The Bible: The Book of Daniel Essay -- Religion, Nebuchadnezzar

Tradition each(prenominal)y, a prophet gives a subject matter from God to His people. An early(a) way Daniel sways from being a typical hoar Testament Prophet is that He interprets Gods messages, yet sometimes he was not the original recipient of the message. A vision, dream, or divine event happens and Daniel is called in to give an interpretation of what Gods message is in this happening. As Daniel was like John in the book of divine revelation with his authorship style, he is much like Joseph in the book of multiplication in his mantical style. Another difficulty for Hebrew scripture is that these heathen Gentile leaders were the ones to whom God originally imparted His visions. In some circumstances, Daniel was called to miraculously tell the details of the vision before giving his God disposed(p) interpretation. It is no wonder that even if Daniel was available to be put into the prophetic section, a staunch Israelite would not have placed him in this area. His prophe cies and writing are focused upon Gentiles. He uses an apocalyptic literary style and on top of this His messages are not always delivered to Him from God in a normal prophetical style. In chapter seven, Daniel dreams a dream of four beasts. The initial is like a go lion, the second is like a afford with three ribs in its mouth, the third is a four headed, four winged leopard, and the last one is the worst of all and destroys the first three. It has ten horns and a small eleventh horn comes up and yanks out three of the horns. This tiny horn had eyes and a mouth. The vision is interpreted for Daniel. The four beasts are four kingdoms. The fourth kingdom go away be greater than all the previous kingdoms and its ten horns represent the ten kings of that kingdom. The eleventh king will subdue three of th... ... that the part which would be the breast and the arms of ash gray will crush the former kingdoms just as iron crushes in real life. The kingdom will retain some of its str ength, but as it moves into the feet, it is now a divided kingdom. Just as it retains some of its strength, the ashes shows that it has gained some weakness. The iron and clay mingled shows the inner mingling of these peoples. The final trope in the dream is the stone that becomes a mountain and engulfs the entire world. This is not only the fifth but it is also the final kingdom make by God that will never be taken everywhere by another kingdom. It also will end all other kingdoms. Daniel ends his interpretation and recollection of the dream by saying, the great God has do known to the king what will take place in the next so the dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy (Daniel 245).