The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

own territory. By the time of Revelation 7, the tribe of Dan is conspicuously absent from the list of the twelve tribes sealed during the Apocalypse era. In their place we find the tribe of Manasseh. 1 Kings 12:30. 344. Daniel—Another major prophet in the Old Testament, the last of the four, Daniel was the second of Yahweh’s prophets to be assigned to a Gentile nation. The other was Joseph who was assigned to serve God prophetically in Egypt under Pharaoh. This distinctive is important as it shows God’s sovereign government of all the earth. To see that His word is delivered to the nations, He orchestrated events to position His prophets in the palaces of their kings. God’s initiation and induction of these two prophets is very similar. Both were dreamers and interpreters of dreams. Both were taken from their homelands at early ages. Both auditioned before their kings by interpreting their enigmatic dreams, and both prophets’ interpretations catapulted them to the rank of second ruler in their lands. Their dreams made them divine visionaries, seers, and their interpretations projected them onto the international front as prophets with ruling authority. The similarities between these two prophets’ induction into God’s service are too sensational to ignore. It seems that gifts of dream interpretation, normally treated casually by the modern church, are important to the nations. That is why the Lord used them deliberately to give His prophets political clout and authority in the Gentile world. Daniel, as the prophet of Judah exiled in Babylon, served Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Darius of the Medo-Persian empires. His Chaldean training overlaid his Judaic service in Jerusalem’s palace as a prophet to royalty and nobility. Rigorous three-year Babylonian training prepared him to audition before King Nebuchadnezzar who was looking for the best spiritual functionaries available to staff his palace. Daniel’s audition was sort of a final examination where he excelled all the others. The king said that he found Daniel’s supernatural abilities ten times better than all the wise men, astrologers, diviners, sorcerers, and magicians in the land. Thus he made Daniel chief of them all bestowing upon him the office of chief of the magi, the highest spiritual position of the day. Later, Daniel’s extraordinary prophetic abilities were tested again as he interpreted for the irritated king the meaning of a troubling dream he received from the Most High God. Daniel’s success again rewarded him as he was promoted to the third leader in the land. Frequently, Daniel’s devotion to his God was challenged, and once, it could