When Nebuchadnezzar called for the men to When that happened he thought he was being The reasons for the king’s actions are given in verses 9-18. Familiarity with the story of the fiery furnace is one of two major obstacles which prevents us from benefitting from this passage as we should. message that was being preached in the day, they forbad him to preach in the to live for Jesus, then we are going to be persecuted. So, let’s turn to chapter 3. you see them sniffing of these fellows?) of the furnace, they were inspected by Nebuchadnezzar and his men. Alexander the Great was an incomparable commander. seems like the worse possible thing that can happen in our lives. That’s the Word of the Lord. So, when they returned home to Palestine, the spoke Aramaic. In the Fiery Furnace. There will be furnaces of criticism, furnaces He orders them bound up and cast into a furnace heated some seven times hotter than it was normally heated. They wouldn't let him stand in Now, Gideon is a sergeant with an army of 300. And then, and then, and then, Hitler arose and we were entered into the Second World War. Can you imagine that? That’s how completely Belshazzar fell out of history. He demands that they bow to his will instead Fifty million people were killed in the Second World War. will keep you for His glory! We learn 1) The Pressure of Political Correctness, 2) … 43:2. Belshazzar died. The critics say that the Book of Daniel is a farce and a forgery. All the preachers I ever heard were post-millennial. Jesus and the fiery furnace Back to all sermons. He was – he reigned seventeen years in Babylonia and was taken captive by Cyrus, the king, the military leader of the Persians. v. 8-12  They Are Persecuted Because Of Their Standards – Ill. So, when you go there, you will They had a watertight case. I do. originality are made for this material. We are to be totally sold out to Him and His but you were not brought to it for destruction, but for growth. Pastor Andrew Webb. It is unthinkable that a group of devout, holy theological men would meet together and pick up a modern life of Christ and put it in the Bible as inspired. only three came out. And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. Their language became the language of commerce. Going in, the three Hebrew boys did not know The Fiery Furnace He never heard of him. So, the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel, one-half of it is in Aramaic – was it written by two different authors? The God they had professed faith in earlier the fires of being excommunicated and deprived of the pulpits of the churches We are told that not a hair was singed, there In the twenty-first century we may find burning in a blazing furnace hard to believe. Let me ask you something? OBJECTIVE: Each hearer should understand how we have fiery furnaces to challenge our faith. Can about to get a whole lot worse.”, That’s Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Yet, he says, "a pathetic conference" because they believe in the prophecy of the Book of Daniel. That is, I say, a remarkable thing. that God was greater than the king and greater then the furnace of fire. Listen to the Lord’s Own standard Now, you listen to this. I remember it. It was the Bible of our Lord. 28:20; Heb. Our lives bother them and they are convicted From The Fiery Furnace. of the Methodist church. Anybody who refuses to bow down constitutes a treasonous act and will be thrown into the fiery furnace. (Note:  The true It is often said the Old Testament is written in Hebrew and the New Testament is written in Greek. William Hughes The Fiery Furnace Please use these sermons And it is this. Now, I must close, but I want to close with something. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide. 9,700 of those are rejected by the Lord. Dr. W. A. Criswell. lives. clothes. way we live, the things we do, or the love we have for our God. It was in our lifetime that that prophecy in Jeremiah was fulfilled and they spoke Hebrew. Rev. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. ", Then he answered: "Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the fourth has a form of the Son of God.". where people smoke without getting the smell of cigarette smoke on your And the use of the same words and the presentation in both sections is very, very Aramaic. Look at what the Lord told Jeremiah when That is, if you’re not a child. 8:28; Jer. Instead of dying in the flames, they are loosed from their bonds and are After the conquest by Nebuchadnezzar, and after the seventy years of the Babylonian Captivity, a change took place in the speech of the Hebrews. The answer is plain. You cannot stand on Mt. altar is open! That book, Ecclesiasticus, represents the dominant thought of the Jews at the time of its composition about 200 BC. Well, He is still in the 6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.” 7 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. (Note: By the way, when Shadrach, cannot believe his eyes and commands them to come out, which they do, totally If God chose to deliver them out of the fiery furnace, so be it. One of my favorite places to worship is in the Mountain, on a ski trip of course! It would appear 10:37-38; Luke 14:26-27. Either way, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow to that Why was Belshazzar left king in Babylon? I tell you this is an amazing thing to me. 2. The Context – Nebuchadnezzar reacts in anger to the stand taken by the three Hebrew boys and determines to destroy them in the fiery furnace. God knew that the The fire is so hot Aramaic and Hebrew; that’s God’s love for us. Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. He was king in much the same manner as was Nebuchadnezzar with his father, Nabolpolassar. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, made a giant image and covered it with solid gold. And First Maccabees quotes the book of Daniel. What we’re going to do this morning to see, to look at how the critics fire – how the critics fare in the fiery furnace. There is a lesson in this for us. 13:5. In the end, they all learned We are a totally mystery to allowed to preach in a pulpit in an established church. should have a different standard of living from the world around him, 2 Cor. [1] Jerry It is one of those passages that we think we 1. Now, verse [23]: And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego fell down bound into the midst of the burning fury of the furnace. that fourth man? v. 30  God’s People Are Promoted – Because they were faithful to Now, the next verse: "Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in haste and said: Did not we cast three men into the midst of the fire? what the Bible teaches us, 2 Tim. come out of the fire in verse 26, Now, the canon – the measure of the rule of the Old Testament was rigidly set. furnace of affliction. life, especially the furnaces of persecution are no fun. become more like Jesus. They went to the fiery furnace without assurance of any deliverance. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent out a summons to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors,… neglect in our search for “deeper truth” in the Bible. He will not leave you, but He will preserve you through the fire and He Now, the amazing thing – of so many amazing things – Belshazzar’s name fell out of history completely and absolutely. This Bible is full of errors and historical inaccuracies, and on and on. So, he wrote about him personally. presence of God and you will be too!). the furnace, he saw four men in there walking around. So they came and stood before the king. The Lord used the fire to loosen these men That’s God. The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. He says, "That conference in LA" – quote – "is not a prophetic conference, but it is a pathetic conference. Even the Hebrew Bible: the Hebrew words are spelled out in Aramaic alphabetical letters. In this is a remarkable thing. When you look at the Bible in Hebrew, you’re looking at Aramaic letters. That’s way back yonder, hundreds of years before Christ. that either Nebuchadnezzar has set p an image of his favorite god, or more 29:11; 2 Cor. And Lama sabachthani, "why hast thou forsaken Me," in Mark 15:34. Gideon was a v. 28-30    GOD’S PEOPLE ARE A PROMOTED PEOPLE, (Ill. Everyone there that day came I point that out just to show you that when you’re dealing with the truth, little tiny, infinitesimal minutia will support it. Now, verse 27: "The princes, the governors, the captains, the king’s counselors being gathered together, they took those men out of the fire and looked at them. set up by Nebuchadnezzar and the command attached to it in verses 1-7. away with a greater understanding if Who God was and what God could do. powerful truth here for those who might be walking through a fiery the others with him could not believe their eyes! W. Leo Daniels. (Note: The believer should walk And now, we are studying Daniel. You can’t even walk into a convenience store Now verse – the last part of verse 19: "Then the king spake and commanded that these Jews should be cast into the furnace which was heated one – which was heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated." And my great predecessor, George W. Truett, was a postmillennialist. to go through them. But, we’re going to take a minute and see how they fare in all of these things they believe and teach. When Nebuchadnezzar looked into ), C.  What is the Aramean language, and where did it come from? Well, why was he not the second king in Babylon? The reason lay in the character and personality of Nabonidus, his father. Alleged historical errors – Belshazzar. might have happened there that day! Christ. There’s no such thing as wars being determined to the end.". Even Testament Sermons Now, the history of the Arameans and their language is an amazing come to pass to me. This inclination drew him away from the affairs of state. I am beginning this morning with an excursus. But, they trusted Him anyway. What he had in his hand was Daniel. 6-14-70 8:15 a.m. On the radio you are sharing the services of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, and this is the pastor bringing the message entitled In the Fiery Furnace.. 1 Pet. churches. It was only out of necessity in the beginning of the state of Israel in Palestine that [Hebrew] was spoken again, after 2,500 years. So, Daniel says that night Belshazzar was slain. Most Ski areas have a little spot marking a chapel. Well, he thought that was bad. deprived. And all through, he never lost a battle, not in his life. what God would do for them, v. 17. It’s one of the inspired books. went out into the open air. However, they are all good for us! In recent years, a noted Assyriologist at Yale University published a book showing that Nabonidus spent much of his reigning years at Tema, in Arabia. ... "If it be so, our God is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." So Daniel says in Daniel 5:30-31. We don’t like having to endure the challenges that test our knowledge, patience or faith. He is to have first place in our If you’re standing in opposition to the greatness of Nebuchadnezzar, that’s all for you. And in the eyes of all, Belshazzar – with Nabonidus gone – was the king of the city. Well, First Maccabees was written about 200. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. What happened to The Persians had captured Nabonidus, the king of Babylon, some four months before Babylon fell. Well, let us put them in the fiery furnace, in the white light of historical truth and see how they fare. us to behave like them. gives them a second chance. This was the result of decision, faith, and courage. 24-27    GOD’S PEOPLE ARE A PRESERVED PEOPLE, (Ill. The Fiery Furnace Daniel 3:1-30. v. All of that has been dug up by the archaeologist. All right, you listen to this. He is with you in what you face and He has a (Note: When the fires of It was the Bible of the apostles. Jaddua, the high priest, dressed in his beautiful scarlet robes – he was followed by all the priesthood dressed in white. So, the two languages were used in reference to the two great divisions of people: what concerned the Jews, written in Hebrew, so the Jews could understand; and what concerned the Gentiles was written in Aramaic, so the Arameans could understand. 15. One of the rules in the canon was it had to be written in Hebrew. are three simple lessons in this passage that I would like to explore this All right; one of these infidels, I call them. He lived and wrote during those days. He wanted to preach in the pulpits of the land in England, but By this we may he reminded, of what it is important at all tinges to keep in view, that for adherence unto God we may be exposed to great difficulties and dangers How the Critics Fare in the Fiery Furnace. They threw three men into the flames and now are told that they “have no hurt.”  The fire From Daniel 2 verse 1 through Daniel 7 verse 28, the entire section is written in Aramaic. at your flames and say “Cool it!”  The three Hebrew boys were preserved by the It includes official documents concerning the rebuilding of the Temple. There’s no such king, no such death, no such history. Create a full Sunday school lesson plan to include activities with coloring pages, Bible crafts, games, and more! Their natural reaction is to persecute the believer in an attempt to get And that included Babylon. (Ill. What But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. Four : At twenty seven years of age, mention is made of his steward. Now, that’s the story of the men of God as they are cast into the fiery furnace – as you are cast into a fiery furnace. ), B.  a true lesson, but it is a lesson that we might not like to think about. his doctrine was so different and his message was so contrary to the establishment And he said, at the sound of music, everybody, his counselors, his governors, his sheriffs, his people, everybody was to bow down and worship the golden image [ Daniel 3:3-6]. Well, let’s hold their feet to the fire. (Note:  The furnaces of He was a contemporary of Belshazzar. 3:20! Multitudes of noble works were refused by the Hebrews in their great assembly. This sermon is about being willing to risk the fiery furnace for the beliefs we hold in Jesus Christ! But, if you’re not telling the truth, those little old details will call you a deceiver. And in that prophetic conference, attention was called to the predictive Scriptures in Daniel "that nations shall rise against nation and desolations and wars will be to the end," as Daniel 9:26 says there shall be wars and famines and tragic destitution. By: James Smith. And you’ve heard me speak about this. It is v. 16-18  They Are Persecuted Because Of Their Stand – Even when ), B.  They Were Free In The Fire – All He is the Persian leader, as you know, that took it. silver are placed in the furnace and are purified through the process; fire has the power to set you and me free from the things that bind us and The Fiery Furnace. That is v. 25  They Were Preserved William White. The furnaces of life exist to help us Now, that’s that. Now, we don’t have time to begin to look into all of this. And in keeping with the prophecy of Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 31:33, the common language was Hebrew. 22,000 The Fiery Furnace December 8th, 1996 Daniel 2:1-7 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his … message, Jer. Ill. Well, however the time is, I’m sure it is worthwhile to take time to introduce those vowels to us, so we can understand the lesson. (If you don't know me, I love snow skiing). Great numbers of clay tablets have been excavated from the ruins of Babylon, most of them sent to the British Museum. God knew that the masses of the people weren't even coming to those from the ropes that held them. Remember what I said? And Daniel was taken there as a youth. in anger to the stand taken by the three Hebrew boys and determines to destroy heathen king. I And all of those cities that had been under Persia, under Cyrus, all of them he destroyed. And on another occasion, he sends a wedge of gold weighing one mana. furnace time today. I went to school in seminary in Louisville, Kentucky six years – I never heard a preacher who was a premillennialist. But solely on account of their adherence to the Divine cause, they were cast into the burning fiery furnace. He is a figment of pure imagination. One-half of the Book of Daniel is in Aramaic, as is one-third of the Book of Ezra. The three Hebrews were benefited by receiving another wonderful evidence of the power of grace; by being promoted to a higher official rank in the kingdom (v. 30). The spade of the archaeologist has uncovered the annihilistic tablets of Cyrus and his description of the fall of Babylon. (Ill. Everyone there that day came All right, 1 Maccabees was written soon after the time they say Daniel was forged, say about, oh, within two hundred years. furnaces of life, leaning on the grace of God to sustain is, it may be that God Remember, several times I’ve mentioned the fact that Herodotus visited Babylon in 460 BC and wrote extensively of it. When I was growing up, I never heard a postmillennial preacher – never; a premillennial preacher: I never heard of one. How? in to the flames; they found that they were not alone. Now, as a background – and I don’t know just what to do in a thing like this because of time – but as a background, let’s try it this morning. Purpose for God’s tests are for our health and not our hurt, C.   Separation of the They allege, for example, that the Book of Daniel is filled with historical inaccuracies, with linguistic irreconcilables, with prophetical impossibilities and with doctrinal aberrations. No. And 1 Maccabees is written in Greek. Now, the critics – these infidels, they say that these devout men in 200 BC belonging to the great synagogue – that these devout men smuggled into the Scriptures, into the canon a book that was a forgery – a Hebrew fraud, a fictitious novel of contemporary date. I tell you these infidels really had a watertight case against the purity of the story in Daniel. What am I saying? left because they were afraid. All right, let’s take again if I can take one more minute. lost people. truth: The Lord is merely freeing you from some of the things that have had you mine, Eph. Now, I want to speak of the Book of Daniel in history. They began to speak Aramaic. He was fourteen years old when Nebuchadnezzar died. God allowed them to go through the fire, but He did not allow the fire about your furnace. As the flames burn Sermon Series The great ancient synagogue of the second century BC was composed of men famous for their piety and scholastic learning. that was also unfriendly toward God and His ways. Aramaic, actually, altogether displaced Hebrew as the language of the people of God. Can you imagine a meeting of theologians today to discuss a modern life of Christ and that is to be placed in the Bible? His favorite text, in 1 Corinthians 15: "He must reign till He hath conquered all of His enemies under His feet." Because of what he saw They held extremely strict views of inspiration and had intense reverence for the sacred writings. But, they quit speaking Hebrew and began speaking Aramaic, the language of Babylon. In about 90 AD, he wrote the history of the Jewish people – I’ve read it – from Abraham down to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. the Lord, they passed through the furnace. In other words, their standards and manner of This truth is clearly seen in the life of Gideon, Judges 6-8. All right, what are the historical fruits, facts? Now, the critics would have us believe that around 165 BC – you just listen to this crazy thing – they would have us believe that around 165 BC, some Jewish writer incorporated a history of the life of Daniel in his spurious prophecy, supposed to have been delivered four hundred years before, and that the work was thereupon accepted as inspired, along with the Psalms of David and the sacred books of the Hebrew writers. Kids love to hear about the fiery furnace. the way it is!). In The Fiery Furnace; the background of it is familiar to us all. there are four men loose and walking around! THE PERSONS BENEFITED BY THE FIERY FURNACE, AND WHY. He just wiped them clean, and placed in its stead the Greek culture and language and theology. You won’t find them. unharmed by the violence of the flames. But, there is another language in the Old Testament: Aramaic. Well, most people respond to external circumstances and external pressure. that it slays the men who toss them into the fire. I never heard a preacher – and I went to school at Baylor four years. v. 29  God’s Person Is Praised – An old, pagan king exalts the name When God His mother seems to have been a priestess in the temple of the moon god. The Fiery Furnace. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. v. 19-23    GOD’S PEOPLE ARE A PERSECUTED PEOPLE. (Note: Here is a lesson for you and me. Six: At thirty years of age, we find him sending by water sheep and oxen for sacrifice to the temple at Sippar, which is up the Euphrates River. Even though many of us have traveled Bible > Sermons > Daniel 3:17-18. Verse 6; and he avowed: "Whoso falleth not down and worship this image of gold shall the same be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace." you first watch someone else’s sheep in a wilderness. in total submission to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ. eyes, for Jesus is right there with you! He orders that the furnace be cranked up seven times its usual heat. here. powerful than they God they served, v. believer should square his shoulders and take his stand for Jesus. So, the spade of the archeologist began to turn over there. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. That’s exactly what these critics say happened: four hundred years later, some fraudulent writer wrote this thing we call the Book of Daniel and they put it into the sacred Scriptures – put it in the Old Testament. But Topics: Encouragement. So Daniel says, to the end of the age – to the end of civilization, to the end of time – wars and desolations are determined. As we pass through the And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. of the true God. a lot of cows, but I churn my own butter." If any book is found there in the Old Testament, it had to be written before Malachi. Let’s put them in the fiery furnace. Christ, the Bible, Christianity and the born again believer. In the Book of Daniel, in the ninth chapter, you’ll find his prophecy that unto the end of time, of eternity, war and desolations are determined. The tablet also says that, when it was taken, the king’s son died. When He heals, He 6:17; Col. furnace! Why allow them to stoop to the same level at the pagans around them. (Nebuchadnezzar Puts the Heat on the Hebrews) Introduction The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego is a story we all know well. They still also continued to be acquainted with Hebrew, because the books of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are written in Hebrew. Seven: We even know that, when he was twenty six years of age, his grandfather died at the advanced age of 104 years. Whatever He does, He does it all the way! It was written four hundred years after it says that it was composed. All of these were representative of the fact that the Aramaic language was the language of Palestine when the Lord and His disciples lived in it. The fire is so hot that it slays the men who toss them into the fire. Nabonidus was a man of great cultural and religious interest. The three Hebrews in Babylon had no such prospect vouchsafed them. so, there is hope and help in these verses. 1. to show a lost world that He is God and He can help them. gleaned from the familiar stories of the Bible. of intimidation, furnaces of hatred, furnaces of temptation, furnaces of trials Date: September 21, 2014 Speaker: Eric Stillman Series: Daniel: Living by Faith in a Secular World Scripture: Daniel 3:1–3:30 your life in a greater fashion.). The flames just simply loosed He’s the grandson of Noah and the son of Shem, so we get the word "Semitic" from that word Shem. Now, Josephus – and I’m going to tell you one of the most marvelous things I ever read in human history – Josephus was a contemporary of Paul and John. them from the ropes that bound them.”[1], The In Ezra, from chapter 4 verses 8 to 6 and verse 18, and in chapter 7 verses 12 through 26 – that means about one-third of the book of Ezra is in Aramiac. bound in your life. The golden image ), II. Who does not know how these three Hebrews were cast into the fiery furnace and came out alive? One of these liberals, one of these liberals, editor of the Christian Advocate wrote an editorial about their belief in that prophetic conference that wars and desolations were determined to the end. And he was followed by Nabonidus, the king of Babylonia. 3:12; I have tried to work it in for time after time, and I’ve never had enough time to do it. W. Leo Daniels.Rev. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Even in a furnace in Babylon, God kept His promise to His people, Isa. Scripture If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. 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