";s:4:"text";s:19273:"The following are the lessons in this course: Daniel 1 â Prophetic Symbols Revealed; Daniel 2 â The Psychics vs. the Prophet; Daniel 3 â Defying the Death Decree; Daniel 4 â The Impossible Deliverance Designed and developed by VBVMI in partnership with Giles-Parscale. -It set aside Yah's Lunisolar calendar, and replacââ¬Â¦, 10/Not only did the Vaticanââ¬â¢s Jesuits astronomers since the 16th century relentlessly pushed the heliocentric modelââ¬Â¦, 9/Jesuit contributions to astronomy are significant enough that 34 craters on the moon are named after them. (Dan 4:37) Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Dan 4:7) Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. From Furnace to Palace - Lesson 4 on DANIEL chapter 3 - Doug Batchelor. Introduction. This is the fourth video session in Beth Moore's Daniel study series. (Dan 4:6) Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. THE MAN... 1. Click here to go back to lesson . And his violence will descend upon his own pate. 6. Daniel Chapter 1 - 6 Lessons Please have time to read the chapters below. Nebuchadnezzar expresses awareness of the everlasting kingdom of Yahuwah, and that shows that he understood and accepted the lesson of chapter three, that his kingdom would end, and eventually there would be no kingdom on earth but that of Yahuwah. (Dan 4:24) This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my master the king: (Dan 4:25) That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. (Dan 4:9) O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy eloah[s] is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. Preparing for Yahuwah's Earthly Kingdom, Established at Yahushua's Imminent Return! In the chiasm, we’ve studied steps A and B so far: Step A was Chapter 2, where Daniel interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, The main point of that chapter was to explain God’s plan to place Israel under four successive Gentile authorities, It gave Israel the context to understand their fate in captivity, In Step B, we studied last time in Chapter 3, as Daniel’s friends were spared supernaturally from persecution, That chapter reminded Israel that though they were under Gentile oppression, the Lord has not abandoned His people, Particularly, the remnant within Israel was assured of the Lord’s continuing favor, even in the midst of this time of judgment, Furthermore, it illustrated that even though God has written a coming history of empires and kings, nevertheless, He continues to exert His supernatural influence, Daniel 3 stands as refutation against those who believe God has created the world and stepped back to let it rule itself, Instead, the Lord is active and engaged in steering the world, even as He reveals His larger plans, Now today, we reach the deepest part of the chiasm, Step C, Step C and its corresponding alternate point, Step C’, provide the “point” of the chiasm, In today’s chapter, the Lord humbles the king of Babylon, He’s the very man God placed in authority over Israel, and indeed all the world, yet he will be brought low, The point in these circumstances will become evident as we study through the chapter, But perhaps the most interesting part of the chapter, is it’s author, The chapter is written from the first person perspective of Nebuchadnezzar himself, It was penned by Daniel, but it’s likely Daniel simply recorded the testimony of the king, who dictated it to Daniel for posterity, So we could say this is the only chapter of Scripture written by a Gentile, and perhaps the only one written by a pagan, As we begin the chapter, let’s take note that the chapter itself is structured as a mini-chiasm in an ABB’A’ form, It begins with the king praising the Lord of Heaven for His mighty works, It moves into an account of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, Followed by Daniel’s interpretation and its fulfillment, And it ends with the king praising the Lord once more, Let’s begin with the first of those four parts, In v.1, Nebuchadnezzar opens his account by addressing everyone on the earth, It may seem a bit grandiose to think that his words would be sent to the entire world, Like assuming everyone else is as interested as you are in the poodle pictures you posted on Facebook, Because let’s be honest...no one wants to see a poodle picture, In this case, the king’s assumption makes sense, given what the Lord told him in Chapter 2, The Lord declared he was king of all the earth, according to the interpretation of the dream, So Nebuchadnezzar is merely acting on that premise in addressing the entire world as his subjects, Furthermore, the Lord made his words part of Scripture, which will endure forever, So both in the king’s day, and in our day, these words go to the entire earth, His testimony is a testimony for all people for all time, In v.2, Nebuchadnezzar says it seems good to him to declare the good things the Lord has done, He’s referring to the story that is about to unfold, Looking back on what happened, he remembers the entire experience as something mighty, something great, As you read through his account, however, you may struggle to understand why he thinks this is so great, In fact, his story will read like a mini-version of the story of Job, Secondly, the effect of this experience for Nebuchadnezzar was to declare that the Lord’s Kingdom was everlasting, Specifically, it is from generation to generation, This is an important summary of the purpose of Chapter 4, Earlier, we learned that the powers that rule the world would transition, A few generations would have power for a time, but then in a future generation, power would be lost to another kingdom, But the Lord is truly the One ruling the earth and His Kingdom is everlasting from generation to generation, Who better to declare this truth than the man who begins the statue as the head of gold, Even the man who received power to rule has come to recognize that his own ruling was subjected to the authority of God, Remember, this king is a Gentile and a pagan who took God’s people captive, killing many of them in the process, Yet, this man declares that God Himself is greater and that His Kingdom is always in control, Remember this next time someone suggests that Hitler’s reign of terror over the Jewish people proves God wasn’t in control, Now the king starts to tell the story of his dream, Once again, we find the king receiving a dream from the Lord, Also, the dream makes an impact such that the king can’t stop thinking about it, Unlike the dream in Chapter 2, this time, the king is willing to tell them the dream up front. The same thing happened to Joseph in Egypt. The lesson was prepared for older students and can be adapted for younger students. 3) He was likely made to be a eunuch since he reported to the chief of the eunuchs. Or, ever written down the account of your conversion or any of the other wonderful things God has done during your life? As with all of Scripture, the book of Daniel is profitable for our study - 2 Ti 3:16-17 a. (19-27) The fulfilment of it. ii. Daniel 4, the fourth chapter of the Bible's Book of Daniel, tells how King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon learns the lesson of God's sovereignty, "who is able to bring low those who walk in pride". The students will discover that a life that pleases God requires a humble heart. Is the cause natural? (Dan 4:8) But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my eloah, and in whom is the spirit of the holy eloah[s]: and before him I told the dream, saying. We have restored on the WLC website, in the Scriptures quoted the Names of the Father and Son, as they were originally written by the inspired authors of the Bible. Daniel 4 ⢠An Old Fashioned Testimony Daniel 6 ⢠Not Just a Test of Faith, but Faithfulness. Series: Daniel. Lesson 13 - Daniel 4 & 5 from Torah Class on Vimeo. Visit our library of inductive Bible studies for more in depth inductive studies on this and other books of ⦠Today's lesson is found in Daniel 2. So can we assume that Daniel’s offer for mercy was inspired by the Spirit, or was it merely Daniel’s own point of view? Daniel 1: God has chosen Daniel, and the other three to serve in the palace. Lesson PPT TITLE Main Point: We will have peace when we understand that God is in control of everything. and how mighty are his wonders! I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Let Godâs character provide the context for prayer, so Heâs the center of gravity, not you. Next â The Source of Wisdom. (Dan 4:17) This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. Daniel Chapter 4 More in this series. ... We find out later in the 6 th chapter of Daniel that part of his daily routine was to kneel towards Jerusalem from his window and pray to God 3 times a day. Lesson Plan for Conducting the Class Chapter 2 is foundation for much of the later visions of Daniel. QUIZ. In this chapter the last Babylonian king appears: Belshazzar. Statues of bulls and dragons lined a huge processional avenue leading to a huge ziggurat temple to Marduk, But the key comment in Nebuchadnezzar’s boasting is in found in v.30, where he says he himself made the nation great by means of his own might and for his own glory, He couldn’t have been more wrong on every count, He didn’t make Babylon great, the Lord did, He didn’t accomplish anything in his own might; it was the Lord’s power that created Babylon, And Babylon wasn’t elevated to bring Nebuchadnezzar great glory; it was for glory to God, The king’s pride blinded him to the work of God going on through him, despite God having already revealed the details in the earlier dream, God told him he had been elevated to the position of king of the world, And the Lord said he was placed there for a purpose not his own, And the dream even told Nebuchadnezzar that he wouldn’t hold the position forever, Nevertheless, the king has let the whole affair go to his head and now he thinks it’s all a result of his power, wisdom and good looks, He’s forgotten God, and this is always the way pride works, It causes us to forget God in every sense, and our ego is only too happy to step into the vacuum we created, Pride was the first sin in God’s creation, and since that beginning, pride has been at work in the hearts of humanity to cause us to forget God, Nebuchadnezzar knew God, at least in the sense that he knew that Israel’s God existed and had power over him, And he knew the Lord’s words, as revealed through Daniel, He even had a second dream warning of a coming judgment, And yet here, he is telling himself that he’s big man in the universe, When time runs out for repentance, God’s judgment arrives swiftly and without additional warning, In v. 31, Nebuchadnezzar reports that even as he was uttering his prideful boasts, he heard a voice from Heaven proclaiming his sentence, God’s pronouncement includes a dose of sarcasm, Before the final boast exited Nebuchadnezzar's mouth, the Lord had already nullified his boast, The king’s declaration was overridden by the Lord’s declaration, Nebuchadnezzar said, “I’m the king of the hill!”, And the Lord’s response was, “Not anymore.”, The Lord declared sovereignty has been removed from him, At that very second, a switch was thrown in Nebuchadnezzar’s brain, Immediately, his mind became like an animal and his behavior followed suit, If you find yourself wondering if God is treating him fairly, remember how we got to this point, The king should have known the Lord was over all and assigning authority as He desires, He had two dreams to explain it and he had the experience of Daniel’s friends to demonstrate it, Yet it still required this dramatic experience to get the point through to him, Ironically, God made Nebuchadnezzar to look insane, But the real insanity was the king acting as if the God Who had revealed Himself so clearly didn’t actually exist, The Lord explains how Nebuchadnezzar’s life will go for the next seven periods, Nebuchadnezzar had just been marveling at the magnificence of his palace, and now he will be denied the comforts of it, Instead, he will literally live outdoors in the fields where wild beasts live, No doubt, he will be the talk of Babylon, as the people marvel over how far he has fallen, In keeping with his new animal nature, he will eat only grass, which probably means he will eat various green plants, but nothing particularly normal for a human diet, He had been enjoying the luxuries afforded a king who demanded only the best, All the while denying mercy and provision to the poor in his kingdom, Now, the Lord visits those sins back upon the king by denying him even the most basic human food, Yet even in these harsh conditions, we can still see God’s grace, Normally, a man living out in the fields for a long time would not survive very long, For example, wild predators would have been a real threat, especially lions, Secondly, desert days are brutally hot under the sun, and the nights can be quite cold, especially in the winter, So if the animals didn’t get him, exposure would have, He ate food that normally wouldn’t sustain a person for long, and may have even been harmful, Under those circumstances, it’s hard to believe the king could have survived outdoors that long without God’s grace and supernatural protection, He survived because he was the stump, cut down, chained in judgment, but not dead, not destroyed, He was to remain this way for a period of “seven”, And that period must have been a period of seven years for several reasons, First, the description in v.33 of his appearance implies a very long time, Specifically, his hair grows to the point of looking like eagles’ feathers, That description suggests long, unkempt matted hair, long enough to resemble an eagle’s wing, which is about 22 inches (56 cm) long, And his nails are as long as an eagle’s talons, which are 2 inches long, Men’s hair and nails don’t grow that long in just seven weeks or even seven months, I imagine the people of Babylon would have taken great fascination in the plight of their king, As long as he was alive, he was still the king, though I suspect others were handling the business of the kingdom in his absence, In fact, it seems likely that Daniel played a significant – if not the prominent – role in governing the nation in his absence, We might also suppose that Daniel righted Nebuchadnezzar’s wrongs regarding the poor or otherwise, And finally, we know Daniel understood the king would return to power one day, so he probably advised the staff to prepare for that day, It would not go well for anyone who tried to undermine the king in his absence when the king returned to discover their disloyalty, So the Lord achieved a fair judgment against the king, while also correcting his errors in rule and elevating Daniel once again, We suppose that Daniel also found ways to show kindness to the rest of Israel in slavery, It would have been a tremendous encouragement to the people of God to see their adversary humiliated while Daniel took charge, The power of God resulted in God’s people under Gentile rule, And the Gentile authorities God installs still owe their position to the Lord and therefore, they rule only by His grace, Eventually, even Nebuchadnezzar got the point, Just as God controlled the timing of Nebuchadnezzar’s descent into madness, so does the Lord dictate the moment of his recovery, The king testifies now in the first person again, that after the 7 years were complete, he then regained his senses, And as if released from a prison of the mind, the king immediately does what he should have done in the beginning, He raises his eyes toward Heaven and makes a declaration that matches the one that opened the chapter, He praises God and he declares that God deserves honor, the One Who lives forever and ever, The fundamental difference between man and animals is that God made man in His Own image so we could relate to Him, The Westminster Confession declares that the chief and highest end of man is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy Him forever, It requires the mind of a man to know and glorify God for all that He is, Nebuchadnezzar wasn’t using his mind to fulfill his purpose, so the Lord took his mind for a time, Now that his mind has returned, he immediately begins to use it for its consummate purpose, In the second half of v.34, the king emphasizes the never-ending dominion of the Lord, which was the point he needed to understand, God’s rule is eternal and always in effect, Men come and go as God appoints, but God is the true sovereign, And He remains sovereign, regardless of whether men on earth acknowledge Him as such or not, He doesn’t grant everyone the chance to learn this truth this side of eternity, But sooner or later, every knee bows and every tongue confesses, Furthermore, the king acknowledges the absolute sovereignty of God, Perhaps this was the more personal lesson for the king, In v.35, he says all the inhabitants of earth are accounted as nothing, He doesn’t mean that God cares nothing for the people of His Creation, He means that in any conversation about power and world outcomes, the only actor that truly matters is God, Some imagine the Lord reacts to circumstances so as to direct them in a certain direction, Like someone guiding the steps of a toddler running down the sidewalk, Others go a step further and imagine God is only an observer of His Creation, intervening periodically in response to prayer or exceptional circumstances, Neither of these views could be farther from the truth, and Nebuchadnezzar testifies from firsthand experience that the answer is very different, Imagine the worst thing from human history that you can remember, and the Lord caused it to happen, Imagine the best that’s ever happened, and the Lord made that happen too, as He says in His Own Word, Nebuchadnezzar saw the Lord give him great power and then take it away, He went from the best of times to the worst of times, And now, he finds himself back in a position of power once again. 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