1. Daniel 2 – God is in control | Christian Hjortland AFCOE Europe 2015

2. World War 2

3. The Bible claims:
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.
Isaiah 46:9-10

4. Nebuchadnezzar's dream
Daniel 2:1-12
16-18 – Daniel asks for time.
23, 27, 28 – Answered prayers!

5. Answered prayers!

6. Answered prayers!
The same God that answered Daniel's prayer 2000 years ago, is ready to answer our prayers today!

7. The Dream Interpreted What was the dream? (v. 31-34)
Babylon, BC - Head of Gold. (v. 38)
Photo: Jononmac46

8. Photo: Jononmac46

10. Babylonian clay tablets
“May Babylon
live for ever.”

11. Photo: Radomil
Photo: Jononmac46

12. Medo-Persia ( BC)
Cyrus invaded Babylon, and conquered the city.
Isaiah 44:27-28, 45:1 – Predicted!

13. Greece ( BC)
“I am persuaded that there was no nation then being whither his name did not reach. There seems to me to have been some divine hand presiding both over his birth and his actions.”
- Historical Library Book 17 Ch. 12, Arian.

14. Greece ( BC)
Photo: Orijentolog

15. Alexander the Great
“When the Book of Daniel was showed him wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. And as he was then glad, he dismissed the multitude for the present.”
- Josephus
Photo: Jastrow

16. Rome (168 BC-476 AD) Iron Monarchy of Rome Decimation Spartacus Riot
Via Appia

17. Decimation
Photo: yeowatzup

18. Spartacus riot (BC 73-71) - Via Appia
Photo: Radosław Botev

19. Rome (168 BC-476 AD)
“...the images of gold, or silver, or brass, that might serve to represent the nations and their kings, were successively broken by the iron monarchy of Rome.”
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, E. Gibbons, p. 437,438.

20. Rome (168 BC-476 AD)

21. Divided Europe (476 AD-) Alemanni…………… Germany Franks………………. France
Burgundian…………. Switzerland Suevi……………….. Portugal
Lombards…………... Italy Visigoths…………… Spain
Anglo-Saxons………. England Vandals…………….. Extinct
Heruli………………. Extinct Ostrogoths………….. Extinct
What does the clay represent?

22. Divided Europe (476 AD-)
“The mingling of church craft and state craft is represented by the iron and the clay. This union is weakening all the power of the churches. This investing the church with the power of the state will bring evil results. Men have almost passed the point of God's forbearance. They have invested their strength in politics, and have united with the papacy. But the time will come when God will punish those who have made void His law, and their evil work will recoil upon themselves.” {1MR 51.1}

23. Attempts to Unite Europe
Louis XIV of France
Charles V of Spain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charlemagne
Vladimir Lenin
Adolph Hitler
European Union
New World Order
Photo: German Federal Archives - Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183)

24. Attempts to Unite Europe
“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”
Daniel 2:43
Unions: Scandinavia, France/England
Norwegian King Harald V has relatives in many royal families.

25. 7 Amazing Prophecies of Daniel 2 fulfilled
1. Babylons unexpected fall
2. A weaker kingdom
3. A third kingdom covering the whole world
4. A forth kingdom of iron that will break in pieces
5. The division of the fourth kingdom
6. Mingle through marriages
7. They shall not cleave to one another
If God is in control of world empires and world events, He can be in control of our personal lives!

26. The Last Kingdom v. 34-35, 44 How does Nebuchadnezzar react? v. 46-47
What happens with Daniel and his friends as a result? v

28. Jesus is coming back to this world very soon, to establish a kingdom that lasts forever.
God wants all to be a part of that kingdom!