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Why would a beloved prophet of God want God to judge him? Doesn't the Bible show that God's judgment is reserved for evil people? Read God's view on this seeming paradox.
by Jerold Aust
ing Nebuchadnezzar was enraged when he realized that his wise men could not interpret his dream. He didn't just want it interpreted; he was demanding that they first describe his dream and then interpret it.
"My decision is firm," the king barked. "If you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap" (Daniel 2:5). King Nebuchadnezzar thundered these words to the royal guards, who immediately laid hold of the wise men.
Shocked numb, the formerly favored officials contemplated Nebuchadnezzar's gruesome sentence. After years of favor, years in which they enjoyed the trappings of royalty, they were, in a moment, reduced to the humiliation accorded a common slave, consigned to an imminent and ignominious death.
The guards quickly got out ropes and began binding the wise men before the king.
Already the cry rang out through the inner palace walls, echoing a death knell: "Find Daniel and his companions, for they are to die with the rest of the wise men!" bellowed the captain of the guard (Daniel 2:13, paraphrased). The night brought fear and uncertainty, a critical time for God's chosen and faithful representatives in Babylon: Daniel and other Jewish exiles who had been faithfully serving the government of the empire.
Why would God allow the monarch and his minions to include His faithful servants in this harsh judgment? The wise men could not conjure up and interpret the dream, but why would Daniel and his friends have to die along with them? Surely God must have had good reason for permitting this cruel condemnation along with the others.
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