The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-05-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON FOR SUNDAY, MAY 60
"rebuch aane zzars Dream" Dauisl th.'
ce-4e-Goidsn r,xt: Heb. I've, l3.
Commentary.


dream AMI tho Interpretation IL he would
rive him time Then Daniel and his CON.
panions gave themselves to prayer, AMI the
secret wa revealed unto Daniel In night .
vision verses 1910; after which Daniel .
stands before the king, and giving Hll the /
credit 60 the God OF heaven, he tells the I
dream oud is now about TO give the inter I
rretation tverses 1880. Consider Joseph /.
IN similar way clorifying Col Gen. XII, /
Is, 10y. Aud as 60 dreams see Cen. Xxx,
3; XXI. "a; NNNvii., ;, q; xl., ., Ntngsiii.,
o; Dan. w., 3, vii, /, Math. l., 20, H., l.,
10. %.
3T. THE God Of heaven nath given thco
n kingdom, power rnl strength and glory
Not hy His own might had lie obtained it,
but God had given II TO him. One OF th1
greatest facts OF this book ia that The Most
HIGH rulcth in the kingdom OF men. and
giveth 1t 30 whomsoever He will" tchaptcr
w.. IL, o. 81 There is nothing good
which we possess which God has not given to
us Jas. l.. IA; and His gifts are bestowed
upon us that thereby we may glorify Him.
We are cxpeclel 10 glorify the God IN whose
hands our breath IS and whose are all Que
ways lchapter ", go.
rs. "And hath made the Ruler over them
all. Tnou art this head Of gold" We are
reminded of the Original dominion given to
Adam Gen. T., 81 whereby he was to mag
Nifty G0d but as no failed, so all his chill
dren have failed, and shall fail till He come,
the King who. shall reign in Righteousness,
the last Adam who shall subduc all things
unto Himself and be King over all the earth
lisa. xxi, /; Cor. xv. 10 %; lcch. xiv,
o.; Rev. X, l1
~. And after these shall arise another,
and another, which shalt bear rule over all
| the earth" One great popularity OF tho
| kingdoms designated by tile metals OF THIS
| imnce is that they were u have dominion
/ over the known world. Their authority
! was TO bo world wide. The two world
bowers TO succeed the Babyloninu were.
/ without possibility ot mistake, the Modo-
! Persian, aud then the Hreciau This tho
Spirit plainly states in chapters ", IS, vhl.,
/ -, %.
40. "Apd the fourth king shall h,
strong as iron, lorasmuch n iron brenketh
In pieces and subducth ull." 10 Is equally
! clear that the next world wide dominion
after the Grccian was the Roman luke H.,
H., under whose principles OF government
ali nations may be said 90 continue. There
has been no world wide dominion by any
empire siucc the Roman. nor will there bo
till the stone kingdom OF the Lord Jesus !:
established on earth.
Al. AZ. "And whereas thou sawest the
feet and toes part OF potter clay aud part
OF iron. the kingdom shall bo divided, partly
strong and partly broken Taerc will bc
power mixed up with that which is wholly
of man; power In the hands OF the people
having no internal stability, though some
thing is left OF the strength Of tho IRON
uregelles.l
a.. "And whereas thou sawest iron nike,
with miry clay, they shalt minGlc themselve
with the seed OF men, This seems 10 rcie
20 Gen VIZ p where tho marriages OF tn
seed OF the godly Seth with the daughters o
un.odly Cain are described IN simla
words. The reference therefore, seems Q
be TO the blending OF tho Chrstianize
Roman empire with the pagan nations,
deterioration being the result. Charlenagi
and Napoleon made an effort 70 reunito th
parts into ono great empire, but in vait
Christ alone shall effect that (faussot.
Al. "And in the days " thcsb kings shn
( the God OF heaven set up kingdom ,whic
~ q he destroyed" These kins'
ertainiy - Pn'nar- 'mpir
,rSronsd"By tho Si."9 ien ShIs tSo.l az o1,i ~
: mean tue Tour successlonal monarchies. a
ihey do not coexist as the holders OF MOVE
, IL the fourth had been meant, the sineuln,
notthe plural, would be usel. The faIIiu
W ,ne STONE on the image must mean d,
stroying judgment on tho fourth CentiI
power, not graduai ovangelization OF h b
grace, and the destroying judgment canni
DE dealt by Christians, for they ara tnuyh
70 submit To the powers that be, 50 that /
must Dc dealt by Christ Himself at hi
coming again. 0regeles.)
80 'Ihe great God hath made known :.
nNInuI
and the dream is certain and The internreta.
tioh sure" That Christ shall break In niece
Tue kingdoms OF this world when lie return
W power ana glory is unmistakably clsal
from such passages as Ps H.. \ o. cxIiy
~ rev H., 20, %; Il, lj-Is; XIX, ILL
iiis klhgdom will end aud supcrsede all In.
vsnefs AMI shall not, like the Babyloninn
Medo-PersIau aud Grecian mss 10 Others
nut II shall stand forever. That the kim
nom "hlch was at baud when he came i,
i's Huuilalipn was not then set up bu
postponed till His return, is evident from
Luhe XIX, ii, IL. The establishment of HI,
kIhSdo'n u l. sure because IL IL the work of the
Lord OF Hosts, who hath sworn sayim'. ~, ,".
surely ss have thought 50 shall ID como tI
pas ahd as / have purposed, SO shall 1,
stand lisa. xiv, %.
20. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell
upon ms lace aud wOrshipe1 Daniel" That
"''' wou'd not tolerate this we concuds
Ioih tho conduct of Paul and Barnabas
When In a certain place the people would
have sacrificed unto them Acts xiv. ~.
ANA also from the conduct OF the angel when
John fell at his feet 70 worship him Qlev.
xii, &, o..
~. The king answered unto Daniel and
sad. This seems 10 imply that Daniel pro
tested against the kings worshipng him. and
hence the king honors Daniels God, saving
ot Truth II is that your God is a God Of
gods, and Lord Of kings, and a revealer OF
secrets, seeing thou couldst reveal this 80
cret Thus the king glorifed God in Daniel
Cdal. l., ~. To reject all praise Of self AMI
seek not honor from man, but earnestly de-
sire mat God in all things may be glorihcd
this Is the only true Christian life III Cor.
", 10; John v, a., Pet. iv., II.
40 Then the king made Daniel great
man, and gave him many great gifts ana
made him ruler" This is all In an earthly
ana apparent sense. Daniel was already
great ~ the sight Of God and had received
great gites from m.(ohapter l., IL; Lhkei.
Lol, but Daniel no doubt recognized ths
, nand OF uod IN this earthly promotion aud
would glorify God there as well as in a moro
lowly position.
II 40 Daniel sat In the gate Of the king"
ne ald not forget his faithful friends but OBJ |
talhed positions OF honor for them also but
Daniel was over all. Very suggestive q this
,tslnarkaole ,tisI, story OF jew thus exalted by
"en'iIe world power. Lesson Helper.
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