* Daniel continually rose in power, causing other Babylonian leaders to be jealous.

* They had to devise a way to get him to fall.

* The only way they could do that was to get his faith to contradict the law of the land.

* They convinced the king to enact a new law according to the Medes and Persians.

* This is key - it was a law that could not be revoked, even by the king himself.

* This made the matter even worse - or so it seemed.

* But the beauty is that the king couldn’t revoke it.

* God WANTED Daniel thrown into the lion’s den so He could deliver him out of it.

* But God didn’t let Daniel in on this plan - Dan had to walk it out in faith.

* So what was the result?

* Vs 24 - Because of this law, the very people who sought to destroy Daniel were themselves destroyed.