6/2/24 - The Everlasting Kingdom - Daniel 2:25-49 - Pastor Hudson Garcia

This week, we will receive the long-anticipated revelation and interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. As Daniel began to reveal this dream to the King, it was important to Daniel that the king knew and understood who had revealed this mystery. “but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.” Daniel 2:28 In this dream, a great and mighty statue resembling a man or god stood before the king. Each section of this statue was crafted from a different metal: the head was gold, the chest and arms of silver, the middle and thighs of bronze, the legs of iron and feet partly iron and partly clay. Despite its large and powerful frame, in the king's dream, a small stone would strike the feet, causing the entire statue to crumble. This collapse is indeed the cause of the King’s anxieties surrounding the dream. Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar that each section of this statue represents a succession of kingdoms, starting with his own. This dream reveals the truth that no king and no kingdom will last forever – except one. “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold.” Daniel 2:44-45 Every kingdom of this world will come and go, but the Kingdom of God will last forever. This has serious implications for how we live today and for our hope in eternity.