One of the wildest books in Scripture is the Book of Daniel. Inside its 12 chapters, we get a taste of almost every genre the Bible has to offer—prophecy, history, poetic discourse—it’s all there. And while it was written over 2,500 years ago, it deals with issues and situations that are as timely today as they were in the days of the Babylonian Empire. God still has something to speak to us through the dreams, the lions, and the fire in the Book of Daniel.

It’s easy to view Jesus’ sacrifice as something that simply frees us from the consequences of sin in the future, when we die. But Jesus taught that what he did on the Cross actually freed us from the control of sin in the present! We don’t have to be stuck in our old patterns of life. And in the account of Daniel in the Lion’s Den, we find exactly how we can break free.

Daniel 6:6-24