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THE KINGS DREAM.
LESSON TX, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 90.

Text of the Lesson, Dan. II, 36-49.
Memory Verse, 44-GoIden Text, Heb.
Nv, I3-Commentary by the Rev. ID. NJ.
stearns.
&c. This is the dream, and we will tell
the Interpretation thereof before the king"
Daniel offered to show the king both the
dream and the Interpretation If he would
give him time. Then Daniel and his COM
, panions gave themselves to prayer, and
the secret was revealed unto Daniel in
night vision oversees 1919; after which
Daniel stands before the king, and giving
all the credit to the God Of heaven he tells
the dream and is now about to give the in
depreciation oversees 1855. Consider Jo-
seph in similar way clarifying God (Gen.
xii, Is, 49, And as to dreams see Gen. Xxx,
8; XXI, "a; xXxvii, 5, 8; xl, 5; | Kings iii, g.
Dan. iv, 5; vii, 1; Math i, 20; ii, H. 49, %.
81. 1.-THE God of heaven hath given thee
kingdom, power and strength and
glory" Not by his own might had he OBJ
tanned it, but God had given it to him.
One of the greatest facts of this book is
that ''The Most High ruleLh in the king
dom of men, aud giveth 1t to whomsoever
He will" Chapter iv, II, 25, 32). There is
nothing good which we possess which God
has not given to us GAS /, 10; and His
gifts are bestowed upon us that thereby
we may glorify Him. We are expected to
glorify the God in whose hands our breath
is and whose are adj our ways Chapter
v, 20.
38. And hath made the ruler over them
sall. Thou art this head of gold" We are
reminded of tho original dominion given
to Adam Gen. /, 28) whereby he was to
magnify God; but as he failed, SO all his
children have failed, and shall fail till He
come, the king who shall reign in right
eousness, the last Adam who shall subdue
all things unto Himself and be king over
all the earth Qsa xxi, /; | Cor. XIV. As, 25;
Zech xiv, 8; Rev. XII, l5).
49, "And after these shall arise another,
and another, which shall bear rule over all
the earth" One great popularity of the
kingdoms designated by the metals of this
image is that they were to have dominion
over the known world. Their authority
was to be world wide. The two world
powers to succeed the Babylonian were,
without possibility of mistake, the Medic
Persian, and then tie Grecan. This the
Spirit plainly states In chapters v, 2S; viii.
20, "a.
49, And the fourth kingdom shall be
| strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh
in pieces and subdueth all" 1t is equally
clear that the next world wide dominion
after the Grecian was the Roman duke ii,
| D. under whose principles of government
all nations may be said to continue. There
has been no world wide dominion by any
empire since the Roman nor will there be
till the stone kingdom of the Lord Jesus is
established on earth
Al, 40 "And whereas thou sawest the
| feet and toes part of potter's clay and part
of iron, the kingdom shall be divided
partly strong and partly broken" There
will be power mixed up with that which
is wholly of man; power in the hands OF
the people having no Internal stability,
though something is left of the strenEtA OF
the iron. (Tregelles)
43. "And whereas thou sawestiron mixed
with miry clay, they shall mingle them
selves with the seed Of men," This seems
to refer to Gen. vi, 2, where the marriages
of the seed Of the godly Seth with the
daughters of ungodly Cain are described
in similar words The reference therefore
seems to be to the blending of the Chris
tianized Roman empire with the pagan
nations, a deterioration being the result
Charlemagne and Napoleon made an effort
to reunite the parts into one great empire
but in vain. Christ alone shall effect that
(Fausset)
A. And in the days of these kings shall
the God of heaven set up a kingdom which
shall never be destroyed" "These kings
signify the final state of the Roman en-
pire, represented by the ten toes. They
cannot mean the four successional mon
arches, as they do not coexist as the hold
ers of power. If the fourCh had beer
! meant, the singular not the plural, would
be used. The falling of the stone on the
image must mean destroying judgment OF
the fourth Gentle power not gradua
evangelization of it by grace, and the de
stroying Judgment cannot be dealt by
Christians, for they are taught to submit
to the powers that be, so that 1t must b.
dealt by Christ Himself at His coming
again. fTregelles).
As THE great God hath made known K
the king what shall come to pass hereafter
and the dream Is certain and the interpre
tation sure" That Christ shall break IL
pieces the kingdoms of this world wheI
He returns in power and glory is unmis
takably clear from such passages as Ps. ii
8, 0; cxlix, SO; Rev ii, %, 81; xi, 1918
xix, ILLS. His kingdom will end ant
supersede all the Others and shall not, Xix,
the Babylonian, Medo-Persian and Gre
clan, pass to others, but it shall stand for
ever That the kingdom which was a
hand when He came in His humiliation
was not then set up, but postponed till Hi
return Is evident from Luke xix, H. IL
The establishment of His kingdom Is sur
because it is the work of the Lord of Hosts
who hath sworn, saying, Surely as hav
thought, 50 shall it come to pass; and a.
| have purposed so shall it stand Elsa
xiv, az.
49, "Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fel
upon his face and worshiped Daniel.
That Daniel would not tolerate this w
conclude from the conduct of Paul ant
Barnabas when in certaia.place the pee
pie would have sacrificed unto them (Act
xiv, 49, And also from the conduct of tn
angel when John fell at his feet to wor
ship him (ReNxxii, s, 81.
, ~. 1.-The king answered unto Daniel anC
said". This seems to imply that DAME
protested against the kings worshipinl
, him. and hence the king honors Daniel
/. God saying, "Of a truth 1t is tina
your God is a God of gods, and a Lord O
kings, and revealer of secrets, seeing tho
couldst reveal this secret" Thus the kin,
glorified God in Daniel gal. i, 24). To re
ject all praise of self, and seek not homo
from man, but earnestly desire that God il
: all things may be glorified, this is the onl
true Christian life Gil Cor. V, IS; John Y
A; Pet. iv, ~.
Q As "Then the King made Daniel grea
man, and gave him many great gifts, an
: made him ruler" This is all in an earthl
n and apparent sense. Daniel was alread
, great in the sight of God and had receive
preat gifts from Him Chapter i, II; Luke