The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-25
THE KINGS DREAM.
LESSON TX, SECOND QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 20.

Text Of the Lesson. Dan. ii, 3G-4s.
Memory Verse. 44-GOlden Text, Heb.
Nv. I3-C0mmentary by the Rev. ID. M.
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 tverseS 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 27-35l. Consider Jo-
seph in IA similar way clarifying God Gen.
xii, 10, 16). And as to dreams see Gen Xxx,
8; XXI. "a; xxxvii. }, 8: xl, 5; Kings iii, .;
Dan iv, 5; vii l: Math. i, 20; ii, IL, 10, p.
81 1.-THE God of heaven hath given thee
a 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 ruleth in the king
dom of men. and giveth it to whomsoever
He will'' (chapter iv. IL. D. 32l There is
nothing good which we possess which God
has not given to US (Jas. i, ID; 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 all our ways (chapter
v, 23).
S. And hath made the ruler over them
all Thou art this head Of gold" We are
reminded OF the original dominion given
to Adam Gen. i, 2S) 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 lisa xxi, l; L Cor. XIV, -, D;
Zech xiv, 9; Rev. XII, l5).
80. 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 Medo-
Persian, and then the Grecian. This the
Spirit plainly states in chapters V, Is; viii
%, q.
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 luke ii,
y, 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 strength Of
the iron. (Tregelles.)
49, And whereas thou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, thay shall mingle them
selves with the seed of men" This seems
to refer to Gen. vi, ?, 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
TANNED Roman empire with the pagan
nations, 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 kingdom which
shall never lie 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, rs they do not coeXist as the hold
ers of power. If the fourth had been
meant, the singular, not the plural, would
be used. The falling of the stone on the
image must mean destroying Judgment on
the fourth Gentle power, not gradual
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 it must be
dealt by Christ Himself at His coming
again. CTregelles)
40. THE great God hath made known TO
the king what shall come to pass hereafter;
and the dream is certain and the interpre-
tation sure" That Christ shall break in
pieces the Kingdoms of this world when
He returns in power and glory is unmis-
takably clear from such passages rs Ps. ii,
6, 9; cxlix, So Rev. ii, 20, 81; XII, 1918;
xix. Ills. His kingdom will end and
supersede all the others, and shall not, like
the Babylonian, Medic Persian and Gre
clan, pass to Others but il shall stand for
ever That the kingdom which was at
hanG when He came in His humiliation