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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.

kingdom? But he had dreamed a dream which

troubled him, and he called upon his wise men

for an interpretation. They listened, but

strange to say, could give no explanation. God

always permitted the wise men of earth to

have first trial. When these wise men failed,

Daniel was called.

Daniel’s name had been changed when he first

entered the Babylonian court, and to the king

and his associates he was known as

Belteshazzar, a son of the heathen god Bel, but

Daniel himself always retained his own

Hebrew name. Years before this, however, the

God of Daniel had said, “Bel boweth and Nebo

stoopeth; ...they could not deliver the burden,

but themselves are gone into captivity.” Daniel

again had an opportunity of proving the