…I think Daniel was being tested when Neb sent the two Jews into the firery furnace. The Bible claims they survived but we all know that is impossible, unless they tricked the King in some manner he was unable to detect, projections maybe. I believe they died and this told Neb that Daniel was guilty of distorting the truth about his dream. This likely gave rise to burning at the stake and other means of discerning the truth. I think it happened at another time in history with the Egyptians and is what gave rise to anti-semitism…it is important for us to note that it is history in the psyche and not someone’s true opinion or thinking…
Mr, Davis, my grandmother and her Episcopal Priest may have been talking on this as it sounds like a conversation…
Friday, September 26, 2014
I lived in White Dorm in 1974 at ECU…updated
White dormitories (1925),
Rhodes College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
…I blogged about the Colossus of Rhodes…
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
King Nebuchadnezzar's dream...
...interpreted by Daniel is really about the destruction of the Colossus of Rhodes in 305 BC. So, who was King Nebuchadnezzar? Did Daniel really interpret the King's dream or did he merely tell the King a tale he had wished might come true?
...Ok this doesn't add up, 305 BC came after 586 BC. But nonetheless, isn't it possible that the Colossus's construction was influenced by King Nebuchadnezzar's dream?
...To build the statue, his workers cast the outer bronze skin parts. The base was made of white marble, and the feet and ankle of the statue were first fixed. The structure was gradually erected as the bronze form was fortified with an iron and stone framework.
...the Colossus was broken at its weakest point -- the knee.
King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: Daniel 2:31
The King saw a great statue. 2:32 The head of the statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 2:34 A stone was cut out, not by human hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces. 2:35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, were all broken in pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors...
Was King Nebuchadnezzar himself a prophet? Who was the king prophet from the book of Kings in the bible? What could his relationship to the King of Ai be?
Who were the people of Rhodes?
Kay Gibbs states: This is an interesting physical depiction of the metaphysical or divine nature and demise of a King, a head of gold, arms of silver, and legs of iron, that represent the sedentary life of a King that are all dispersed among the people represented by the crumpling of the statue.
I believe this was the true meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, that he became aware of his fate as a King and was afraid as he most likely witnessed this of his own father.
Kay F Gibbs
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
King Nebuchadnezzar's dream...
...interpreted by Daniel is really about the destruction of the Colossus of Rhodes in 305 BC. So, who was King Nebuchadnezzar? Did Daniel really interpret the King's dream or did he merely tell the King a tale he had wished might come true?
...Ok this doesn't add up, 305 BC came after 586 BC. But nonetheless, isn't it possible that the Colossus's construction was influenced by King Nebuchadnezzar's dream?
...To build the statue, his workers cast the outer bronze skin parts. The base was made of white marble, and the feet and ankle of the statue were first fixed. The structure was gradually erected as the bronze form was fortified with an iron and stone framework.
...the Colossus was broken at its weakest point -- the knee.
King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: Daniel 2:31
The King saw a great statue. 2:32 The head of the statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 2:34 A stone was cut out, not by human hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces. 2:35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, were all broken in pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors...
Was King Nebuchadnezzar himself a prophet? Who was the king prophet from the book of Kings in the bible? What could his relationship to the King of Ai be?
Who were the people of Rhodes?
This is an interesting physical depiction of the metaphysical or divine nature and demise of a King, a head of gold, arms of silver, and legs of iron, that represent the sedentary life of a King that are all dispersed among the people represented by the crumpling of the statue.
I believe this was the true meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, that he became aware of his fate as a King and was afraid as he most likely witnessed this of his own father.
Kay F Gibbs
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Daniel 3 - Saved In the Fiery Furnace
Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king." "Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."
a. Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished: It is astonishing that anyone survived for a moment inside the furnace when others perished at the door.
i. The Septuagint says in Daniel 3:24 that Nebuchadnezzar’s attention was caught when he heard them singing praises in the furnace. We can imagine that the king had them cast into the furnace and didn’t intend to look twice, believing they would be immediately consumed. As he walks away with a satisfied look on his face, he is immediately stopped by the sound of singing coming from the furnace. At a safe distance from the raging heat he peers inside - and sees four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire.
ii. If this singing in the furnace is true, it reminds us of Paul and Silas singing in the Philippian jail (Acts 16:25).
b. I see four men loose . . . and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God: Nebuchadnezzar tells us who the fourth was - the Son of God. Jesus was literally with them in the worst of their trial.
i. We don’t know if Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego knew that the Son of God was with them in their fiery trial. Sometimes we are aware of Jesus’ presence in our trials and sometimes we are not - but He is there nonetheless.
ii. Spurgeon observed that God's people are often in the furnace, and though there are different kinds of furnaces they serve similar purposes in our life
· There is the furnace that men prepare
· There is the furnace that Satan prepares
· There is the furnace that God prepares
iii. God can deliver us from a trial, or He can miraculously sustain and strengthen us in a trial. Trapp quotes an English martyr who said this as he was burnt at the stake: “O ye Papists, behold ye look for miracles; here now you may see a miracle; for in this fire I feel no more pain than as if I were in a bed of down; but it is to me as a bed of roses.”
c. I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire: Nebuchadnezzar also observed that the four men were free in the fire. The fire only burnt the ropes that bound them.
3. (26-27) The Hebrew men leave the furnace unharmed.
Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here." Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego came from the midst of the fire. And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king's counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.
Daniel 3 - Saved In the Fiery Furnace
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