Lesson 1: Babylon sets up an "image" to worship.....
1a) Then the princes, the governors, and 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.
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded,
O people, nations, and languages,....ye fall down
and worship the golden image
that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth
shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel 3:3-6
1b) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
that the image of the beast should both speak,
and cause that as many as would
not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 13:15
Lesson 2: God's people delivered....
2a) Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury
commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Then they brought these men before the king.
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury,
and the form of his visage was changed against
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake,
and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times
more than it was wont to be heated.....
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace,
and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither.
Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
Daniel 3:13,19,26
2b) And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone,
and cast it into the sea, saying,
Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down,
and shall be found no more at all.
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse;
and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True,
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
Revelation 18:21/19:11/21:4
