Search The Scriptures —Study 3 — Daniel 2:31-49

Study 3 From the Book of Daniel is: Daniel 2:31-49

      1-     Observe that the four kingdoms through historically appearing one after the other, are yet all parts of the one image.  Also, it is not only the last kingdom of the four, but the whole image that is broken to pieces by the stone that smites it.  What does the dream reveal as to God’s final purpose? And what differences do you find between the kingdoms of the world that compose the image and the kingdom prefigured by the stone? Cf. Rev. 11:15.

      2-     What divine purposes did the dream serve in relation to (a) Nebuchadnezzar, (b) Daniel and his friends, and (c) all who knew or know of it?

Note. Verses 39, 40. Those who assign the book of Daniel to the Maccabean period take the four kingdoms to be those of Babylon, the Medes, the Persians and the Greeks. This, however, however, apart from other objections, seems to go contrary to the book itself, which regards Medo-Persia as one kingdom (see 5:28;6:8; 8:20, 21). The older interpretation, therefore, which takes the four kingdoms to be Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, its to be preferred.

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