“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Recognizing that the appointed time nears completion, Daniel directs his face to the Lord God, seeking favor through prayer, fasting, sackcloth, and ashes—expressing appropriate response to approaching fulfillment of promise and beginning his intercession for the city and people. The physicalized expressions of repentance and mourning demonstrate the depth of Daniel's covenant concern for Jerusalem. His initiatives in prayer exemplify how believers may actively seek divine fulfillment of promised restoration.
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