UNFOLDING THE WORD With Dr. Gary Kuhne

“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).