Daniel 2:25 "Then Arioch brought
in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man
of the captives of
In the last lesson we saw the king
have a troubling dream. He
called for the so-called wise men, and they could not tell him of his dream. He
pronounced death on all of the wise men in the land, including Daniel and his 3
friends, because of the dream. Now we see; God has given the dream and its
interpretation to Daniel.
Arioch was in
charge of the executions. He did not want to kill all of them, but had to, or
lose his own life. He was happy to report to the king that one of the captives
of
Daniel 2:26 "The king answered
and said to Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known
unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?"
We remember, from a previous lesson,
that Nebuchadnezzar had changed Daniel's name to Belteshazar. The king had not
wanted to kill the men either. He just wanted to know about his dream.
Daniel 2:27 "Daniel answered in
the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded
cannot the wise [men], the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew
unto the king;"
Daniel first tells Nebuchadnezzar the impossibility
of man to do what the king had asked. Only God could reveal this dream. He is,
in a sense, defending the wise men.
Daniel 2:28 "But there is a God
in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar
what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon
thy bed, are these;"
This was Daniel's opportunity to tell
Nebuchadnezzar of his God. Daniel will give God the glory for it all. God
reveals these secrets to His own. Daniel belonged to God, so he has the dream
and interpretation.
This vision is for
the latter days, not for the next few days. First, Daniel tells him he dreamed
of his head upon the bed.
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