►|Wednesday/January 15, 2014|Part Three of END TIME SERIES► DANIEL 2&3...Message One: NEBUCHADNEZZAR DREAMED (Daniel 2:1-23).
In the 2nd year as a King, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams & it troubled him. He called his magicians, enchanters, sorcerers & astrologers to (i) tell him what his dream was & (ii) tell him the meaning of the dream.
They said it was difficult to tell the Meaning unless the King narrated the dream to them. The king decreed ''...If you don't tell me what my dream was & interpret it, I'll have you cut into pieces & your houses turned into piles of rubble. But if you tell me the dream & explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream & interpret it for me.” Verses 5b & 6. In verse 7, they replied again it was not possible to interpret unless he narrated the dream first to them.
Verses 9&10 clearly tells us that the king knew what the dream was; it was the meaning that he didn't know. So to know if the meaning was true, they should be able to tell him the dream first. Failure to do so suggested they had conspired to mislead him & that would attract one penalty; DEATH.
They told the king for the third time it was not possible for a man to do the two tasks; only the gods would be able to do it, but the gods ''do not live among humans.” It angered the king so he ordered the execution of all the wise men of Babylon, as men were sent to look for Daniel & his friends to put them to DEATH as well.
When Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, was on his way to execute all the wise men, Daniel saw him & inquired. Arioch told him what had happened. Daniel went to the king & asked for time, so that he might interpret the dream for him. Daniel returned to his house & explained the matter to his three friends. The four Hebrews had one agenda; to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that they might not be killed with the other wise men of Babylon. In the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. So Daniel praised the God of heaven. Essentially, in his praise, Daniel recognised God in these ways (a) Wisdom & Power belongs HIM (b) Times & Seasons Changer (c) Raiser & Remover of Kings (d) Giver of Wisdom & Knowledge (e) Revealer of Deep & Hidden things (f) Knower of what lies in darkness (g) Source of Light. All that Daniel did was to ACKNOWLEDGE GOD WHO REVEALED the King's Dream & its Meaning to him. Thus, he ESTABLISHED THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD.
Do U Give God All the Glory to God? Do U make others see that God is your source of Light, Wisdom, ability to interpret the Scriptures? Do U make people see that ALL THE GIFT U HAVE WERE GIVEN TO U BY GOD or U brag/boast of it as if U got them by your own intellect? U must be careful else U'll become puffed up & U know the effect of PRIDE. May we learn from Daniel & his three friends, who gave all the GLORY BACK TO GOD when He revealed the dream & its meaning to them. We continue with Message Two; the dream & its meaning tomorrow, if God permits.
--Samuel Kwasi Forkuo
ALL GLORY TO GOD
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