The Greatest Story Ever Told

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

• How To Read And UnderstandTHE PROPHETS
• (Daniel, Part 3)

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How To Exegete The Prophets

• Get help! (Commentaries, dictionaries, etc.)
• Understand the history of the time
• Big Picture (Israel in Exile, Babylonian Empire)
• Fine Detail (Nebuchadnezzar)
• Learn how to read poetry
• Realize that their future may be our past
• Daniel 8, 11 -- Alexander the Great (323 BC)

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Trivial Pursuit (Art Culture)

• What English actor, poet and playwright was born
  in Stratford-on-Avon?
• Whats the name of the Redskin Chiefs daughter
  in Never Never Land?
• What date is Boxing Day observed on?
• Who tells stories about Brer Rabbit?

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King over allfour men in the fiery furnace

• Bow down to the image!
• The accusation
• Nebuchadnezzars threat
• Ready to die for truth
• Into the flames
• No God like our Lord!

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KING OVER ALLDANIEL IN THE LIONS DEN

• A conspiracy
• Caught in theact of prayer
• Thrown tothe lions
• Not a scratch
• A taste of theirown medicine

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TREMBLE FEAR!

• I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion
  people are to tremble and fear before the God of
  Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring
  forever his kingdom shall never be destroyed,
  and his dominion shall be to the end. (Daniel
  626)

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Starting Point 1/18/09 and forward