A DRAMATIC CLIMAX!

Consider the climax of the dream. Daniel told the king:  "You kept on looking until a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and of molded clay and crushed them.  At that time the iron, the molded clay, the copper, the silver and the gold were, all together, crushed and became like the chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away so that  no trace at all was found of them. As as for the stone that struck the image, it became a large mountain and filled the whole earth." -Daniel 2:34, 35.

By way of explanation, the prophecy continued:  "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people.  It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite; forasmuch as you beheld that out of the mountain a stone was cut not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the copper, the molded clay, the silver and gold. The grand God himself had made known to the king what is to occur after this.  And the dream is reliable, and the interpretation of it is trustworthy." -Daniel 2:44, 45. 

Appreciating that his dream has been called to mind and explained, Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged that only Daniel's  God was "a Lord of kings and a Revealer of secrets."  the king also gave Daniel and his three Hebrew companions positions of great responsibility.  (Daniel 2:46-49) What, though, is the modern-day significance of Daniel's 'trustworthy interpretation'? 

Next time: 'A Mountain FILLS THE EARTH' 

From the book: PAY ATTENTION TO DANIEL'S PROPHECY! 1999