Today is the 25th day of November.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is always fantastic.

It's always a new opportunity.

It's always great to be together around the global campfire as we continue our journey.

And our journey has got like a month left, right?

It's a month from today, that's Christmas Day, and then we got a week and we're in a new year. It's crazy.

But that's where we are, and that's where we are in the scriptures on our journey, and today we're starting some new territory the book of Daniel which is an

incredibly interesting book in the Old Testament it's prized for the historical accounting of what was happening, but then

there's also these panoramic kind of cinematic prophetic visions that Daniel has.

And those visions have been examined through millennia

in the study of eschatology or the study of the end of the world, the end of all things. And so if that's a passion

of yours and you're familiar with Daniel, Daniel at least as it's written here is a contemporary of Ezekiel, and that's the

book that we concluded yesterday.

There are lots of scholars that believe Daniel's like a later, was written later than this. But this is the territory that's being

covered. He was taken into exile when Jerusalem fell and that was in 597 BC when the Babylonians took over and we know that from

reading of those times in the scriptures those were like horrible hellish times for the children of Israel as they're being

deported and families are being broken up and people are being killed and so we're

familiar with that and that's the struggle that we're going back into with

Daniel. But Daniel was favored by God. He was gifted and his giftings and humility allowed him to rise to become an influential advisor and a great

authority in the Babylonian kingdom of Nebuch and Nazar and and Daniel's an exile and he's a

Hebrew and he's a prophet but he's he's not like a prophet for Israel or against Israel. The visions of Daniel

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