December 3, 2011 – Daniel 14

In reading these last couple of chapters in Daniel, I think it would make for a great detective TV series. Daniel just goes around solving mysteries using logic and intelligent methods of catching the crooks. It appears that he is the first “Colombo” type.

It seems brutal to kill the children of the priest. We will be getting into Joshua pretty soon and it will seem very violent, the cities that are completely wiped away. Here, a pagan king, not God, does this killing. It just appears that things like this were more acceptable. We must not read these stories with our lenses of modern day sensitivity and miss the points of the story. You may imagine that if you were reading this back then and the story said that the women and children were spared, the reader would think that was so odd they would not give the story any credence. We must always remember when and to whom these were originally written.