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Verse for today:
31 You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue — an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. 37 You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.39 “After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron — for iron breaks and smashes everything — and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands — a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and the interpretation is trustworthy.” – Dan 2:31-45
Earlier in Daniel 2 King Nebuchadnezzer threatens death to all his astrologers and dream interpreters if they do not first tell him his dream, then interpret it.
Daniel interprets King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.
Clues to the Coming of the Kingdom: (550 B.C.):
The Empires Respresented in the Story:
- Clue 6: Babylonian: gold – Nebuchanezzar (v32)(v37-38)
We know from History that the following empires followed the Babilonian:
2. Clue 7: EmpireMedo-Persian: silver (v32)(v39)
3. Clue 8: Alexander the Great: bronze (v32)(v39)
4. Clue 9: Romans: iron (iron and clay) (v33)(v40-42)
5. Clue 10: Then the Rock hits the statue on it’s feet and becomes a Kingdom mountain — Cut out not by human hands (therefore God) (v34-35)
- Clue 11: The Rock that becomes a huge mountain — filled the whole earth. (v35)
- Clue 12: The Rock that struck the Statue represents is the Kingdom that will never be destroyed (v. 44)
Prayer for Today:
Morning Lord. I can see that you have a plan in eternity for us. Your plan plays out through the ages. Thank you that you have a plan for me to find you and live as a disciple. Help me to deepen my bible study to learn more about You and your Kingdom.
Amen.
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