King Nebuchadnezzar And His Technologies

King Nebuchadnezzar had some emotional attachments to his technologies. When he didn't know the interpretation of a dream, his emotions came out and almost wrecked his empire. Daniel helped save a part of his kingdom.

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Title: Nebuchadnezzar and His Technologies

Description: Mercy from God Overcomes Ignorance

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Nebuchadnezzar and His Technologies

NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND TECHNOLOGIES

God gave Nebuchadnezzar a dream in Daniel 2. I'll repeat the text about the dream in the Appendix section.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD A POWERFUL EMOTIONAL REACTION TO THE DREAM THAT THE MOST HIGH GAVE HIM IN DANIEL 2.

When Nebuchadnezzar woke up from that dream, you can see some powerful empire changing decrees coming from his mouth. 

Bad decisions. Let's look closer at King N's emotional state. King N knew: Something about that dream had to be done.

Even though King N didn't know the interpretation of the dream, he assumed his own throne was threatened. He proceeded to give his braintrust an impossible task, and when they couldn't perform it, he ordered all of his wise men to be executed.

I want to note here that God would use Daniel and his prayer partners to keep Nebuchadnezzar from destroying the wise men in the Babylonian empire.

When he woke up, Nebuchadnezzar emotionally knew the gig was up. That the wisdom in his kingdom was not enough. 

Notice in the dream that the poor statue couldn't move. It couldn't fight. It lost a match to a stone!

For a little humor, in our time it would be like a team mascot falling down on the field of a crowded stadium during halftime!

I think Nebuchadnezzar, when he woke up from that dream, felt like that statue. You might say he felt crucified. Surrounded and trapped. He felt like he was somehow very much a part of that poor statue. 

NEBUCHADNEZZZAR LOVED THE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE STATUE

The reason King N had such an emotional reaction might be that he was emotionally attached to the technologies that the statue represented. The tecnologies of the furnace, the purification, and the working of different metals like gold, silver, bronze and iron. And the intricate technologies of making iron and baked clay work together.

He recognized parts of it. The head of gold had to be something that he could understand and relate to. The awesomeness, the size of this statue, that in some ways he embodied. And to see this magnificent statue destroyed by one little stone.

And Nebuchadnezzar knew that his kingdom had to have wisdom in order to stand. And in this dream, this upstart rock -- with no known technology — moves over and absolutely shatters all of the metalwork. By the way, in our world metal doesn't shatter -- but in this dreamworld it did.

That's a little bit about the technologies. And something else about the technology of the revelation of the kingdom of God I want to jump to. Daniel and his three companions prayed to the Most High and got the wisdom. Much of Daniel's transfer and explanation of the dream had to do with this truth about wisdom: that God does mess around in levels that you King N assumed He doesn't.

I have a reference to some of this in the Appendices as well.

DANIEL'S FIRST PRIORITY

After some prayer time, Daniel showed priorities that might have been different than a lot of people's. He had the answer to the King's demand. But Daniel's first action was not to go directly to the King. Instead, Daniel saved the lives of his fellow wise men. Daniel did not let the King's demands eclipse God's mercy to Daniel's own competitors.

More Scriptures about that follow.

LET ME TALK A LITTLE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IN THIS PODCAST

The way the KOG grows is by listeners taking to heart words the Most High has given. This podcast doesn't serve the KOG by being the most excellent at building amazing technologies for the world to see. It grows by quietly proclaiming the humility of Jesus to rule a kingdom that will outlast all the empires of the world.

In the dream, the stone was not cut with human hands -- no human technology. By being born and being submitted to His Father, Jesus implemented the technologies-- the life -- of the KOG.

By dying and rising from the dead, Jesus eventually opened this kingdom for others. Not everyone who hears this message grows with Jesus, but many do.

As Jesus repeated important messages over and over, many of my hearers think about and rehearse parts of these podcast episodes. By learning to trust God the way Jesus trusted to die and rise again, they participate in the life God has to expand the kingdom past the technologies of this world.

APPENDICES AND EXCERPTS

Daniel 2

Verse 1 Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him. 2 Then the king gave the command to call the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said to them, “I have had a dream, and my spirit is anxious to know the dream.”

4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap. 6 However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.”

-- Dan 2:1-5

Verse 10 The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, “There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. 

11 It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

12 For this reason the king was angry and very furious, and gave the command to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.

-- Dan 2:10-13

Verse 24 Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me before the king, and I will tell the king the interpretation.”

25 Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king, and said thus to him, “I have found a man of the captives of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?”

27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. 28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.

-- Dan 2:24-28

Verse 31 “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. 32 This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

-- Dan 2:31-34

Mark 1

Verse 14 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

-- Mark 1:14-15

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May God’s heart and life grow in you.

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