Today is December 1st.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

Welcome to the final month, the 12th month of the year.

Goodness, where does the time go?

Today is the 335th day in a row of this year

that we have navigated together

and I am grateful as always

to be here around

the global campfire with you

as we embark upon

and navigate through

I guess we'd call this the home stretch, the busy stretch

for sure.

Grateful, grateful, deeply, grateful to be here with you today.

We are moving our way through the book of Daniel.

At this point, let's jump into Daniel

Chapter 8 today.

In the third year of King Bel-Shazzar's reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel,

after the one that had appeared to me previously. In this vision,

I saw myself in Susa, the citadel, which is located in the province of Ilam. In the vision,

I saw myself at the Ulai Canal. I looked up and saw a ram with two horns standing at the canal. Its two horns

were both long, but one was longer than the other. The longer one was coming up after the

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