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"YOU, O KING, WERE WATCHING, AND

BEHOLD A GREAT IMAGE!" (verse 31)

WHAT HAD THE KING

SEEN?

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Daniel 2:31-35

You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, Its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like the chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

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Daniel 2:31-33

HEAD

CHEST AND ARMS

BELLY AND THIGHS

LEGS

FEET

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

IRON

IRON & CLAY

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Daniel 2:36-40

This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all--you are this head of gold. But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.

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DANIEL INTERPRETS THE IMAGE

Daniel 2:36-38

a) Who was represented by the gold head? (verse 37)

ANSWER: King _______________Nebuchadnezzar

b) Over which empire was he ruler? (Daniel 1:1)

ANSWER: _______Babylon

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THE HEAD OF THE HEAD OF GOLD - BABYLONGOLD - BABYLON

Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, (605‑538BC).

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Notice the other parts of the image.

THE CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVERTHE CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER

THE BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRONZETHE BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRONZE

THE LEGS OF IRON

THE CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVERTHE CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER

THE BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRONZETHE BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRONZE

THE LEGS OF IRON

Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar that these three metals represented three major kingdoms that would follow Babylon.

Daniel 2:39,40

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THE SILVER THE SILVER MEDO‑PERSIAMEDO‑PERSIA

Conquered Babylon, 538BC

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THE BRONZE THE BRONZE GREECE GREECE

Defeated Medo‑Persia, 331BC

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THE IRON ROME

Overcame Greece by 168BC

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

IRON

THE FOUR METALS, THEN, REPRESENTED:

BABYLON

MEDO-PERSIA

GREECE

ROME

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Daniel 2:41-43

Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.

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THE FEET OF THE IMAGE

Daniel 2:33;41‑43

Of what odd mixture were the feet and toes made up?

“ Partly of _____ and partly of ____ ." (verse 33) iron clay

What did Daniel say the mixture of iron and clay meant?

"The kingdom shall be _______ ." (verse 41)divided

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THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY - The Present Day

Roman Empire

THE NEW WORLD ORDER

AD 476 to today

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Daniel 2:43

"They will not _______ to one another." (verse 43)

"Just as iron does not ___ with clay." (verse 43)

adhere

mix

Daniel said: "They will not adhere to one another. "

These words have stood in the way of world unity for more than 1,500 years. As we saw last week, God controls kingdoms and rulers – when and how they will rise and when and how they will fall.

Let’s go over this again

BABYLON

MEDO-PERSIA

GREECE

ROME

NEW WORLD ORDER?

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

IRON AND CLAY

IRON

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In Chapter 7 Daniel sees the rise and fall of these same empires as four fantastic beasts

that emerge from the sea.

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"The first was like a ____ ,and had eagle's _____ ." (verse 7:4)

Let’s look really quickly at that line of prophecies. In a night vision he sees "the great sea" lashed by winds. As he watches, four fantastic animals rise out of the water.

 

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VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS

Daniel 7:1‑7

Lion wings

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4) "a fourth beast, ________

and _______ "

"and it had ___ horns" (Daniel 7:7)

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2) "A second, like a ____ "(Daniel 7:5) Bear

3) "Another, like a _______ " (Daniel 7:6)Leopard

dreadful

terrible

ten

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"The ten horns are ten _____ who shall arise from this kingdom." (Rome) (verse 24)

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Daniel 7:7,24

The fourth beast, representing Rome, had ten horns. What did the ten horns represent?

kings

The ten horns of Daniel 7 represent the same ten kingdoms as the feet and toes of the image of Daniel 2. In both cases the ten are shown as the rulers of the Roman empire.

THE TEN HORNS

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Four Metals

DANIEL 7

Four Beasts

Symbol Kingdom Symbol Kingdom

gold Babylon lion Babylon

silver Medo Persia Medo PersiaBear

Bronze Greece Leopard Greece

Iron

Iron & Clay

Fourth Beast

Ten Horns

Rome Rome

10 Kingdoms 10 Kingdoms

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Daniel 2:44-45And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold - the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.

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A DRAMATIC END AND A NEW BEGINNING

Daniel 2:44,45

What happened to the image in the closing scene of the vision?

"Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it ______________ , the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold - the great God has make known to the king what will come to pass after this." (verse 45)

brake in pieces

The falling stone and the destruction of the

image point to the end of the long

human struggle for control of the world. A new world is to rise

from the chaos. 

The great physicist Albert Einstein warned:

"ONE WORLD OR NONE "

A NEW WORLD ORDER IS PRECISELY THE MESSAGE OF

DANIEL.

BUT WHO WILL FULFIL THE GLOBAL DREAM?

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Daniel 2:44

The world leaders will attempt to set up a new world order to bring “peace and safety”? Will it last?

"And in the days of these kings the ______________ will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed." (verse 44)

"And it shall stand _______ ." (verse 44)

God of Heaven

forever

30Stone that fills the earth = The Lord Jesus Christ and God’s everlasting kingdom

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Daniel 2:46-49Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they should present an offering and incense to him. The king answered Daniel, and said, "Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret." Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts; and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon. Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

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Not only Daniel, but practically all the Bible prophets tell us that God's kingdom will come. This is one of the great certainties of the future.

Do you have a place in the everlasting kingdom?

Not only Daniel, but practically all the Bible prophets tell us that God's kingdom will come. This is one of the great certainties of the future.

Do you have a place in the everlasting kingdom?

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1) How was King Nebuchadnezzer, the most powerful King on earth, impacted by these prophesies?

2) Daniel heard from the Lord and shared this incredible testimony with a man who could take his life, how does his great example impact you ? 

3) What will be the result of the Rock that crushes the image? 

4) If the return of the Lord is going to be next weekend (and it could be), how should we live our lives this next week?