![]() They might be oppressed by Assyria or Babylon, but God would always rescue them. Prior to 586 BC they believed that because they were God’s people and God dwelled on Mount Zion, the city of Jerusalem would never be destroyed. ![]() The fall of Jerusalem was a profound crisis of faith for the Jewish people. Daniel has several major theological themes which might be overlooked if we focus only on the difficult interpretive problems. It is easy to get bogged down in the details of apocalyptic literature when reading Daniel and miss the important theology of the book.
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