Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia” (Daniel 10:13). However, the messenger was delayed for those same three weeks, as he explains to Daniel: “But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. In response to Daniel’s prayer, God sent a heavenly messenger to explain the vision. He went into a three-week period of mourning, fasting, and prayer. The prophet Daniel had received a troubling vision concerning a great war (Daniel 10:1). Most likely, the prince of Persia is a reference to an evil spiritual entity that wielded authority over the ancient kingdom of Persia. The prince of Persia is only mentioned in Daniel 10, a highly apocalyptic (and therefore at least partially symbolic) section of the book of Daniel.
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