What does Daniel's prophecy deal with?

Les explains that Daniel is a prophecy that deals with the Gentile empires as they have contact with the nation of Israel. He notes that prophecy is always centered on Israel, but it also includes those Gentile empires that included Israel in their conquest. In the opening context, Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, and took the Jews captive. Daniel and his friends were young lads, probably early teenagers. Les also addresses scoffers who claim an imposter wrote Daniel long after the fact. He counters that Daniel writing portions in Aramaic and the rest in Hebrew is not a point of scoffing but a point of inspirational truth. Daniel, a young Hebrew captive in Babylon, learned the Aramaic language through the king's instruction, just as a teenager sent to Russia would learn Russian.