This story from the Prophetic Book of Daniel has always warmed my heart.
Picture the scene. Three thousand people. Have you seen these photographs of all the people at Mecca when they all bow down? That's what the scene must to look like. A sea of people all bowing down. And here are three people still standing and you must have looked like and felt like a sore thumb sticking it out. Well they of course are immediately reported to the king. And the king, of course is already angry the way it describes it.
And they come before him and there is the interview between them and the king and he gets mad or is getting red in the face. Look I just went through a rebellion and here are three disloyal servants. These are just the kind of people that are going to start another rebellion against me. And so the king gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter and redder and redder in the face and you're standing isolated from everybody else on the plain of Dura. You're standing before the world's single most powerful human individual. What are you going to say? What would you say oh I made a mistake let me go back and try it again. But let me take another shot at it. That's not what they said. This is a wonderful example of spiritual courage and we should read it and revel in it. The courage that these young men is amazing. After all these guys are about twenty one years of age, maybe a little bit more maybe they're twenty five or thirty.
And so they they replied to the king verse sixteen" Oh Nebuchadnezzar we do not need to give you an answer concerning this". We do not hesitate to give you an answer. "if it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of your hand o king. But even if he does not, let it be known to you o king we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up".
They have determined on pain of death that they are going to be firm to their faith, firm to their God and they will not worship this idol image which has been set up even if it cost them their lives. But they preface it by saying our God can deliver us if he decides to. So Nebuchadnezzar says "away with them". So they are bound and they were taken to what probably looks a lot like an igloo. The brick kiln in Babylon looks something like this. There were steps going up and there you would put a tray of bricks in here and you would fire the bricks and then the pallet of bricks would be brought out. So they probably were dropped down from above if you please.
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Picture the scene. Three thousand people. Have you seen these photographs of all the people at Mecca when they all bow down? That's what the scene must to look like. A sea of people all bowing down. And here are three people still standing and you must have looked like and felt like a sore thumb sticking it out. Well they of course are immediately reported to the king. And the king, of course is already angry the way it describes it.
And they come before him and there is the interview between them and the king and he gets mad or is getting red in the face. Look I just went through a rebellion and here are three disloyal servants. These are just the kind of people that are going to start another rebellion against me. And so the king gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter and redder and redder in the face and you're standing isolated from everybody else on the plain of Dura. You're standing before the world's single most powerful human individual. What are you going to say? What would you say oh I made a mistake let me go back and try it again. But let me take another shot at it. That's not what they said. This is a wonderful example of spiritual courage and we should read it and revel in it. The courage that these young men is amazing. After all these guys are about twenty one years of age, maybe a little bit more maybe they're twenty five or thirty.
And so they they replied to the king verse sixteen" Oh Nebuchadnezzar we do not need to give you an answer concerning this". We do not hesitate to give you an answer. "if it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of your hand o king. But even if he does not, let it be known to you o king we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up".
They have determined on pain of death that they are going to be firm to their faith, firm to their God and they will not worship this idol image which has been set up even if it cost them their lives. But they preface it by saying our God can deliver us if he decides to. So Nebuchadnezzar says "away with them". So they are bound and they were taken to what probably looks a lot like an igloo. The brick kiln in Babylon looks something like this. There were steps going up and there you would put a tray of bricks in here and you would fire the bricks and then the pallet of bricks would be brought out. So they probably were dropped down from above if you please.
Read more: http://www.christiansermonsandmusic...el-study-of-daniel-chapter.html#ixzz3nPlFOsic
