Restoring the KingdomBy Tim Hayden

www.SealedRemnant.com

Nebuchadnezzar’s Problem

“The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”— Daniel 2:5

“And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”— Daniel 2:11

“And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.”— Daniel 2:13

“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

“Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

“And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:”— Daniel 2:19-21

“There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.”—Daniel 2:28

“But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but . . . that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.”— Daniel 2:30

Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream Revealed

The Interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

“Thou, O king, art a king of kings. . . . Thou art this head of gold.”— Daniel 2:37-38

“And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee . . .”— Daniel 2:39

“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the king-dom, being about threescore and two years old.”— Daniel 5:30-31

“. . . and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.”— Daniel 2:39

“The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia.”— Daniel 8:20-21

“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”— Daniel 2:40

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be [Rome] are ordained [margin: ordered] of God.”— Romans 13:1

“to put in place; to station; a. to place in a certain order, . . . to arrange, to assign a place, to appoint.”— The New Thayer’s Greek English Lexicon, #5021, p. 615

“And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided;

“but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.”— Daniel 2:41

“But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”— Isaiah 64:8

“O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”— Jeremiah 18:6

“The admixture of clay and iron in the feet is the mixture of the church of Rome with the tem-poral states of Europe—‘the Popes of Rome mixed them-selves with the Emperials,’

“‘by intermeddling into the affaires of States.’ But this was without success, as ‘the Emperours and Popes had continuall warres’.”— Huit (1644), Froom, Prophetic Faith of our Fathers, vol. 3, p. 62

“The clay mixed with iron also denoted the union of church and state. This combination is peculiar to the latter part of the world’s history, to the feet and toes of the image.”— Haskell, The Story of Daniel the Prophet, p. 35

“We have come to a time when God’s sacred work is represented by the feet of the image in which the iron was mixed with the miry clay. . . . The mingling of churchcraft and statecraft is represented by the iron and the clay.”— Ellen White, Manuscript Releases, vol. 15, p. 39

“Baked [not miry] clay would fit the context.”— Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, #2754, vol. 2, p. 1025

“And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong [iron], and partly broken [margin: brittle].”— Daniel 2:42

“. . . yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.”— Daniel 2:41, NKJV

“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they [church] shall mingle themselves with the seed of men [world]: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”— Daniel 2:43

“For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe [Noah] entered into the ark,

“And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”— Matthew 24:38-39

“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.

“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”— Genesis 6:1-2

“And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

“These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”— Revelation 17:12-13

“And whosoever shall fall on this stone [Jesus] shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder [the second coming of Jesus].”— Matthew 21:44

“These [10 kings] shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”— Revelation 17:14

“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed:

“and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”— Daniel 2:44

“Thus saith the LORD, . . . Jeru-salem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy moun-tain.”— Zechariah 8:3

“The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.”

— Isaiah 65:25

“The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.”

“Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and wor-shipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

“The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.”— Daniel 2:46-47