So Daniel went off to see the king, and tell him his dream…
The first thing Daniel does is give glory to God, not to himself. Daniel began to tell and interpret King Nebby’s dream…
In his dream, King Nebby saw a huge statue of a man with four parts of the body being represented by different metals. Each metal represents four world powers. The head was gold, and it represented the Babylonian Empire (606 B.C. – 539 B.C.). The chest and arms of the statue were made of silver, which represented the Medo-Persian Empire (539 B. C. – 331 B.C.). The bronze belly and thighs represented the Grecian Empire (331 B. C. – 146 B.C.). Lastly, the Iron and Clay feet represent the Roman Empire 146 B.C. – A.D. 476).
The most frightening part of the dream is when a rock, cut from the side of a mountain (but not by human hands), struck the feet of the statue and smashed it to pieces! And then, the wind came and blew all of those pieces away until there was no trace of them. That rock became a great mountain that covered the earth.
That rock would be Jesus! After all that was said and done,King Nebby honored Daniel and Daniel’s God.
After each of these posts I’ll put the link for older posts that were originally written for each part of the book of Daniel we are going over. So if you’re interested, you can read them also.
Have a nice weekend 🙂