So What?

A little bit about Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a rock destroying a statue and what lukewarm water adds to the picture.

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So What?

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In the New Testament times, there's a concept of fighting to further the Kingdom of God.

The idea of a fight was not new to the New Testament. The Old Testament had plenty of fights in it, too.

There was a prophetic picture of the fight of the Kingdom of God in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 2.

In the story, a stone from a quarry picked a fight with a statue that couldn't move. The stone won, smashed the opponent's remains, and then grew and filled the whole earth.

So What? What's the big deal about this fight between a Stone and a Statue?

In order to answer, I'm about to take attention away from Nebuchadnezzar's Old Testament dream and interpret it with a part of the New Testament book of Revelation.

John, the author of the Revelation says the visions were received on the Isle of Patmos, a Roman prison-island. The visions occurred after Jesus' death and resurrection -- maybe several decades after. In the letter to the Laodicean church, Jesus makes a promise: He who overcomes will sit on my throne just as I overcame and sat on my Father's throne.

Here's what I understand from the Laodicean letter: 

If we overcome the way Jesus overcame, we will receive a reward like Jesus Himself received.

Overcome means struggle. Fight. We need to overcome lukewarmness and learn to properly fight. Whether we're from the Laodicean church or not.

I think our eternal well-being is at stake.

Remember that the promise to the Laodicean church was coated in imagery. 

We need to understand parables, prophecies, songs and dreams.

Lukewarm water; clothing; eyesalve name just a few of the images in the letter to the Laodicean church. 

There were clear directives in that imagery. If you don't want to be spit out of Jesus' mouth, you might want to pay attention. How's that for an emotional picture?

So attending back to the Old Testament dream in Daniel 2,

I think the rock in the dream quarried from above shows Jesus struggling to found the kingdom of God. It's a picture of Jesus overcoming death with His indestructible life and then offering his followers the opportunity to overcome with Him.

If you don't want to be spiritually blind and naked, you might want to pay attention. And if you'd like to know whether you're spiritually blind or naked, you might want to join the fight.

More about the fight in episodes to come.

APPENDIX

SCRIPTURES

Dan 2

Verse 31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure 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 baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

In the middle of verse 44 “the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

Revelation 3

Verse 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

Verse 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. 21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

MY CLOSING PRAYER:

May we earnestly repent in Jesus’ name and hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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