Before we study the Book of Daniel we need to understand the times Daniel lived in. Without this background information the major message of the book will not come through as clearly as it did to Daniel's first readers.

In this message we'll look at the time in Israel's history that Daniel lived, the international conflicts that involved Daniel's nation, the questions all pious Jews must have had about what was happening to Israel, and the challenges a Daniel, as a teenager, faced when he had to live in a radically different world than the one he'd grown up in.