NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING AND DANIEL PROPHET
DANIEL
LEANING OVER THE STERN OF ZION’S DREAM, I WOULD WATCH THE PADDLE WHEEL TRAVEL AROUND UNDER THE WATER. AS THE PADDLES RISE FROM THE WATER ON THE FAR SIDE, THEY DRAG SOME OF THE WATER WITH THEM FOR JUST A FEW SECONDS BEFORE IT TUMBLES AND SLIDES BACK INTO THE DEEP, LOST. NIGHT DREAMS HAVE TO BE CAPTURED QUICKLY AS MORNING COMES OR THEY TOO WILL DISAPPEAR INTO THE RIVER FROM WHENCE THEY CAME, NEVER TO BE REMEMBERED AGAIN. NEBUCHADNEZZAR, MEANING "MAY NEBO PROTECT THE CROWN", KING OF BABYLON HAD ONE SUCH DREAM. HE KNEW THAT IT WAS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE. IT TOO HAD SLIPPED AWAY IN THE NIGHT AS DREAMS SO OFTEN DO. NOW HE HAD LOST A DEEP AND TROUBLESOME DREAM IN DEEP AND TROUBLED WATERS, HIS NEBULOUS DREAM INDISTINGUISHABLE IN THE RIVERS OF HIS LIFE. NEBULOUS MEANING “IN THE FORM OF A CLOUD OR HAZY”, MAYBE A BIT LIKE CLOUD COMPUTING? IT TROUBLED HIM, X-SEE-DINGLY. YOU SEE, HE KNEW THAT HE HAD HAD IT, IT WAS SOMEWHERE, BUT HE COULD NOT SEE IT IN HIS MIND, IT HAD BEEN X’ED OUT OF HIS MEMORY, STOLEN, DATA NOT OUND. NO PROBLEM, HE HAD HIS OWN TECHNICAL SUPPORT SO TO SPEAK, HIS OWN HAND PICKED WISE MEN, THE CHALDEANS, THE INTERPRETERS WHO SERVED THE GOD NEBO, THE GOD OF INTERPRETATION. HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET? HELLO....TECHNICAL SUPPORT...HELLO...HELLO? WELL, SORRY, MORE BAD NEWS ON THE WAY! TROUBLESOME DREAMS DANIEL 2:1-4, “AND IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR, NEBUCHADNEZZAR DREAMED DREAMS, WHEREWITH HIS SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED ((H6470) PA ’AM – TO TAP, I.E. BEAT REGULARLY,HENCE, GENERALLY TO IMPEL OR AGITIATE:-MOVE, TROUBLE, THRUST, BEAT PERSISTENTLY, TO STRIKE WITH THE FOOT) AND HIS SLEEP BRAKE FROM HIM. 2. THEN THE KING COMMANDED TO CALL THE MAGICIANS, AND THE ASTROLOGERS, AND THE SORCERERS, AND THE CHALDEANS, FOR TO SHEW THE KING HIS DREAMS. SO THEY CAME AND STOOD BEFORE THE KING. 3. AND THE KING SAID UNTO THEM, I HAVE DREAMED A DREAM, AND MY SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED TO KNOW THE DREAM. 4. THEN SPAKE THE CHALDEANS TO THE KING IN SYRIACK, O KING, LIVE FOR EVER: TELL THY SERVANTS THE DREAM, AND WE WILL SHEW THE INTERPRETATION." A DUNGHILLDANIEL 2:5-9," THE KING ANSWERED AND SAID TO THE CHALDEANS, THE THING IS GONE FROM ME: IF YE WILL NOT MAKE KNOWN UNTO ME THE DREAM, WITH THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF, YE SHALL BE CUT IN PIECES, AND YOUR HOUSES SHALL BE MADE A DUNGHILL. 6. BUT IF YE SHEW THE DREAM, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF, YE SHALL RECEIVE OF ME GIFTS AND REWARDS AND GREAT HONOUR: THEREFORE SHEW ME THE DREAM, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF. 7. THEY ANSWERED AGAIN AND SAID, LET THE KING TELL HIS SERVANTS THE DREAM, AND WE WILL SHEW THE INTERPRETATION OF IT. 8. THE KING ANSWERED AND SAID, I KNOW OF CERTAINTY THAT YE WOULD GAIN THE TIME, BECAUSE YE SEE THE THING IS GONE FROM ME. 9. BUT IF YE WILL NOT MAKE KNOWN UNTO ME THE DREAM, THERE IS BUT ONE DECREE FOR YOU: FOR YE HAVE PREPARED LYING AND CORRUPT WORDS TO SPEAK BEFORE ME, TILL THE TIME BE CHANGED: THEREFORE TELL ME THE DREAM, AND I SHALL KNOW THAT YE CAN SHEW ME THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF." NO MAN, RULER OR KING CAN TELL A DREAMDANIEL 2:10-13. THE CHALDEANS ANSWERED BEFORE THE KING, AND SAID, THERE IS NOT A MAN UPON THE EARTH THAT CAN SHEW THE KING’S MATTER: THEREFORE THERE IS NO KING, LORD, NOR RULER, THAT ASKED SUCH THINGS AT ANY MAGICIAN, OR ASTROLOGER, OR CHALDEAN. 11. AND IT IS A RARE THING THAT THE KING REQUIRETH, AND THERE IS NONE OTHER THAT CAN SHEW IT BEFORE THE KING, EXCEPT THE GODS, WHOSE DWELLING IS NOT WITH FLESH. 12. FOR THIS CAUSE THE KING WAS ANGRY AND VERY FURIOUS, AND COMMANDED TO DESTROY ALL THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON.13. AND THE DECREE WENT FORTH THAT THE WISE MEN SHOULD BE SLAIN; AND THEY SOUGHT DANIEL AND HIS FELLOWS TO BE SLAIN. SO WHO WAS THIS DANIEL? HE WAS A JEW, NOT A BABYLONIAN. WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD ATTACKED JERUSALEM, HE HAD TAKEN CAPTIVES AMONGST WHOM WERE DANIEL (RENAMED BELTESHAZZAR) AND HIS THREE FRIENDS RENAMED SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO. THESE MEN WERE OF THE ARISTOCRACY AND WERE BROUGHT INTO THE PALACE TO BE MENTORED AS THE KINGS WISE MEN: THE CHALDEANS. THEY WERE STUDIED IN ASTROLOGY AND WHAT TODAY WE WOULD CALL MAGIC, HENCE MAGICIANS. [PLEASE NOTE, MANY SOURCES OUTSIDE THE BIBLE HAVE SCHOLARLY AND INFORMATIVE ARTICLES ON JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, INCLUDING DANIEL. HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT BABYLONIAN WISE MEN EITHER, AND THINGS THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND, THEY SOMETIMES MISREPRESENT BECAUSE THEIR WORDS ARE NOT THE INFALLIBLE WORDS OF GOD. USE THE RESOURCES WITH A VERY OPEN MIND BECAUSE EVEN THEY ARE BEING LIED TO AT THE SOURCE. TO ME, THERE IS A TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL TOO ON THE INTERNET, SO DON'T BE MISLED BY ASSUMPTIONS PASSED TO OTHERS BY THE "WISE MEN" OF TODAY. REMEMBER THE WISE MEN OF YESTERDAY WERE TO HAVE BEEN CHOPPED IN PIECES AND THROWN ON A DUNGHILL FOR NOT HAVING THE SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE THEY CLAIMED TO HAVE, ESPECIALLY WHEN HIGHLY PAID. I MIGHT BE IN TROUBLED WATER HERE, BUT THE SAME GOES FOR TROLLING AND PARROTING PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES AND MARKETING AND TRAFFICKING THE WORD OF GOD FOR FILTHY LUCRE. THE WORD OF GOD IS TO BE USED TO GLORIFY GOD. EVEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR, A BABYLONIAN GAVE CREDIT TO THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS.] DANIEL, WE ARE TOLD, WAS 10 TIMES BETTER THAN ANY OF THE BABYLONIAN WISE MEN. HOWEVER, TEN SEEMS TO BE A "MAGIC" NUMBER TOO. 10, BIT ON BIT OFF UC? IT HAS GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TODAY TOO, AMONG OUR OWN WISE MEN. AS PART OF THE BABYLONIAN DIASPORA, DANIEL STRONGLY ADHERED TO HIS JEWISH ROOTS AND CUSTOMS, MOST ESPECIALLY HIS ALLEGIANCE TO HIS GOD OF ISRAEL, HIS LAW AND HIS EVEN THE FOOD THAT HE WAS TO EAT. DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS PETITION GOD DANIEL 2:14-18, "14. THEN DANIEL ANSWERED WITH COUNSEL AND WISDOM TO ARIOCH THE CAPTAIN OF THE KING’S GUARD, WHICH WAS GONE FORTH TO SLAY THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON: 15. HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO ARIOCH THE KING’S CAPTAIN, WHY IS THE DECREE SO HASTY FROM THE KING? THEN ARIOCH MADE THE THING KNOWN TO DANIEL. 16. THEN DANIEL WENT IN, AND DESIRED OF THE KING THAT HE WOULD GIVE HIM TIME, AND THAT HE WOULD SHEW THE KING THE INTERPRETATION. 17. THEN DANIEL WENT TO HIS HOUSE, AND MADE THE THING KNOWN TO HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AND AZARIAH, HIS COMPANIONS: 18. THAT THEY WOULD DESIRE MERCIES OF THE GOD OF HEAVEN CONCERNING THIS SECRET; THAT DANIEL AND HIS FELLOWS SHOULD NOT PERISH WITH THE REST OF THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON." DANIEL RECEIVES THE VISION AND BLESSES GOD DANIEL 2:19-23, " THEN WAS THE SECRET REVEALED UNTO DANIEL IN A NIGHT VISION. THEN DANIEL BLESSED THE GOD OF HEAVEN. 20. DANIEL ANSWERED AND SAID, BLESSED BE THE NAME OF GOD FOR EVER AND EVER: FOR WISDOM AND MIGHT ARE HIS: 21. AND HE CHANGETH THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS: HE REMOVETH KINGS, AND SETTETH UP KINGS: HE GIVETH WISDOM UNTO THE WISE, AND KNOWLEDGE TO THEM THAT KNOW UNDERSTANDING: 22. HE REVEALETH THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS: HE KNOWETH WHAT IS IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE LIGHT DWELLETH WITH HIM. 23. I THANK THEE, AND PRAISE THEE, O THOU GOD OF MY FATHERS, WHO HAST GIVEN ME WISDOM AND MIGHT, AND HAST MADE KNOWN UNTO ME NOW WHAT WE DESIRED OF THEE: FOR THOU HAST NOW MADE KNOWN UNTO US THE KING’S MATTER. DANIEL WENT BEFORE THE KING TO TELL HIM THAT HE COULD INTERPRET THE DREAMDANIEL 24-26, "24. THEREFORE DANIEL WENT IN UNTO ARIOCH, WHOM THE KING HAD ORDAINED TO DESTROY THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON: HE WENT AND SAID THUS UNTO HIM; DESTROY NOT THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON: BRING ME IN BEFORE THE KING, AND I WILL SHEW UNTO THE KING THE INTERPRETATION. 25. THEN ARIOCH BROUGHT IN DANIEL BEFORE THE KING IN HASTE, AND SAID THUS UNTO HIM, I HAVE FOUND A MAN OF THE CAPTIVES OF JUDAH, THAT WILL MAKE KNOWN UNTO THE KING THE INTERPRETATION. 26. THE KING ANSWERED AND SAID TO DANIEL, WHOSE NAME WAS BELTESHAZZAR, ART THOU ABLE TO MAKE KNOWN UNTO ME THE DREAM WHICH I HAVE SEEN, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF? A DREAM FOR THE LATTER DAYS DANIEL 2:27-30, "DANIEL ANSWERED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE KING, AND SAID, THE SECRET WHICH THE KING HATH DEMANDED CANNOT THE WISE MEN, THE ASTROLOGERS, THE MAGICIANS, THE SOOTHSAYERS, SHEW UNTO THE KING; 28. BUT THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN THAT REVEALETH SECRETS, AND MAKETH KNOWN TO THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHAT SHALL BE IN THE LATTER DAYS. THY DREAM, AND THE VISIONS OF THY HEAD UPON THY BED, ARE THESE; 29. AS FOR THEE, O KING, THY THOUGHTS CAME INTO THY MIND UPON THY BED, WHAT SHOULD COME TO PASS HEREAFTER: AND HE THAT REVEALETH SECRETS MAKETH KNOWN TO THEE WHAT SHALL COME TO PASS. 30. BUT AS FOR ME, THIS SECRET IS NOT REVEALED TO ME FOR ANY WISDOM THAT I HAVE MORE THAN ANY LIVING, BUT FOR THEIR SAKES THAT SHALL MAKE KNOWN THE INTERPRETATION TO THE KING, AND THAT THOU MIGHTEST KNOW THE THOUGHTS OF THY HEART. A DREAM FOR THE "LATTER DAYS" DANIEL 2:31-34, "31. THOU, O KING, SAWEST, AND BEHOLD A GREAT ((H2298) CHAD – ONE (NUMBER), A, ONE, SINGLE, FIRST ONE) AND (H7690) GREAT, MUCH, MANY, EXCEEDINGLY, LARGE IN SIZE, QUANTITY OR NUMBER, SORE, MANY, CORRESPONDING TO (H7689) SAGGIY – GREAT (OF GOD), EXCELLENT, FROM (H7670) SAGA – TO INCREASE, GROW, MAGNIFY, GROW GREAT, TO MAGNIFY, LAUD) IMAGE ((H6755) TSELEM – IMAGE, IDOL, AN IDOLATROUS FIGURE, FORM, IMAGE CORRESPONDING TO (H6754) TSELEM - TO SHADE; A PHANTOM, I.E. ILLUSION, RESEMBLANCE; HENCE A REPRESENTATIVE FIGURE, ESPEC. AN IDOL:-IMAGE, VAIN VIEW. VAIN SHEW, 1. IMAGE A. IMAGES (OF TUMOURS, MICE, HEATHEN, GODS) B. IMAGE, LIKENESS (OF RESEMBLANCE) C.MERE, EMPTY, IMAGE.). THIS GREAT ((H7229) RAB – GREAT, MASTER, STOUT, CHIEF, CAPTAIN, LORD, MASTER CORRESPONDING TO (H7227) MUCH, ABOUNDING IN, GREAT, STRONG, MORE NUMEROUS THAN, ABUNDANT IN QUANTITY AND SIZE, FULL, GREAT, MAN, ONE, INCREASE, LONG (TIME) DO, HAVE, MANY (FOLD, THINGS) (SHIP-) MASTER, MIGHTY, MORE, (TOO, VERY) MUCH, MULTIPLY, OFFICER, OFTEN (TIMES), PLENTEOUS, POPULOUS, PRINCE, PROCESS (OF TIME) SUFFICE(IENT), MUCH GOLD, MANY PEOPLES FROM (H7231) MULTIPLIED, INCREASED, LONG JOURNEY, TEN THOUSANDS, TO BECOME MANY MYRIADS), IMAGE, WHOSE BRIGHTNESS ((H2122) ZIYV – COUNTENANCE, BRIGHTNESS, SPLENDOR, FIGURATIVELY CHEERFULNESS (COULD BE TO BECOME PALE), ORNAMENT CORRESPONDING TO (H2099) ZIZ – BRIGHTNESS, CORRESPONDING TO THE SECOND MONTH OF APRIL/MAY, TO BE PROMINENT, THE MONTH OF FLOWERS, SPLENDOUR) WAS EXCELLENT ((H3493) YATTIYR – EXCELLENT, PRE-EMINENT, SURPASSING, EXTREME, EXTRAORDINARY, CORRESPONDING TO ((H3492) YATTIYR – JATTIR=PLENTY”, A TOWN IN THE MOUNTAINS OF JUDAH INHABITED BY THE PRIESTS, FROM (H3498) YATHAR – LEAVE, REMAIN, OVER, LEFT OVER, REMNANT, RESERVED, RESIDUE, PLENTEOUS, BE LEFT BEHIND, REDUNDANT), STOOD BEFORE THEE; AND THE FORM THEREOF WAS TERRIBLE ((H1763) DECHAL – FEAR, DREADFUL, TERRIBLE, AFRAID, TO CAUSE TO BE AFRAID, TO SLINK, I.E. (BY IMPLICATION) TO FEAR, OR (CAUSATIVELY) BE FORMIDABLE – MAKE AFRAID, DREADFUL, TERRIBLE, TO CREEP WITH A QUIET GAIT, LIKE TIMID PERSONS, TO WITHDRAW ONESELF SECRETLY). 32. THIS IMAGE’S HEAD ((H7217) RE’SH – CHIEF , HEAD, HEAD (OF MAN), HEAD (AS SEAT OF VISIONS) CHIEF, SUM (ESSENTIAL CONTENT) THE SUM, CORRESPONDING TO (H7218) RO’SH, FROM AN UNUSED ROOT TO SHAKE, HEAD, TOP, CHIEF, BEGINNING, COMPANY, CAPTAIN, SUM, FIRST, PRINCIPAL, CHAPITERS, RULERS, SUMMIT, HEAD (OF MAN, ANIMALS), TOP, TIP (MOUNTAIN, HEIGHT (OF STARS), CHIEF, HEAD (OF MAN, CITY, NATION, PLACE, FAMILY, PRIEST), HEAD, FRONT, BEGINNING, CHIEF, CHOICEST, BEST, HEAD, DIVISION, COMPANY, BAND, HIGHEST PRIEST) WAS OF FINE GOLD (FROM ((H2091) ZAHAB - AS PRECIOUS METAL, AS OIL, SPLENDOR OF THE HEAVENS), HIS BREAST ((H2373) CHAZEH – BREAST (OF ANIMALS), BREAST OF AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE AS MOST SEEN INFRONT, FROM (H2372) SEE, BEHOLD, LOOK, PROPHESY, PROVIDE, PERCEIVE, TO SEE AS A SEER IN THE ECTSTATIC STATE, TO SEE, PERCEIVE: WITH THE INTELLIGENCE, TO SEE (BY EXPERIENCE), TO PROVIDE, TO GAZE AT, MENTALLY, TO PERCEIVE, CONTEMPLATE (WITH PLEASURE) SPECIFICALLY, TO HAVE VISION OF – BEHOLD, LOOK, USED OF PROPHETS WHO HAVE SEEN “VAIN THINGS”) AND HIS ARMS ((H1872) DERA – CORRESPONDING TO (H2220) ZEROWA – ARM (AS SYMBOL OF STRENGTH)(STRETCHED OUT) FROM (H2232), POWER, SHOULDER (OF ANIMAL SACRIFICED), STRENGTH, HOLPEN, MIGHTY, FORCES (POLITICAL AND MILITARY) FROM (H2232) ZARA – TO SOW AND SCATTER SEED, BEARING, PRODUCING, YIELDING SEED, EXPANDING) OF SILVER ((H3702) KECAPH – SILVER AS METAL OR MONEY, FROM (H3701) KECEPH – SILVER, MONEY, PRICE, AS METAL, ORNAMENT, ITS PALE COLOUR, SHEKELS, TALENTS), HIS BELLY (H4577) Me’AH – BELLY, FROM (H4578) ME’AH -BOWELS, BELLY, HEART, WOMB, PLACE OF EMOTIONS AND DISTRESS OR LOVE, EXTERNAL BELLY) AND HIS THIGHS (H3410) YARKA – THIGH, LOIN, FLANK, SIDE, RECESS, CORRESPONDING TO (H3411) YEREKAH – SIDE, COASTS BORDERS, HINDER PARTS OR SIDE OF A COUNTRY) OF BRASS ((H5174) NECHASH – COPPER, BRONZE, CORRESPONDING TO (H5154) NECHUWSHAH – BRASS, STEEL, COPPER FROM MELTING COPPER ORE, BRONZE FROM COPPER AND ALLOY, FROM (H5153) NACHUWSH – PERHAPS IN THE SENSE OF RINGING I.E. BELL METAL, OR FROM THE RED COLOR OF THE THROAT OF THE SERPENT (H5175) AS DENOMINATIVE) WHEN HISSING) COPPERY, FROM (H5172) NACHASH – ENCHANTMENT, DIVINE, INDEED, CERTAINLY, LEARN BY EXPERIENCE, DILIGENTLY OBSERVE, TO PRACTICE DIVINATION, OBSERVE SIGNS, PRACTICE FORTUNE TELLING, TAKE AS OMEN, TO HISS, TO WHISPER A (MAGIC) SPELL, GENERALLY TO PROGNOSTICATE-X CERTAINLY, DIVINE, DIVINATION BY SERPENTS, TO AUGUR, WHISPERING OF SOOTHSAYERS) 33. HIS LEGS ((H8243) SHAQ – LEG (LOWER) CORRESPONDING TO (H7785) SHOWG – SHOULDER, LEG, HIP, THIGH:OF MAN, SPECIFICALLY THE CALF AS OPPOSED TO THIGH, FROM THE KNEE TO THE FOOT, LOWER LEG AS IN A RUNNER, FROM (H7783) SHUWQ – SHOOK, OVERFLOW, WATER, TO BE ABUNDANT, TO RUN AFTER OR OVER) OF IRON ((H6523) BARZEL – IRON, IRON ORE, AS MATERIAL FOR FURNITURE, UTENSILS, IMPLEMENTS, HARSHNESS, STRENGTH, OPPRESSION, AX HEAD, IRON AS CUTTING), HIS FEET ((H7271) REGAL – FOOT FROM (H7272) FEET, FOOTSTOOL, AFTER, TIMES, FOLLOW, PISS, TOES, JOURNEY, LEGS, EUPHEMISTICALLY THE PUDENDA:-X BE ABLE TO ENDURE, GREAT TOE, HAUNT, POSSESSION, TIME, FROM ((H7279)RAGAL – SPY, SPY OUT, VIEW, BACKBITETH, ESPY OUT, SLANDERED, TO GO ON FOOT, SPY OUT, OOT IT, GO ABOUT, WALK ALONG, MOVE THE FEET, TO BE A TALEBEARER, SLANDER, GO ABOUT, TO GO ABOUT AS EXPLORER, SPY, TO TEACH TO WALK, TO RECONNOITER, TO LEAD ABOUT, TEACH TO GO, VIEW) PART OF IRON AND PART OF CLAY . THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE IMAGE BECAME GREAT AND FILLED THE EARTH 34. THOU SAWEST TILL THAT A STONE WAS CUT OUT WITHOUT HANDS, WHICH SMOTE THE IMAGE UPON HIS FEET THAT WERE OF IRON AND CLAY, AND BRAKE THEM TO PIECES. 35. THEN WAS THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRASS, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD, BROKEN TO PIECES TOGETHER, AND BECAME LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER THRESHINGFLOORS; AND THE WIND CARRIED THEM AWAY, THAT NO PLACE WAS FOUND FOR THEM: AND THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT (H7229) RAB – GREAT, GREAT OF POWER, MASTER, STOUT, CHIEF, CAPTAIN, LORD, CORRESPONDING TO (H7227) AND (H7231) HAVING TO DO WITH MULTIPLYING BY THE MYRIADS, PRINCE AND PROCESS OF TIME, SHIP MASTER, MIGHTY, ABUNDANT, TENS OF THOUSANDS, MANY, MILLION, MULTIPLY) MOUNTAIN ((H2906) TUWR – A ROCK OR HILL CORRESPONDING TO ((H6697) TSUWR – ROCK, STRENGTH, SHARP, GOD, BEAUTY, EDGE, STONES, MIGHTY ONE, STRONG, ROCK CLIFFS AND WALLS, ROCK AS REFUGE, MIGHTY GOD), AND FILLED ((H4391) MELA – FILLED FULL CORRESPONDING TO (H4390) MALE – FULFIL, CONSECRATE, ACCOMPLISH, REPLENISH, WHOLLY, SET, EXPIRED, GATHER, OVERFLOW, SATISFY, FULLNESS, ABUNDANCE, TO BE FULL, BE ACCOMPLISHED, BE ENDED, BE ARMED, COMPLETE, TO MASS THEMSELVES AGAINST, TALE, HAVE WHOLLY, TAKE A HAND(FUL)) THE WHOLE ((H3606) KOL – ALL, WHOLE, ANY, WHOSOEVER) EARTH. THE INTERPRETATION DANIEL 2:36-43. "36.THIS IS THE DREAM; AND WE WILL TELL THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF BEFORE THE KING. 37. THOU, O KING, ART A KING OF KINGS: FOR THE GOD OF HEAVEN HATH GIVEN THEE A KINGDOM, POWER, AND STRENGTH, AND GLORY. 38. AND WHERESOEVER THE CHILDREN OF MEN DWELL, THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD AND THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN HATH HE GIVEN INTO THINE HAND, AND HATH MADE THEE RULER OVER THEM ALL. THOU ART THIS HEAD OF GOLD. 39. AND AFTER THEE SHALL ARISE ANOTHER KINGDOM INFERIOR TO THEE, AND ANOTHER THIRD KINGDOM OF BRASS, WHICH SHALL BEAR RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH.40 AND THE FOURTH KINGDOM SHALL BE STRONG AS IRON: FORASMUCH AS IRON BREAKETH IN PIECES AND SUBDUETH ALL THINGS: AND AS IRON THAT BREAKETH ALL THESE, SHALL IT BREAK IN PIECES AND BRUISE. 41. AND WHEREAS THOU SAWEST THE FEET AND TOES, PART OF POTTERS’ CLAY, AND PART OF IRON, THE KINGDOM SHALL BE DIVIDED; BUT THERE SHALL BE IN IT OF THE STRENGTH OF THE IRON, FORASMUCH AS THOU SAWEST THE IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY. THE TOESDANIEL 2:42-45. "AND AS THE TOES ((H677) ‘ETSBA – FINGER, TOE, CORRESPONDING TO (H676) ETSBA – FROM THE SAME AS (H6648) IN THE SENSE OF GRASPING; SOMETHING TO SIEZE WITH, I.E. A FINGER; BY ANALOGY, A TOE SAME AS (H6648) TSEBA – FROM UNUSED ROOT MEANING TO DIP (INTO COLOURING FLUID) A DYE:- DIVERS, COLOURS, DYED STUFF, SOMETHING DYED, COLOURED CLOTH)[YOU KNOW...LIKE THE INTER NET AND THE COLOURED IMAGES OF THE MEDIA] OF THE FEET ((H7271) REGAL – FOOT, CORRESPONDING TO (H7272) REGEL – AS USED IN WALKING; BY IMPLICATION, A STEP; BY EUPHEMISTICALLY THE PUDENDA:-X BE ABLE TO ENDURE, X ACCORDING AS, X AFTER, X COMING, X GREAT TOE, X HAUNT, X JOURNEY, LEG, PISS, POSSESSION, TIME, FOOT: FOOT, LEG, OF GOD (ANTHROPOMORPHIC), OF SERAPHIM, CHERUBIM, IDOLS, ANIMALS, TABLE, ACCORDING TO THE PACE OF (WITH PREP), THREE TIMES (FEET, PACES) FROM (H7270) RAGAL – TO WALK ALONG, RECONNOITER, TO BE, A TALE-BEARER (I.E. SLANDERER); TO LEAD ABOUT:- BACKBITE, SEARCH, (E-) SPY (OUT), TEACH TO GO, VIEW) WERE PART OF IRON, AND PART OF CLAY, SO THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PARTLY STRONG, AND PARTLY BROKEN. 43. AND WHEREAS THOU SAWEST IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY, THEY SHALL MINGLE THEMSELVES WITH THE SEED OF MEN: BUT THEY SHALL NOT CLEAVE ONE TO ANOTHER, EVEN AS IRON IS NOT MIXED WITH CLAY. 44. AND IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS SHALL THE GOD OF HEAVEN SET UP A KINGDOM, WHICH SHALL NEVER BE DESTROYED: AND THE KINGDOM SHALL NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE, BUT IT SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS, AND IT SHALL STAND FOR EVER. 45. FORASMUCH AS THOU SAWEST THAT THE STONE WAS CUT OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN WITHOUT HANDS, AND THAT IT BRAKE IN PIECES THE IRON, THE BRASS, THE CLAY, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD; THE GREAT GOD HATH MADE KNOWN TO THE KING WHAT SHALL COME TO PASS HEREAFTER: AND THE DREAM IS CERTAIN, AND THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF SURE." HISTORICALLY THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE EMPIRES THAT HAVE ARISEN TO FULFILL THIS PROPHECY. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO RESEARCH THEM BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IS BEING COVERED ON THESE PARTICULAR PAGES AT THIS TIME. I SEE THE MIXTURE OF IRON AND CLAY AS THE TECHNICAL IMAGES OF THE DIGITAL ERA IN WHICH WE NOW LIVE. OUR CHILDREN SEE MOVIES AND CHARACTERS THAT ARE MORE REAL TO THEM THAN THEIR FRIENDS. MANY ARE IN LOVE WITH PEOPLE THEY MEET ONLINE BEFORE THEY EVEN MEET THE PERSON IN REAL LIFE. THEY MIGHT HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PERSON IN REAL LIFE, BUT ALL THE TIME THEY ARE IMAGES, THEY WILL NOT INTERMARRY EXCEPT AS A BAD JOKE. MANY RELATIONSHIPS THESE DAYS ARE VERY BAD JOKES CON-JURED UP BY THE JOKESTER. NOT FUNNY! I THINK DANIEL COULD HAVE BEEN SEEING INTO THE BEDROOMS OF THE TEENAGERS TODAY AND THE HORRIBLE THINGS THAT GO ON IN THEM. WHEN HE SAID THE FORM THEREOF WAS TERRIBLE ((H1763) DECHAL – FEAR, DREADFUL, TERRIBLE, AFRAID, TO CAUSE TO BE AFRAID, TO SLINK, I.E. (BY IMPLICATION) TO FEAR, OR (CAUSATIVELY) BE FORMIDABLE – MAKE AFRAID, DREADFUL, TERRIBLE, TO CREEP WITH A QUIET GAIT, LIKE TIMID PERSONS, TO WITHDRAW ONESELF SECRETLY). NEBUCHADNEZZAR GIVES GOD THE GLORY, DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS ARE PROMOTEDDANIEL 2:46-49, "46. THEN THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR FELL UPON HIS FACE, AND WORSHIPPED DANIEL, AND COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD OFFER AN OBLATION AND SWEET ODOURS UNTO HIM.47. THE KING ANSWERED UNTO DANIEL, AND SAID, OF A TRUTH IT IS, THAT YOUR GOD IS A GOD OF GODS, AND A LORD OF KINGS, AND A REVEALER OF SECRETS, SEEING THOU COULDEST REVEAL THIS SECRET. 48. THEN THE KING MADE DANIEL A GREAT MAN, AND GAVE HIM MANY GREAT GIFTS, AND MADE HIM RULER OVER THE WHOLE PROVINCE OF BABYLON, AND CHIEF OF THE GOVERNORS OVER ALL THE WISE MEN OF BABYLON. 49. THEN DANIEL REQUESTED OF THE KING, AND HE SET SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO, OVER THE AFFAIRS OF THE PROVINCE OF BABYLON: BUT DANIEL SAT IN THE GATE OF THE KING.” GET READY, THE DREAM COMETH! THAT DREAM, AND THE LATTER DAYS, THE HINDERPART OF TIME ALLOCATED TO US, AND THE TEN DIGITAL TOES THEREOF, IS THE TAP, TAP, TAPPING, LIKE THE PATTER OF THE FEET; THE TAPPING OF THE DIGITAL FINGERS AND TOES, THE RINGING OF THE PHONE AND THE HOOFBEATS OF THE HORSEPOWER, ALL NOW SEEN ON THE SCENE. EVEN OUR ENGINES TAP WHEN THEY ARE CALLING FOR THEIR ANOINTING OIL. TRULY, OUR NEWS FOR TODAY STILL COMES FROM BABYLON AND THE TOWERS OF BABEL. E-SPYING TODAY COMES WITH A TAP, TAP TOO AS TALE BEARERS AND SLANDERERS SLICE AND DICE AT EACH OTHER E-LECTRONICALLY.
JACOB’S NAME REFLECTS AN END TIME CATCHING UP, EVEN FROM THE HINDERPART OF TIME. JACOB ((H3290) YA’AQOB – HEEL CATCHER) AND HEEL ((H6119) ‘AQEB – A HEEL, A TRACK, THE REAR OF AN ARMY OR HORSE. HOOF, LAST, LIER IN WAIT FOOT STEP) BOTH FROM ((H6117) – ‘AQAB – TO SIEZE BY THE HEEL, CIRCUMVENT (AS IF TRIPPING UP THE HEELS); ALSO TO RESTRAIN AS IF HOLDING BY THE HEELS, STAY, SUPPLANT, STEPS, OVERREACH, HORSEHOOFS, AT THE LAST, MARK OF HEEL, FOOTPRINT, HINDER PART, REAR). WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE "AGE OF GENTILES" AND THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE IS AT THE DOOR AGAIN. EVIL IS KNOCKING. TAP, TAP, TAP. EVIL ((H7451) (RA, RAH; BAD, ADVERSITY, AFFLICTION, CALAMITY,+ DISPLEASE (-URE), DISTRESS, EXCEEDINGLY, X GREAT GRIEF, HARM, HEAVY, HURT, ILL FAVORED, + MARK, MISCHIEF, NAUGHT (TY) NOISOME, + NOT PLEASE, SAD (-LY) SORE, SORROW, TROUBLE, VEX, WICKED (-LY) WORSE, WRETCHEDNESS, WRONG. (H7489) RA ‘A ’ TO SPOIL BY BREAKING INTO PIECES.) THAT NAUGHTY WRETCHED RA HAS TO GO, MARK MY WORDS.
FOR THOSE WHO JUST COULD NOT LABOUR THROUGH THAT...NEBUCHADNEZZAR DREAMED OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY TO CORRUPT IN THE LATTER DAYS. IT HAS HAPPENED. WE ARE WAITING...BUT IT HAS HAPPENED. JUDGMENT IS FALLING RIGHT, LEFT AND CENTER. SEEING WE ARE NOT BELIEVING. HOW MANY FLOODS, FIRES, TORNADOS, TSUNAMIS AND NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS IN THE SEA DO WE NEED TO SEE THE HAND OF GOD? HOW MANY BIRDS HAVE TO FALL FROM THE SKY? HOW MANY DEAD FISH HAVE TO WASH UP ON THE SHORE? HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE OF CANCER? HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO FIGHT WITH THE FOOLISHNESS OF COVID 19? PEOPLE WHO DO SEE ARE WAKING UP AND GIVING CREDIT TO THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. SOME OF THE WISE MEN HAVE EARS TO HEAR, MOST OF THEM STILL LIVE IN DE-NILE.
“AS FOR THE MYSTERY ABOUT WHICH THE KING HAS INQUIRED, NEITHER WISE MEN, CONJURERS, MAGICIANS, NOR DIVINERS ARE ABLE TO DECLARE IT TO THE KING. (WHY? THEN, LIKE NOW, IT WAS A SECRET, A DEEP MYSTERY, A DREAM.) HOWEVER, THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN WHO REVEALS MYSTERIES, AND HE HAS MADE KNOWN TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE LATTER DAYS.” FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW, THE “LATTER DAYS” IS A TIME PERIOD INTO WHICH WE ARE NOW STEPPING, AND WHY WE ARE AGAIN IN IRAQ, WHICH IS WHY I AM BABBLING ON ABOUT BABYLON OR BAB-IL, BECAUSE A STONE WAS ABOUT TO BE CUT OUT THAT WENT ALL THE WAY BACK TO IRAQ TOO, UNLIKE ANY OTHER STONE EVER FOUND. REALLY IT IS THE BACKPARTS, THE HINDER PARTS. THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST AND SETS IN THE WEST.... A HUGE STONE IS ABOUT TO BE THRONE. IT IS GOING TO SMASH AND PULVERISE THE SHAKY REVOLVING FOUNDATIONS UPON WHICH MODERN SOCIETY NOW TWIRLS AND ENTHRONES... ITSELF.
THOSE WERE PROPHETIC WORDS FOR TODAY UTTERED FROM IRAQ, KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S PALACE NO LESS, WHERE SERVICE MEN FROM THE ENGLISH SPEAKING NATIONS ARE CURRENTLY SERVING AND SOME HAVE EVEN LATELY STEPPED ON THIS VERY GROUND BECAUSE IT WAS REBUILT TO BECOME SADDAM HUSSEIN’S PARTY PALACE! HA...OBVIOUSLY HE DID NOT READ HIS SCRIPTURES EITHER. SADDAM HUSSEIN TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO RESURRECT THIS ANCIENT RELIC TO HONOR NEBUCHADNEZZAR! HE HAD NO IDEA THAT ONE EVEN MORE HONOURABLE HAD BEEN CUT OUT FROM IRAQ, ONE LIKE THE SON OF GOD THAT NEBUCHNEZZAR WITNESSED IN HIS OWN FIERY FURNACEAND GAVE ALL HONOUR TO. YES, NEBUCHADNEZZAR GAVE GLORY TO THE ONE LIKE THE SON OF GOD! DANIEL 2:34, "THOU SAWEST TILL THAT A STONE WAS CUT OUT WITHOUT HANDS, WHICH SMOTE THE IMAGE UPON HIS FEET THAT WERE IRON AND CLAY, AND BRAKE THEM TO PIECES. THEN WAS THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRASS, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD, BROKEN TO PIECES TOGETHER, AND BECAME LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER THRESHINGFLOORS, AND THE WIND CARRIES THEM AWAY, THAT NO PLACE WAS FOUND FOR THEM: AND THE STONE THAT SMOTE THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN, AND FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH. " SOME ARE IN FOR ANOTHER SUMMER THRESHING. NEBUCHADNEZZAR PROMOTED DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS, EVEN AS PHARAOH HAD PROMOTED JOSEPH IN EGYPT. HE HONOURED GOD AND EVEN COMMANDED EVERYONE ELSE TO HONOUR HIM, BUT HE STILL HAD EXALTED HIMSELF ABOVE GOD AND SO GOD HUMBLED HIM. THE PHARAOHS WERE HUMBLED TOO. NOW WE HUMBLE OURSELVES INFRONT OF OUR TECHNOLOGICAL TOYS THAT DRAW US AWAY FROM GOD. WE PROSTRATE OUSELVES ON THE COUCH BEFORE OUR FLATSCREENS. WE SCHEDULE OUR TIME AROUND OUR SHOWS, OUR MUSIC AND OUR IMAGES. WE WORSHIP THEM, IT. I.T. - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. IT IS OUR GOD. GOD IS STILL AHEAD OF OUR "IT". HE HAS BEEN PROMOTING AND WARNING OF IT SINCE BEFORE THE DAYS OF NOAH, AND IT IS STILL BIG NEWS. AS FIRES BURN AND TEMPERATURES SOAR HIGHER AND HIGHER, HELL ON EARTH GETS NEARER AND NEARER FROM LYTTON, CALIFORNIA AND AUSTRALIA. WE CANNOT HIDE. GOD IS WARNING US TO REPENT. OUR CHILDREN ARE NOW POLLUTED AS BABIES BECAUSE WE PUT THEM IN THE ARMS OF TECHNOLOGY...AS YOUNG AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. WE SACRIFICE OUR CHILDREN FOR OUR IDLE IDOL WORSHIP AND BAAL GAMES. MAYBE WITH VISIONS OF HIS OWN VISION IN HIS HEAD, WITH ITS HEAD OF GOLD, HE FASHIONED A HUGE STATUE OF HIMSELF, OF GOLD! HIS SUBJECTS WERE TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO IT...AND WORSHIP IT. BECAUSE NEBUCHADNEZZAR TOOK HIS OWN GLORY VERY SERIOUSLY, HE HAD A HUGE GOLDEN STATUE OF HIMSELF ERECTED AND AN EDICT WENT OUT:DANIEL 3:5, "THAT AT WHAT TIME YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE CORNET, FLUTE, HARP, SACKBUT, PSALTERY, DULCIMER, AND ALL KINDS OF MUSICK, YE FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP THE GOLDEN IMAGE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING HATH SET UP."
DANIEL 3:15B, "...BUT IF YE WORSHIP NOT, YE SHALL BE CAST THE SAME HOUR INTO THE MIDST OF A BURNING FIERY FURNACE; AND WHO IS THAT GOD THAT SHALL DELIVER YOU OUT OF MY HANDS?" WELL, THAT GOD WOULD BE DANIEL'S GOD. THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. DANIEL'S THREE FRIENDS REFUSED TO BOW DOWN T THE GOLDEN IMAGE AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD THEM THROWN INTO A FIERY FURNACE! TO HIS SURPRISE, NEBUCHANEZZARS MEN THAT THREW DANIELS' FRIENDS INTO THE FURNACE BURNED UP JUST TRYING TO PUT THEM IN IT, AND THERE WAS MORE. DANIEL 3:25, "HE ANSWERED AND SAID, LO, I SEE FOUR MEN LOOSE, WALKING IN THE MIDST OF THE FIRE, AND THEY HAVE NO HURT; AND THE FOURTH IS LIKE THE SON OF GOD." HE DID NOT SAY THAT THE FOURTH WAS THE SON OF GOD, BUT HE SAID HE WAS LIKE HIM, HE RESEMBLED HIM. THE KING OF BABYLON THEN MADE A DECREE: DANIEL 3:29, "THEREFORE I MAKE A DECREE, THAT EVERY PEOPLE, NATION, AND LANGUAGE, WHICH SPEAK ANY THING AMISS AGAINST THE GOD OF SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO, SHALL BE CUT IN PIECES, AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE MADE A DUNGHILL: BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER GOD THAT CAN DELIVER AFTER THIS SORT." NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOT THE POINT! HE WASN'T EXACTLY A "CHRISTIAN", BUT NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THE IRAQI DID RECOGNIZE THAT GOD HAD A SON! HE JUST DID NOT KNOW THAT HIS NAME WAS JESUS, NOR THAT HE WAS THE ROCK THAT SMOTE THE TOES OF THE IMAGE IN HIS DREAM THAT HE COULD NOT REMEMBER... THAT BECAME A GREAT ROCK. THE ROCK OF AGES, BUT THIS FOURTH PERSON WHO WAS "LIKE" THE SON OF GOD WAS STANDING WITH DANIEL'S FRIENDS IN THE FIRE. HE WILL STAND WITH US IN THE FIRE TOO. DO NOT BE AFRAID.
ONE KING DOWN, ONE QUEEN/DAUGHTER (ITS'S A MYSTERY) TO GO.