DANIEL 2 - THE DREAM
1.
Describe the image
that Daniel told the king he saw in his dream:
(vs. 31-33) A) Brightness:
___________________ B) Form:
_______________________ C) Head:
_______________________ D) Breast/Arms:
_________________ E) Belly/Thighs:
_________________ F) Legs:
_______________________ G) Feet:
_______________________
2.
What else did King
Nebuchadnezzar see in his dream? (vs. 34)
A __________ cut without ____________
·
What did it do to the
image? A) Laid a foundation B) Broke the feet, then broke the image into
pieces
3.
What happened to the
image? (vs. 35)
·
It became as the
___________ of the summer threshing floors.
·
The _________ carried
them away, that _____ __________ was
found for them.
4.
What happened to the
stone? (vs. 35) It became a great _______________ and
filled the whole ______________.
THE INTERPRETATION
5.
Fill in the
interpretation given by Daniel:
A) Gold Head (vs. 37) : King
________________________
B) Silver Breast (vs. 39):
Another kingdom, __________ to Babylon C) Brass Belly (vs. 39):
A 3rd kingdom ruling over all the _______ D)
Iron Legs (vs.40-41):
A fourth kingdom that would be ________ E) Iron/Clay Feet : (vs. 42) Partly ___________, partly
___________
6.
What kind of kingdom
would God set up during this time? (vs. 44) “...shall
never be _______________: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other ___________, but it shall ______________ in
pieces and ____________ all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
______ __________.”
7.
What would God use to
break these kingdoms into pieces? (vs. 45) ___________
8.
What did King Nebuchadnezzar
say about Daniel’s God? (vs. 47) “...your
God is...a revealer of __________,…”
9.
What did the king do
for Daniel? (vs. 48)
·
Made him a
__________ _________
·
Gave him many ________
·
Made him ruler over
______________________
·
Made him chief of
_______ ______________________
1.
This stone was “cut
out of the mountain without hands.”
Compare to the “work of hands” in Psalm 28:4-5 and Jeremiah 1:16. Who then, has cut
this stone without hands?
2.
This stone was used by
God , both to destroy and to build. How
do the following verses connect to Daniel 2:44?
·
Genesis 49:24; Isaiah 28:16
·
Matthew
21:42; Acts 4: 10-12; I Peter 2:6-8
3.
Respond to the amazing
concept of how God continues to preserve His elect through the era of the
kingdoms, until that day when the final stone is laid in the heavenly kingdom
of Zion.
4.
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1. |
ERA OF
KINGDOMS 1)
BABYLONIAN/ASSYRIAN 1211 BC-
539 BC -Famous Leaders: Shalmaneser, Nebuchandessar -Lifetime of the OT
prophets, including Daniel/Ezekiel 2)
PERSIAN 550 BC – 330 BC -Famous Leaders: Darius, Cyrus -Lifetime of Haggai,
Zachariah; Esther, Nehemiah,
Ezra. 3)
GREECIAN 330 BC - 167 BC Famous Leader: Alexander the Great -Period during the 400 years of silence ROMAN 167 BC - 476 AD Famous
leaders: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Herod, Caesar Augustus. -Period of Christ’s birthPalestine
was swept into the great empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome over a
period of 650 years. |
|
2. |
WITHOUT “HANDS” (3028) - open
hand, power |
|
3. |
MOUNTAIN (2906) - only used
twice, both in Daniel 2; a rock or
hill |
A Biblical
Study
Daniel 2:31-49
The Years of Exile
“Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation…”
-Isaiah
28:16
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“...God hath made
known what will come to pass hereafter…”
The Years of
Exile
The Years of
Exile
A GREAT IMAGE
SECONDARY
BEGINNER
A GREAT IMAGE
1. What did Daniel tell King
Nebuchadnezzar his dreamt was about?
A) Lions on a mountain B) A great image of a man’s body
2. Fill in the missing vowel
of each part the image was made. (Draw/color in those parts of the image below.)
A) The head G ___ L D
B) The arms and chest S __ L V __ R
C) The belly B R __ S S
D) The legs __ R __ N
E) The feet __ R __ N and C L __ Y
3. Daniel also told the
king what this dream meant. Match the
meanings.
A) The head 1. A fourth, a divided and weakened kingdom
B) The silver chest and shoulders 2. King Nebuchadnezzar;
the kingdom of Babylon
C) The brass belly 3.
A second
kingdom, not quite as strong as Babylon
D) The legs and feet 4.
A third kingdom,
not as strong as the second
4. What else was in King
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream?
A cut without
·
What did this mean?
A) It was smooth
B) It was the work of God, not of man
5. What did the stone do to
the image?
A) It laid a foundation B) It broke the feet, then broke the image into pieces
·
Who does the Bible call our “chief corner stone”?
6.
What kind of kingdom would God set up during this time?
A) An earthly kingdom B) A heavenly kingdom
7. What did King
Nebuchadnezzar say about Daniel’s God?
“...your God is...a
revealer of S __ C R __ T S”
8.
What did the king do for Daniel? A) He made him in charge of all the governors
of Babylon
B) He gave him many gifts and ruler of the wisemen
C) Both A and B
“Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation…”
-Isaiah
28:16
The Years of Exile
Daniel 2:31-49
A Biblical
Study
SUGGESTED QUESTIONS THROUGH THE LESSON
1.
What was interesting
about Nebuchadnezzar and his dream? (he
couldn’t remember the dream, but he remember it bothered him deeply)
2.
Has anybody here had a
bad dream?
3.
What makes a dream
scary?
4.
Does anyone remember
from last week’s lesson, if the king’s wise men could help him?
5.
Today, Daniel will
tell the king his dream. Could you tell
me what I dreamt last night? How did
Daniel know what the king dreamt?
6.
What does it mean, “God
is the revealer of secrets?”
7.
What kind of secrets
are in the Bible? (who are the sheep and
who are the goats; how does a person
become saved; …)
8.
Why do they have to be
secret? (so only God can tell us the
answer, and not man)
9.
How does God tell us
the answer to His secrets? (through his
word)
10. Draw a picture of the image on the board. Nebuchadnezzar dreamt about an image. What is an image?
11. Talk about the metals/material each part was made of. What makes gold valuable? Silver, what does it look like? Brass, Iron, Clay?
12. Each of these parts represents a kingdom. What word is in kingdom? What do you think kingdom means?
13. As time would go by, each kingdom would get less
powerful. During the last kingdom would
be the time when Baby Jesus would be born.
Through the time of that weak kingdom, Christianity would have an
opportunity to spread. God promised to
make a kingdom from the stone without hands.
What does that mean? (hands made
by man, without hands made by God)
14. That kingdom will last forever and ever. Where/when will that kingdom be?
15. What did the king do for Daniel after he told the
dream/interpretation?
16. What did Daniel do for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo?
17. Even though Daniel and the people from Judah were in
captivity in a far away country, God still took care of His children.
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1. |
ERA OF
KINGDOMS 1)
BABYLONIAN/ASSYRIAN 1211 BC-
539 BC -Famous Leaders: Shalmaneser, Nebuchandessar -Lifetime of the OT
prophets, including Daniel/Ezekiel 2)
PERSIAN 550 BC – 330 BC -Famous Leaders: Darius, Cyrus -Lifetime of Haggai,
Zachariah; Esther, Nehemiah, Ezra. 3)
GREECIAN 330 BC - 167 BC Famous Leader: Alexander the Great -Period during the 400 years of silence ROMAN 167 BC - 476 AD Famous
leaders: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Herod, Caesar Augustus. -Period of Christ’s
birthPalestine was swept into the great empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece
and Rome over a period of 650 years. |
|
2. |
WITHOUT “HANDS” (3028) - open
hand, power |
|
3. |
MOUNTAIN (2906) - only used
twice, both in Daniel 2; a rock or
hill |
ADULT
A GREAT IMAGE
“...God hath made
known what will come to pass hereafter…”
DANIEL 2 - THE DREAM
1.
Describe the image
that Daniel told the king he saw in his dream:
(vs. 31-33) A) Brightness:
___________________ B) Form:
_______________________ C) Head:
_______________________ D) Breast/Arms:
_________________ E) Belly/Thighs:
_________________ F) Legs:
_______________________ G) Feet:
_______________________
2.
What else did King
Nebuchadnezzar see in his dream? (vs. 34)
·
What did it do to the
image?
3.
What happened to the
image? (vs. 35)
4.
What happened to the
stone? (vs. 35)
THE INTERPRETATION
5.
Fill in the
interpretation given by Daniel:
A) Gold Head (vs. 37) : B)
Silver Breast (vs. 39): C)
Brass Belly (vs. 39):
D) Iron Legs (vs.40-41):
E) Iron/Clay Feet : (vs. 42)
6.
What kind of kingdom
would God set up during this time? (vs. 44) “...shall
never be _______________: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other ___________, but it shall ______________ in
pieces and ____________ all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
______ __________.”
7.
What would God use to
break these kingdoms into pieces? (vs. 45)
8.
What did King
Nebuchadnezzar say about Daniel’s God? (vs. 47)
9.
What did the king do
for Daniel? (vs. 48)
·
·
·
·
“Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation…”
-Isaiah
28:16
The Years of Exile
Daniel 2:31-49
A Biblical
Study
1.
This stone was “cut
out of the mountain without hands.”
Compare to the “work of hands” in Psalm 28:4-5 and Jeremiah 1:16.
·
Who then, has cut this
stone without hands?
2.
This stone was used by
God , both to destroy and to build. How
do the following verses connect to Daniel 2:44?
·
Genesis 49:24; Isaiah 28:16
·
Matthew
21:42; Acts 4: 10-12; I Peter 2:6-8
3.
God preserved His
elect through out the barbaric era of the kingdoms. What is His elect protected from today? Matthew
24:22-24
4.
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1. |
ERA OF
KINGDOMS 1)
BABYLONIAN/ASSYRIAN 1211 BC-
539 BC -Famous Leaders: Shalmaneser, Nebuchandessar -Lifetime of the OT
prophets, including Daniel/Ezekiel 2)
PERSIAN 550 BC – 330 BC -Famous Leaders: Darius, Cyrus -Lifetime of Haggai,
Zachariah; Esther, Nehemiah,
Ezra. 3)
GREECIAN 330 BC - 167 BC Famous Leader: Alexander the Great -Period during the 400 years of silence ROMAN 167 BC - 476 AD Famous
leaders: Julius Caesar, Pompey, Herod, Caesar Augustus. -Period of Christ’s
birthPalestine was swept into the great empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece
and Rome over a period of 650 years. |
|
2. |
WITHOUT “HANDS” (3028) - open
hand, power |
|
3. |
MOUNTAIN (2906) - only used
twice, both in Daniel 2; a rock or
hill |
PRIMARY
A GREAT IMAGE
“...God hath made
known what will come to pass hereafter…”
DANIEL 2 - THE DREAM
1.
Describe the image
that Daniel told the king he saw in his dream:
(vs. 31-33) A) Brightness:
___________________ B) Form:
_______________________ C) Head:
_______________________ D) Breast/Arms:
_________________ E) Belly/Thighs:
_________________ F) Legs:
_______________________ G) Feet:
_______________________
2.
What else did King
Nebuchadnezzar see in his dream? (vs. 34) A __________ cut without
____________
·
What did it do to the
image?
A) Laid a foundation B) Broke the feet, then broke the image into
pieces
3.
What happened to the
image? (vs. 35)
·
It became as the
___________ of the summer threshing floors.
·
The _________ carried
them away, that _____ __________ was
found for them.
4.
What happened to the
stone? (vs. 35) It became a great _______________ and
filled the whole ______________.
THE INTERPRETATION
5.
Fill in the
interpretation given by Daniel:
A) Gold Head (vs. 37) : King
________________________
B) Silver Breast (vs. 39): Another
kingdom, __________ to Babylon C) Brass Belly (vs. 39):
A 3rd kingdom ruling over all the _______ D)
Iron Legs (vs.40-41):
A fourth kingdom that would be ________ E) Iron/Clay Feet : (vs. 42) Partly ___________, partly
___________
6.
What kind of kingdom
would God set up during this time? (vs. 44) “...shall
never be _______________: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other ___________, but it shall ______________ in
pieces and ____________ all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
______ __________.”
7.
What would God use to
break these kingdoms into pieces? (vs. 45) ___________
8.
What did King
Nebuchadnezzar say about Daniel’s God? (vs. 47) “...your
God is...a revealer of __________,…”
9.
What did the king do
for Daniel? (vs. 48)
·
Made him a
__________ _________
·
Gave him many ________
·
Made him ruler over
______________________
·
Made him chief of
_______ ______________________
“Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation…”
-Isaiah
28:16
The Years of Exile
Daniel 2:31-49
A Biblical
Study
1.
This stone was “cut
out of the mountain without hands.” What
is the work “with hands”? Psalm
28:4-5 A) The deeds of the wicked B)
Something made
·
Who then, has cut this
stone without hands?
______________
2.
This stone was used by
God , both to destroy and to build.
What is Christ called?
I Peter 2:6 The chief _________ ________
·
Of what is Christ the
corner stone? A) The kingdom of heaven B) The temple of the New Jerusalem C) Both A and B
3.
If God took care of
His children through out these kingdoms, what does God take care of His
children from today?
A) False Gospels B)
Getting hurt