Hey everybody and welcome back to I Just Want to talk about the Bible.

If this is your first time joining us today, then let me just welcome you and say that I am so glad that you're here.

My name is Christian Keeter and I live in the southeast of the United States of America with my amazing, beautiful,

godly wife Lacey and our two wonderful daughters, Felicity and Serenity.

So let's look at an account from the book of Daniel. We're going to be in Daniel chapter

four. But before we get into that, let me just lay some really, really basic historical context for the

Book of Daniel. And if you want to hear more of an overview of the Old Testament, I will link to

an older episode I did where the whole point of the episode is just a very brief overview

of the Old Testament. But for the sake of our discussion today, centuries prior to the book

of Daniel, the nation of Israel split into two kingdoms. It was the nation of Israel was in the

north, in the nation of Judah in the south. Then in the year 722 BC, the northern kingdom of

Israel was handed over to the Assyrians who conquered it and

carried off the northern tribes of Israel. Then, about a century and a half later, something

very similar happened to the southern kingdom of Judah, except instead of Assyria, it was

the world's superpower of Babylon.

Now, we've talked about why this happened in other episodes before, but let me just reference

a passage of scripture that, honestly, we've read on here plenty of times, or multiple times.

I guess I should have had it open up to that before I started talking about it.

But in Jeremiah chapter 22, it says this.

This is verses 8 and 9.

It says, and many nations will pass by this city.

We're talking about Jerusalem, which is the capital of Judah.

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