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Expecting

Expecting. What do we look forward to?. Thanksgiving dinner Time with family Packers winning The first perfect snowfall Giving the perfect gift at Christmas The prophets awaited the coming Messiah We await His return. Daniel had a novel idea.

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Expecting

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  1. Expecting

  2. What do we look forward to? • Thanksgiving dinner • Time with family • Packers winning • The first perfect snowfall • Giving the perfect gift at Christmas • The prophets awaited the coming Messiah • We await His return

  3. Daniel had a novel idea • God is not limited to His temple or to the land of His people • So how does an exile resolve to worship a “defeated god”? • Dan. 2:18-19 ~ He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven.

  4. God of heaven and God of Time • Dan. 2:32-35 ~ The head of the statue was made of pure 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 baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces as the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

  5. Babylonian Empire

  6. Medo/Persian Empire

  7. Alexander the Great

  8. Roman Empire

  9. Christ the Rock • Dan. 2:44-45 ~ In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands – a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

  10. As we await the Messiah • Dan. 3:16-18 ~ Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

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