Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-07-07


world are become the Kingdoms pf our
Lord and of His Christ: and He shall
reign forever and ever.TRey. u:l5r o- ! ~
REFERENCE MATERIAL - Isa s:s
7:13 14:47: John 1S;33-3s. y.
PRIMARY ToPIC-How God Answered
Daniels Prayer. 20 essA s.ttH}e ess@9
JUNIOR TOPIC = Daniel Reveals the
Kings Dream. sf.s.4snss'
INTERMEDIATE AND sENIoR.ToPIc
How Daniel Met a Severe Test.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC 81
Gods world-Kingdomlf Its Nature and
Method. 81. ,4 .-s4asi.. ,.as,,,x
I. Nebuchadnezzar,s.- -- Dream (vv.
1-13). 'se'sli1 = + sfass' '''r z sssTs.-
This dream made tremendous Inn
preston upon the kings mind, but he n
had forgotten its content. He urgent
lg demanded of the wise men that
they make known the dream and its
interpretation, Because Of their. fail.
lire the king was very furious and
Commanded all the wise men Of Baby
Ion 10 Re Slain - .i24.f AssF ~ tiay .sto
IifThe Revelation Of the Dreamt,
(vy. 1435)., tu4.s 4es sg,s5 n 80 n
| When the decree was in process. OF
execution Daniel was sought out to be
slain He sought an Interview with
the king and obtainedStimes Note Nay
1. The prayer meeting in babylon. /.
(vv. 1873. Daniel was the. leader in
that prayer meeting He called his
fellows together and most definitely
prayed to God Their lives were Iat'.-
stake: their need was eTsAt
2. Daniels Inscription of praise3sts
God (vv. l9-22).. Gad heard theirao
prayer and Daniel responded In lofty
strains of praise TO God.
3. Daniel before the king Wv -
BOZ Bt2hfise ere had sbeefs with tse ~
Lord and had obtained wisdom. he ~wasn
confident before. the great king. 1 se@#
A. The content of the dream wv.
31-35J. Daniel made known TO the
king that IN his dreaifi he had behefd
great image with a head of gold. y
breast and arms Of silver belly and
thighs of brass, legs of iron and feet
part of iron, and part of clay. He be-
held the image smitteh by a stone and =
the stone became a great mountain. i'sS 2
lil.sThe Interpretation Of the Dream,
(vv. 36-46) ---s-,T------.-sr-
1. The, head of gold represented the
Chaldean monarchy with Nebnchad-sq
nezzar. as its head tyv. 81, 3S). Withysl
the accession of .Nebuchadnezzar too
the throne, the times. of the Gentiles.
began. ~ 13a oial p3ea, - 40.
2. The breast and arms. of silver.
represented the Afedo-Persian powsrSf
f(v. 39). The. Medo-PerslaR empipaee
was kingdom Inferior to, the. Chal- iS
dean AN - ~ .es. fgs1 ,f1Eses u
| 8. The belly and thighs of brass rep-ai
resented the Grecian empire under-o
Alexander the Great Nv. 800, i ssn s.o..i
A. The legs of. iron represented thes4
Roman empire (vy. 40743):s, @f4 ~ saN..
| ID The two legs represented the
eastern and western divisions of the
Roman empire ca The. feet of irQnli
and clay represented, the two ielements n
of human government, which, iphered &
! in the Roman empire. and are presenter
/ today in all forms of ,goyernmept!s4
namely, absolutism and socialism. or u.
1 Imperialism -aHd -tleBeefaeya These
elements have no coherency ,aa.a -6I
! 5. The stone cut out of the noun
tain (vv A, 45). This is the Kingdom
4 of heaven SO graphically set forth if w
the New Testament for the kingdom1s
Of heaven iss the. kingdom which. the9o
God Of heaven shall set up II The ".
: blUifC 10 tHIlsl ttSu. % siu oldtt.
]. q :42-44G (2) When did the Stone =
striker The impact of the stoke
was upon the feet d Of the col
| umns & (v.n 34) q This shows = Aitiiat .0
1t did not strike at Christ's' first conn
Ing. for the Roman empire wass a unitu
ut that time not even the division 'bf'
the empire as represented blythe stwOk
legs had taken place asly yet. The stonel =
shifting the feet shows that the stone 4
will strike when the Roman empire II,
shall have, been divided up into ten y
| kingdoms t3) The king dom of heaven 1
is thus seensto be brought into realiza-. y
lition through a great catastrophe. The =
! end is not gradual and ipeacefulisx- :,
tension through preaching the gospels Il
but by. a crushing blow The stonoaii
does not fill the earth by crowding the 3
colossus out, neither by securing its
submission to God, but sdasfroYi6gAifssJ -
Gentle dominion shall end in = .crashs j
upon ITS ruins shall be built: the king i
dom Of heaven The actidn .of the q
stone Is Of Judgment, not grace. Thee
text plainly saysit Is safterr the stone <
4 has done its shifting work that 1T be-t
pcomes "a great mountains aud fillsa athe 4
whole earth fsees Psalms 2.::5. s6; zech- q
IA .1.ass, lust as the frst part Of. this
dream was literally fulfilled.s SO slialIss
Fthe last part be fulfilled AIass3ahf e
kingdom shall be . real and literal
kingdom. n