the city

that the enemy was on the march. Then it was

that the message came to flee from the city

and be as goats upon the mountainside. Jews

who heeded the word of the Lord, then