Sunday, August 8, 2010

Did you catch the qualifications for the young men chosen to enter the king’s service in the first part of the book of Daniel? Daniel and his friends had some pretty impressive credentials. And as if these weren’t enough, God gave them some additional abilities.

When Daniel was taken to the king to interpret the dream, he goes with a very humble attitude. This dream has such profound and significant meaning. The destruction of the statue in the dream is representative of the destruction of the earth when Jesus (the rock) returns.

Dan 2:35b
The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
This verse ties in beautifully with the following.


Isa 11:9

They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
After the destruction will be the Millennial Kingdom. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord just as the rock became a huge mountain.

Dan 2:44
"In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

Once the Millennium starts, it will never be destroyed and will continue on into the eternal kingdom.

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