Daniel - Chapter
4.
Nebuchadnezzar's God/god affiliation is a puzzle to me. He talks about the
Most High God and the wonders He has wrought. His praise is fulsome and yet he also talks about “my god.” This is where he tells of Daniel coming
to interpret his dream “(his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my
god...).” I find this hard to reconcile with the king's acknowledgement of the
Most High God.
He saw that Most High God do
marvellous things for Daniel and his friends. As the chapter unfolds with the
second dream and its consequences, we find the king acknowledging that the Most
High God had delivered him from the dis-ease which had him “driven from men" and
eating "grass like oxen". Further, "his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair had
grown like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws" (Dan 4:33).
Anyway, Daniel and
Nebuchadnezzar survive another dream experience. And it seems that
Nebuchadnezzar finally gets the right idea of God as evidenced by his beautiful
Poem in verses 34 and 35.
Joyce Voysey
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