Wenstrom Bible Ministries Marion, Iowa Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom www.wenstrom.org

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Wenstrom Bible MinistriesMarion,
IowaPastor-Teacher Bill Wenstromwww.wenstrom.o
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Tuesday March 5, 2013Daniel Daniel 611
(612)-The Conspirators Find Daniel Praying to
His GodLesson 182
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Please turn in your Bibles to Daniel 611.
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Daniel 61 Now, Darius the Mede received the
kingdom at sixty-two years of age. 2 It was
considered a good idea by Darius to establish one
hundred twenty satraps over the kingdom in order
that they would be in authority over the entire
kingdom.
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3 Also, out from, over them, three supervisors,
of whom Daniel was one of them in order that
these satraps would exist in the state of having
to give an account to them so that the king would
never be able to suffer loss.
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4 Then this Daniel was distinguishing himself
above the supervisors as well as satraps because
an extraordinary spirit was in him. Consequently,
the king intended to establish him over the
entire kingdom 5 as a result, the supervisors as
well as the satraps were repeatedly attempting to
cause a pretext to be found against Daniel with
regards to governmental affairs. However,
repeatedly they were totally unable to cause any
pretext in the form of corruption to be found
because he was trustworthy. Indeed, no negligence
in the form of corruption was found against him.
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6 Therefore, these men concluded, We will never
be able to cause a pretext to be found against
this Daniel unless we cause it be found in
connection with the law originating from his
God. 7 Consequently, these supervisors as well
as the satraps conspired together to the
detriment of the king and said the following to
the king, King Darius, live forever!
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8 Each and every one of the supervisors over the
kingdom, namely the senior officials well as the
satraps, that is the royal officials, in other
words the governors are in agreement that the
king should issue an edict. Specifically, an
interdict, which should be enforced in order that
whoever makes a request from any god or human
being during a thirty day period except from you,
O king, must be unceremoniously deposited into a
lions den.
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9 Now, please O king establish an interdict.
Specifically, please sign the document into law
in order that it can never be changed according
to Medo-Persian law, which can never be revoked.
10 Because of this, King Darius signed the
document into law, that is, the interdict.
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11 Now when Daniel was aware that the document
was signed into law, he entered his home, which
had windows in its upper room swung open toward
Jerusalem. Then he worshipped on his knees three
times during the day. Indeed, as was his custom,
he prayed while giving thanks in the presence of
his God just as he had been doing previously. (My
translation)
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Daniel 611 Then these men came by agreement and
found Daniel making petition and supplication
before his God. (NASB95)
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This verse presents the next event that took
place after Daniel worshipped his God by giving
thanks to Him.
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These men is a reference to Daniels fellow
supervisors and satraps who were conspiring
against him.
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Came by agreement is the third person masculine
plural haf?el (Hebrew hiphil) active perfect
form of the verb re?aš (??????) (reg-ash), which
means to conspire together and is used with
Daniels fellow supervisors and satraps as its
subject.
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Thus this word denotes that they came by secret
agreement or cooperation for a deceitful purpose.

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And found Daniel making petition defines
specifically the previous statement which said
that Daniels fellow satraps and supervisors
conspired together.
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Found is the third person masculine plural
haf?el (Hebrew hiphil stem) active perfect form
of the verb še?a? (??????) (shek-akh), which
means to find or to discover in the sense of
coming upon by searching or effort and is used
here with Daniels fellow supervisors and satraps
as its subject.
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Thus, this word indicates that these individuals
found Daniel praying to his God implying that
they immediately went to Daniels home in order
to catch him in the act of praying to his God.
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Making request is the masculine singular pe?al
(Hebrew qal) active participle form of the verb
be?a(h) (??????) (beh-aw), which means to make
a request and is used of Daniel as its subject
indicating that the conspirators immediately went
to the home of Daniel and found him making
request of his God in prayer.
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The verb ?anan, which follows it makes clear that
Daniel was making request for himself since he
was praying for deliverance.
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And supplication provides a specific detail
which sheds more light on the previous statement
which said that the conspirators found Daniel
making request from his God in prayer.
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Supplication is the masculine singular
hitpa??al (Hebrew piel) middle participle form
of the verb ?anan (?????) (khan-an), which means
to ask earnestly and urgently for help, implore
for help, to make an earnest and urgent request
in prayer, to call upon earnestly in prayer.
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This indicates that when Daniel heard that the
interdict was signed into law prohibiting anyone
in the next thirty days from praying to his god,
Daniel went home and earnestly and urgently made
a request from his God in prayer to deliver him
from certain death.
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Before his God is composed of the preposition
qo?am (?????) (kod-awm), before and its object
is the masculine plural noun ?elah (??????)
(el-aw), God which is modified by the third
person masculine singular pronominal suffix hû(?)
(????) (who), his.
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The noun ?elah means God referring to the God
of Israel without reference to a member of the
Trinity.
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It is the object of the preposition qo?am, which
means in the presence of and denotes Daniel was
making an earnest and urgent prayer request in
the presence of his God.
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Daniel 611 (612) Then these men conspired
together, namely, they found Daniel making
request, specifically, making an earnest and
urgent prayer request in the presence of his God.
(My translation)
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This verse presents Daniels response to Darius
signing into law an interdict which demanded a
person to be executed if they prayed to their god
or any human being with the exception of the king
in the next thirty days.
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Daniels fellow supervisors and satraps conspired
together in coercing Darius to sign this
interdict into law.
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Immediately after the interdict was signed into
law, the conspirators went to Daniels home to
find him breaking this law.
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They found him making an urgent and earnest
prayer request from his God to deliver him from
death.
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The conspirators were no doubt rejoicing since
they were all eyewitnesses that Daniel broke the
newly signed law.
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Daniels response to this tremendous adversity is
an excellent example for Christians to follow
when they are faced with a great adversity.
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Prayer was the first resort for Daniel and not
the last resort.
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1 Peter 56 Make it your top priority and permit
yourselves to be humbled under the mighty hand of
God the Father in order that He may promote you
at the proper time by casting all your anxiety
upon Him because as for Him He cares about you.
(Authors translation)
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Life can be scary at times living in the devils
world.
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God knows this.
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Thats why He gave us provisions, like prayer, to
deal with our problems.
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God does not want us to be anxious about
anything. He wants us to trust in His Word.
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Philippians 46 teaches that we should pray for a
solution to our problems, rather than become
worried or anxious.
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The apostle Paul, in this passage, commanded a
group of first century believers in Philippi, who
were under tremendous adversity, to pray for a
solution.
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The principles in Philippians 46 are applicable
to our struggles faced daily here in the
twenty-first century.
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Philippians 46 At this very moment, all of you
stop continuing to be anxious about absolutely
anything, but rather, concerning anything at all
by means of reverential prayer in the presence of
the Father and by means of petition accompanied
by the giving of thanks, let your specific
detailed requests be repeatedly made known in the
presence of the Father. (Authors translation)
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Philippians 47 presents the fantastic, wonderful
results that would take place in the soul of the
believer who obeyed his prohibition and command
in Philippians 46 and utilized the three-fold
means to dealing with adversity in life.
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Philippians 47 And as a result the peace
produced by God the Holy Spirit, which is always
superior to any and every human conception, will
as a dogmatic statement of fact cause your hearts
to be protected and, as a result, your thoughts
by means of the doctrine of Christ Jesus.
(Authors translation)
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Therefore, in Philippians 46-7, Paul taught that
prayer, essentially, solves the problem of stress
and anxiety, which is widespread in twenty-first
century America.
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In Daniel chapter six, we see that as a result of
being persecuted, Daniel was suffering
undeservedly in order to bring glory to God.
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The Bible teaches that God uses undeserved
suffering to advance His children to greater
spiritual growth.
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The believer must experience undeserved suffering
since it is through undeserved suffering that the
believer is conformed to the image of Christ.
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John 1633 These things I have spoken to you, so
that in Me you may have peace. In the world you
have tribulation, but take courage I have
overcome the world. (NASB95)
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2 Corinthians 417 For momentary, light
affliction is producing for us an eternal weight
of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we
look not at the things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen for the things which
are seen are temporal, but the things which are
not seen are eternal. (NASB95)
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Philippians 129 It has been graciously granted
(the privilege) because of Christ, not only to
believe in Him, but also, to suffer (hardship)
because of Him. (Authors translation)
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Philippians 310 that I come to know Him
experientially and the power from His
resurrection and the participation in His
sufferings by my becoming like Him with respect
to His death. 11 If somehow (by becoming like Him
with respect to His death), I may attain to the
exit-resurrection, namely, the one out from the
(spiritually) dead ones. (Authors translation)
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The believer must deny self in order to imitate
the Lord Jesus Christ and carry his own cross.
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Luke 1425 Now large crowds were going along with
Him and He turned and said to them, 26 If
anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own
father and mother and wife and children and
brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life,
he cannot be My disciple. 27 Whoever does not
carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be
My disciple. (NASB95)
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John 1520 Remember the word that I said to you,
A slave is not greater than his master. If they
persecuted Me, they will also persecute you if
they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
(NASB95)
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2 Timothy 312 Indeed, all who desire to live
spiritually in fellowship with Christ Jesus will
be persecuted. (Authors translation)
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The conspirators knew Daniel would not comply
with this edict.
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Daniel 610 (611) records that Daniel prayed
three times every day.
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His fellow satraps and supervisors obviously knew
this as indicated by the fact that they coerced
Darius into establishing this decree.
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Daniel 610 (611) records Daniel praying three
times a day to his God.
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This tells the reader why the conspirators are
recorded as saying in Daniel 65 (66) that they
will never be able to cause a pretext to be found
against Daniel unless they cause it to be found
in connection with the law of his God.
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Thus, we see that the conspirators are using
Daniels spirituality and faithfulness to his God
against him as a political weakness.
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Their actions make clear that they knew that
Daniel would rather die than disobey his God.
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Their conspiracy makes clear that they knew
Daniel would obey God rather than the king or the
laws of Medo-Persia if they came into conflict
with the laws of his God.
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The fact that the conspirators knew of Daniels
habit of praying three times a day to his God
indicates that Daniel never hid his relationship
with God and that this relationship was public
knowledge.
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