Hi, I'm Chuck Pike. And this evening, we're going to be looking at Daniel chapter six, the story of Daniel in the lion's den. It's a famous children's story, but I believe that there is a tremendous amount that's hidden in the story of significance for Christians. I hope that this will be the first class in a short series on prophecies and allegories in the Old Testament.
This is something I have wanted to do for a long time to record messages that explain some of the prophecies that are not very well known to Christians. If you look in the book of Acts at how the gospel was spread around the world in the beginning, it was spread by the apostles using the Old Testament prophecies to convince the Jews and the Gentiles both that Jesus was the Son of God in fulfillment of the prophecies, that he died.
His death, burial, and resurrection were all prophesied about hundreds of years beforehand in the prophecies. And one of the most exciting prophecies to me is the one in Daniel 6. It's one that I just connected with really over the last couple of years, although I've studied the Old Testament for many years myself. And I wanted to, I want to share this lesson with you. And I'd like to start off by asking a question. Think about this.
If someone asked you to name the prophecies that you can think of in the Old Testament, the prophecy about the coming of Jesus, how many could you name? Would it be two or three, five, 50, 100? How many prophecies could you name? Now, most people I ask this question to, they can think of maybe two, three, or four. Most people will say Isaiah chapter 53, maybe Psalm 22, Isaiah chapter seven about the virgin birth of Christ, maybe one or two others. And then it gets a little murky after that.
Well, actually, the Old Testament is saturated with prophecies about Jesus. Some of them are mentioned overtly and other prophecies are hinted about in the in the New Testament. So this is one prophecy that is amazing in terms of the detail that's involved. Daniel chapter six. Before digging in, I want to share a little story from my own childhood, which I think relates to what we're about to study. When I was a young boy growing up in a small town in New Jersey, twice a year we go to the dentist office.
And I had two sisters and a brother. And so I'd have to sit and wait in the dentist office while my brothers and sisters were going to get their dental work done. And while I was sitting in the dental office, sometimes I'd play with the toys. And then other times I'd pick up the magazine. I'd pick up highlights, magazine, highlights for children. And lo and behold, I did a little research and the 1 billionth copy of Highlights was recently published. The magazine is still kicking.
But it was a kind of a wholesome upbeat kids magazine. And I think it still is. And my favorite part of Highlights magazine was a feature called The Hidden Picture. And the hidden picture in every highlights magazine, there was one page and there'd be a little childlike picture in there. It might be bunny rabbits planting a garden or bears fishing or ladybugs having a picnic. And at first glance, the picture just looks like a nice cute little upbeat picture.
But underneath the picture, it would say if you look carefully at this picture, you will find a heart, a whale, a duck, a chef's a chef's hat, scissors, a hammer, a bird, a lizard, things like that. And these little objects were hidden in the picture. And the artists would hide them in the bark of a tree or the branches of a tree or in the water or somewhere in the picture, the artist would hide all these different things that were recognizable to a child. And so it would take me a while.
Some of some of the hidden pictures would jump out pretty quickly, but other ones were hidden so cleverly it took a while to figure it out to find them. So I like this as a child and it reminds me of the Old Testament. The Old Testament stories many times are like the pictures in highlights for children. Now, when I say refer to the Old Testament stories, I believe these things really did happen that Daniel really was a real person and the events that described really did happen.
The story of Jonah, the story of Noah. I believe these things are historically accurate. I don't question that. I'm referring to it as a story as an episode that has a beginning and an end to it. So the story of Daniel in the lion's den is a story like that. And I've asked people, just like the highlights for children, I've asked people the question. I said, read this story, Daniel chapter six, and in it you will find Jesus. So go and look at the story.
And after you have studied the story, tell me how many details of Jesus's life, death, resurrection, whatever you can find in this story. And I refer to this as the Daniel Six Challenge. And I've given the Daniel Six Challenge to a wide variety of people. I've given it to Harvard students. I've given it to people who have never graduated from college. I've given it to blue collar workers, teenagers, housewives, homeschool students. And it's amazing to me how many people see the same things in the story.
Now, one of the reasons that I give people the Daniel Six Challenge rather than tell them what's in the story. If I tell people, Daniel Six is, look at this, look at this, look at this. They'll say, well, Chuck, you're making that up. That's your imagination. You're nuts. So I turn it around. I say, it's in there. You read the story and you tell me. And so they come back with a long list and the lists are all a little different, but there's a lot of commonality.
So for those who are listening to this message, let me give you the Daniel Six Challenge. It's a little unusual that you're here you are. You started this tape. And as the speaker, I'm saying turn the tape off now. Give yourself some time. Look at Daniel chapter six.
Obviously, I can't make you do that, but I just want to encourage you to try it yourself to read Daniel chapter six, just like looking at a picture in highlights for Children magazine and see how many details of the life of Jesus you can find in the story in the form of an allegory. Now, it took me a week to get to the point where I think I found everything in the story. I'd look at it one day, the first day, and I'd find three or four things.
And then I look at it the next day and I'd find a few more things and I'd look at the next day. So but this happened for five or six days before I finally felt that I gotten to the point where I've gotten most of the elements of the story. So it may take you a while. Some people are much better at this than I am. My wife, Allison, has a very quick mind when it comes to allegories. So she's able just just by me asking her the question, she's able to pull these things out much faster than I was.
So you may find them faster. You may find things that I didn't. But I just encourage you, if you'd like to turn the tape off now and try this yourself, go ahead. Now, for those of you who aren't in a position to go and read Daniel chapter six right now, we're going to be reading it together in just a minute. However, before we do that, I'd like to explain some of the terms I'll be using in this lesson and series. One of the terms I use is allegory.
Noah Webster gives the primary meaning of allegory as a principal subject described by another subject resembling it. So an allegory can be a fictitious story, such as the example of Pilgrim's Progress, or it can be an actual true story. For example, in Matthew chapter 12, Jesus says that the story of Jonah is an allegorical foreshadowing of his own death, burial, and resurrection on the third day.
Likewise, in Galatians, chapter four, Paul says the account of Sarah and Hagar can be interpreted allegorically, and that's actually the exact word he uses in the original language, where Abraham's two wives represent the two covenants. Yet Jonah, Sarah, and Hagar are all historical persons. Similarly, the author of Hebrews points to Melchizedek, who actually lived, as someone who allegorically foreshadows Jesus Christ.
So when I describe Daniel chapter six as being an allegory about Christ, I don't mean the events in Daniel 6 didn't really happen in an historical sense. Another word that I use in this lesson and series is prophecy. I realize the word has multiple meanings, but when I use it here, I'm using it in the first meaning described in Noah Webster's Dictionary, which defines it as a foretelling or declaration of something yet to come.
So passages in the Old Testament that have an allegorical significance are a type of prophecy. And with that clarification, I'd like to proceed. And let's go to the sixth chapter of Daniel and read it together. I'll be reading from the New King James Version, starting in Daniel chapter six, verse one. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps to be over the whole kingdom. And over these, three governors of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them so the king would suffer no loss.
Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or fault because he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him. Then these men said, we shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
The first things in the story that got my attention were that there was a large stone covering the mouth of the den that was sealed by the king. Who does that remind you of? Well, it's Jesus and the tomb. And then early in the morning, this Jewish prophet comes out alive by surprise. He's miraculously delivered from death. I said, well, that reminds me of Jesus too. And that's what made me start to think, could there be more in this story? That's that's how I stumble into taking a look at the details in the story.
That's how I got started. Now, a little bit of background about Daniel. Daniel has always been a hero to me. For years, I studied the Book of Daniel. He was a hero. Book of Daniel is very inspiring to me. It's inspiring because at an absolute low point in the history of Israel, the temple has been smashed. The people have been taken off into captivity. Everything is gone. Everything's taken away.
At the absolute bottom, when the nation has been defeated and carried off into captivity, that God shows that he still rules the nations and that he's using all of these things over time to fulfill his greater purpose. It's a great story about the sovereignty of God. And Daniel personally is an inspiration to me because Daniel was a man of prayer. Daniel prayed regularly. He prayed when he was in trouble. Daniel wouldn't stop praying even if he was threatened with death.
He was also a man of integrity as someone who works for other people. This is a challenge to me. It says that even the people who didn't like him couldn't find anything wrong with him. He was neither corrupt nor negligent. He was a man of high integrity. So he was blameless. He was faithful. He was devoted to God. And he was a man who believed God also. He knew the scriptures. Daniel knew from the prophet Jeremiah that the captivity was going to last for 70 years.
So when the 70 years are drawing nearer to a close, he brings that promise back to God and asks for God to he humbly asked for God to deliver on the promise that was made back in the days of Jeremiah. So Daniel's always been a hero to me, but there's something that I had missed in the story, which is the element of the allegory in Daniel 6. Let's start off in Daniel chapter six. Read the first few verses in Daniel chapter six. Daniel chapter six starting in verse one.
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps to be over the whole kingdom. And over these three governors of whom Daniel was one that the satraps might give account to them so the king would suffer no loss. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.
So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or fault because he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him. So a few items here, just an introduction from from this part, the first few verses of Daniel chapter six and also even going back to Daniel chapter one for for background.
In Daniel chapter one, Daniel is introduced as among those of royal lineage and among the sons of the tribe of Judah were taken off into captivity. So Daniel is a descendant of Judah. In Daniel chapter one, it says that he was a blameless man without defect. Of course, I think of 1 Peter 1:19 when it talks. He talks about Jesus as the perfect lamb without defect going, which ties back to Exodus chapter 12, the story of the Passover Lamb. So Jesus and Daniel were both a descendant from Judah.
They were both men without defect. Says he was neither corrupt nor negligent. He was a faithful man. And going back to Daniel chapter one, Daniel, it says that Daniel distinguished himself as Daniel and his three friends were the wisest men in the kingdom. Daniel was the wisest man, his three, his three friends with him. And of course, in 1 Corinthians chapter one, it talks about Jesus is the wisdom of God. Matthew chapter 12, Jesus talked about Solomon.
The Queen of the South came from the ends of the earth to hear Solomon's wisdom, but now one greater than Solomon is here. So Jesus was the wisest man of all time, according to what he said in Matthew chapter 12. Daniel is held up as being the wisest man in the kingdom also. The Daniel, like Jesus, throughout the book of Daniel, he was a Jewish prophet who spoke extensively about the kingdom of God, the resurrection of the dead and future judgment. And it says here he's one of the three.
Okay, Jesus is one of the three, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as well. Now, the reaction of the worldly rulers, when they find out that Daniel is going to be set over them, the king plans to set Daniel over them. It's what? It's jealousy. This is exactly the same thing that happened with Jesus. I also think about Psalm 2. Why do the nations rage and the people plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves against the Lord and against His anointed one, against His Christ, His Messiah.
That the rulers of the world don't like that God plans to set His Son over everyone. And Luke chapter 19 is the same reaction towards Jesus. Luke chapter 19, Jesus tells a parable to illustrate the point.
He says," Therefore, he said a certain noble man went into a far country to receive himself a kingdom and return." So he calls 10 of his servants, delivered to them 10 minas and said to them," Do business till I come." But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him saying," We will not have this man to reign over us." It's the same reaction. They don't want him to be king. They don't want him to rule over them. They're jealous. That's really the reason why Jesus was killed also.
So Daniel's enemies conspire against him and they set a trap to have him executed by the governing authority. Same with Jesus. As the critical time, as his meeting with death approaches, what does Daniel do here? It says he withdrew to pray. Now, notice the details of the story here. Let's take a look in Daniel chapter six. Every detail in the story is of tremendous importance. Daniel chapter six in verse 10.
Now, when Daniel knew the writing was signed, he went home and in his upper room with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. So he withdraws, he ascends to the upper room, gets down on his knees and prays three times a day as his custom was. Now, what did Jesus do right before he was crucified after the Last Supper?
Well, Luke chapter 22, it says he went to his customary place of prayer in Gethsemane. Think about this. Jesus has dinner and then he it's at night. He crosses the Kidron Valley and goes up the side of the Mount of Olives to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Why couldn't he just have prayed where he had dinner? Why would he go to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray? Why would he choose that as his regular place of prayer? Well, when Muslims pray today, where do they face? They face toward Mecca.
When Jews prayed, where did where did they face and where do they face? They pray facing the temple in Jerusalem. How do we know that? First Kings chapter eight, Second Chronicles chapter six. Solomon explains all that. When the temple is dedicated, Solomon gets down on his knees, raises his hands up to heaven in one of the great prayers in the Bible. He says, Lord, we understand that you don't live in temples made by by human hands.
Nevertheless, your eyes and your ears, obviously he's speaking figuratively, are in this temple that wherever we are on the face of the earth, if we're off in a foreign battlefield, no matter where we are, if we turn and face the temple anytime day or night that you will hear us and you will answer us. He says, even if a Gentile praise comes and prays toward Jerusalem, that you will hear Him and you will answer Him. So that's what Jesus did. He obviously He crossed the Kidron Valley, went up on the Mount of Olives.
The Mount of Olives is east of Jerusalem. We knew this from Zechariah chapter 14. The Mount of Olives is east of Jerusalem. So he as he crosses the valley, ascend is east of Jerusalem. It's looking straight across from the temple. So he's going somewhere where he can face the temple and pray seeing the temple. What does Daniel do? He goes to the upper room. He ascends to the upper room, opens his windows looking west towards Jerusalem and the destroyed temple. And he prays to God. He prays three times on his knees.
When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, how many times did He pray? He prayed three times, as it says in Matthew 26 and Mark chapter 14. He prayed on his knees, as it says in Luke 22. And then what? And this, this practice of praying three times. Jesus prayed three times in the garden. Daniel prayed three times. Now there's a very ancient Christian practice of praying three times a day. A lot of people think the practice of praying multiple times a day comes from the Muslims.
Actually, it's 600 years before that the Christians were doing it. The Christians, the ancient Christian practice was to pray not facing Jerusalem, but facing the east. And to pray three times a day, obviously we can pray anytime. We don't have to face any particular direction, but they pray facing the east. Why facing the east? Matthew 24, Jesus, Jesus said several times in the Gospels, watch and pray. Be prepared for the return. I'm coming back. You need to be ready for it.
Matthew 24, the people were asking, when are you going to come? He said, I don't know. The angels don't know. Only my father knows. He says, but when I do come, it will be like lightning, flashing from the east and going to the west. So the ancient Christian practice was to pray facing the east, awaiting the return of the Messiah. And archaeologists find Christian churches from long ago, and they find the buildings, they're oriented to facing the east in custom with the ancient practice.
But Christians would pray at 9:00 at noon and at 3:00 p.m.. It's an old cold custom. Why at those three particular times? Well, it goes back to Mark chapter 15, Jesus on the cross. Jesus was crucified at the third hour, which is 9:00 a.m.. At the sixth hour, which is noon, the darkness fell over the land. And then at the ninth hour at 3:00 p.m., since the day starts at 6:00 a.m., that Jesus prayed to the Father and gave up His Spirit and died. So crucifixion of Jesus is marked by the third, sixth, and ninth hour.
And those are times when Christians would turn to pray to God. Like Peter in Acts chapter 10, at noon, he went up to the roof to pray. It's an old ancient Christian custom, the praying three times a day, which is tied back to Jesus and even foreshadowed by Daniel. So Daniel ascended, prayed facing Jerusalem, prayed three times on his knees. Immediately after the prayer, what happens to Daniel? The group of accusers finds him praying, which is exactly what happened with Jesus.
Jesus was found in the garden right after he was done praying by his accusers. That's the point Jesus made. Gee, I was in the temple every day. You could have gotten me then. Why now? He says, well, I guess the scriptures had to be fulfilled. So Daniel is then brought before the ruler of the land and accused of a crime. What's the ruler's response, though, is he doesn't want to execute Daniel, but he feels trapped in a situation he can't find a way out.
And the ruler reluctantly ends up sentencing him to death as a criminal. That's exactly what happened with Jesus and Pilate. Daniel chapter six, let's take a look at his encounter in the pit of death. Daniel chapter six, let's start reading verse 16. So the king gave the command and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke saying to Daniel, your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you. Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den.
And the king sealed with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed. Now, the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting and no musicians were brought before him. Also, his sleep went from him. Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel.
The king spoke saying to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you served continually been able to deliver you from the lions. Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. My God sent his angel and shut the lion's mouth so that they have not hurt me because I was found innocent before him. And also, O king, I have done no wrong before you. Now, the king was exceedingly glad for him and commanded they should take Daniel up out of the den.
So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no injury whatever was found on him because he believed in his God. So his body is cast into figuratively the pit of death. A large stone is closed over the entrance. A seal is put on the stone to assure that no one could get in or out. And then as I'm sure you noticed, it says very early in the morning. One who is concerned about his well-being visits the pit to check on him.
And this visitor is shocked and overjoyed to find out that he's alive, which is exactly what happens in Matthew Schwartz chapter 27 and 28. He says that God had sent an angel to deliver him in his time of trial. In Jesus' times of trial when he was praying in agony in the garden, an angel was there and also at the tomb. Angels are found there at the tomb with his body where his body was had been had been taken. And then the next the next passage here, this one, this one really floored me.
The next verse here, this is the one that took any possibility that this could be a coincidence. It completely removed it in my mind. Then the king gave the command. This is Daniel 6, verse 24, and they brought those men who would accuse Daniel and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. Do you understand what happened here?
They threw the wicked man into the pit to face the same sentence that Daniel was given. How did they die? How did they die? It says the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. When Jesus died on the cross, He died between two criminals. And as the sun was going down and the Jews did not want to leave the bodies on the crosses, they went and broke the bones of the other two criminals before they were taken down. And Jesus' bones were never broken.
That's commented on in the Gospel of John in John chapter 19 verses 31 to 36. And that prophecy that none of his bones would be broken. Let's just think about this. You're throwing people into the lion's den and the lions somehow managed to break the bones of them before they hit the bottom of the floor. I can't even imagine how lions could physically do something like that, let alone why would the why would it be written down in that fashion? Why wouldn't they just say, look, the lions tore them limb to limb.
They, you know, they were blood all over the place or the lions ripped them to shreds. It says, no, the lions broke their bones, all of their bones before they hit the floor. This is the prophecy about the Messiah. None of his bones would be broken in contrast to the others. When the Exodus Lamb was to be slaughtered and eaten, Exodus in Exodus chapter 12. And it's repeated numbers, chapter nine. It says specifically, don't break the bones of the lamb. Now you're having a lamb dinner.
What difference does it make if you're breaking the bones or not? It makes tremendous difference because the lamb, the Passover lamb is foreshadowing Christ that none of his bones will be broken. It also points to Psalm 34. Psalm 34 talks about the righteous man that none of his bones would be broken. Psalm 34, you read Psalm 34 and read it once thinking about Daniel and then read it again thinking about Jesus. The elements of Psalm 34. It talks about hungry lions.
It talks about a protecting angel, about a righteous man who cries out to God for deliverance and how none of his bones are broken that God protects him. Psalm 34. So Psalm 34, Exodus 12 and Daniel chapter six are all prophecy what happened in John chapter 19, that none of his bones would be broken. This removed all doubt in my mind that this could be a coincidence. This is obviously a very, very detailed prophecy about the Messiah's life, death, and resurrection. And what happens to his enemies?
They're crushed in the end. The curse falls on them and their children, as it says in Matthew 27. That's what the Jews said, hey, let his blood be on us and our children. Now let's look at what happens after Daniel is rescued and the wicked men are killed at the close of the chapter, verse 25. Then King Darius wrote to all people, nations and languages that dwell in all the earth. Does that make us think of anything at the end of the Gospel of Matthew? Peace be multiplied to you.
I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom, men must tremble in fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God and steadfast forever. His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed. His dominion shall endure to the end. He delivers and rescues and he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. This is the edict that goes out to the whole world. It's spread to all people, all nations and all languages.
I think about the ending of the Gospel of Mark, Mark 16. I think of Matthew 28, the Great Commission. I think of Acts chapter one and Acts chapters 1 and 2, where the message of God's kingdom goes out to the whole world. Men tremble and fear God and the kingdom that can never be destroyed is proclaimed. God's working signs and wonders, like in Mark 16 and Acts chapter two, and how God delivered His man from the power of death as Peter preached in Acts chapter two.
So there we have it from the wicked men who were jealous, conspiring to have Jesus killed to the prayer in Gethsemane, the trial before Pilate, the crucifixion, none of his bones are broken, his resurrection from the tomb, the stone, and then the proclamation of the good news of the kingdom being preached to all nations and all people all over the earth in one chapter in Daniel chapter six.
But I've been asked the question, if this is really a prophecy about Jesus, why isn't it mentioned anywhere in the New Testament? Well, I have got a question for you. Are all the prophecies about Jesus contained in the Old Testament specifically mentioned and developed in the New Testament? Well, I don't think so.
If you have read very many of the early Christian writers, you'll notice that they saw a number of prophecies, particularly the allegory type in the Old Testament that are not mentioned in the New Testament. Let me give you an example that most of us are familiar with. Genesis chapter 22 is the story of Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac. And at this point, Isaac is referred to as his only son. He takes him up to the place of sacrifice, lays him on the wood, and is prepared to sacrifice him.
Now, most Christian Bible teachers today would acknowledge that this episode foreshadowed God being willing to sacrifice His only Son on the wood for us in the sacrifice of Jesus. But is that developed anywhere in the New Testament? Well, no, I don't. I don't think that it is. Hebrews chapter 11 and James 2 talk about this story, but only in the sense that Abraham obeyed God by sacrificing his son.
Now, let me, let me look at this from yet another angle, this question of are all the prophecies in the Old Testament developed in the New Testament? Consider Peter's perspective on the Old Testament prophecies. In Acts chapter three, after a lame man is miraculously healed by Peter, he's in Jerusalem. The crowd gathers and Peter begins to preach the gospel message to them.
And he talks to the Jews and he says," Listen, you killed the prince of life whom God raised from the dead." And he goes on to say, now, brethren, this is chapter three in verse 17 of the book of Acts. Now, yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all his prophets that the Christ would suffer, he is thus fulfilled.
Then down in verse 24, he continues, yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow as many as have spoken have also foretold these days. So Peter's attitude wasn't that there are just a few prophecies about Christ in the Old Testament. His view was the Old Testament is saturated with prophecies that all of the prophets were speaking about this.
So we shouldn't be surprised if we find prophecies that Peter doesn't specifically develop because he told us right here that they're all over the place in the Old Testament. One early Christian writer specifically talked about the story of Daniel chapter six as foreshadowing the death and resurrection of Christ that I ran into. And that was Ephraim the Syrian, a fourth century writer who wrote in Syriac and the hymns of the nativity number eight.
He says specifically the story of Daniel in the lion's den as well as the story of Lazarus is an allegory foreshadowing the resurrection of Christ. So this connection was not unknown in earlier times. Now, people tell me, you know, I just like to read the New Testament because I want to focus on Jesus. Well, I like to read the Old Testament because I want to focus on Jesus. Jesus is the star of the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures. It's all about Jesus. We just picked one chapter, but there's so much more.
And I want to encourage you whenever you're reading the Old Testament to remember highlights for children and look for Jesus in the picture. Amen.