There in Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar had had another dream. Daniel, actually Nebuchadnezzar, writes of this dream. This is an interesting chapter in the bible, it is a chapter that is written by a pagan king. Chapter four of Daniel is actually written by Nebuchadnezzar. It’s incorporated in the book of Daniel, but it’s a very fascinating chapter in that it is written by a well, once pagan, king. Notice that he begins with, “Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, languages, that dwell in all the earth. Peace be multiplied unto you. And I thought it good to really send you my testimony, to show you the signs and wonders that the high God has brought toward me.” He’s gonna give a personal testimony of certain signs and wonders that God did for him. And he declares, “How great are His signs, and how mighty are His wonders. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation”. Now he said, “I Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and I was flourishing in my palace”. Everything was just going great, “And I saw a dream which made me afraid. And the thoughts upon my bed, and the visions of my head, they troubled me. And therefore I made a decree to bring in all the wise men, so that they could interpret this dream”, and they all came in and they couldn’t do it, and finally, “Daniel came in before me, and his name was Belshazzar, according to the name of my God, in who is the spirit of the holy gods, and before him, I told him the dream”. When Daniel heard the dream that Nebuchadnezzar had, he said, verse seventeen, “This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent”, this is the purpose, “that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and He gives it to whomsoever He will, and He sets over it the basest of men.” “Now this is the intent of the dream Nebuchadnezzar, that you might know that God rules.
