Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-05-27
THE KINGS DREAM.
LESSON *, SECOND QUARTER. INTER.
NAT .ONAL SeRi-5, MAY 20


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 a
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 27-35). Consider 10
seph in II similar way clarifying God Gen.
xii. Is, l6) And as to dreams see Gen. Xxx
8. xxi. -. xxxvii, =, o. xl, >; Kings iii, 5
Dan iv, 5; vii, |, Math i, 90 ii, IL, 10, 22.
81 THE God of heaven hath given thee
kingdom. power and strength and
glory" Not by his own might had he oh
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, aud giveth it to whomsoever
He will'' (chapter iv. II, %, 32) There is
nothing good which we possess which God
has not given to us tJas i, ~. 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)
IS "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. /, PSI 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 Him If and he king over
all the earth lisa. xXXii, /, | Cor. XIV, 10. 25
Xech xiv 9, Rev. Xi, 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 Babyonian were,
without a possibility of mistake, the Medic
Persian, and then the Grecian. This the
Spirit plainly states in chapters v, 2S; viii
90, 81
40. 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 he 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.
A. -. 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
to -l,,.l1, g s
the people having no internal stability,
though something is left of the strength of
the iron (Tregelles.J
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, they shall mnge 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
TANNED Roman empire with the pagan
nations, Il 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
archies as they do not coexst as the hold
ers of power If the fourth had beer
meant, the singular, not the plural, woult
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 b.
Christians. for they are taught to submit
to the powers that be, so that il must b
dealt by Christ Himself at His cominI
again. (Tregelles)
45. 1.-THE great God hath made known t.
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 whel
He returns in power and glory is unmis
takably clear from such passages as Ps ii
] 8, 8, cxlix, so. Rev. ii, 26. 81; XII, ISIS
xix. Ills. His kingdom will end an,
supersede all the others. and shall not, lik
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 humiliatio
was not then set up, but postponed till Hi
return, is evident from Luke xix, II, |:
, because it is the work of the Lord of Host!
who hath sworn, saying, Surely as hav
thought, so shall it come to pass; and a
have purposed so shall it stand Qsi
xiv, 24).
46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fe
upon his face and worshiped Daniel.
8, That Daniel would not tolerate this W
- conclude from the conduct of Paul an
IL Barnabas when in a certain place the PEE
pie would have sacrificed unto them (Act
xiv, ~ And also from the conduct of til
7, angel when John fell at his feet to wo
b. ship him (Rev. xxi, s, 81.
9 Al 1.-THE king answered unto Daniel an
said" This seems to imply that DAM
a, protested against the kings worshipin
5, him. and hence the king honors Daniel
5, God, saying, "Of "A truth it is thu
re your God is God of gods, and Lord
~ kings, and revealer of secrets seeing the
re couldst reveal this secret" Thus the kir
glorifed God in Daniel Gal. /, 24). To +
ject all praise of self, and seek not hon
le from man. but earnestly desire that God
s. all things may be glorified, this is the on