Daniel and the Den of Lions – Don’t mess with Texas

Jehovah, meet Ironman

Daniel, the servant of Jehovah, was highly esteemed in the days of King Darius. He was so great that eventually he became the King’s right-hand man. Of course all the King’s other advisors were crazy jealous and sought to bring about Daniel’s destruction. Because Daniel was so great they knew he would never do anything stupid or illegal so they decided to trap him by taking advantage of his relationship with Jehovah.

These other advisors approached the King one day and said, “All of your advisors have consulted together and written a decree that no one is allowed to pray to the Hebrew god for the next thirty days without your express permission, or he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now go ahead and sign it.” King Darius was ok with this, so he signed the decree.

Because Daniel was a good little Jehovah lover he kept right on praying so it was easy for these “other advisors” to catch him in the act and report him to the King. Darius was very upset when he learned his favorite advisor had violated the decree, but because he couldn’t afford to lose face he went ahead and had Daniel thrown into the lion den.  

Poor Daniel was handled very roughly when he was thrown into the den. He was critically injured and a fragment of iron ended up lodged in his chest. Jehovah was able to intercede with the lions on Daniel’s behalf and keep them from eating him, but wasn’t able to safely extract the iron from Daniel’s chest where it was slowly making its way toward his heart. Fortunately for Daniel the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Dr. Ho Yinsen, was already in the den. Dr. Yinsen decided to help Daniel and made a super magic electromagnetic chest plate to keep the iron fragment from reaching Daniel’s heart.

After Daniel shared his story with Dr. Yinsen they decided the “other advisors” would probably notice the lions weren’t eating Daniel and come to finish him off themselves while they could blame the death on the lions. Escape was the only option. To this end, Dr. Yinsen and Daniel were able to secretly construct a suit of Jehovah powered armor while in the den. True to their expectation, the advisors attacked. Unfortunately they arrived a little earlier than expected and the suit hadn’t finished powering up.



Daniel in his powered armor

Yinsen chose to sacrifice himself by single-handedly attacking the group of advisors. This gave Daniel enough time to finish powering the suit and fly away. Daniel flew straight to King Darius’ palace where he crash landed, destroying the suit. The King was overjoyed to see Daniel was still alive and had the “other advisors” who had accused Daniel of being a Jehovah lover thrown into the den of lions. Because Jehovah didn’t like these advisors and Dr. Yinsen was now dead there was no one to keep the lions from ripping all those advisors into tiny little pieces.

Moral: When magic and physics join forces, those on the opposing team are eaten by lions.

Ref: Daniel 6