Samuel Daniel

In a bloody battle with Necho’s Egyptian army in 605 BC, Prince Nebuchadnezzar the son of Nabopolassar, pushed the Egyptian army back across the river and claimed Judah to Babylon. After Nebuchadnezzar departed back to his homeland to ascend to the throne, Judah began to revolt against the Babylonian rule which called for the now King to return to suppress the trouble. Upon his return the King had completed many projects to remind Judah of whom their king was. One of the projects was to take some of the Jews captive to Babylon. One of the captive was a teenager by the name of Daniel. The name Daniel means, “God my judge”. Daniel was a prophet and apocalyptic of God, living during the time of 605BC – 530BC; this was also the same time as Ezra, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. As you read and study Ezra, Ezekiel and Jeremiah you will find that some of the prophecies and actions are the same. The book of Daniel displays a…

Daniel had been morning the past three weeks and when he standing on the bank of the Tigris river he saw a man clothed in linen with eyes like flaming torches and saw a vision (Daniel 10:2-7). The men around Daniel could not see the man which possibly means he was an angel. When the angel spoke, Daniel fell to the ground and the angel said to him, “Daniel, greatly beloved, pay attention to the words that I am going to speak to you” (Daniel 10:11). Daniel stood up while the angel told him not to…

Daniel Hawk talks of how and what Saul is as king and in how he is a figurative sacrifice for the country Israel for all of the times that they had turned away from God during the rule of the judges. When the people cry out for a king God sees this as a direct rejection of His rule. Samuel recounts to the people of their sins and transgressions and that God will make them pay, however, later Samuel assures them that God will not abandon them. Hawk talks of Saul and how his life/rule play out in…

I must admit, I get a bit of a smirk every time I read this as I think of how Donald Trump blew a head gasket at the mere suggestion by Marco Rubio that he had small hands. I’m sure the reader is fully aware of Trump’s defensive posture during the Republican debates, a night most would rather expunge from their memory. A horn represents a seat of power and authority in scripture (1 Samuel 2:1; 1 Samuel 16:1 1 Samuel 16:13 ; 1 Kings 1:39 ; 22:11 ; Joshua 6:4 Joshua 6:5 ; Psalms 75:5 Psalms 75:10…

Introduction In 605 B.C during Jehoiakim’s reign, the Babylonian’s king Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel and his friends as captives when he besieged Jerusalem. Daniel was taken captive because he fit in the standards, which the king was searching for: young men, good-looking and smart. During the time of captivity, Daniel, the author of the book of the Bible with the same name , writes about the dreams, visions and situations he passed in the course of the captivity. Indeed Daniel’s actions…

As a leader, David was outstanding. God called him a man after His own heart (1 Samuel 13:14) who would be the ruler. As king, it is interesting to note how God described him at various times. For example, in 2 Samuel 3:18, He called him “My servant David.” In 2 Samuel 7:5, he again called him His servant. These terms are repeated in 1 Chronicles 17:4 and 1 Chronicles 17:7. When David turned to God in confession, he described himself as a servant. In each of the above references the term…

say how old the semen could have been” (Daniels). Since he refuses to tell how long because he was up there defending Price. After, this incident they went straight to the doctors and Dr. Bridges said, “Described the girls the girls as calm and composed.” (Hortorn) As doctors have dealt with these situations before and most of the time after a rape they are not calm they are normally crying and devastated. This shows that the examinations the doctors did do not match what the two girls were…

I Samuel 9 talks about Samuel being the Man of God. Specifically, how he is a man of honor. I Kings 12:22 we see Shemaiah being called the Man of God. There is little known about this man, so we can rule out that a qualification for being a man of God correlated with what you accomplish for God. I Kings 17:18 depicts Elijah as the Man of God. There is even the phrase “Call my sin to remembrance,” this further shows that the Man of God is holy and just. If we were to take the same look at the…

In his novel, The Prize, Daniel Yergin tells the history of oil, one of nature’s most precious resources, and how it came to rule both the world’s economic and political landscapes. The book shows the rapid advancements in oil producing technology and how it impacted the world, for the best and for the worst. From the beginning, people recognized the potentially limitless applications that oil could be used for. Yergin walks you through the establishment of many of the great oil companies, as…

The perception of our emotions, and the world we live in isn’t all that it seems. Daniel Gilbert, a professor of social psychology at Harvard has an inquisitive view of the relationship between perceived happiness, and reality. In the chapter “Immune to Reality” from his book Stumbling on Happiness, Gilbert reasons that our psychological immune system causes us to be self-deceiving and as a result, causing us to have the tendency to cook the facts of situations that can affect our happiness.…