The Beating Hearts Spectrum
Tonnes of things to do by friday.
And it's sad I've not been going for jamming these past 2 weeks. It's just been super busy. And unluckily the auditions for talentquest falls on thursday.
I read Daniel today. Let me talk abit about Daniel. Daniel (the original Daniel. The guy who everyone is calling their sons by) was a very upright man. He didn't like to nullify his practices with God. So the story goes he was in King Nebuchadnezzar's palace. And the king had a dream. But he has no idea what his dream meant, and he wanted someone to explain the dream to him. You know, like philosophize and tell him what everything he saw was about. So he sent for all his royal seers and wise men and all those sort of magicians.
The funny thing about it was that he didn't tell anyone WHAT he dreamt about. So everyone had no clue to even know what his dreams meant. But yet he still demanded it. And that whoever who doesn't know the answer will be executed.. and wise men all over were ordered to be executed.
Then Daniel, came into the scene. And he knew what the dream was. And he told the King:"You, O king, were seeing. And, behold! A great image! That great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you. And its form was dreadful. This image's head was of fine gold; his breast and his arms were of silver; his belly and his thighs were of bronze; his legs were of iron; his feet were part of iron and part of clay. You watched until a stone was cut out withou
t hands, which struck the image upon its feet which were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken to pieces together. And they became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. This is the dream. And we will tell its meaning before the king. You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wherever the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens live, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold. And after you shall arise another kingdom lower than you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron. Since iron crushes and smashes all things; and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter. And as to that which you saw: the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron; the kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. And as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mix themselves with the seed of men. But they shall not cling to one another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other peoples, but it shall crush and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it crushes the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall occur after this. And the dream is certain, and its meaning is sure."
Daniel 2:24-45
So hang on. What is this dream about? It's this huge statue, with parts made from different stones right? And Daniel interpreted the dream before his time. And he said the final Kingdom is of Gold, and it shall stand forever. God gave him the ability to predict the future. And in the story he had predicted the different empires to come after the King's, like the Babylonian and the Roman empires. But bringing it to our modern day context, it seems like the same thing.
We're living in a time, where our kingdom is made from both clay and iron.
Some strong, some weak, and we're helplessly moving to the extreme sides of the spectrum. Someone once told me, "at the very end, you would have to pick a side," And it's really true. Maybe at the end Daniels will emerge from our generation. Men with faith and loyalty in God. People who would want to see a change in our world, make the final push, before He comes back down on earth.
Haha, off to bed. :]