THE INTERCESSION OF DANIEL

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                            THE INTERCESSION OF DANIEL

One outstanding feature of the life of Daniel was his intercession for Israel
during the Babylonian captivity.  He really "got with it" even though he had
not personally been involved in the transgressions which had led to the
captivity.

Listen to him, as recorded in chapter 9.  If my calculations are correct, he
had been in Babylon about 68 years, and was an old man who should have been
able to retire from bearing such burdens-- let someone younger do it.

Daniel 9:3  And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and
supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
 (4)  And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O
Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that
love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
 (5)  We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and
have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
 (6)  Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in
thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of
the land. 

Daniel 9:8 O Lord, to us [belongeth] confusion of face, to our kings, to our
princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. 

Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God [belong] mercies and forgivenesses, though we
have rebelled against him;   Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our
God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Daniel 9:16  O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let
thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy
mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers,
Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us. 

Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his
supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is
desolate, for the Lord's sake. 

Daniel 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold
our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not
present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy
great mercies. 

Daniel 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not,
for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy
name. 

Saturday I received a response to "TELL IT NOT IN GATH" which said, in part:
"I believe if each one of us as individuals really examine ourselves, we will
find that we have distanced ourselves from all that is happening in this
country.  WE HAVE NEGLECTED TO PRAY FERVENTLY FOR THIS NATION AND ITS
LEADERS."-- epapostol@juno.com  (Don Vickery) (Missionary to Mexico)

Perhaps Don is correct.  It is not too late for us to go to God in repentance
for our great nation-- pleading for the Mercy of the Lord.

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