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It hits the feet and the statue disappears
- the statue represents human power, government, and authority. God’s message is that some day He will finally
take over and establish His kingdom forever. With those comments, Daniel was finished.
Conclusion. My
family and I developed a game we called Cahoots We would play the game with some our guests and used it to introduce
Jesus Christ. We explained there was nothing supernatural about it. The game required that one of my children
to step out of the room while one of our guests selected an object in the room. Then my daughter would return
and I would start naming various objects in the room and she would eventually identify the object from a list
of objects I named. We allowed our guests to place restrictions on what I said, the number of objects I named,
who named the objects - any limits they wanted. My daughter would almost always identify the selected object
correctly. Some believed she was reading their thoughts. She did not. Our guests were impressed.
Imagine how the king must have felt. He was sitting their listening to this young man, a recent captive,
reveal his thoughts. Thoughts he had while in bed. Nebuchadnezzar was impressed! He was so impressed that he . . .,
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. fell on his face and did homage to Daniel, and gave orders to present to him an offering and fragrant
incense. The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings
and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.” Then the king promoted
Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief
prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. And Daniel made request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach,
Meshach and Abed-nego over the administration of the province of Babylon, while Daniel was at the king’s
court. (NASB) Dan. 2:46-49 |
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