We’re often shown a short video clip while being told, “Wait for it” - and we do – until the surprise moment happens. This is exactly the scenario in Daniel 2, where king Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of the Middle East empires and what would become of them.
They were displayed in the form of a huge statue with a head of gold, shoulders and chest of silver, stomach and thighs of brass, legs of iron, and the feet were part iron and clay (notice the deterioration in quality). The king had no idea what the dream meant, so God gave Daniel insight to tell the king.
Daniel interpreted this dream in “the second year of king Nebuchadnezzar”, which was 604 BC, and perfectly described the empires that followed and which are now written in our history books. The gold represented Babylon, silver was the Medes and Persians, brass was Greece and Rome (since Rome morphed with Greek influence), and the legs of silver were the Islamic empires with their Sunni-Shiite split, ending in feet of iron and clay (western influence of today).
The ”wait-for-it” moment happens when suddenly, “A Stone, cut out of the mountain without hands, smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. Then the iron and clay, the brass the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the Stone that smote the image became a great mountain (Kingdom), and filled the whole earth.”
Then Daniel ends with these words… “The Great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain and the interpretation sure” – (Daniel 2:45).
The Stone is Jesus. His return is the “wait-for-it” moment that destroys all the best-laid global dominance attempts by world powers. People talk of the secret plans of the “deep state,” but our God is deeper… “He reveals the deep and secret things: He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him.” – (Daniel 2:22). So every time you watch the news and it seems evil has the upper hand, smile…
Blessed are they who “wait-for-Him.”
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