SNT 0763 Our God Is Able
Our God Is Able - June 29, 1075 Our times are similar to those of Daniel; our God will take care of us when we take a stand, just as He took care of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. SNT – 763 My God Is Able - Tom Lepinski Dan 3:1-12; 2:46-49 Dan 3:12-18; Psa 137:1-4 Dan 3:17-25; Track E: Dan 3:25-30; (Psa 137:1-4; Dan 3:17, 18) Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego/The Love of God - Sonship Our God Is Able There was an empire situated in south-west Asia in what today is in the area of what we refer to as Iraq. In the Old Testament, this empire is referred to as "Accad" or "Akkad". It is also referred to, and used a number of times, speaking of "the plains of Shinar", or "Shinar". At other times there are references in the Bible to people who live in the "land of the Chaldeans". This empire was called Babylonia. It is in the area that at one time had in it what is referred to in the Bible as the garden of Eden. It is the area from which Abraham came, for it was from a very great city of this particular empire called Ur of the Chaldees that Abraham left. On the north this empire was bordered by Assyria — to the east by the Persian hills, or as the Old Testament refers to it, Elam — on the west by the Arabian Desert and on the south by the Persian Gulf. This was the empire known as the Babylonian Empire. It got its name from its capital city, the city of Babylon. This great city was situated in what is the geographical centre of the world, and there in its day it sat, as I heard someone say, "like a diamond on a couch of velvet". This great city was surrounded with double walls of protection. Those walls were approximately seventeen miles long to border the city, and the outside wall was wide enough that two chariots could have a race on it going around the city. In that great city a vain, yet fabulous and very great king called Nebuchadnezzar built what became known as one of the seven wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. He built this for his wife whose name w
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he set them up in the city of Babylon. He knew that he was bigger than any of the gods he had captured, because it just happens to be a law of logic that if you can capture a god then -4- Our God Is Able you are bigger than that god. So finally Nebuchadnezzar had the most brilliant idea he could ever have. He said, "Since I captured all the gods — there are none left to capture, I have got them all — then I must be god." So he had this statue made out of pure gold sixty cubits high and he set it out there on the plain of Dura and he said, "There is your god!" Then he did something else. Verses 2-5: Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Then the princes,