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STUDIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

—INTERNATIONAL S.S. LESSONS.—

SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS DESIGNED TO ASSIST THOSE OF OUR READERS WHO ATTEND BIBLE CLASSES, WHERE THESE LESSONS ARE USED; THAT THEY MAY BE ENABLED TO LEAD OTHERS INTO THE FULNESS OF THE GOSPEL. PUBLISHED IN ADVANCE, AT THE REQUEST OF FOREIGN READERS.

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NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM

LESSON IX., MAY 29, DANIEL 2:36-49

Golden Text—”All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”—Heb. 4:13

Nebuchadnezzar’s deeply significant and prophetic dream and the divinely inspired interpretation of it by the prophet Daniel, as recorded in this lesson, are worthy of the careful study of every earnest Christian who would follow the Apostle’s injunction to take heed to the sure word of prophecy which shineth as a light in a dark place until the day dawn. (2 Pet. 1:19.) The reader is referred to MILLENNIAL DAWN, Vol. I., page 248 for an elucidation of this prophecy.

May all the truly consecrated indeed see and appreciate their privilege of being part of that kingdom symbolized by the stone which in due time is to destroy and displace all the other kingdoms and fill the whole earth with its glory and its blessings of righteousness and peace.

In the midst of the unsettled and unsatisfactory conditions of the past and the present, while the groaning creation waits for the establishment of God’s kingdom in the earth, how comforting to the hearts of them that believe are the words of the golden text—”All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” (Heb. 4:13.) In far-seeing wisdom God has permitted all the present disorders, yet, in the end, even the wrath of man shall praise him and the remainder he restrains. (Psa. 76:10.) See Vol. I., Chap. vii., “The Permission of Evil and its Relation to God’s Plan.”

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— May 15, 1892 —