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I’ve been eager to get to this chapter. We would do well to dwell long in it. My imagination has Daniel, living still in Babylon, turning to face the East, to Jerusalem. There he would picture the former glory of the Temple of God in the city of Jerusalem. And he would pray as Solomon foretold, as Moses prescribed. For Israel was suffering the curses that came with breaking their covenant with God Almighty. And now that history was unfolding before Daniel’s eyes in accordance with the word of the prophets, he was all the more eager to fast, pray, read and yearn for the fulfillment of God’s promises, a return of the remnant and therefore the favor of God. Hear what happens when the people of God humble themselves, repent and seek the Lord!
