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Daniel 2

Jimmy France

Daniel 2: Introduction

Daniel 2: Part 1

Daniel 2: Part 2

I want to thank you again for being a part of this DVD Daniel 2 Plan of Redemption seminar and I appreciate you bringing your charts again.

We're going to actually tie this seminar into specific parts on panel C.

We'll exclusively be on the back panel C.

What we're wanting to do this segment is to actually take a look on the board here for resuming where we were last time.

So if you wouldn't mind take a look at the back panel C and you will find this focus on point 2 summarized.

So this way you will be able to take the information you'll see in large form with other people on panel C.2.

So as a review from last segment we're noticing that in Daniel chapter 2's dream there is several images, actually 1 image, 7 symbols, and the stone we found is actually the focal point, which this slide is going to show us.

And in the King James Version, the dream part has 143 words, and so we're graphing this.

We see that here the introduction has 25 words.

So you can actually see that the clear focus of Daniel chapter 2's dream is that stone.

Now for those who want to see this actually in the pie graph which you also have on your chart, panel C.2, you actually have a pie graph.

And so what we have is showing in a different way 84 words.

This huge 60% slice compared to everything else.

So clearly that stone is the focal point of the entire dream.

So on this board here we actually have the dream, the image pasted here.

We have the head of gold, silver, chest, brass, iron legs, feet and toes of iron and clay, the stone, and the seventh symbol is a mountain.

So this chart is saying that this sixth symbol is the focus of the entire dream.

And what I would like to do at this point is to call our attention to building towards this crescendo or the conclusion.

And so we're seeing that point number 1, the focus of the entire Daniel chapter 2 is this stone.

What I'd like to take us to now is to say, or ask the question, since this stone is the focal point of the entire dream, what is it?

So rather than just having an assumption and just say our Adventist bias is XYZ, let's ask the scriptures.

What we're going to do is actually take a look at the dream in the yellow and the interpretation in the green and on your chart you'll find this information on point number 3.

So if someone's asking you what's that stone you can go to point number 3 here on your chart and actually explain to them what you're going to see here.

I'm actually going to break it down line by line so it's a little easier for you to follow.

So we have on the dream there's a stone as Daniel 2 verse 34 shows.

So he says, Daniel does to Nebuchadnezzar, you saw till, which is a time frame, a stone cut out without hands which smote the image upon the feet that were of iron and clay and broke them to pieces." So this stone is actually breaking the entire image to pieces.

Let's take a look on the interpretation side.

The kingdom is the interpretation Daniel 2.44 says, In the days of these kings, what kings?

The kings of the feet and toes divided Europe.

In the days of those kings, which gives us our time frame, shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom.

Number 2, we'll notice this more significant tomorrow, never destroyed.

To the Hebrew mind, this was important because if we compare this with the other symbols, Babylon was destroyed by the succeeding kingdom of Medo-Persia, Medo-Persia by Greece, etc.

This kingdom shall not be left to other people.

This also was important to the Hebrew mind because they were in Babylonian captivity.

They had left their homes, their vineyards, their everything to Babylon, then to Medo-Persia, etc.

So this stone is going to break kingdoms in pieces.

So now the point is since this symbol of a stone has the same activity of breaking the image to pieces and this kingdom also breaks these kingdoms in pieces, then the clear biblical definition is that this stone right here is clearly a kingdom.

Now to become a little bit more specific, take a look at how these 2 relate.

So when we reread this we can see that Daniel was telling Nebuchadnezzar in symbol form, you saw till a kingdom was set up by God.

Nebuchadnezzar did, Cyrus, Medo-Persia, Alexander the Great, Greece, the Caesars, Rome, divided nomads, this 1.

The God of heaven is the 1 that sets this up.

All right, let's take a look at the next slide.

This is going to again bring home this very point.

So if there was any question that this is a kingdom, let's go to this slide.

Here's the stone, And in verse 45 it says right here, 245, the kingdom God sets up shall break in pieces the kingdoms.

And so we have it breaking iron in pieces.

That's a symbol of the fourth kingdom, which we'll see here in a moment.

In verse 37, it breaks brass in pieces, the third kingdom.

The symbol of clay is broken to pieces by the symbol of the stone.

And so the symbol of a stone is breaking other symbols of kingdoms, and therefore it's very clear that this stone again is a kingdom.

Just like we have seen in other presentations, when we see water in Bible prophecy, we know according to Revelation chapter 17, 15, water is people.

So every place you see water, you can say people and that interpretation will then make sense.

We should now be able to take this word and look any place in Daniel, the dream and the interpretation 34 and 35 and 44 and 45 and replace the word stone with kingdom and it should fit every time.

So let's take a look at this slide and that's what it says.

In these circles you will see that there are only 3 times in the dream in the interpretation that symbol is used.

In the yellow we see the dream, the green, light green is interpretation.

The dream mentions a stone twice, Once there, once here.

And so if this model fits water equals people or stone equals kingdom, then we should be able to put that biblical interpretation back in the dream and it should fit every time and it certainly does.

In the dream, Daniel 2.34, it says, you saw till a kingdom was cut out without hands, which, which what?

In the blue kingdom smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay.

Then was the iron, clay, brass, silver, gold, broken to pieces together.

In other words, it's the same event, namely the second coming.

Became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them.

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