Daniel 2 (2 of 5)
Series: Daniel
Vermon Pierre
Daniel 2-4
Ever have a day thought be good day but very quickly turns out be very bad day? A day where wake up, get dressed in favorite outfit. Get out door with plenty of time to get coffee. No one is in drive thru so zoom through.
Get in to work on time, thinking everything is great today! But then you in morning meeting, realize you missing key part of project for a client (and client coming in to talk to you in 5 minutes). Or you give a presentation and people asking questions not ready for and weren't expecting at all.
For those of who students, be like going into class to take a test and realize there big section on test hadn't studied and so weren't ready for at all.
A day you thought you had handled but has now very quickly gone wrong. Find yourself thinking, ''Why is this happening?? I should have stayed in bed!''
I have to think this is some of what it felt like to be one of the magicians, enchanters, and sorcerers, standing before King Nebuchadnezzar, in beginning of chapter 2 of Daniel.
To be a magician in royal Babylonian court was to be a magician serving in court of most powerful empire in the world, directly interacting with most important and powerful person in the world, Nebuchadnezzar. You important person who is well respected for what you do. Among best in the world at interpreting the future. You expert at cutting open animals, looking at their livers, and figuring out what that says about what about the happen. Among the best in knowing what a dream means.
So when Nebuchadnezzar calls you into his chambers to ask your to interpret a dream, you not nervous or unsure. You and the other magicians and sorcerers have done this all the time.
But then, king asks you to do something never had to do before. To not just interpret the dream but tell him what he dreamed first. And then interpret. And if you can't do it, be ''torn limb from limb'' and your home demolished.
Yea ...
Series: Daniel
Vermon Pierre
Daniel 2-4
Ever have a day thought be good day but very quickly turns out be very bad day? A day where wake up, get dressed in favorite outfit. Get out door with plenty of time to get coffee. No one is in drive thru so zoom through.
Get in to work on time, thinking everything is great today! But then you in morning meeting, realize you missing key part of project for a client (and client coming in to talk to you in 5 minutes). Or you give a presentation and people asking questions not ready for and weren't expecting at all.
For those of who students, be like going into class to take a test and realize there big section on test hadn't studied and so weren't ready for at all.
A day you thought you had handled but has now very quickly gone wrong. Find yourself thinking, ''Why is this happening?? I should have stayed in bed!''
I have to think this is some of what it felt like to be one of the magicians, enchanters, and sorcerers, standing before King Nebuchadnezzar, in beginning of chapter 2 of Daniel.
To be a magician in royal Babylonian court was to be a magician serving in court of most powerful empire in the world, directly interacting with most important and powerful person in the world, Nebuchadnezzar. You important person who is well respected for what you do. Among best in the world at interpreting the future. You expert at cutting open animals, looking at their livers, and figuring out what that says about what about the happen. Among the best in knowing what a dream means.
So when Nebuchadnezzar calls you into his chambers to ask your to interpret a dream, you not nervous or unsure. You and the other magicians and sorcerers have done this all the time.
But then, king asks you to do something never had to do before. To not just interpret the dream but tell him what he dreamed first. And then interpret. And if you can't do it, be ''torn limb from limb'' and your home demolished.
Yea ...
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