hi my name is tubby I live here in this wonderful library I
live here with my friends gumbo and freckles gumbo
freakels come on out over there on that great book is holy she's really old and
wise and tells us wonderful stories when she's awake that is. hi children why
are you so late today don't you want to listen to another story from the Bible
Ofcourse we want to tubby was busy eating hihihi anyway holy can you start with
today story well today's story is about how Daniel stayed at the Royal Court of
King Nebuchadnezzar a long time ago King Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian king
ordered his chief official to choose some men from the Jewish prisoners they
should be good-looking clever and healthy and should also learn to serve
the royal court they should also know how to read and write the Babylonian
language every day they were to be given royal food and wine after three
years of training they were to appear before the king among the chosen Jews or
Daniel her nannya Michelle and Azaria all of them were from the tribe of Judah
the chief official gave them new names Belteshazzar Shadrach Meshach and
Abednego Daniel decided not to disobey God's laws about food and drink
he asked ashpenaz for help ashpenaz as was kind to Daniel but he was also very
afraid of the king so he said to Daniel the King has decided what you should eat and
drink if you do not look fit as the other young man he will punish me so Daniel
said please test us for 10 days give us vegetables to eat and water to drink
then compare us with young men who are eating the raw food the man agreed and
after 10 days they looked healthier and stronger than the others the King really
liked these 4 men when they were presented to him so Daniel continued to
stay at the king's palace
Daniel was a very wise man. True now answer my question what was the name of
the official who had to train Daniel and the other three Jewish captives
His name was espionag
No silly it was Aspenez you are a very naughty bookworm gumbo I will tell you a story
today only if you answer my question at the end gumbo you never listen to my
stories carefully alright i will
so today's story is about a writing on the wall which Daniel was able to
explain wow danial might have been so wise
a long time ago King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon fell really
ill and he started behaving like a madman
his son Belshazzar was now the king of Babylon one night King Belshazzar
invited a thousand important men for a grand dinner he ordered his officials to
bring in the gold and silver vessels that his father King Nebuchadnezzar had
taken from the Temple in Jerusalem Belshazzar and his guests were drinking
from these vessels suddenly the King saw a human handwriting on the brightly lit
wall of the palace his face turned pale with fear and his knees began to shake
he called for his magicians wise men and fortune tellers and said whoever can
read this writing and tell me what it means he will be dressed in kingly robes
but none of his men could read the writing or tell him what it meant the
King was all the more afraid the king's mother heard the noise and came to speak
to him she told him that Daniel was one man in his kingdom who had godly power
in him she told him that Daniel was very good at explaining dreams and all kinds
of mystories Belshazzar call daniel to the court
Daniel explained that the writing on the wall said that the days of his kingdom
were numbered this later turned out to be true
now Gumbo you will answer my question what was King Nebuchadnezzar's son's
name i know the answer his name was king belshazar
excellent gumbo
oh yes I know so
which story are you going to tell us today well I was thinking of Daniel in
the lion's den oh that's my favorite go on with it holy Daniel was a good humble
and a hard-working man from Israel and he was a strong believer of God God knew
that Daniel had a lot of faith in him and that he would do anything to glorify
Him even if it was with his own life however Daniel was captured when
Jerusalem was defeated by the Babylonians in the great battle when
Babylonia fell into the hands of the Medes and the Persians as days went by
the king of Persia King Darius made Daniel an important leader in his own
kingdom for his intelligence and courage King Darius started growing fond of
Daniel more and more but the other leaders in King Darius's court
where not happy about it they did not like that the King had placed Daniel above
them after all he was a captive and not a true Persian so all the leaders came
together and decided to get rid of Daniel they started making plans on how
they could make Daniel fall in trouble so that he himself would throw him out
of his Court getting rid of Daniel was quite difficult for the leaders because
he always obeyed all the laws of the court the only way they could make this
happen was be tricking the king into passing
the new law which stated but everyone had to pray to King Darius and no other
God those who disobeyed this law would be thrown into the Lions Den even after
this law was passed Daniel continued to pray to God every day from his window
when the leaders found him out they were very angry and decided to punish Daniel
for breaking the king's law through Daniel into the den of hungry
lions even though he Darius did not want this to happen
in the den Daniel prayed to God for saving him
God sent one of his angels to protect him from the Lions the next day the
leaders came back to the den only to find Daniel without a scratch he was
alive King Darius was so happy that he not only restored danial's position in
the court also passed a new law that the people of his kingdom should pray to God
only oh how I love this story
every time I hear it Daniel was so so brave yes he had all the faith
in God and so he was saved from the ferocious hungry lions
I have been waiting for you let's start but today's story listen to it very carefully yes
please we are ready to hear todays story okay
a long long time ago Durious was a king of Jerusalem he
had passed a new law against praying towards Jerusalem in spite of this new
law Daniel continued to pray three times every day there were a few men who would
jealous of Danny so they went to the king and complained
against him for not obeying the law when dereyes heard this he was very upset
Daniel was one of his presidents and he did not want to punish him for not
obeying the law the king tried very hard to save him but the wicked men of his
court were insisting upon Daniel's punishment
seeing no other option the king had to punish Daniel he was
thrown into a den of lions the mouth of the cave was then sealed with a big
stone but King Darius was worried about Daniel he could not sleep the entire
night next morning he ran to the den he called out for Daniel and to his
amazement instead of hearing the Lions roar he heard Daniels voice Daniel told the
King God save me by sending an angel to shut the Lions mouths the lions couldn't
hurt me again King Darius very happily took Daniel out from the cave punished
those wicked men who had plotted against him Daniel was a good man that's why God
saved him so holy what is today's question today's question is how did God
save Daniel from the Lions I know he sent an angel to shut the lion's mouth
yes you are correct now I must sleep bye-bye all of you see you tomorrow bye holy