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Daniel Chapter 3 PART 2 THE JEWS REFUSE! |
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In the 1840s, William Miller began to see an END to this present WORLD and it's prevailing religious beliefs based on Daniel NUMEROLOGY and that the SANCTUARY needed CLEANSING. But he, like those before him worshipped the GOLDEN IMAGE of Daniel Chapter 3:1-19. |
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DIFFERENT IMAGE -- ALL OF GOLD! BUT THE SAME MESSAGE AND THE SAME GOD, AFTER ALL! THE GOLDEN TRINITY! |
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William Miller, like the Seventh-day Adventists who followed him after 1844, adopted Protestantism as his "label" and the Book of Daniel as his book. Daniel 2 was "his" promise that God would destroy Pagan gods and this present world, and set up a new kingdom based on the laws of the True God and sing the new song of His Testimonies. But he failed to see the true story written here between the last few verses of Daniel 2 and the time when those pesky three Hebrews stayed standing when everyone else fell down and worshipped. --
The Adventists in 1844 had a glimpse of a Jewish human Jesus as a high priest, not "God", but later, in 1888, stumbled and resisted the gravity of the majority for a moment, then fell into line. At that time we joined the crowd of universal gold-god worshippers! And O how good and comfortable it feels NOT TO BE STANDING ALONE while all our friends are bowing and worshipping.
We, the Blind, Deaf, and Illiterate!
Daniel 3:1"Nebuchadnezzar the king made an IMAGE OF GOLD, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits; be set up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2 "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up." 3 "Then the princes, the governors, the captains, the judges, the treasurers. the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up." 4 "Then an herald cried aloud, To you is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, -- 5 "That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:-- 6 "And whoso FALLETH NOT DOWN and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."
Verse 7 "Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up."
Daniel 3:8 "Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews." 9 "They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. 10 "Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 11 "And whoso FALLETH NOT DOWN and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."
12 "There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O King, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou has set up. 13 "Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king." 14 "Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do ye not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?" 15 "Now if ye be ready that at the time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well; but if ye worship NOT, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?"
16 "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter." 17 "If it be so, Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us out of thine hand, O king." 18 "But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou has set up." 19 "Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated." 20 "And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace." 21 "Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace." 22 "Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego." 23 "And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace."
24 "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spoke, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king." 25 "He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."
26 "Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither." (He was not going to risk the deaths of any more of his best soldiers trying to help them out of the fire!) "Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire." 27 "And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had now power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them." 28 "Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they MIGHT NOT SERVE NOR WORSHIP ANY GODS, except their OWN GOD.
30 "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the province of Babylon."
The REFUSAL of the 3 HEBREWS, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-hego to worship the Golden "TRINITY" image was honored, symbolically at least, on May 14, 15 - 1948 when Israel became a Nation once again!
The God of Israel is not now, nor ever has been the so-called "Holy Trinity" set up by the Christian Bishops under the direction of the Sun-worshipping Roman Emperor Constantine the Great at Nicaea, in France, in 325 AD. - Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD, MPH |
Mark 4:9 "And he said unto them,
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
11 "And he said unto them, Unto you (those
with minds!) it is given to know the
mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all
these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and
not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any
time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."
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