the prophetic dream of nebuchadnezzar and the interpretation

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THE PROPHETIC DREAM OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE INTERPRETATION

(Daniel 2:26-30) The king [Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean king of Babylon, located in

current Iraq] answered and said to Daniel, whose [Chaldean] name was Belteshazzar, Art

thou able to make known unto me the dream [a kind of tongue (Greek: language) needingan interpretation (1 Corinthians 12:10)] which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?

Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hathdemanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, showunto the king [why not? because they have not the Spirit of God within them]; But there

is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets [i.e., revelations, through His Holy Spirit (John

16:13; 1 John 2:27)], and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in thelatter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; As for thee, O

king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter

[i.e. (or example), from that present time to this present time (an unfolding

prophetic/historical message)]: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee whatshall come to pass. 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 [(other peoples)] that shall make known the

interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

THE DREAM (Tongue)

(Daniel 2:31-34) Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image [a statue of a man]. Thisgreat image, whose brightness [clarity] was excellent, stood before thee; and the form

thereof was terrible [Chaldea (by implied) to fear, or be formidable:--make afraid,

dreadful, fear, terrible] [perhaps, rather like looking upon (up to) Goliath]. This image'shead was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till [until] that a stone

was cut out without hands [here, truly we can say, God did it], which smote the image

upon his feet [upon his idolatrous walk, i.e., in the latter days after the statues formation]that were of iron and clay [the clay represents both professing and confessing pseudo

believers and true believers (Christians in modern terminology)], and brake them topieces.


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Commentary: the metals represent people. Please note that for human

anthropomorphic applications (derived from a statue of a man), the metals gold,silver, brass, and iron progressively decrease in value (from rich to poor, fromhappiness to depression), while at the same time, they progressively increase in

hardness (from soft and malleable to rigid and callous); all this is accomplished

through the mounting amassing pressure of human power and control. The moreweight that is accumulated by human persuasion, the more compressed, the more

compacted, the harder becomes the metal.

Anthropomorphic = Dictionary: ascribing human form or attributes to beingsand things not human.

Malleable = Dictionary: 1. capable of being extended or shaped by hammering

[like fashioning a molten sword] or by pressure with rollers. 2. adaptableor tractable. Latin: beat with a hammer.

(Jeremiah 23:29) Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a

hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Commentary: Thou sawest till = identifies a passage of time until, contextually

relating to the interval or gap existent between the ending of Old Testament and

the beginning of the New Testament. Thou sawest till a stone (Jesus Christ) wascut out (formed) without hands. The latter without hands indicates supernatural

godly activity, and thus becomes a comparative but opposing contrast to the

previous man-made statue which itself stands as a representation and summationof all of mans efforts. This great image presentation entirely communicates a

grand momentous event having much in common with the tower of Babel.


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Commentary: feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces = iron is

rigid and callous whereas clay (representing both professing and confessingChristians) is soft (much softer and more precious than gold, e.g., love) and

extremely malleable. In order to brake them (both the iron and the clay) topieces the clay must first be firmed-up, hardened, and made brittle, which may

best be described as clay resulting in a baked state (thus pointing to professing

pseudo Christians).

(Deuteronomy 4:24) For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a

jealous God. [Hebrews 12:29]

(1 Timothy 4:1-2) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times

some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing [Greek:

deceiving] spirits, and doctrines [Greek: the teaching] of devils [synonym:fallen angels, unclean spirits, demons]; Speaking lies in hypocrisy [Greek:acting under a feigned part, (figuratively) deceit]; having their conscience

[Greek: co-perception, i.e. moral consciousness] seared [Greek: to brand

("cauterize"), i.e. (by implication) to render unsensitive /// consumed] witha hot iron;

(Daniel 2:35-36) Then [referring to the second coming of Jesus Christ] was the iron, the

[baked] clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and becamelike the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind [symbol of the Holy Spirit]

carried them away, that no place was found for them [i.e., the judgment of the Stone]: and

the stone that smote the image became a great mountain [connoting power, and strength,

and glory], and filled the whole earth [a kingdom concept]. This is the dream [tongue];and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

(Isaiah 11:9) They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earthshall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

[Habakkuk 2:14]

THE INTERPRETATION OF THE DREAM (tongue)

(Daniel 2:37-40) Thou, O king, art a king of kings [a carnal typification of Jesus Christ (1


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Timothy 6:15; Rev 17:14; 19:16)]: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom,

power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of

the field and the fowls of the heaven [on earth] hath he given into thine hand, and hathmade thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold [605 B.C. the Babylonian

empire]. And after thee shall arise another kingdom [represented by silver] inferior to

thee [539 B.C. the Medo-Persian empire; having been given less kingdom, power, andstrength, and glory from the God of heaven], and another third kingdom of brass [330

B.C. the Greek empire; having been given even less kingdom, power, and strength, and

glory from the God of heaven], which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourthkingdom shall be strong as iron [67 B.C. the Roman empire; having been given even less

kingdom, power, and strength, and glory from the God of heaven]: forasmuch as iron

breaketh in pieces and subdueth [Chaldean: to weaken, i.e. crush] all things: and as iron

that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

Commentary: historically, the kingdom, power, and strength, and glory of God,

received from God, decreases as the kingdom, power, and strength, and glory ofman, effected by human persuasion, increases - thus man replaces God with

himself. Please also clearly note that as the godly kingdom decreases, the man-made kingdom increases, aspiring to end in a one-world government, and it

shall. Then, after the statue is finally completed, the stone will suddenly appear.Hallelujah!

(Genesis 3:15) And I will put enmity [Hebrew: hostility: hatred] between thee [theserpent/Satan] and the woman, and between thy seed [unsaved peoples] and her

seed [saved peoples]; it shall bruise thy head [(false) doctrines, thoughts, fallen

angels], and thou shalt bruise his heel [the heel of Christ].

Commentary: bruise his heel = the heel of Christ, bruise the people of Christ. The

heel is part of the feet of the statue, symbolizing a part of his (our) walk; we shall

be bruised (syn: crippled, maimed, injured, lamed, disabled, impaired) in ourwalk, but never destroyed, for we are the children of God.


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THE PROPHECY OF THE LAST DAYS

(Daniel 2:41-43) And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes [the first mention of toes, the

very last part of the body], part of potters' clay [potters clay (us) is softened clay, mademalleable (forgiven and made loving), by the reception of water (the Holy Spirit) by

grace], and part of iron [hard, rigid and inflexible (no grace), allowing one to remain

unforgiven thus unloving], the kingdom [of heaven on earth] shall be divided [betweensaved and unsaved peoples]; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch

as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry [Chaldean to be sticky] clay. And as the toes of

the feet [the peoples of the last days] were [judged] part of iron [impermeable,unreceptive, unyielding to water], and part of clay [permeable, receptive, yielding to

water], so the kingdom shall be partly strong [in the carnal sense], and partly broken [in

the spiritual sense]. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed [Chaldean mingled] with miry

clay, they [the fallen angels (Genesis 6:1-4) who are the actual culprits (syn: criminals,

guilty partys, perpetrators, wrongdoers)] shall mingle [Chald.: mix] themselves with theseed of men: but they shall not cleave [Chaldean: to stick to][as they did in Genesis 6:1-4,

and were forbidden to do so thereafter (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6)] one to another, even asiron is not mixed with clay.

Commentary: miry clay = another kind of clay that is not baked hard and

impenetrable, but has received the addition of water (the Holy Spirit) to make itsticky, i.e., that others might adhere to it.

(Daniel 2:44-45) And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a


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kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other

people, but it shall break in pieces and consume [John 12:48 logos] all these [man-

made] kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. For as much as thou sawest that the stonewas cut out of the mountain without hands [Jesus Christ], and that it brake in pieces the

iron, the brass, the [baked] clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God [versus the great

image Daniel 2:31] hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: andthe dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

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