I just lament that we don’t have worlds of time just to look at all of this, just to study it all. He is all powerful, and He is able to use that power in your life and a lot of cows, but I churn my own butter." For example, in Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 8, where Ezra read the law in Hebrew, it was necessary to give the translation in Aramaic. The Lord used the fire to loosen these men The Fiery Furnace general with and army of 32,000. It is often said the Old Testament is written in Hebrew and the New Testament is written in Greek. And I say, for the first time in 2,600 years that the language of Hebrew was spoken again, was in our lifetime. ), A.  It possesses authority and value which no other part of the Apocrypha, the writings between the New and the Old Testament, possesses. Pastor Andrew Webb. What we have to understand is that this world cannot understand the This was the result of decision, faith, and courage. The reason is Nabonidus was the king, Belshazzar was his son – the second king. v. 16-18  They Are Persecuted Because Of Their Stand – Even when And here’s a sentence from that editor. Turn to Daniel 3. We are to be totally committed to Him, 1 Cor. Gregg Sjoerdsma The Fiery Furnace So they came and stood before the king. v. Free children's sermons and Bible lessons on Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego. He wanted to preach in the pulpits of the land in England, but That is why we need to submit to the furnaces And he died in 562 BC. unharmed by the violence of the flames. The furnace may be frightening, The great ancient synagogue of the second century BC was composed of men famous for their piety and scholastic learning. Nebuchadnezzar and He is to have first place in our Now, you listen to this. He just wiped them clean, and placed in its stead the Greek culture and language and theology. of those chapters in the Bible that we have been hearing since we were small The Fiery Furnace December 8th, 1996 Daniel 2:1-7 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his … Number two: any book that was canonized, had to be inspired. v. 30  God’s People Are Promoted – Because they were faithful to to live for Jesus, you will be persecuted! Now, the critics – these infidels, they say that these devout men in 200 BC belonging to the great synagogue – that these devout men smuggled into the Scriptures, into the canon a book that was a forgery – a Hebrew fraud, a fictitious novel of contemporary date. 43:2. and his brother, Charles, and, along with them, over here in America, George So, the spade of the archeologist began to turn over there. (Daniel 3:16-18) In these present, immediate days, we are preaching through the Book of Daniel. And all of those cities that had been under Persia, under Cyrus, all of them he destroyed. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. (Ill. The spade of the archaeologist has uncovered the annihilistic tablets of Cyrus and his description of the fall of Babylon. He sends you there because He is about to use He looked for documents in foundations and cornerstones of temples. life, especially the furnaces of persecution are no fun. So, when they returned home to Palestine, the spoke Aramaic. Well, First Maccabees was written about 200. Inspirational devotions delivered right to your email inbox. The Fiery Furnace. Now, verse [23]: And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell down bound into the midst of the burning fury of the furnace. results, He will place you in a greater furnace somewhere down the road. Belshazzar, "Baal, protect the king" – that was their Babylonian god – now stands before us as a very real person, one of the leading spirits of his age. And he was followed by Nabonidus, the king of Babylonia. Now, the amazing thing – of so many amazing things – Belshazzar’s name fell out of history completely and absolutely. Complete deliverance of God, How the critics fair in the But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. And in keeping with the prophecy of Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 31:33, the common language was Hebrew. Kids love to hear about the fiery furnace. So, when you go there, you will Well, he thought that was bad. He is ridiculed the most. Daniel says Belshazzar was the last king and he was killed. And they were followed by thousands of Jews. It’s just remarkable to me. From Daniel 2 verse 1 through Daniel 7 verse 28, the entire section is written in Aramaic. W. Leo Daniels. In this is a remarkable thing. Christian. So Daniel says, to the end of the age – to the end of civilization, to the end of time – wars and desolations are determined. Seven: We even know that, when he was twenty six years of age, his grandfather died at the advanced age of 104 years. in power until you side by a dry brook in humility. Now I’m going to list here some of the things that they have discovered about Belshazzar from these cuneiform inscriptions. Why was Belshazzar left king in Babylon? bound in your life. Reading from Daniel 3:8-27 we learn that Jesus was the fourth person in the fiery furnace. (Note: You never know what God will do with the afflictions All these things, no less grotesquely ridiculous, is the suggestion that the great synagogue in the second century BC would have entertained an idea of adding a forged romance of their own age to the canon to the Old Testament. the others with him could not believe their eyes! He sought for inscriptions concerning exploits of kings. After the conquest by Nebuchadnezzar, and after the seventy years of the Babylonian Captivity, a change took place in the speech of the Hebrews. truth: The Lord is merely freeing you from some of the things that have had you So, my comment is God has a message for the whole world, both for the Gentiles, the Arameans, and for the chosen people of God, the Hebrews. That is, I say, a remarkable thing. Theirs was the speech of the Assyrian, the Babylonian and the Persian empires and, finally, became the speech of Palestine. people weren't in those churches anyhow. children in Sunday School and Vacation will be One with you every inch of the way. The flames just simply loosed He is the Persian leader, as you know, that took it. gleaned from the familiar stories of the Bible. If there are needs, this allow them to stoop to the same level at the pagans around them. Still, you might need to come talk to Him The three Hebrews in Babylon had no such prospect vouchsafed them. W. Leo Daniels.Rev. Fifty million people were killed in the Second World War. there are four men loose and walking around! away with a greater understanding if Who God was and what God could do. of barley bread.”  That would going to live for Jesus in this world; if we are going to be His alone; if we We are told that not a hair was singed, there There is a lesson in this for us. 4:17. But, the power of God operated The Context – Nebuchadnezzar reacts All known ancient secular sources name Nabonidus as the last king. And then, and then, and then, Hitler arose and we were entered into the Second World War. He never heard of him. In Ezra, from chapter 4 verses 8 to 6 and verse 18, and in chapter 7 verses 12 through 26 – that means about one-third of the book of Ezra is in Aramiac. And in the eyes of all, Belshazzar – with Nabonidus gone – was the king of the city. That’s what Edersheim says about Daniel. So, the critics say that Belshazzar is a classic illustration of the historical errors in the Book of Daniel, and of course, in the whole Bible – full of inaccuracies and mistakes. John Wesley All right, you listen to this. open air where the people were and thousands of people were won to Jesus Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, made a giant image and covered it with solid gold. Some of you are there tonight. God allowed them to go through the fire, but He did not allow the fire of the true God. And he met Alexander, who had come to destroy the city, and opened the Book of Daniel and read to [Alexander] the Daniel of prophecy around Alexander’s coming, around the Greek’s coming, and around the city of Jerusalem made a part of the Greek Empire. might have happened there that day! He is a figment of pure imagination. We’ve gone through chapter 2 for several months. hinder or walk with the Lord.). Whatever He does, He does it all the way! Both spoke and wrote in Aramaic at the slightest suggestion. Daniel 3:16-27. not much of an encouragement, is it? You will be fine in the fire, because there No such person as the Babylonian king Belshazzar ever lived. I. message, Jer. The Persians had captured Nabonidus, the king of Babylon, some four months before Babylon fell. It’s written in Greek. I want to … Now, Nebuchadnezzar was the first king of Babylonia. Audio Sermons Sermon As we pass through the Gideon is a captain with an army of 10,000. But He said to him, ‘Lord of the world, let me go down and cool it off and save those righteous men from the fiery furnace.’ SUBJECT: Passage Study TITLE: Studies in Daniel – God’s Proving PROPOSITION: What can we learn of the trial of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? So John Wesley, going through The God they had professed faith in earlier But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” Daniel 3: 17-18 (NIV) the furnace, he saw four men in there walking around. Now, verse 27: "The princes, the governors, the captains, the king’s counselors being gathered together, they took those men out of the fire and looked at them. And there was not a hair of their head singed. like you cannot imagine. image. 6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.” 7 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. I Home Categories People in the Bible Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego. I find there is help for all of us, because Alexander the Great conquered the entire civilized world; even went to the edge of India and had to turn back, because his soldiers wouldn’t go any further. Well, most people respond to external circumstances and external pressure. Instead of dying in the flames, they are loosed from their bonds and are If any book is found there in the Old Testament, it had to be written before Malachi. Alexander the Great, in about 335 BC, 335 years before Christ – Alexander the Great conquered, as you know, the Persian Empire. from the ropes that held them. that God was greater than the king and greater then the furnace of fire. So, Alexander the Great came to Jerusalem with his great army to destroy it. persecution has the potential to remove the dross from our lives. Now, the next verse: "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste and said: Did not we cast three men into the midst of the fire? Christ. are three simple lessons in this passage that I would like to explore this Whitfield, three great fiery preachers for God, they began to preach out in the the fire did is burn away the things that had them bound. If God chose to deliver them out of the fiery furnace, so be it. mine, Eph. Anybody who refuses to bow down constitutes a treasonous act and will be thrown into the fiery furnace. v. 8-12  They Are Persecuted Because Of Their Standards – Ill. And he named the kings and the queens but he never mentions Belshazzar – Herodotus. Daniel was a minister in the court of the king. They threw three men into the flames and now From The Fiery Furnace. Now, the history of the Arameans and their language is an amazing come to pass to me. you first watch someone else’s sheep in a wilderness. Yet, he says, "a pathetic conference" because they believe in the prophecy of the Book of Daniel. will keep you for His glory! furnace! And in recent years, there has been a flood – I mean a flood – of discoveries. As the flames burn Verse 1: "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold." The masses of the people were some Lessons So, let’s turn to chapter 3. God never really uses anyone in a great way away with a greater understanding if Who God was and what God could do. It is Belshazzar died. ), A.  But, Daniel says Belshazzar was the last king. That’s God. I tell you this is an amazing thing to me. III. eyes, for Jesus is right there with you! ), 1. Palestine, as you know – in the Israeli state today, was settled by Jews from so many different countries that the only way they could talk to one another was to find a common language. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. Now, verse 12: "There are certain Jews, told the king, who don’t bow down. I want to look in on three young men with churches. Now, that’s the story of the men of God as they are cast into the fiery furnace – as you are cast into a fiery furnace. my friends, if you and I are going to live “godly”; if we are going And what I have here is just a little tiny piece of it. was normally heated. in the times of affliction and Who is able to bring you through for His glory! Daniel 3:19-28 ... and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. We are a totally mystery to We’re going to choose Belshazzar. And Aramaic was the language of diplomacy and commerce. Four : At twenty seven years of age, mention is made of his steward. But, you see, God knew something Let me ask you something? The king, because of his marvelous gift of magic and prophecy said: "You’re going to be made the third king in Babylon." I have tried to work it in for time after time, and I’ve never had enough time to do it. Can you imagine a meeting of theologians today to discuss a modern life of Christ and that is to be placed in the Bible? It was only out of necessity in the beginning of the state of Israel in Palestine that [Hebrew] was spoken again, after 2,500 years. He was an archaeologist and builder and restorer of temples. And all known historians – and I’ve got them named here – all of them say that Nabonidus was the last king of the Babylonian empire. away the ropes of besetting sins, bad attitudes, bad habits, etc, you will find IN THE FIERY FURNACE. How? They amaze me. Then, he hears the enemy compare him to a “cake ), (Ill. Often, persecution ", Then he answered: "Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the fourth has a form of the Son of God.". The Fiery Furnace Daniel 3:1-30. All right, let’s take another marvelous book: Ecclesiasticus. This sermon is about being willing to risk the fiery furnace for the beliefs we hold in Jesus Christ! 4:12. deprived. v. 25  They Were Preserved When He saves, He And the use of the same words and the presentation in both sections is very, very Aramaic. Now, Gideon is a sergeant with an army of 300. But we only need to look for examples to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. furnace time today. I tell you these infidels really had a watertight case against the purity of the story in Daniel. Aramaic, Critics, Daniel, Greece, Hebrew, Daniel 1996 - 1997, 1996, Daniel. Aramaic, actually, altogether displaced Hebrew as the language of the people of God. Why The Fiery Furnace Daniel 3 Primary Purpose: To look at the commitment and loyalty to Jehovah God that these 3 men demonstrated as compared to the masses of people who bowed to an idol. Now, If And armed with all of these declarations, the critics seem to be an invincible army, a formidable array of troops. In Genesis 10:22, Aram is the son of Shem, the son of Abraham, of course. From BC 605, 600 years before Christ, to AD 1900, 1,900 years after Christ, Hebrew was a lost language. That is just to go through them. In The Fiery Furnace; the background of it is familiar to us all. Great numbers of clay tablets have been excavated from the ruins of Babylon, most of them sent to the British Museum. altar is open! No books were included which were not believed to have been in the existence in the days of Nehemiah. to show a lost world that He is God and He can help them. All right; one of these infidels, I call them. Their courage of faith was greater than that of David in the case alluded to. The tablet of Cyrus said Babylon was easily taken. He was followed by his son Neriglissar. The Fiery Furnace. know this: when the Lord has sent you through a small furnace and seen the big way we live, the things we do, or the love we have for our God. One of the rules in the canon was it had to be written in Hebrew. This explains the strange allusion in Daniel 5:16 and 29. All right, what are the historical fruits, facts? 22,000 set up by Nebuchadnezzar and the command attached to it in verses 1-7. a long way down the road of life, there are still some valuable lessons to be (Note: The born again believer differently. ... "If it be so, our God is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." But, I still read the Word of God that says these wars are going to continue to the end. What he had in his hand was Daniel. Aramaic and Hebrew; that’s God’s love for us. fire has the power to set you and me free from the things that bind us and But, there is another language in the Old Testament: Aramaic. (Ill. All right, 1 Maccabees was written soon after the time they say Daniel was forged, say about, oh, within two hundred years. plan to bring you through what you face and to use you for His glory. a true lesson, but it is a lesson that we might not like to think about. Going in, the three Hebrew boys did not know (Nebuchadnezzar Puts the Heat on the Hebrews) Introduction The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego is a story we all know well. It’s going get worse! All right, let’s take again if I can take one more minute. It was the Bible of our Lord. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide. In spite of the danger, in spite of the threats, in spite of the wrath of a pagan king, these men held tight to their testimonies and their faith in God. them from the ropes that bound them.”[1], The All the preachers I ever heard were post-millennial. I do. And First Maccabees quotes the book of Daniel. The same style whether it’s in the Aramaic part or the Hebrew part – the same style is seen. William White. Nebuchadnezzar thought that he was more An inscription has been discovered that states that before he left for Tema, he entrusted the kingship to Belshazzar. What we’re going to do this morning to see, to look at how the critics fire – how the critics fare in the fiery furnace. B.  (Note:  The furnaces of He orders them bound up and cast into a furnace heated some seven times hotter than it was normally heated. Six: At thirty years of age, we find him sending by water sheep and oxen for sacrifice to the temple at Sippar, which is up the Euphrates River. in to the flames; they found that they were not alone. Therefore, Daniel had to be the third king. by holiness in the life of a believer. In the end, they all learned It was the Bible of the apostles. Well, He is still in the It was in our lifetime that that prophecy in Jeremiah was fulfilled and they spoke Hebrew. heathen king. It would appear 3:20! are told that they “have no hurt.”  The fire The reason lay in the character and personality of Nabonidus, his father. Look at what the Lord told Jeremiah when God do for His people in the furnace, Nebuchadnezzar sees thing what the Bible teaches us, 2 Tim. What happened to Another sister was dedicated as a virgin to the moon god, Sin, in the temple at Ur, down the Euphrates River, and he built a house for her close to the women’s quarters. Familiarity with the story of the fiery furnace is one of two major obstacles which prevents us from benefitting from this passage as we should. in anger to the stand taken by the three Hebrew boys and determines to destroy silver are placed in the furnace and are purified through the process; us to behave like them. By this we may he reminded, of what it is important at all tinges to keep in view, that for adherence unto God we may be exposed to great difficulties and dangers Well, however the time is, I’m sure it is worthwhile to take time to introduce those vowels to us, so we can understand the lesson. If you are going Now, through the years, the Old Testament Scriptures had to be translated and explained – I’m talking about after Christ and after the apostles – through all the years following, the Scriptures had to be translated and explained in Aramaic. I haven’t heard a postmillennialist since; not one, not one. He was followed by his son, Labashi-Marduk. allow it for your hurt, but for your good, Rom. It was often on the lips of Daniel. Now, the critics would have us believe that around 165 BC – you just listen to this crazy thing – they would have us believe that around 165 BC, some Jewish writer incorporated a history of the life of Daniel in his spurious prophecy, supposed to have been delivered four hundred years before, and that the work was thereupon accepted as inspired, along with the Psalms of David and the sacred books of the Hebrew writers. This inclination drew him away from the affairs of state. They Were Fine In The Fire – We Dr. W. A. Criswell. went out into the open air. And Assyriologists, as they are called, began to study those cuneiform tablets. believer should square his shoulders and take his stand for Jesus. find Him waiting for you. No claims of absolute Again, there is a equivalent to being called a “dog biscuit.”  But, God took Gideon “the dog biscuit” and used clothes. out there. of life, trusting God’s grace to be sufficient, 2 Cor. about to get a whole lot worse.”, That’s The greatest translation that was ever made in the world is called the Septuagint: LXX, the Septuagint, the Seventy. did not kill them, it didn’t even burn them! In the Book of Daniel, in the ninth chapter, you’ll find his prophecy that unto the end of time, of eternity, war and desolations are determined. Either way, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow to that gives them a second chance. You can’t even walk into a convenience store lost people. And the United States finally was brought into it. 12:9. 10:37-38; Luke 14:26-27. Alleged historical errors – Belshazzar. 12:5. Testament Sermons And typical of all that these infidels, unbelievers, these liberals, say, we’re going to choose just one. But, it was refused. Their language became the language of commerce. here. him to win a great victory. Notice how this amazing preservation took place. I just can’t believe all of this. likely that he has set up an image of himself. Now, we’re going to look at what happens to the critics who do not believe the Bible and look upon it with scorn and disdain, and especially the Book of Daniel. Remember, several times I’ve mentioned the fact that Herodotus visited Babylon in 460 BC and wrote extensively of it. Intro:  This is one But, the right of the Book of Daniel to canonicity was never questioned in the ancient synagogue. Now, the canon – the measure of the rule of the Old Testament was rigidly set. And that included Babylon. neglect in our search for “deeper truth” in the Bible. That’s how completely Belshazzar fell out of history. his doctrine was so different and his message was so contrary to the establishment Now, that was the excursion. William Hughes The Fiery Furnace Preach, man, preach! All right a third one – the one that I’ve already mentioned: it had to be written in Hebrew. Verse 21: "Then these men were bound in their coats, their clothes and their hats and their other garments and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace." As one man said, "I milk (Ill. What Purpose for God’s tests are for our health and not our hurt, C.   Separation of the There The events in chapter 3 seem to follow the events of Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream found in chapter 2. Two: at twenty years of age, he has a house of his own in Babylon. That’s the Word of the Lord. Now, there was a change in the language of the Jews. For example, 1 Maccabees – you’ve heard me speak about 1 Maccabees – if ever there was a book that was worthy of being included in the canon of the Hebrew Bible, it’s the book of Maccabees. In the Greek New Testament, you have Aramaic words: Abba, translated "Father" – in Mark 14:36; Talitha cumi, "awake and arise," in Mark 5:11. become more like Jesus. And 1 Maccabees is written in Greek. When Alexander the Great came with his army to Jerusalem to destroy it, instead of meeting an army to defend their city, you know what happened? But, they trusted Him anyway. (Note:  The true And when Alexander the Great read that in the prophecy of Daniel, he fell down and worshiped the true God and went with Jaddua, the high priest, into the Temple and there made an offering to the great Jehovah God of heaven and loved the Jews until he died. Outlines by a London Minister. that either Nebuchadnezzar has set p an image of his favorite god, or more Their faith in God would not ), B.  Even canonical books – books that are here in the Bible, like Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and even Ezekiel were challenged. But, they quit speaking Hebrew and began speaking Aramaic, the language of Babylon. 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