2:20-23 Daniel Praises God
Compare Jeremiah 27:5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
Compare Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Compare Esther 1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
Compare Psalm 75:6-7 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Compare Job 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.,
Compare Genesis 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
Compare Psalm 21:2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
Compare Psalm 21:4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
2:24 Daniel seeks an audience with the King
2:25-26 Daniel Before the King
Compare Genesis 41:14 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
2:27 Your men couldn’t do it
2:28 BUT GOD CAN
2:29-30 Ok king here’s the deal…
2:31-35 The Dream the King Had
The Dream
The great image … A Man
Materials it was made from (top to Bottom) … Gold, Silver, Brass, Iron, Iron mixed with Clay
What did the stone do? Smote the Image
What did the Stone Become? A Mountain
Nebuchadnezzar was Called: A king of kings
His kingdom was symbolized by the head of Gold.
Names the medals represented:
Gold … Babylon, Silver…Persa/Medes, Brass…Greek, Iron…Rome, Iron/Clay…revised Rome.
Stone that became Mountain…Christ’s Kingdom
Stone cut without hands…It comes from God!
Compare Isaiah 2:2-3 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
2:36-45 The interpretation
Compare Isaiah 47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
2:46-49 Daniel gets the Promotion
The Lesson …. Always put God FIRST in our Life.
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