THE DREAM-REMEMBERED

Nebuchadnezzar listened intently as Daniel explained:  "You, O king, happened to be beholding, and, look! a certain immense image.  That image, which was large and the brightness of which was extraordinary, was standing in front of you,and its appearance was dreadful. As regards that image, its head was of good gold, its breasts and its arms were of silver, its belly and its thighs  were of copper, its legs were of iron, its feet were partly of molded clay. You kept on looking until a stone was cut out not by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron, the 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.  And as for the stone that struck the image, it became a large mountain and filled the whole earth." -Daniel 2:31-35. 

How thrilled Nebuchadnezzar must have been to hear Daniel unfold the dream! But wait! Babylon's wise men would be spared only if Daniel also interpreted the dream. Speaking for himself and his three Hebrew friends, Daniel declared:  "This is the dream, and its interpretation we shall say before the king." -Daniel 2:36. 

Next time: A KINGDOM OF EMINENT DISTINCTION 

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