Today we are going to conclude the Daniel series for a while. Later in the year we will return to deal with chapters 7 through 12. Those latter chapters deal almost exclusively with prophecy of future events. Today we deal with chapter 6. The first five verses tell us that King Darius divided the kingdom into 120 counties, each with a mayor or satrap. Then three regional administrators or governors supervised the 120 mayors. One of the big three was Daniel. Daniel was so superior to the other two governors that King Darius planed to promote him to the COO position for the whole kingdom. As you might expect, that aroused some jealousy from the native-born Medes and Persians. By this time Daniel was in his 80’s but was still at the top of his game. The actor John Barrymore said, "A man is no…