13.5- Brief overview of Daniel Chapter 10

This chapter shows the despair of Daniel about the future of Israel. It forms an integral part with chapters 11 and 12.

For the Jews, their homeland was there where they could live well and where their needs were satisfied. Their homeland was not, in the first place, there where God called them.  Therefore they remained in Babylon. Daniel's grief because of the small portion of Judah that returned to Jerusalem, and in addition the knowledge that they had to face many setbacks and hostility, brought him to three weeks of fasting and prayer.

God puts angel-princes in action, against the princes of the dominions of evil (from Persia and Greece). These are wicked spirits, who influence the opinions at the court and of the public, against God and his people. 

Also today there is a battle going on between the angel-prince, Michael (Israel's guardian angel), against the powers of the prince of Babylon = the evil powers that put themselves against Jerusalem.   See verse 21 of this chapter: “Now I have to go back and fight the guardian angel of Persia. After that the guardian angel of Greece will appear. There is no one to help me except Michael, Israel's guardian angel”.