Month: November 2021

“King Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Then he sent messages to the high officers, officials, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the provincial officials to come to the dedication of the statue he…

“Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts; and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon. Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel sat…

“Then King Nebuchadnezzar threw himself down before Daniel and worshiped him, and he commanded his people to offer sacrifices and burn sweet incense before him. The king said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is the greatest of gods, the Lord over kings, a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this secret.”…

The kingdom of Christ that will come in the end times is a supernatural kingdom. The Scripture says that this stone that becomes the mountain is cut without hands; it is not manmade. We can make bricks. We can build superstructures and skyscrapers. But only God can make a stone. No human hand fashioned the…

This prophecy in Daniel carries an important and profound message in it. First, it reveals that God is in control of history. He knows the future because He plans the future. This doesn’t mean that God is to blame for the evil things that leaders and nations do, but that He can overrule even their…

As we study the image, we also see the deteriorating morality in human government. The course of Gentile dominion and civilization is one of continuous degeneration and decay. The descending scale of value of the four metals suggests the degeneration of the human race through the ages. We learn from the statue that human government…

As the king’s dream is being described by Daniel, the climax is reached when the great stone is detached from a mountain and begins to move toward the image with great speed. It strikes the image at the feet and crushes it to powder. The destruction of the image represented the coming of Jesus Christ—the…

“And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut…

“Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay,…

“And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.” Daniel 2:40 The fourth kingdom was the Roman Kingdom (63BC – AD 475) The Roman Empire was the human political…