If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Daniel, chapter 2. Last week we commented on the context of the book of Daniel. We said that the book was set during the Babylonian exile of Judah. Jerusalem had been carried into Babylon as a punishment for sin, for rebellion against God. She had turned her back on her covenant God and she had been carried away into captivity. And so the book of Daniel gives us a picture of the captivity of Israel and it gives us about a 70-year slice of the life of Daniel. And we said also that we found in this book a distinctively God-centered view of history. Daniel sees the actions and stage of world history as a stage on which God is acting. We also said that the book of Daniel is a piece of resistance literature. It's designed to…