The Book Of Daniel Part 2 Chapter 2

good evening everyone and welcome to session number 2 I'm so glad you're here this is an exciting venture that we are launching we launched earlier today we're going to continue tonight and I'm so glad you could be part of it the the prophecies in the Book of Daniel as well as the historical stories set the stage for the future and prepare us for what's coming and so I'm thankful you're here and that we have this opportunity because God will not let us down now you see on the screen above my head there's the exact schedule the times the dates and the days and I'm showing you that to remind you if you don't have this there on the table in the lobby so that you can be sure not to miss one session we'll be going through all the way this week except for Tuesday and I want to give you an opportunity to be here as you'll see today as we start the first prophecy of chapter 2 and so we titled this series The Book of Daniel prophecy history and the future and we're going to do today Daniel the second chapter and there are five the parts all right there there are five parts by the way why do I do this let me tell you I discovered that my Bible study means more when I can take a section a chapter or even a book and I can divide it up into manageable segments and see what point is given there and I want to share this with you so in order to go through the second chapter Daniel part one will be what I call the need to know it'll come plane in the second part two of Daniel two will be only God knows secrets number three is the dream itself part four is the interpretation and part five is the conclusion and if you don't mind I want to pray even though pastor already prayed for me I just feel funny if I haven't prayed with you also so if you bow your heads with me our Father in heaven I dare not approach this sacred topic your Holy Bible and your people who you brought tonight without asking for the Holy Spirit to use me and that you would answer pastor Ryan's prayer in my behalf pour out your spirit Lord for you deserve to be shown the beautiful wonderful incredible merciful loving patient God that you are and nothing can do that more clearly sometimes than the prophecies so use me in spite of me and teach us all now so that when we leave we'll be different and we thank you for hearing this prayer because we pray in Jesus name Amen part 1 the need to know I ask you invite you to take your Bibles turn to Daniel the second chapter and let's read this first section I call it the first section the first part which is called the need to know so if you have your Bibles please open them to the first chapter of Daniel we're going to be reading verse 1 through 13 and then we're gonna look closely at this and see the gems that God has put in it for us okay you ready alright here we go in the third year now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign Nebuchadnezzar had dreams and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him and then the king gave the command to call the musicians the astrologers the sorcerers the Chaldeans to tell the King's dream so they came and stood before the king and the king said to them I have had a dream in my spirit as anxious to know the dream and then the Chaldeans spoke to the King in Aramaic Oh King live forever tell your servants the dream and we'll give you the interpretation and the King answered and said to tell dance my decision is firm if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation you shall be cut in pieces and your houses shall be made an ash heap however if you tell me the dream and its interpretation you shall receive from me gifts reward and great honor therefore tell me the dream and the interpretation they answered again and they said let the king tell the servants the dream and we'll give you the interpretation the King answered and said I know for a certain that you would gain time because you see that my decision is firm if you do not make known the dream to me there is only one decree for you for you have agreed to speak lying in corrupt words before me till the time has changed therefore tell me the dream and I shall know that you can give me the interpretation the Chaldeans answered the king and said there there's not a man on earth who can tell the Kings matter therefore o King Lord and ruler has ever know King Lord or ruler has ever asked such a thing of any magician astrologer or Chaldean it is a difficult thing that the King requests and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with man for this reason the king was angry and very furious gave the command to destroy the wise men of Babylon so the decree went out and they became killing the wise men and they thought Daniel and his companions to kill them what a predicament Daniel finds himself notice they need to know the King had a dream but it left him so he called in his wise men and get this three times he told the wise men tell me the dream and the interpretation and three times a wise men answered they could not do what the king asked so let's look at their answers the wise men answered first in verse four and seven the first two times they said it the same way tell your servants a dream and we will interpret it but the third time when the King was insistent he said to them the Chaldeans answered the king and said there is not a man on earth who can tell the king's matter therefore no King Lord or ruler has ever asked such a king of any magician such a thing of any magician astrologer L Caledon and then they said in verse 11 it is a difficult thing that the King requests and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh well let's move on here is as we'll get to the answer let's go to part 2 and we'll pull it all together at the end and this is God knows secrets so let's start at verse 14 and we'll read all the way to 20 then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answered Arioch the captain of the Kings guard who had gone to kill the wise men of Babylon and the answer and he answered and said to Arioch the king why is this degree from the King so urgent and Arioch made known the decision to Daniel so Daniel went in and asked the King to give him time that he might tell the king the interpretation and then Daniel went home and made the decision known to Hananiah Mishael and Azariah his companions that they might seek mercy of the God of heaven concerning this secret so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men and then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision so Daniel blessed the God of heaven Daniel answered and said blessed be the name of God for ever and ever for wisdom might are his and he changes times and seasons and removes kings and raises up kings he gives wisdom to the wide wise and knowledge to those who have understanding he reveals the deep and secret things he knows what's in the darkness and light dwells with him I thank you and praise you O God of my father's you have given me wisdom and might and I have now made known you have now made known to me what we have asked of you so you have made it known to us the King's demand therefore Daniel went to Arioch whom the King had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon he went and he said thus to him do not destroy the wise men of Babylon take me before the king and I will tell the Kings matter and then area quickly brought Daniel before the king and said thus to him I have found a man of the captives of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation and the King answered and said to Daniel whose name was belteshazzar are you able to make known to me the dream I have seen and its interpretation and Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said the secret which the king has demanded the wise men the astrologers the magicians and the soothsayers could not declare to the king but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets and he makes known to the King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days your dream and your vision on your head upon your bed are these as for you Oh King thoughts came to your mind while in near bed about what would come to past after this and he revealed secrets has made known to you what it'll be what will be but as for me this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than anyone living but for our sakes who made known this interpretation to the king that you may know the thoughts of your heart wow that's quite a lot of reading there's thirty verses there but let's let's pick this apart for notice what happened when Daniel was informed and I find this very interesting by the way when the king ordered the wise men to be killed who did they go to first sounds to me like Daniel and why because he was a foreigner ever heard of prejudiced the other wise men didn't like Daniel in fact by the wording in this chapter we clearly see that when the King invited the wise men they didn't inform Daniel because we know from Chapter one he was one of the wise men and so Daniel asked Arioch and he asked the King for time and it was granted to him so Daniel and his three friends prayed about this crucial crisis that he was suddenly confronted with with no resources available at hand to defend himself at all except prayer Daniel and his three friends prayed God answered their prayer and revealed the dream and the interpretation and so Daniel was brought before the King so what are we to learn from this lesson number one notice what they said there's not a man on earth did you get that King there's not a man on earth who can do this but yet the Bible says in Amos surely the Lord does nothing unless he reveals his secrets to the his servants the prophets and we see the same ignorant in our society today towards the Bible and Christianity they do not know the true character of God therefore they said to the king there is not a man on earth none by the way was that crew no it wasn't true and we see that God is teaching us lessons remember this morning in part 1 we discovered that the Book of Daniel is about the last days and so here we clearly see that though the greatest minds of our society today and in this world may be confused on every issue the Bible is not and the secrets that the wisest cannot figure out God's people can and what other lesson do we learn from this verse 11 they said except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh by the way this is one of my favorite topics right here why because first of all let's turn or take a look at what Exodus 20:5 verse 8 says it says read that with me can you and let them make me a sanctuary that I may what dwell among them I mean we could go back to the Garden of Eden and Jesus walked with Adam and Eve and then we come a little farther after sin had really taken ahold and discovered that the Israelites were told Moses was told by God on Mount Sinai in fact this is interesting on Mount Sinai God gave Moses two things and everybody knows the first thing that God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai what was that the Ten Commandments but not many of them know that also he gave them instructions for building the sanctuary the Old Testament portable sanctuary so that God Himself could dwell with his people and what did the wise men say except the gods whose dwelling is not with men well but let's take a look at the New Testament at this same lesson we're learning and we look in John 1:14 and here's what it says and the Word was made flesh and what dwell among us now I'm assuming that you know in John the 1st chapter in the beginning was the word the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that they and everybody knows that's Jesus and then we get to verse 14 of the same chapter and it said Jesus was made flesh for the purpose of dwelling amongst us by the way I think you'd be interested to know that in the Greek that's the New Testament the Greek that word dwell means tent and I thought wait a minute in the Old Testament the Israelites were living in tents as they were wandering in the wilderness and what did God live in a tent mm-hmm and the Wiseman said whose dwelling is not with flesh well I'm gonna give you one more so we can really bring it up to date and that's also in the book of John this is verse 17 I cut it short but you should know the Spirit of Truth dot dot dot for he dwells with you and will be where he'll be in you world doesn't know God the world does not have the answers that we need folks it's only in the Bible and for preparation in the last days the prophecies are of utmost importance because the prophecies are what secrets God revealed to the Prophet who wrote them for the purpose of us reading them so that we would know - well there's a third lesson here and that is this the third lesson is in verse 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets and makes known to the King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days now this is really important because I occasionally at this point hear people say yeah pastor but I'm not Daniel why did Daniel receive that dream so Nebuchadnezzar could no you see the Prophet gets it and he shares it and then we have to make a decision do we believe it or not but the purpose of prophecy is to win the non-believers to the truth that God exists and who else with men and is it listing people right now in his army because we're going to see in this prophecy coming very soon so here's another lesson we learn God reveals secrets and boy at the end remember this reveal secrets I mean I'm going to highlight it in a second but at the very end you're gonna see the impact and the importance of that statement well the fourth lesson is found in verse 30 where it says but as for me this secret has not been revealed to me because I have more wisdom than any living a humble man you know what I would have said to the king I would have said he came your wise men couldn't tell you the dream or the interpretation my Ken I'm really valuable to your kingdom King you take care of me I'll take care of you Daniel had none of that in him I want to be like Daniel he was humble he said King before I tell you the dream and the interpretation I want you to know didn't come from me it came from God and so this humble man interrupted this whole process and by the way you'll see the prophecy of Daniel 2 I'm gonna say is is I think you'll arrive at the same conclusion the most important prophecy in the Book of Daniel because this fir first ones sets the stage for Daniel 7 Daniel 8 and 9 and Daniel 10 11 and 12 well there's another lesson here we learn it's found that in chapter 2 the Aramaic word known and secret are used 15 times and 8 times respectively in this chapter see like I told you this morning and if you weren't here I will repeat it to you the greatest benefit to me helping to understand better the Book of Daniel was reading it over and over and over and over again and in that process my eyesight wasn't as blinded to the dream and the interpretation as fantastic as that is and miss these other details that God plugs into his Bible to wake us up to reality the word secret is eight times in that chapter God is trying to tell us the Bible is the only place to find the answer and 15 times is the word know or known same Aramaic word yes God wants us to know this folks but we can't know it unless we read it and study it and our next job is to then present it to others like I am doing pastor Ryan's doing and Anthony Rudolph will be doing this whole week to try to illuminate in your minds the beauty of this book and to show you the the signs of the time where we are today and prepare us to understand the revelation Wow well I want to remind you of first Corinthians 1:25 if you missed it because the foolishness of God is what wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than man and so before we come to this beautiful prophecy that illuminates history for us shows us the existence or the proof of God we are being told that the knowledge of the world is not the solution or answer to our problems our hopes our future and that there are secrets that can be known by only God's people and then I conclude this quote from one of my favorite books called the great controversy ponder this one little sentence it's on 5:19 Satan well knows that all whom he can lead to neglect prayer and the searching of Scripture will be what will be overcome by his attacks and so the very first part leading up to the beautiful prophecy we're going to tackle in a second we clearly see that God is speaking to us loud and clear the necessity to do what we're doing so we can know better and share it with others so they can know too well let's go to the third part the dream let's look at verse 31 here's what it says okay verse 31 I just had to make a little equipment adjustment there verse 31 says you O King were watching and behold a great image this great image whose splendor was excellent stood before you and this form was awesome this image had was a fine gold it's breast in arms of silver its belly and thighs of bronze its legs of iron its feet of iron and clay and partly iron and partly clay and you watched King while a stone was cut out without hands and which struck the image at the feet of iron and clay and broke them into pieces and then the iron and the clay and the bronze and the silver and the gold were crushed together became like the chaff from the summer threshing floor the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found in the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth wow what a dream he had and we can tell by the elements in this dream why nebuchadnezzar was determined to understand in fact he was determined to know the dream because he knew it was so important but he couldn't remember it and now we know why he forgot it and by the way all of you have woke up no you had dreamt and couldn't remember your dream but God had a purpose here first of all in the ancient Near East Kings thought dreams were from the gods and so he was determined to know this dream but God gave him that dream because he wanted to hook Nebuchadnezzar up with his people the true God of heaven and so it broke from him but he knew it was important and so he saw this incredible image when you walked in you saw the incredible image but then every knez err he wanted to know what does this mean now here's a principle that I want to teach you that's absolutely essential for understanding the Bible and understanding prophecy and here's what it is the fourth part is the interpretation let's read it we'll start with verse 36 this is the dream now we will tell the interpretation of it before the King you O king are the King of Kings for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom power strength and glory and wherever the children of men dwell and are the beasts of the field or the birds of heaven he has given them into your hands and has made you ruler over all them all you are the head of gold here we go you are the head of gold that's what Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar and now what did we do instead of trying to figure out the head of gold hmm I wonder who get is that Hitler is that Moses who who is the head of go we let the Bible interpret itself if there's a puzzle in this book to you then look someplace else and I guarantee you'll find the answer that's what protects us from going out into outer space with these interpretations and boy it is happening in this world today and so the head of gold represents the Babylonian Empire by the way if you're an official archaeologist kind of person it's the neo-babylonian empire and it began in 605 BC until 539 BC in other words it had an ending point and so it says there are breasts and arms of silver and that verse says and after thee after the Babylonian Empire shall arise another what another Kingdom not a person not a king but a kingdom inferior to you and sure enough in 539 BC the medo-persian Empire defeated Babylon in battle marched into the city under the gate took over and that began the Mito Empire the medo-persian Empire which lasted to 331 BC okay so now the Bible is told us each metal represents a kingdom so there's no fictitious idea fetched from outer space in which we're applying by the way what's interesting about Daniel 2 is most commentators agree in fact I was reading I'm just finished rereading my amplified bible in the amplified bible it names these kingdoms but notice this there's another kingdom of brass and it says another third kingdom of brass which shall bear rule over all the earth the Grecian Empire Alexander the Great overthrew the medo-persian Empire in 331 BC and they lasted to 168 BC so now we got it you are the head of gold but after you will be another Kingdom inferior to you but after that Kingdom will be a third kingdom of brass and finally the fourth kingdom is the kingdom of iron and the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron in as much as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything and like iron that crushes that Kingdom will break in pieces and crush all others pagan Roman Empire started in 168 BC and lasted till [Music] 476 ad now if you notice the value of the metals is going down but the strength of the metal is going up and each Kingdom was bigger than the kingdom before and of course everyone knows about the Roman Empire and how powerful it was but here's the amazing part of the prophecy not want you to catch I want you to catch this Daniel was taken captive in 605 BC right we found out this morning that he lasted till the very beginning of the medo-persian Empire and yet in writing this book because God revealed a secret look what he found out he found out or we found out from him verse 41 says whereas you saw feet and toes part of potters clay and part of iron the kingdom shall be what divided yet the strength of iron shall be in it how in the world did Daniel know a thousand years in advance that there would be four world empires that's amazing enough but how's this there's no fifth one instead we have Europe the break up of the Roman Empire and Daniel was told by God the kingdom will be divided there won't be a fifth kingdom now this is amazing and let me put this in again for you who have little children if they come to you and say mommy daddy or grandma why how can I believe in God I've never seen him how do I know he exists friends sit down and read him Daniel - and you look at that little child who has a mind activist can be and say how did Daniel know a thousand years in advance that the fourth kingdom would disappear and there's no fifth mommy God knows the end for the beginning yes dear and so you see as we read our Bibles children were to find these evidences of his existence for Jesus said I tell you these things beforehand so that when they happen you will believe [Music] but there's more there's more by the way that represents Europe and it started around 476 ad and it's lasted till the presence but look at this verse 43 as you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay they shall mingle with the seed of men but they will not adhere one to another I've got to read something to you that's outstanding now let's look at this all the commentators understand this is a reference to cross-pollination mingling the seed do you know that during the the Middle Ages the King ships of all these country including England trade a table you can hey take your son and marry my daughter to where it got to the point that every single ruling monarch was related to all the others and the Bible said they'll try that to unify but won't work I did some checking so I I brought this for you you'll find this very humorous but very interesting who here knows the current king of Sweden his name his name is carl xvi Gustav and the King of Sweden happens to be 70% German 10% French and 20% British they mingled together folks trying to make the effort of uniting but the Bible said it won't work so they went about it a little different way and that is Charlemagne Napoleon you know these names Kaiser Wilhelm Mussolini Hitler all tried to you unite Europe and what happened didn't work let me get Ali even more contemporary the European Union they still were a bunch of independent countries and now that's falling apart why because Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar a thousand years at plus in advance that they'll try all kinds of techniques to reunite that divided Kingdom but it won't work God really exists prophecy can show the strongest evidence our children need to understand these prophecies by the way they're not going to understand these prophecies unless we understand these prophecies and by the way I got to say this to you I'm a pastor right yeah I'm a pastor and you know I've got a little bit of education okay but I'm telling you if I can figure this out anybody can figure this out I'm not this brilliant Brainiac like another pastor I know God revealed himself to me and I couldn't believe it I don't believe I'm standing here sharing this with you if you knew the sweat that went into this not just this sermon I'm not talking about that trying to understand the Book of Daniel and because of my seeking he says seek and you shall find why because he reveals his secrets to his people so that didn't work but here we go here we go and look what verse 44 tells us in the days of these Kings the God of heaven will set up his kingdom which will never be destroyed and the Kingdom shall be left to not be left to other people it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand forever amen in our very day is the Second Coming there isn't another Kingdom or another group of kingdoms Europe was set up and the next thing that is going to happen and you read the prophecy it says the stone cut out of a rock without hands struck the image at the toes of an feet of clay and iron that's know have you heard people say to you I keep hearing this is the last days wait what do you base that on I you know people are saying this is the end of time what do you base that on now we base it on the fact that in the days of these kings which are our existence right now at any time Jesus could come and by the way when we continue in this and we get to the prophecies of Daniel 7 which Anthony's going to present you'll see how these two go side inside but it digs deeper into the story about the toes and the feet of iron and clay see this was for Nebuchadnezzar who was a secular King and it wasn't necessary for him to know what we needed to know that we get in chapter 7 only it doesn't come to the king it comes to Daniel a vision in the night that focuses on the feet of clay and iron but can only be understood when we see daniel two's prophecy sets the stage for history and then seven eight and nine and ten eleven and twelve fill in the space and so what was the result of this folks the result of it was this and I can't believe I'm going to read this to you I'm serious it says King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face prostrate before Who unheard of unheard of I can see his Wiseman and by the way since the Wiseman couldn't come through for him I don't know where he's at in this point in the in the story maybe he kicked them all out and hired new ones but you can bet the new ones came brand I'm saying King get off your knees you know about anybody don't let that the people see you King what are you doing the king was so overwhelmed by the message of the Prophet that he couldn't do anything but fall at the feet of this young man and then he said truly your God is the god of gods the Lord of Kings and the what revealer of Secrets that came from Nebuchadnezzar that didn't come from Daniel in fact he was so overwhelmed he repeated it since you could reveal this secret to me Wow see in case you missed the eight times in that book it talks about secrets you know now know that God is trying to tell us I'm trying to inform you of things you don't know Satan well knows that all who neglect reading the Bible in prayer will be overcome by his attacks and God is saying no no no K n o W or K n Oh W N and I will reveal secrets to folks we all need to know what's going on prophecy tells us and so then the king promoted Dan you know and gave him many great gifts and made him ruler over the whole Providence province of Babylon and the chief administrator all over all the wise men of Babylon oh how they must have hated him but here again folks don't forget chapter 1 God gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar who stole the implements from the sacred temple called this is where my name is and he marched them to his kingdom and put him in his temple and said our God is more powerful than the God of Israel and now who's the number two in the kingdom Daniel folks that's where we're supposed to be in fact have you heard this statement we're not to be the tale were to be the head and I don't mean the head as in ruler like in this case I'm talking about in principle that we would actually act like Christians not just talk about it that the spirit of the Living God would live so powerfully in our lives that no one would have a doubt that we love Jesus and when someone offends us and I'm Italian I got some Jenny says your face always tells everything but since I met the Lord the Lord goes nari knock it off oh all right Lauren and I say I'm sorry I lost it there and I'm sorry and I have and some of you have experienced that and I hope and believe I said was sorry why because Daniel said this wasn't revealed to me because I'm a hotshot this was revealed to me because I asked God to tell me and he did and he will tell you let us pray father in heaven what a God you are how incredible is the Book of Daniel I mean I know the whole Bible is incredible but for some reason to me it just illuminates in my mind and I want these wonderful people who have come tonight to know you better than they did before they came to understand that the rest of the stories tomorrow night 6 o'clock as we look at chapter 3 an incredible application by Nebuchadnezzar to get back his power and how again you revealed mercifully to him your power and you converted that man Lord we're going to see him in heaven so help us to keep coming help us and not say I'm too tired or I got too much to do alright you know the typical ploys of Satan whispering in our ears so help us to stick it out and keep revealing your secrets to us which will reinforce our coming we pray in Jesus name Amen

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