Seventy Years of Faith in a Country That Was Never His
You already know the lions. You have never been told the rest.
Daniel was taken from Jerusalem as a boy and died in Persia as an old man. In between were seventy years. He served four kings across two empires, worked inside the government that burned his city, answered daily to a name borrowed from a Babylonian god, and never saw home again. When the exile finally ended and the road to Jerusalem opened, Daniel stayed where he was. Other men rebuilt the temple. He died in the country that had taken him.
The lions took one night of his life. Babylon took all of it.
This is a book for readers who have lived long enough to know that the rescue does not always come.
What you will find inside
Twelve chapters, each built around something sitting in plain sight in the text that almost nobody points out.
Where Daniel was when the furnace was lit — because he is not in that chapter, and Scripture never explains why.
The twenty years when nobody sent for him, and the extraordinary visions he received during them, with no one to tell.
Why he wept for the king who destroyed Jerusalem.
The hour of an evening sacrifice he kept for fifty years after the altar was gone.
And the last sentence he ever wrote: that he heard, and did not understand.
Written for the second half of life
Every chapter connects Daniel’s experience to the one you are actually living — the son who no longer calls, the career that was quietly taken away, the prayers that have run longer than you ever imagined, the body that no longer does what it is told. Not as tidy applications with three points. As honest questions about where the two lives touch.
This book does not promise that what you lost will be restored. Daniel’s never was. What it offers instead is the account of a man who stayed faithful for seventy years without that promise, and what heaven said about him while he was on the floor with nothing left.
About this edition
116 pages. Plain, unhurried English. Fully illustrated, with a period timeline of Daniel’s seventy years. Scripture from the New King James Version. A closing note documents where the book departs from the familiar versions of these stories, and why.
An honest book for readers who have lived enough to need one.
