Chapters 10, 11, and 12 make up one last vision for Daniel. Though Daniel prayed three times a day toward the city of Jerusalem, he only had intermittent dreams and vision. This chapter reveals intense spiritual warfare surrounding prayer and waiting for answers to prayer.
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Chapter 9 – The 70-Week Vision
This vision in Daniel has been interpreted over the centuries by many people, though until the restoration of Israel and Jerusalem in our day, many interpretations have been faulty because they were centered not on Israel, but on the church, Rome, and everything other pagan nation. Daniel 9:24 clarifies that the 70 weeks are about God dealing with His people, the Jewish people, not the world, church or Rome, unless what is happening to the Jewish people affects these other entities.
Chapter 3 – Three Holy Boys
The “Prayer of the Three Holy Boys” from the Greek Septuagint is found after Daniel 3:23, but removed from modern-day Bibles. The “Prayer of the Three Holy Boys” is accepted as canonical scripture by Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians and is included in the 80-book Protestant Bibles in the section of the Apocrypha. Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England has it listed as non-canonical (but still, with the other Apocryphal texts, “the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners”). The Belgic Confession of the Reformed Churches teaches that “The church may certainly read these [Apocryphal] books and learn from them as far as they agree with the canonical books.”
Prayer of the Three Holy Boys
The “Prayer of the Three Holy Boys” from the Greek Septuagint is found after Daniel 3:23, but removed from modern-day Bibles. The “Prayer of the Three Holy Boys” is accepted as canonical scripture by Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians and is included in the 80-book Protestant Bibles in the section of the Apocrypha. Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England has it listed as non-canonical (but still, with the other Apocryphal texts, “the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners”). The Belgic Confession of the Reformed Churches teaches that “The church may certainly read these [Apocryphal] books and learn from them as far as they agree with the canonical books.”