The Kingdom of God Versus the Kingdoms of Man (22): The Plot to Destroy Daniel (Daniel 5:31-6:17)
I. Its Political Occasion
II. Its Evil Motivation
III. Its Antichristian Application
Text: Daniel 6:1-9
This video includes the congregational prayer, etc., before the sermon
John C. Whitcomb on Daniel 6: “The official form of execution under Darius the Mede is said to be ‘the lions’ den,’ whereas in the days of Nebuchadnezzar it had been the ‘furnace of blazing fire’ (Dan. 3; cf. Jer. 29:22). The historical significance of this change is that the state religion of Medo-Persia, namely, Zoroastrianism, involved the worship of Atar the fire-god. Thus for the Medo-Persians to have used a furnace as a means for destroying criminals would have appeared sacrilegious. Such details, introduced quite incidentally into the narrative, provide further confirmation of the historicity of the sixth chapter of Daniel.”