Ezekiel showed us a God whose holiness cannot be ignored and whose glory cannot be contained. Now we turn to Daniel. The setting changes dramatically. We leave Jerusalem and its ruined temple and come to Babylon, where God's people are living in exile. But the change of setting does not mean that God has abandoned His people. Quite the opposite. In Ezekiel, we watched the glory of God depart from Jerusalem. In Daniel, we discover that God has not departed from His peo

Daniel was among the first captives taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. He was still a young man when he entered exile, selected with others of royal or noble lineage—“children in whom was no blemish… skilful in all wisdom… and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace” (Daniel 1:4). Babylon intended to reshape these young Israelites into servants of empire. God had other plans.