Daniel Chapter 2 Part 2

Shalom and welcome to via hafte yes Ryan a Hebrew phrase which means you shall love Israel we hope you'll stay with us for the next 30 minutes as our teacher dr. Baruch shares his expose Ettore teaching from the Bible dr. Baruch is the senior lecturer at the Zahra Avraham Institute based in Israel although all courses are taught in Hebrew at the Institute dr. Baruch is pleased to share this weekly address in English to find out more about our work in Israel please visit us on the web at love Israel Oh RJ that's one word love Israel dot o RG now here's baroque with today's lesson if you want to serve God faithfully if you want to live a pleasing life before him you know what the foundation of all that is worshiping God never be too much in a hurry that you think that you can't worship God that you can't give him thanks that you can't exalt his name and that you can't speak about his character and attributes that's what worship is there was always time plenty of time to worship God and who do we learn that from well we learn it from Daniel you might recalled that last week in our study Daniel had a death sentence hanging over his head and he didn't panic about it he didn't say God why are you allowing this when I've been faithful to you I've been been in covenant with you I had been doing what you have called me to do Daniel didn't say any of that Daniel didn't panic hey didn't fret and he certainly didn't complain learn this principle God hates complaining don't complain seek resolution what type of resolution godly resolution see instead of complaining about your situation ask God to move that your situation might be pleasing to him that your situation might be one that manifests God's glory that depicts his righteousness that teaches people godly truth that's what we should be seeking not complaining so Daniel when he learned that they wanted to put him to death what did he do well he sought time he asked the one who I remember this is someone or you was a murderer that's what he did this was his job he was the chief assassin for the King and Daniel this foreign boy still very young he went and he says you don't give me some time that I might reveal the King's dream that I might give him the proper interpretation and for some reason this would not be the normal nature and operating principles of our yoke to say alright have some time why the King had given him an order put the wise men of Babylon to death and Daniel says just hold on I need a little time and God moved in that situation and REO agreed don't forget the miraculous in the simple data life experiences well we know what we talked about last week God revealed that hidden fame to Daniel he understood the dream and he understood what the right interpretation was but as we emphasized last week Daniel was not one who then ran in before the king saying I've got it I know it he didn't do that what do we emphasize last week at our clothes Daniel pause to worship now usually when there's a time of worship in the scripture it may be only a few verses but the implication is there's much more to it than that and I want to go back because it's so beautiful let me read what Daniel did it says after God had revealed the secret to Daniel in a night vision Daniel blessed I'm reading in verse 19 of Daniel chapter 2 Daniel blessed the god of heavens and Daniel answered and said blessed is the name of the god who is forever and ever who to him is the wisdom and the power he changes times and seasons he causes kings to pass and he establishes kings he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who know understand him and then look at verse 22 he reveals the deep and the hidden things for he knows what is in the darkness for light dwells with him verse 23 to you O God of our fathers literally my father's I give thanks to you and I praise he says I praise that you have given to me wisdom and power and now also that has been revealed to me what I have sought or requested from you the matter of the King you have you have made known and he says to us now whose to us well he's not praying alone he's praying with these other three friends and God in the midst of prayer these four people praying God has revealed it to them look now to verse 24 says and after these things Daniel entered into are you who the king had appointed to kill the wise men of Babylon and he said to him that is Daniel he said to him do not kill the wise men of Babylon now through Daniel what is he doing he is saving lives doing what saving the lives of unjust people a pagan people of those who do not deserve to be saved but here's the key Daniel in this book in this chapter is is revealing a messianic role there was a death sentence but Daniel's activity obviously through God's intervention revealing in his life Daniel was a savior to these individuals and all of this another byproduct of this passages Daniel in fact the Talmud and the Talmud is not inspired Scripture but you know we can learn sometimes from others and the writers of the Talmud says that Daniel is a good example of Messiah meaning this that we can learn a lot about the mushiya the Messiah from the life of Daniel and they base that on what we're doing right now and the fact that Daniel he is a savior look again he goes in before our yoke the the king's commander of the massacre and it says here that he spoke saying do not kill any of the wise men of Babylon but rather middle of verse 24 but bring me before the King and I will make known to king the interpretation of his dream verse 25 now verse 25 begins in kind of a a humorous way we know that are yo he was given a command to Massacre these wise men and as of yet it has not happened and he knew in one sense that he was in disobedience but nevertheless just like the captain of the eunuchs Daniel found favor with and this man didn't do what the king commanded now in this passage are you this man of Massacre this one who's not known for giving mercy he was moved to be patient and Daniel says I've got to go home I've got to get my prayer group together I've got to pray and when God reveals this to me I'll get back to you and God revealed it and Daniel thought you know more important is are you seeing what happens is this oftentimes we become so consumed with time you know what's better be consumed with God don't be on the rule schedule don't be on your schedule how you think things should happen but there's always time to put God first to worship Him to get thanks to him to bow before him to sing his adoration there's always time for that and you can just imagine as Daniel and his three friends were worshiping God going on and on saying what God is what God does God's ability and such there's are you kind of watching the clock being concerned with the time passing and the Kings ethic has not been been carried out and why do I say that well look at verse 25 it says here and our yoke and the word that is emphasized in a Phatak is that he hurried he rushed there was an urgency in what he did are you he rush to bring Daniel before the king and he says to him meaning he says to the King still in verse 25 I have found a man from the Exile of Judah from the Judean exile that will reveal to the king the interpretation of his dream notice our yoke says I have found that this is what the King wanted the priority of the King was not to put all these men to dead he wanted to know what his dream was and the proper interpretation and now our yoke he's taking credit I have found well there's no praise for God in the initial sentence look at verse 26 and the King answered and said to Daniel he knew Daniel he says whose name was now about shall Tsar he says if you are able to reveal to me the dream that I have seen and the interpretation so he says are you able to do that is it really possible and notice what he does he goes back and says it's not they just the interpretation it's also the dream itself that's what he's asking so he says this verse 27 and Daniel answered before the king and said the King's secret that he asked concerning the Wiseman and the astronomers and the sages and the magicians that they were not able to speak to the king he says I can do verse 28 but notice what he says he doesn't say I can do he can but he says but he says there is a God in the heaven see these Wiseman couldn't do it but there is a God in the heavens that reveals secret things what's Daniel doing he's saying and this is you have to appreciate the context Nebuchadnezzar is one who's G being used to being treated as God now what we see here is that Daniels saying you know you think you're in charge but there is a God of the heavens and he's the one that's able to reveal those secret things only God so Daniels testifying of the one true God for he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the last days now we had a pause for a moment because this gives an entirely different context to not just this dream but the entire Book of Daniel when we look at this verse Daniel is telling us something foundational that is true throughout the Book of Daniel and that is it deals with the ahorita I mean what it says here the end times the last days so what is being revealed here and what's going to be continued and we'll see scriptural evidence for why what's being taught here also continues on throughout all the rests of the chapters of Daniel whether we're talking about suppose for the last days or whether we're talking about prophetic truth that will happen in the last days it all has in implications for the end times so look once more what Daniel says verse 28 he informs the King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the last days for this is your dream and these are the visions of your head that were upon your bed verse 29 for you O king says when you were a pawn ear bed what up upon your heart thoughts concerning the future so Daniel here is interpreting not a dream he's saying first of all what his mindset was mean Nebuchadnezzar when you laid on your bed before you get that dream there was a desire to know something about the future and he says continue on in verse 29 and revealing these secret things he says that she'll be made known to you that what will be so revealing the secret things are going to be known to you that what's good to be it's all about the future verse 30 and I he says the secret this secret was revealed to me not by wisdom that is in me that's more so than in someone else that's a life but a rather according to the interpretation that is made known to the king on account that you might understand the the concepts of your heart so he's saying it's not from me that you're going to know the interpretation of this dream and the concepts that were upon your heart rather what he's saying here it is because of God look now to verse 31 he says you O king have seen and behold now we're getting the dream before then interpretation what the dream was you Oh King saw and behold and remember the importance of this word behold it always means pay attention because what's coming is a great significance and let me just set this up for a matter of moments we're going to see that that great image that is set up and this image is going to relate to different empires we'll see that undeniably and all of these individual empires that we're going to be speaking about throughout the prophecy of Daniel all of these lay the foundation for understanding that final Empire in the last days so once again you are going to cheat yourself you're not going to come away through the proper understanding unless you realize as daniel has said twice this has to do with the last days it has to do with the future of the things that will be that's what is foundational in regard to this dream look again verse 31 behold one image one great image there was an image giant a giant one that shine brightly and it stood before you and it's appearance was either awesome or terrible now that word Nora has to do with something which certainly is shaking and probably in a way that was very fearful so it's probably best to translate that terrible verse 32 the head of this image was pure gold its chest and his arms were silver and its stomach and its thighs were copper and its legs and this word forelegs mean its lower portion of its lake below the thigh probably below the knee was was iron and its feet were partly iron and partly clay now all of this is important we see something we see gold silver copper precious stones the most significant at the beginning that is the most valuable then we see something that's hard and then something that is very very manageable something that you can make into something something that's easy to shape and that is at the foundation that's going to become important later on so we see this image set up but now look at verse 34 because in verse 34 we get a conclusion this image stands up and we see once again head goal its chest and arms silver its belly and its thighs meaning this part its midsection is copper and then below the knee to the feet is iron something that's hard and it's feet is a mixture of both iron and clay and that aspect of being clays is very surprising we would not think of that but what happens well this image we're going to see later on this image represents empires major empires throughout the world going back to the time of Babylon and going all the way for to a very unique Empire and we'll talk about later but these empires all have something in common we're going to see that these empires are opposed to the plan of God they are opposed to the establishment of the kingdom of God and in verse 34 we're going to get a concluding or summarizing statement now that is simply the nature of prophecy prophecy what happens is we're given a general statement usually a summarizing one and then an explanation how that summary will come about in its final form how that summary statement and other will become a reality but look now to verse 34 and you saw a stone this word for stone is used in many places in the scripture referring to Messiah and in this location in this scripture the same can be said the stone which Nebuchadnezzar saw is indeed Messiah Yeshua the world calls Jesus Christ we're talking about the Messiah that king of kings and the Lord of lords it says about Messiah that he was cut out and it says not by human hands so his nature what his description is meaning cut out meaning form now Messiah was never created there was never a time Messiah did not exist he's eternal but it's a it's it's depicting his character his attributes and what it says here is that he does not have a manly or a human or an earthly foundation but the very essence of him is beyond transcends man meaning divine so look again at verse 34 you saw a stone that was cut out but not by man and it struck the feet of this image that was made of iron and clay and we read further on that it broke it into dust verse 35 then it crumbled altogether the iron and the clay the copper and the silver and the gold and it became as a chef on the threshing floor in the summer time now what it depicts here is a a image of one taking wheat and going to the threshing floor which is an elevated place and taking that and and thrashing it in order to separate the chef from the the colonel the part that you want to take and that chef well it's just a covering it's light and the wind can just blow it away so what are we learning do to Messiah this image that represents an empire several empires that is going to be the ones that rule in opposition to God who stands opposed to the kingdom of God that Messiah is going to come and he's going to destroy the very foundations and all these empires will become like dusts that's what he's saying here it's not going to be anymore just going to be blown away verse 30 35 in the middle and the spirit lifted them up and there did not remain from them any and the word here probably your Bible is Trace any evidence any remembrance of them so as glorifying of themselves that they were living in great prosperity living in great great human honor and then no one's going to remember them they are going to be no longer of any significance just like a shave chef is it blown away from the kernel of no purpose look now to verse verse 35 at the end and the stone which hit the image it became a great mountain now mountain in the scripture relates to a government so this mountain is going to be a government that rules over all the earth and who is this government well its Messiah and that's why he's the King of Kings the Lord of lords and those what it says about him again and the stone which struck the image became a great mountain that filled all of the earth meaning what Messiah is going to rule over all the earth so over and over what we're getting here is prophetic truth concerning what God's going to do in the last last days how he's going to defeat the empires of the world and there's going to be a new government established and that government is going to be led by this stone and why do I say stone because this is the stone that was rejected by the builders it was not only rejected the word here namasthe it was loathe by them but nevertheless he became the chief Cornerstone he's the foundation of the kingdom and he's going to establish it forever and ever verse 36 Daniel speaking it says this is the dream and now it's interpretation let it be said before the king so Daniel correctly accurately told Nebuchadnezzar what the sages of Babylon said no man is able to do Daniel did it why because Daniel is a vessel for God God is the one who revealed it God is the one who gave it to begin with but Daniel because of his intimacy with God this dream was revealed and let me ask you a question why was Daniel intimate with God and the answerís because Daniel took seriously the simple things the commandments that we go those aren't important today they had no relevance for our life these are things of the old the pass no no these things have notice of context in time consequences implications Daniel is a man who reveals principles so that we will be made ready and found faithful in the last days so let me ask question do you want to be a man like Daniel do you want to be a woman that demonstrates faithfulness one that can become a a instrument where God can reveal his truth do you want to be a spokesman for God here's the problem if you're not living in obedience to the the lifestyle of God his character if you're not walking in obedience to the Word of God you're not gonna be a good testimony why is that because God is not going to reveal those secret things those hidden things those great things to people who live in opposition in disobedience to his word so if you want to be an instrument of God's glory what does he say those who are faithful with the little things they're going to be also faithful with the big so be big minded people when it comes to thing of God's emphasize the little in fact what we know from King Solomon it's those little foxes that ruin the vine and in that same way it's those little things that we think oh don't have all this great spiritual significance to them when we're faithful with them we'll be faithful with the rest and we will be great instruments for our living God well until next week may God richly bless you well we hope you will benefit from today's message and share it with others please plan to join us each week at this time and on this channel for our broadcast of love Israel org again to find out more about us please visit our website loved Israel dot o-r-g there you will find articles and numerous other lectures by Beru these teachings are in video form may download them or watch them in streaming video until next week may the Lord bless you in our Messiah Yeshua that is Jesus as you walk with Him Shalom from Israel

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Published: Sun Oct 21 2018