Daniel in Exile
A View from the Bunker
IMAGINE YOU’RE a teenage boy kidnapped by a foreign army and dragged from your home to a land far far away, placed in a school to indoctrinate you in the ways of your pagan, polytheist captors, trying to survive while remaining true to the One True God.
That's the beginning of the story of the prophet Daniel, and that is the focus of the new novel by this week's guest and regular contributor to our monthly Iron and Myth series, Brian Godawa (godawa.com).
Brian, an award-winning screenwriter and best selling novelist, applies his gift of storytelling to the one of the most compelling characters of the Bible. Daniel saw the progression of the neo-Babylonian kingdom from the time of Nebuchadnezzar until it fell to the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
Daniel: Exile in Babylon is the first of a trilogy that tells the story of Daniel, his life, and the warfare in the unseen realm between God's loyal angels and the fallen rebels who compete with one another for power, even as they strive against their creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Click here for more background on Daniel: Exile in Babylon.
Isn’t it something that we can see the story of Daniel in perfect 20/20 vision in hindsight. A lot of bad happened to him during much of his life. That’s a lot of years but if he didn’t have his Faith in the Heavenly Father the story wouldn’t be the same.
I guess my point is when we get thrown into a pit or some other trial just keep pushing forward.