Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-07

Gods World Kingdom: It's Nature and
Method.
!. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (vv
1-13).
This dream made tremendous i'm.
preston upon the kings lmind, but he
had forgotten It's content. He urgent.
ly demanded of the wise men that
they make known the dream and its
Interpretation. Because Of their fail.
ure the king was very furious and
commanded all the wise men of Baby.
Ion to be slain.
u. The Revelation Of the Dream
wv. 14-35).
When the decree was in process of
execution Daniel was sought out to be
slain. He sought an interview with
the king and obtained. time. Note:
1. The prayer meeting in Babylon
(vv. 14-1S). Daniel was the leader In
that prayer meeting. He called his
fellows together and most definitely
prayed to God Their lives were at
stake; their need was great.
.. Daniels ascripti0n of praise to
God wv. 1929. God heard their
prayer and Daniel responded in lofty
strains Of praise to God.
3. Daniel before the king (vv. 24-
30). Because he had been with the
Lord and had obtained wisdom, he was
confident before the great king.
4. The content of the dream (vv.
31-35). Daniel made known to the
king that In his dream he had beheld
great image with head Of gold,
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 smitten; by stone and
the stone became a great mountain.
III. The Interpretatiohsof the Dream
wv. 36-46).
/. The head Of gold represented the
Chaldean monarchy with Nebuchad-
nezzar as its head (vv. 81, 38). With
the accession of NebuchadneZZar to
the throne, the times Of the Gentiles
began.
2. The breast and arms Of silver
represented the Medo-Persian power
". 30). The Medo-Persian empire
was a kingdom inferior to the Chal-
DEAN
3. The belly and thighs of brass rep
resented the Grecian empire under
Alexander the Great ". 39).
t. The legs of iron represented the
Roman empire (vv. 40-43).
(D The two legs represented the
eastern and western divisions Of the
Roman empire (2) The feet of iron
and clay represented the two elements
Of human government, which inhered
in the Roman empire and are present
today in all forms Of government,
namely, absolutism and socialism, or
Imperialism and democracy. These
elements have no coherency.
). The stone cut out of the noun
tain (vv. A, 45). This is the kingdom
of heaven so graphically set forth in
the New Testament, for the kingdom
of heaven IS the kingdom which the
God Of heaven shall set up. U The
stone is Christ Elsa. SIG; Matt.
81 :42-4D. (2) When did the stone
strike? The impact of the stone
was upon the feet Of the col
umns ". 34). This shows that
it did not strike at Christ's first COM
Ing, for the Roman empire was unit
at that time; not even the division Of
the empire as represented by the two
legs had taken place as yet. The store
shifting the feet shows that the stone
will strike when the Roman empire
shall have been divided up into ten
Kingdoms. (3) The kingdom Of heaven
is thus seen to be brought into realiza
tion through a great catastrophe. The
end is not by gradual and peaceful eX-
tension through preaching the gospel,
but by crushing blow. The stone
does not fiji the earth by crowding the
colossus out, neither by securing its
submission to God. but destroying it,
Gentle dominion shall end in a crash;
upon its ruins shall be built the king
dom of heaven. The action of the
stone is Of judgment, not grace. The
text plainly says it is after" the stone
has done It's shifting work that it be-
comes great mountain and fills the
whole earth (see Psalms .: ), 6; Zech.
IA 4:1-9). Just as the first part of this
dream was literally fulfilled, so shall
the last part be fulfilled. Messlah's
Kingdom shall be Il real and literal
kingdom.