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DANIEL 2
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"YOU, O KING, WERE WATCHING, AND BEHOLD A GREAT
IMAGE!" (verse 31)
WHAT HAD THE KING SEEN?
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• Daniel 231-35
• 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. This image's head was of fine
  gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and
  thighs of bronze, Its legs of iron, its
  feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
  You watched while a stone was cut out without
  hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron
  and clay, and broke them to pieces. Then
  the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and
  the gold were crushed together, and became like
  the chaff from the summer threshing floors and
  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.

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Daniel 231-33 HEAD CHEST AND ARMS BELLY
AND THIGHS LEGS FEET
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
IRON
IRON CLAY
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DANIEL 2

• Daniel 236-40
• This is the dream. Now we will tell the
  interpretation of it before the king. You, O
  king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven
  has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and
  glory and wherever the children of men dwell,
  or the beasts of the field and the birds of the
  heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has
  made you ruler over them all--you are this head
  of gold.
• But after you shall arise another kingdom
  inferior to yours then another, a third kingdom
  of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.
  And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as
  iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and
  shatters everything and like iron that crushes,
  that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all
  the others.

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DANIEL INTERPRETS THE IMAGE
Daniel 236-38
a) Who was represented by the gold head? (verse
37) ANSWER King _______________
Nebuchadnezzar
b) Over which empire was he ruler? (Daniel
11) ANSWER _______
Babylon
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THE HEAD OF GOLD - BABYLON
Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, (605-538BC).
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Notice the other parts of the image.
THE CHEST AND ARMS OF SILVER THE BELLY AND THIGHS
OF BRONZE THE LEGS OF IRON
Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar that these three
metals represented three major kingdoms that
would follow Babylon. Daniel 239,40
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THE SILVER MEDO-PERSIA
Conquered Babylon, 538BC
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THE BRONZE GREECE
Defeated Medo-Persia, 331BC
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THE IRON ROME
Overcame Greece by 168BC
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THE FOUR METALS, THEN, REPRESENTED
GOLD
BABYLON
SILVER
MEDO-PERSIA
BRONZE
GREECE
IRON
ROME
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DANIEL 2

• Daniel 241-43
• Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of
  potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom
  shall be divided yet the strength of the iron
  shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed
  with ceramic clay. And as the toes of the feet
  were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the
  kingdom shall be partly strong and partly
  fragile. As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay,
  they will mingle with the seed of men but they
  will not adhere to one another, just as iron does
  not mix with clay.

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THE FEET OF THE IMAGE
Daniel 23341-43
Of what odd mixture were the feet and toes made
up?
Partly of _____ and partly of ____
." (verse 33)
iron
clay
What did Daniel say the mixture of iron and clay
meant?
"The kingdom shall be _______ ." (verse 41)
divided
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THE FEET OF IRON AND CLAY - The Present Day
Roman Empire THE NEW WORLD ORDER
AD 476 to today
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Daniel 243
"They will not _______ to one another."
(verse 43) "Just as iron does not ___ with
clay." (verse 43)
adhere
mix
Daniel said "They will not adhere to one
another. " These words have stood in the way of
world unity for more than 1,500 years. As we saw
last week, God controls kingdoms and rulers
when and how they will rise and when and how they
will fall.
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Lets go over this again
BABYLON
GOLD
MEDO-PERSIA
SILVER
GREECE
BRONZE
ROME
IRON
NEW WORLD ORDER?
IRON AND CLAY
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Daniel 2
In Chapter 7 Daniel sees the rise and fall of
these same empires as four fantastic beasts that
emerge from the sea.
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VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS
Daniel 71-7
Lets look really quickly at that line of
prophecies. In a night vision he sees "the great
sea" lashed by winds. As he watches, four
fantastic animals rise out of the water.  
"The first was like a ____ ,and had eagle's
_____ ." (verse 74)
Lion
wings
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2) "A second, like a ____ "(Daniel 75) 
Bear
3) "Another, like a _______ " (Daniel 76)
Leopard
4) "a fourth beast, ________ and _______ "
"and it had ___ horns" (Daniel
77)
dreadful
terrible
ten
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THE TEN HORNS
Daniel 77,24
The fourth beast, representing Rome, had ten
horns. What did the ten horns represent?
"The ten horns are ten _____ who shall arise from
this kingdom." (Rome) (verse 24)
kings
The ten horns of Daniel 7 represent the same ten
kingdoms as the feet and toes of the image of
Daniel 2. In both cases the ten are shown as the
rulers of the Roman empire.
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DANIEL 2 Four Metals
DANIEL 7 Four Beasts
Symbol Kingdom
Symbol Kingdom
gold
Babylon
lion
Babylon
hands
silver
Medo Persia
Medo Persia
Bear
Bronze
Greece
Leopard
Greece
Iron
Fourth Beast
Rome
Rome
Iron Clay
Ten Horns
10 Kingdoms
10 Kingdoms
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DANIEL 2

• Daniel 244-45
• And in the days of these kings the God of heaven
  will set up a kingdom which shall never be
  destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to
  other people it shall break in pieces and
  consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
  forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was
  cut out of the mountain without hands, and that
  it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the
  clay, the silver, and the gold - the great God
  has made known to the king what will come to pass
  after this. The dream is certain, and its
  interpretation is sure.

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A DRAMATIC END AND A NEW BEGINNING
Daniel 244,45
What happened to the image in the closing scene
of the vision?
"Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut
out of the mountain without hands, and that it
______________ , the iron, the bronze, the clay,
the silver, and the gold - the great God has make
known to the king what will come to pass after
this." (verse 45)
brake in pieces
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The falling stone and the destruction of the
image point to the end of the long human struggle
for control of the world. A new world is to rise
from the chaos. 
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The great physicist Albert Einstein warned "ONE
WORLD OR NONE " A NEW WORLD ORDER IS PRECISELY
THE MESSAGE OF DANIEL. BUT WHO WILL FULFIL THE
GLOBAL DREAM?
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Daniel 244
The world leaders will attempt to set up a new
world order to bring peace and safety? Will it
last?
"And in the days of these kings the
______________ will set up a kingdom which
shall never be destroyed." (verse 44) "And it
shall stand _______ ." (verse 44)
God of Heaven
forever
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DANIEL 2

• Daniel 246-49
• Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face,
  prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they
  should present an offering and incense to him.
  The king answered Daniel, and said, "Truly your
  God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a
  revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this
  secret." Then the king promoted Daniel and gave
  him many great gifts and he made him ruler over
  the whole province of Babylon, and chief
  administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
  Also Daniel petitioned the king, and he set
  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs
  of the province of Babylon but Daniel sat in the
  gate of the king.

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Not only Daniel, but practically all the Bible
prophets tell us that God's kingdom will come.
This is one of the great certainties of the
future. Do you have a place in the everlasting
kingdom?
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1. How was King Nebuchadnezzer, the most powerful
   King on earth, impacted by these prophesies?

2) Daniel heard from the Lord and shared this
incredible testimony with a man who could take
his life, how does his great example impact you ? 
3) What will be the result of the Rock that
crushes the image? 
4) If the return of the Lord is going to be next
weekend (and it could be), how should we live our
lives this next week?