Verse 6: No one could find occasion against him or any fault. Pilate said twice that he saw no fault in Jesus (Luke 23:4 and 22), and one of the criminals testified to his innocence (Luke 23:41).
Verse 7: We will never find fault in him, but we will seek the law of his God. Jesus had to fulfill everything written about him in the scriptures (Matthew 26:54). This was the covenant made with the Father in Eternity.
Verse 10: Daniel knelt and prayed three times when he heard about the mandate. Daniel knew he was going to die, but he did not stop praying. Jesus came to die and fulfilled all things; He did not back down at any moment (John 12:27; John 19:30).
Verse 13: He is not from here; he is from Judah. Jesus is not from here but came from Eternity; however, as a man, He has roots in the tribe of Judah (Luke 2:17).
Verse 14: King Darius realized that the envious men in his kingdom had deceived him and that Daniel would be unjustly killed. The serpent deceived Eve, and she made her husband sin. For this reason, Jesus, the Righteous One, had to die (Genesis 3:13).
Verse 15: The men reminded the king that the law of the Medes and Persians could not be revoked. As we saw when we studied Esther, the law could not be revoked; it had to be fulfilled; it was necessary to fulfill the law. Jesus came to fulfill the law, not to revoke it (Matthew 5:17).
Verses 1-17: Daniel says nothing in his defense, just as the Lord Jesus said nothing in His defense, but like a silent sheep, he was led to the slaughter (Isaiah 53:7; Mark 14:60; Mark 15:4; Acts 8:32).
Verse 16: Daniel was thrown into the lions' den. The lions here symbolize death. Jesus was nailed to the cross. Death roared against the Lord (Ps 57:4).
Verse 19: The king hurried to the tomb early in the morning, just as the women who went to Jesus' tomb on the morning of the third day (Luke 24:1).
Verse 20: The king arrived at the tomb in sorrow, just as Mary wept when she arrived at that place (John 20:11).
Verse 21: This is Daniel's cry of victory: O king, live forever! Jesus conquered death on behalf of man, and this is the cry of victory that has since echoed in the ears of those who seek Him: O man, live forever! The Lord has conquered death and given us eternal life.
Verse 22: Daniel did not die because innocence was found in him. Jesus conquered death because there was no guilt in him.
God's business with His servants
God had a business to speak to Daniel, as we see in Daniel 7:28. This business took a certain amount of time to deal with. The business ended after all the revelations and prophetic mysteries were given to Daniel. During this period in which God spoke to him, many things happened. There were moments when Daniel lost his strength, such as the glory of God, when Daniel was disturbed and did not understand the visions and asked for their interpretation. In short, there were many moments, many things that were seen, heard, and felt until the business ended. During the church's journey, God has a business to deal with man and reveal His plan of Salvation to him. There will come a time when this business will end. The Lord will look at the man and say: "My business with you is finished."
For many who have already passed, the business is finished.
Some more information about the book of Nahum
The name Nahum means Consolation. His name occurs only once in the Old Testament, at the beginning of the 'Book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite' (Nahum 1:1). In the New Testament, we find it in the genealogy of Jesus, in Luke 3:25. Elkos is not identified, but Jerome claims that it was a small village belonging to Galilee. All that is known about the book's authorship is concluded in its first verse (Nahum 1:1). The date of the prophecy can be inferred from the nature of the message. Nahum must have prophesied during the reign of Hezekiah after the ten tribes had been taken captive. It was certainly between the two invasions of Sennacherib. Thebes, the 'populous No' (No-Amon), had been taken and plundered (Nahum 3:8-10) by Assurbanipal (664 B.C.), and by the destruction of Thebes, the prophet foretells the fate of Nineveh. Nineveh, whose destruction the prophet foretells, was the capital of a great and flourishing empire at that time. It was a city of great extent and population and the center of the chief commerce of the world. Its riches, however, were not derived wholly from commercial life. It was a city of blood, 'full of lies and robbery' (Nahum 3:1). It preyed upon the surrounding nations and is compared by the prophet to a family of lions, who 'filled their dens with prey, and their dens with prey' (Nahum 2:11, 12). At that time, it was extraordinarily fortified, its walls being colossal, 110 feet high, and had fifteen hundred towers to defy all its enemies. The people's repentance postponed the sentence that Jonah had pronounced. But their sins, repeated and aggravated, now brought upon it an irrevocable sentence. And so was the city destroyed that there was no trace of it in the second century after Christ. And its very location was a subject of doubt and uncertainty for a long time.
The book's contents are presented in the form of a simple poem, opening with a solemn description of the attributes and operations of the Lord (Nahum 1:2-8). There follows (Nahum 1:9-14) an address to the Assyrians, describing their empire's confusion and fall; verses 12 and 13 close in parenthesis with Consolation to the Israelites, with promises of rest and relief from oppression. Chapter 2 is a picture in which the siege and capture of Nineveh and its inhabitants' consternation are admirably described. Chapter 3 treats the utter ruin of the city and the various causes which contributed to it. The example of No-Ammon (or Thebes), a great and strong city of Egypt, which fell by the judgment of God, is taken to illustrate the punishment the Assyrians were to receive (Nahum 3:8-10).