Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

Sleepless in Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. King Nebuchadnezzar started having dreams so disturbing that he couldn’t sleep. Those dreams started during his second year as king. He called in his spirit guides to explain his dreams—magicians, sorcerers, and sages. He told them, “I have had an upsetting dream. I want to know what’s going on.” The king asked Daniel, whose Babylonian name was Belteshazzar, “First, can you tell me what I dreamed and then explain what it means?” Daniel answered, “No I can’t. No one here can do that. No sage or fortune-teller or sorcerer. And nNo magician is going to pull that rabbit out of his sack. Humans can’t solve a mystery like yours. But there is a God above us who solves mysteries. While you lay in bed sleeping, that God used a dream to reveal the mystery of what will happen as you approach the end of your days.

Daniel reveals the king’s dream

In your dreams, God showed you what will happen in the future. God revealed this mystery to me, as well. Not because I’m smarter than anyone else. But because he wants you to understand this dream buried deep in your mind. My king, you saw something terrifying. In your dream you saw a massive, magnificent statue, shimmering in brilliant light. A head of pure gold rested on silver shoulders, above a silver chest and arms. The stomach, lower sides, and lower back were bronze. All of that rested on legs of iron and on feet of hard clay pottery mixed with pieces of iron. As you watched this statue, you saw a rock break away without anyone touching it. The rock hit the statue’s feet. Then the statue came crashing down under all that weight at the top. The crush of it all turned everything into dust that blew away in the wind like chaff flakes from sifted grain. Wind took it all, every trace. But the stone that destroyed the statue grew into a mountain that covered the world."

What the king’s dream means

Daniel said, “That’s the king’s dream. This is what it means. You are the king of many kings and kingdoms. God of heaven gave you that power and the honors that go with it. You control every living thing in the land—every person, every wild animal in the field, and every bird in the air. The gold head you saw in the dream—that’s you.

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