STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL.

May 18, 2021

Nebuchadnezzar’s testimony to the glory of God… continues Dan. 4:1-37. Key: 4:17, 25

“The Bible allows us to note the ways in which God worked on Nebuchadnezzar. God allowed him victories, but he was accomplishing God’s purposes. God allowed him to deport the best young Jewish leaders as his palace servants, while placing close to him a young man named Daniel, who would change the king’s life. God allowed Nebuchadnezzar to attempt to kill three of his servants to teach the king that he did not really have power over life and death. God warned him of the dangers in his pride and then allowed Nebuchadnezzar to live through seven years of insanity before restoring him to the throne. God showed the king who was really in control! “

  1. Dan. 4:5-9 “I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.”
  2. Dan. 4:5 He was troubled ch. 2:1; 5:5, 6, 10; 7:28. Ge. 41:1. Job 7:13, 14.
  3. He had to bring in his wise men. ch. 2:2. Ge. 41:7, 8. Is. 8:19; 47:12–14.In his first dream they promised to interpret the dream if only the king could narrate it
  4. Daniel had to be brought in ch. 2:1, 2. but. ch. 2:7. Is. 44:25. Je. 27:9, 10. 2 Ti. 3:8, 9. “It may seem strange that Daniel should be reserved to the last, in order that all mere human means should be proved vain,… thus the haughty king was stripped of all fleshly confidences” JFB. Jb. 6:9-18, 1Cor. 1:26-29, Ps. 8:2. It is God that can make great. 1Chro. 29:12. Je is all powerful. Ps. 62:11, Jb. 26:12, Ps. 115:3, Is. 43:12 Belteshazzar—master. See on ch. 1:20; 2:48; 5:11. the spirit. ver. 8. Ge. 41:38. 1Sa. 4:8.