Daniel 3:1-7
Nebuchadnezzar, The King, made an IMAGE
OF GOLD, whose height was Sixty
(60) Cubits and its width Six (6)
Cubits. He (King Nebuchadnezzar) SET It
(The Image of Gold) UP in The Plain of Dura, in The Province of Babylon. And King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to gather together The Satraps,
The Administrators, The Governors, The Counselors, The Treasurers, The Judges,
The Magistrates, and All The Officials of The Provinces, to come to The Dedication
of THE IMAGE (The Image of Gold) which King Nebuchadnezzar had SET UP. So The Satraps, The Administrators, The
Governors, The Counselors, The Treasurers, The Judges, The Magistrates, and All
The Officials of The Provinces gathered together for The Dedication of THE IMAGE
(The Image of Gold) that King Nebuchadnezzar had SET UP; and they stood before THE
IMAGE (The Image of Gold), that (King) Nebuchadnezzar had SET UP. Then a Herald cried aloud: “To YOU it is Commanded,
O Peoples, Nations, and Languages, that
at The Time YOU HEAR The Sound of The Horn, Flute, Harp, Lyre, and Psaltery, in Symphony with all
kinds of music, YOU shall FALL DOWN and WORSHIP The GOLD IMAGE, that King
Nebuchadnezzar has SET UP; and WHOEVER does NOT fall down and worship, shall be
CAST immediately into The Midst of a Burning Fiery Furnace.” So at THAT TIME, when All The People HEARD
The Sound of The Horn, Flute, Harp, and
Lyre, in Symphony with all kinds of music, All The People, Nations, and Languages
fell down and worshiped THE GOLD
IMAGE, which King Nebuchadnezzar had SET UP.
Daniel 3:8-18
Therefore at THAT TIME, Certain
Chaldeans came forward and ACCUSED The Jews (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego). They (The Certain Chaldeans) spoke and said
to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O King, Live Forever!
YOU, O King, have made a DECREE that EVERYONE who HEARS The Sound of The
Horn, Flute, Harp, Lyre, and
Psaltery, in Symphony with all kinds of music, shall FALL DOWN and WORSHIP The GOLD
IMAGE; and WHOEVER does NOT fall down and worship, shall be CAST into The Midst
of a Burning Fiery Furnace. There are Certain
Jews (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) whom YOU have SET OVER The Affairs of
The Province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; THESE MEN, O King,
have NOT Paid DUE REGARD to YOU. They (Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego) do NOT Serve Your Gods or Worship The GOLD IMAGE, which
YOU have SET UP.”
Then (King) Nebuchadnezzar, in RAGE
and FURY, GAVE The Command to BRING Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. So they brought THESE MEN (Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-Nego) BEFORE The King (Nebuchadnezzar). (King) Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to Them,
“Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-Nego, that YOU do NOT
Serve My Gods or Worship THE GOLD IMAGE, which I have SET UP? Now if YOU are READY, at the time YOU HEAR
The Sound of The Horn, Flute, Harp, Lyre, and Psaltery, in Symphony with all kinds of music, and YOU (Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego) fall down and worship THE IMAGE (The Gold Image), which
I have MADE, GOOD! But IF YOU do NOT Worship, YOU shall be CAST
immediately into The Midst of a Burning Fiery Furnace. And WHO is The GOD (GOD Almighty) Who Will DELIVER YOU (Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego) from My (King Nebuchadnezzar’s) Hands?”
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego ANSWERED
and SAID to The King, “O Nebuchadnezzar, We (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) have
NO need to answer YOU, in THIS MATTER.
IF that is the case, Our
GOD (GOD Almighty) whom We (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) SERVE, is ABLE to
DELIVER Us (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego), from The Burning Fiery Furnace,
and He (GOD Almighty) will DELIVER Us (Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego) from Your Hand, O King.
But if NOT, let it be KNOWN to YOU, O King (Nebuchadnezzar), that We (Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego) do NOT SERVE your gods, NOR will We (Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-Nego) WORSHIP The GOLD IMAGE, which YOU have SET UP.”
Revelation 13:1-10
Then I (John) STOOD on The Sand of The Sea. And I (John) SAW a Beast (This First Beast) RISING
UP out of The Sea, having Seven (7) Heads and Ten (10) Horns, and on His (This
First Beast’s Ten Horns) Horns, Ten (10) Crowns, and on His (This First Beast’s
Seven Heads) Heads, a blasphemous name. Now,
The Beast (This First Beast) which I (John) SAW, was LIKE a Leopard, His (This
First Beast’s) Feet were LIKE The Feet
of a Bear, and His (This First Beast’s) Mouth LIKE The Mouth of a
Lion. The Dragon (Satan) GAVE Him (This
First Beast) His (This First Beast’s) Power, His (This First Beast’s) Throne,
and Great Authority. And I (John) SAW
One of His (This First Beast’s) Heads, AS IF It (One of This First Beast’s
Seven Heads) had been MORTALLY WOUNDED, and His (This First Beast’s) DEADLY WOUND
was HEALED. And All The World
(Unbelievers) marveled and FOLLOWED The Beast (This First Beast). So, They (Unbelievers) WORSHIPED The Dragon
(Satan) who GAVE Authority to The Beast (This First Beast); and They (Unbelievers)
WORSHIPED The Beast (This First Beast), saying, “Who is LIKE The Beast (This First Beast)? Who is ABLE to MAKE War with Him (This First
Beast)?”
And He (This First Beast) was GIVEN a Mouth speaking
great things and blasphemies, and He (This First Beast) was GIVEN Authority to CONTINUE
for Forty-Two (42) Months. Then He (This
First Beast) opened His (This First Beast’s) Mouth in blasphemy AGAINST GOD
(GOD Almighty), to blaspheme His (GOD Almighty’s) Name, His (GOD Almighty’s) Tabernacle,
and Those (GOD Almighty, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit, GOD Almighty’s Holy
Angels, and The Children of GOD Almighty) who DWELL in Heaven. It was GRANTED to Him (This First Beast) to MAKE
War with The Saints (Believers) and to OVERCOME Them (Believers). And Authority was GIVEN Him (This First Beast)
OVER Every Tribe, Tongue, and Nation. All
(Unbelievers) who DWELL on The Earth will WORSHIP Him (This First Beast), whose
names have NOT been WRITTEN, in The BOOK of LIFE of The Lamb (Jesus Christ) SLAIN,
from The Foundation of The World.
If ANYONE (Believers) has an ear, let Him (Believers) HEAR. He who leads into captivity, shall go into
captivity; he who kills with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is The Patience and The Faith of The Saints
(Believers).
Revelation 13:11-18
Then I (John) SAW another Beast (This Second Beast) COMING
UP out of The Earth, and He (This Second Beast) had Two Horns LIKE a lamb and
spoke LIKE a Dragon (Satan). And He (This
Second Beast) EXERCISES All The Authority of The First Beast in His (The First
Beast’s) Presence, and CAUSES The Earth and Those (Unbelievers) who DWELL in It
(The Earth) to WORSHIP The First Beast, whose DEADLY WOUND was HEALED. He (This Second Beast) PERFORMS Great Signs,
so that He (This Second Beast) even MAKES Fire COME DOWN from Heaven on The Earth,
in The SIGHT of Men. And He (This Second
Beast) DECEIVES Those (Unbelievers) who DWELL on The Earth, by Those Signs,
which He (This Second Beast) was GRANTED to DO, in The Sight of The Beast (The
First Beast), TELLING Those (Unbelievers) who DWELL on The Earth, to MAKE an IMAGE
(Image of The First Beast) to The Beast (The First Beast), who was WOUNDED by
The Sword and LIVED. He (This Second
Beast) was GRANTED Power to GIVE
BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (The First Beast), that THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST
(The First Beast) should both SPEAK and CAUSE as Many (Believers) as would NOT
worship THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST (The First Beast) to be KILLED. He (The Image of The First Beast) CAUSES All,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to RECEIVE a MARK (The MARK
of The Image of The First Beast) on Their (Unbelievers) Right Hand OR on Their
(Unbelievers) Foreheads, and that NO ONE may buy or sell, EXCEPT One
(Unbelievers) who has The MARK (The MARK of The First Beast) OR The Name of The
Beast (The First Beast), OR The Number of His (The First Beast’s) Name.
HERE IS WISDOM.
Let Him (Believers) who has UNDERSTANDING, CALCULATE The Number of The Beast
(The First Beast), for It (The Number of The First Beast) is The Number of a
Man (The First Beast): His (The First Beast’s) Number is 666.
Fellow Believers, We (Believers) KNOW that Bible
Prophecy, uses things in the past to describe things coming in Our (Believers)
Future. Daniel was serving King Nebuchadnezzar, and Daniel’s Friends (Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego) Lives were literally on the line. They (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) were
faced with a Life OR Death Decision, Stand with GOD Almighty (and probably die
in a fiery furnace) OR Reject GOD Almighty, by bowing down and worshipping a
graven image and false gods.
Please,
keep This Situation in mind, but flash-forward to The First Beast, The Second
Beast, The Image of The First Beast, and The Mark of the First Beast, from The
Book of Revelation. Believers will be
faced with this same type of decision, yes, a Life OR Death Decision. When They (Believers) are COMMANDED to
Worship The First Beast, AND The Image of The First Beast AND when They
(Believers) are COMMANDED to receive The Mark of The Beast (on the forehead OR
right hand). IF They (Believers) REFUSE,
They (Believers) will be PUT TO DEATH!
Unless, as in Shadrach’s, Meshach’s, and Abed-Nego’s Case, GOD Almighty
Supernaturally INTERVENES on Their (Believers) BEHALF.
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