Daily Bible Reading Podcast

DANIEL 7-8:In Daniel yesterday, we heard the famous ‘writing on the wall’ chapter. That is where that idiom in English comes from! While that was happening with King Belshazzar, the Medes and Persians were outside the wall and the prophecies of Ezekiel, Isaiah and Jeremiah all happened. Daniel was to be proclaimed the third ruler because Belshazzar was in fact the second ruler under his absentee father, Nabonidus. Then under King Darius, Daniel was thrown to the lions. I am estimating that Daniel would have been around 70 years old at that time. ISAIAH 26:Yesterday’s reading in Isaiah was not primarily dark with the sun piercing the darkness momentarily, but was a sunny psalm of praise. We heard even of the marriage supper of the Lamb, and there were glorious verses like this: Is. 25:4 NLT But you are a tower of refuge to the poor, O LORD,a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.You are a refuge from the stormand a shelter from the heat. But at the end of yesterday’s chapter, gloomy clouds blew in with a wo