Daniel never refers to him as a king but a viceroy given authority by king Cyrus. He was given the rule by someone greater than himself (9:1,10:1, 11:1). Darius the Mede received the Babylonian kingdom “at about the age 62.” Darius was subordinate under the Persian monarch Cyrus the great. 5:31 Belshazzar died the night Babylon fell to the Medo-Persian military. They have seen a genuine person even though genuine believers have their failures and sin they live right before God. When they are wrong they admit it, when they le they deal with it. They have integrity, they have no duplicity, no deviousness, not pretending, not hypocrisy, nothing to hide nothing to fear. Your honesty and authenticity encourages them. When they think of you and the way you dealt with a problem, or people, with heartache, it helps make them stand tall, to face the difficulty, it gives them courage, and hope. We all have an impact on someone’s life and they will think of you when they are in a crisis or a bad circumstance, when they do not know what to do in their life.
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