Claim OwnershipUNFOLDING THE WORD With Dr. Gary Kuhne
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This podcast provides daily devotional teaching from God‘s Word. The daily devotionals average around 10 minutes in length and I use the devotionals as a way to teach through books of the Bible verse-by-verse. If you find the daily devotional teaching helpful, please consider telling others so they too could benefit.
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had refused to bow and worship the image the King had constructed and rejected the king’s unexpected “second chance” to obey. In fury, the King orders them to be thrown into the fiery furnace. In the face of their likely death, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego understood the real issue behind their “deliverance” was God’s purpose, not God’s power. In today’s verses, the purpose of God was made plain as He delivered them from the flames! The 4th one in the furnace (either pre-incarnate Christ or an angel) made it so they were not harmed, their hair not singed, their cloths not burnt, and the smell of smoke gone as well. The King now makes it a capital offense to speak against the God of the Jews and elevated the 3 Jews into even higher positions of power.
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow and worship the image the King had constructed. The king unexpectedly gives them a second chance to obey. Yet they firmly rejected even this second chance. In fury, the King orders them to be thrown into the fiery furnace. In the face of their likely death, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego understood the real issue behind their “deliverance” was God’s purpose, not God’s power. So whether it was God’s purpose to deliver them or not, they would continue to trust and worship God. Is this how you will choose to respond to the difficult crises in your life?
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
Nebuchadnezzar has built an image and required all of the political leaders, advisors, financial leaders, and judicial leaders to bow down before the image and worship the one represented by the image. But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to do so, even after the King gives them a second chance to obey.
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
Chapter 3 opens with yet another crisis as the king shows he rejects the inevitability of the dream’s message about the direction of history and God’s control over history. Nebuchadnezzar builds am image that reflect the dream image except the whole image is gold (i.e., his kingdom will last no matter what God says). He brings all of the political leaders, ad visors, financial leaders, and judicial leaders together to force them to now down before the image and worship the one represented by the image.
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
The dream Daniel explained to the King was a prophetic dream that underscored the fact that God is the “Lord of History”. The King accepts the interpretation and elevates Daniel into the dual position of #2 in political authority in the empire and the position of #1 in advisory authority as the head of the Magi order. God used the crisis to move Daniel into these roles. And the King accepted Daniel’s request to put his three Jewish friend into chief administrative positions in the empire. But these wonderful results seem pointless as chapter 3 opens with yet another crisis.
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
The dream Daniel explained to the King was a prophetic dream that underscored the fact that God is the “Lord of History”. Daniel shows Nebuchadnezzar that the head of gold represented his kingdom but one that was going to end, to be followed by a series of kingdoms, kingdoms identified as silver (Medo-Persian), bronze (Greek), iron (Rome), and mixed iron and clay (modern era of mixed alliances, no single controlling nation). At the end of the era of the mixed iron & clay, the stone (Jesus Christ) returns and replaces human kingdoms with the Messianic Kingdom).
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
The dream Daniel explained to the King was a prophetic dream that underscored the fact that God is the “Lord of History”. In today’s verses Daniel shows Nebuchadnezzar that the head of gold represented his kingdom, a great kingdom, but one that was going to end, to be followed by a series of kingdoms, first the Medo-Persian empire (the silver part of the statue), this in turn to be followed by the Kingdom of Alexander the Great (the bronze part of the statue).
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
The dream Daniel explained to the King was a prophetic dream that underscored the fact that God is the “Lord of History”. Daniel met the first task by telling the king the details of the dream. The dream was about a great image (mighty and frightening) that was made up of various metals. The great image was destroyed by a stone that had not human origin. The stone then grows into a mountain that fills the entire earth. The image represented human kingdoms that arise and end in the course of human history. Human kingdoms are eventually destroyed by the stone that fills the entire earth, i.e. eventually God’s kingdom replaces all human kingdoms
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
God has given Daniel the interpretation of the king’s dream in answer to the prayer of Daniel and his friends. As he comes before the king to give the explanation of the dream, he begins by affirming that the God who is really there should receive glory the answer, not Daniel himself. And this true is the Lord of times, seasons, history, governments, and truth. And the dream is a prophetic dream that underscores these truths about God!
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
Daniel and his friends now faced a death penalty as they were condemned along with the rest of the Magi order because of the Magi leaders’ inability to interpret a dream of King Nebuchadnezzar. As Daniel finds out about the death penalty, he doesn’t give up hope in the impossible situation. Instead, we see a series of response that create principles that can help us respond to our own “impossible situations”.
“SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS” are extended weekly Bible teaching times in which I go through a Book of Bible verse by verse. My current exposition is taken from the Book of Galatians. The SUNDAY EXPOSITIONS are posted on Sunday each week.
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