The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1922-07-06
LESSON FOR JULY 9
DANIEL INTERPRETING NEBU-
CHADNEZZAR'S DREAM

DANIEL INTERPRETING NEBu-
cHADNEZZAR's DREAM
LESSON TEXT-Daniel 2.
GOLDEN TEXT-The Kingdoms OF this
world are become the Kingdoms of our
Lord, and of His Christ: and He shall
reign forever and ever.-Rev. ll:15.
REFERENCE MATERIAL - Isa 9:6,
7:1S, 14:47; John 1s:SS-SS.
PRIMARY TOPIC-How God Answered
Daniels Prayer.
JUNIOR TOPIC - Daniel Reveals the
Kings Dream.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
How Daniel Met a Severe Test
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
Gods World Kingdom: It's Nature and
Method
|. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream wv.
1-13).
This dream made tremendous inn
preston upon the kings mind, but he
had forgotten its content He urgent
~ 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.
II. The Revelation Of the Dream
wv. 1880.
When the decree was in process Of
execution Daniel was sought out to be
slain. lie sought an interview with
the king and obtained time Note:
I. The prayer meeting in Babylon
wv 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.
2 Daniels ascription of praise to
God wv. 1929. God heard their
prayer and Daniel responded in lofty
strains of praise to God.
8. Daniel before the king wv. "a
| 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 a 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 great mountain.
H. The Interpretation of the Dream
wv. 36-46).
l. The head of gold represented the
Chaldean monarchy with Nebuchad-
nezzar as its head wv. 81, 3S). With
the accession of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to
the throne the times of the Gentiles
began.
2. The breast and arms of silver
represented the Medo-Persian power
". 800. The Medo-Persian empire
was kingdom inferior to the Chal-
dean.
3. The belly and thighs Of brass rep
resented the Grecian empire under
Alexander the Great ". 39).
1. The legs Of iron represented the
Roman empire wv. 40-43).
% 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, absolutlsm and socialism, or
Imperialism and democracy. These
elements have no coherency.
5. The stone cut out of the noun.
tain wv. Al, 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. O The
stone is Christ Elsa. % 10; Matt
81 :42-44). (2) When did the stone
strike? The impact of the stone
was upon the feet of the col
umns ". 34). This shows that
1t 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 stone
shifting the feet shows that the stone
will strike when the Roman empire
shall have been divided up into ter
kingdoms. (3) The kingdom of HEAVIER
is thus seen to be brought into realiza
tion through q great catastrophe. The
end is not by gradual and peaceful ex
tension through preaching the gospel
but by crushing blow. The stOn'
does not fill the earth by crowding thu
colossus out, neither by securing IL
submission to God, but destroying II
Gentle dominion shall end in a crash
upon It's ruins shall be built the king
dom of heaven. The action of tn,
stone Is of judgment, not grace. TIL
text plainly says 1t is after" the ston
has done It's shifting work that it be
comes a great mountain and fills tn
whole earth (see Psalms 2 5, g.; Zech
ii :1-9). Just as the first part of thi
dream was literally fulfilled, so shall
the last part be fulfilled. Messiah
kingdom shall be a real and litera
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