952 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 4 Book 80 - Daniel Part 1 - 4

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick DANIEL – PART I - 4 Daniel 1:1 - 2:39 Okay, good to see everybody back again for another half hour. We’re going to pick right up where we left off in Daniel chapter 2, and we’re going to jump in at verse 31. Again, we want to thank our television audience for all of your prayers, your gifts, your letters, and everything. My, we just can’t do it without you. We just trust that you’re sharing these things with your friends and relatives to get them interested in studying the Word of God on their own. That’s my whole premise. It is to get people into the Book. All right, we’re going to go right on and pick up where we left off in verse 31of Daniel chapter 2. And again, for a quick review, remember that Daniel is primarily a prophecy concerning the coming Gentile empires beginning with Nebuchadnezzar who was the first real world-empire dictator. Now there were other kingdoms ahead of them, of course. But Nebuchadnezzar was really the first great world empire builder and a total, total despotic dictator. All right, this Nebuchadnezzar has had a dream. And Daniel has been able, by God’s help, to recover the dream. Now he’s going to explain the interpretation. What did it mean? All right, verse 31, and Daniel says to Nebuchadnezzar: Daniel 2:31 “Thou, O King, sawest, (in his dream) and behold a great image. (in other words, the likeness of a man) This great image, whose brightness was excellent, (or frightening—some translations put) stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.” And again, frightening, beyond human comprehension. Now he’s beginning to explain the dream. Daniel 2:32-33 “This image’s head was of fine gold, (Now that’s why we know it’s a depiction of a human likeness.) his breast (or his chest and shoulders) and his arms of silver, his belly (or the abdomen down to the upper thigh) and his thighs of brass, 33. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay (were made up of a mixture of iron and clay).” All right, now we’re going to just briefly—and I’ll go back and put it on the board. Here we’ve got a head of gold, a chest of silver, a belly of brass, legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay. Now those of you who know anything about chemistry—what are the specific gravities of these various metals? Well, gold is the heaviest. Silver is the next. Brass is the next. Iron is the next. And iron and the clay is the lightest of all. So right off the bat, if you’ll use your thinking cap, what is the balance of that makeup? It’s top-heavy. Exactly what I wanted to hear. It’s top-heavy. The highest specific gravity, gold, is at the top and the lowest is down here. All right, now all of this is just sort of an inimical figure that God is showing. And in the progression of these Gentile empires that have already been established by history, they were just exactly that. They were top-heavy. We’re going to see the reason for that—that when Christ returns and destroys these Gentile empires; which, by the way, are already back on the world again tonight. All these original empires—Babylon is present-day Iraq—the very center of the news. The Medes and the Persians were the next empire. And Iran is in the news and Syria. And then came the Greek Empire, which was, again, predominately by a Syrian general. And then the Roman Empire, which is our Revived European Community. It’s all back in the news every day. But I’m running ahead of myself. Back up now to verse 34. After seeing this likeness of a man with all of these metals, he says in, your dream you looked at that image until: Daniel 2:34a “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands,…” Well, now if you remember, about a year or two ago I did a whole series of programs on the Stone of Scripture. Remember those? How that all through Scripture, from Exodus through the Book of Revelation, God the Son, Jesus Christ, is depicted as a Stone of one sort or another. He was the Rock that Moses smote. He was considered the Corner Stone of Israel. He’s considered the Head Stone of the corner. All through Scripture you have these references to Christ as a Stone or a Rock. Well, in Daniel’s vision then, or in Nebuchadnezzar’s vision, rather. Daniel interrupts it. After he sees this humongous likeness of a man with gold, silver, brass, iron, and so forth, there came something from a non-human concept—without hands. It had nothing to do with man’s power or whatever. So it had to be the Stone of Scripture—God the Son, Jesus Christ. Daniel 2:34b #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible