The Prince Was Already There
The Import Log — Part 1 of 5 eFireTemple.com There is a verse in the Hebrew Bible that theologians walk past every day. They teach it in seminaries. They include it in commentaries. They reference it in footnotes. And not one of them stops to hear what it is actually saying. Daniel 10:13. The prophet Daniel has been fasting for three weeks. He is in Persia — not visiting, not passing through, but living there under Persian rule after the Babylonian exile.
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The Import Log — Part 1 of 5 eFireTemple.com There is a verse in the Hebrew Bible that theologians walk past every day. They teach it in seminaries. They include it in commentaries. They reference it in footnotes. And not one of them stops to hear what it is actually saying. Daniel 10:13. The prophet Daniel has been fasting for three weeks. He is in Persia — not visiting, not passing through, but living there under Persian rule after the Babylonian exile. An angelic being appears to him — later identified as Gabriel in the broader Daniel narrative — and explains why the message was delayed. The angel says: "The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia." Read that again. Not quickly. Slowly. The Sar Paras — the Prince of Persia — was already there.
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