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Ten Days on Vegetables: A Dream of Kingdoms and Four Men in the Fire | Daniel 1–4
Episode Overview
Today we open the book of Daniel with chapters 1 through 4. Daniel and his friends are teenagers carried off to Babylon and enrolled in a program designed to remake them—new language, new learning, new names. Their resistance is quiet and specific: they ask for vegetables and water instead of the king's rich food, and request a ten-day trial to prove it. Notice what they do not do. They do not stage a protest or refuse the training. They pick the hill worth dying on and hold it politely.
The rest of these chapters is about who actually runs history. Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a…
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