Verse 30-35
reads, “But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I
have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the
interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy
heart. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose
brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his
belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part
of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote
the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then
was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces
together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind
carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote
the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
-Daniel
interprets the dream and it turns out that it is a major prophesy to come in
the days of Babylon, and the latter Babylon in the end-times.
-The image
that Nebuchadnezzar sees represents the kingdoms to come. The rock that breaks
the image represents the Lord Jesus Christ. And when there is no place found
for the chaff, the rock becomes a mountain and of course we know that is the
Kingdom of the Rock; The Kingdom of Jesus the Messiah.
-This is
something that comes up again in Daniel Chapter 7.
Verse 36-44
reads, “This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before
the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given
thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of
men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given
into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of
gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another
third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the
fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces
and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in
pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters'
clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it
of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry
clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the
kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron
mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but
they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And
in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which
shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever.”
-All of
these Kingdoms came to pass after this prophesy. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome,
and the Beast (in that order).
The last and
final kingdom is the one that’s on its way. The Antichrist’s kingdom (which
existed during the Middle Ages in the Catholic Church) will come, and that is
the kingdom that will be destroyed by Jesus Christ when he comes after the tribulation.
Verse 45
Says, “Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the
silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come
to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof
sure.”
Verse 46-49:
“Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and
commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a
truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a
revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. Then the king
made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over
the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men
of Babylon. Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in
the gate of the king.”
- Daniel
feared the Lord, and for this God gave him wisdom to deliver him from death.
Daniel through his wisdom won integrity, faith, and prophesy of the latter
days. This shows how strong wisdom is.
Proverbs
14:27 “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of
death.”
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