# Daniel and the King's Dream - The Book of Daniel

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 18 Jan 2024, 12 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 134. In the Bible, Daniel, a wise young man, interprets a tricky dream for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. God shows Daniel that the king's dream of a giant statue made of different metals means that many kingdoms will rise and fall. Impressed by Daniel's wisdom, the king rewards him, proving that God helps those who trust in Him and pray for guidance. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:00] Speaker 1: Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever,
[0:05] Speaker 1: for wisdom and might are His. He changes the times
[0:09] Speaker 1: and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings.
[0:14] Speaker 1: Daniel 2, 20-21 Dear God, You are the true King
[0:20] Speaker 1: of heaven and earth. No one is greater than You.
[0:23] Speaker 1: Rulers on earth will come and go, but Your kingdom
[0:27] Speaker 1: will go on forever. Help us to learn in our
[0:30] Speaker 1: story today even more about why we can trust you.
[0:35] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[0:36] Speaker 1: We love you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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[1:14] Speaker 2: Daniel and the King's Dream In our last story, Nebuchadnezzar
[1:20] Speaker 2: besieged Jerusalem and brought young men to Babylon. Daniel and
[1:25] Speaker 2: his friends, while being trained, resolved not to defile themselves
[1:30] Speaker 2: with the king's choice food. In this story, Nebuchadnezzar will
[1:34] Speaker 2: have troubling dreams, and Daniel will help interpret them, as
[1:39] Speaker 2: inspired by Daniel.
[1:44] Speaker 1: Hi there, it's Joya Sadler with the Kids Bible in
[1:47] Speaker 1: the Air podcast. I'm so happy you're here. Today we
[1:51] Speaker 1: get to hear an exciting story about King Nebuchadnezzar's crazy dream.
[1:56] Speaker 1: and what it means for our future. What did he dream?
[1:59] Speaker 1: Let's jump in and find out.
[2:03] Speaker 2: King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that troubled him so much
[2:07] Speaker 2: he couldn't sleep. He went to the counselors for interpretation.
[2:11] Speaker 2: The counselors asked what the dream was. Nebuchadnezzar replied, If
[2:15] Speaker 2: you can tell me what the dream was, I will
[2:18] Speaker 2: give you great rewards. If you do not tell me
[2:21] Speaker 2: what the dream was, I will have your bodies ripped
[2:24] Speaker 2: apart and your property destroyed. The counselors were shocked and
[2:29] Speaker 2: asked again, Please tell us your dream. The king realized
[2:35] Speaker 2: they were stalling and said, You have to recall my dream.
[2:39] Speaker 2: How else will I know that you are not making
[2:42] Speaker 2: up an interpretation? The counselors said in fear, There is
[2:46] Speaker 2: never a king who asked such a request before. This
[2:50] Speaker 2: is too difficult for any man to do. Only the
[2:53] Speaker 2: gods know what the dream was. King Nebuchadnezzar became angry
[2:58] Speaker 2: and ordered all the counselors to be executed. Daniel, whom
[3:03] Speaker 2: God had given the ability to interpret dreams, heard about
[3:06] Speaker 2: the execution and asked the king for time to discover
[3:10] Speaker 2: and interpret the dream. Daniel urged his friends to pray
[3:14] Speaker 2: to God so that they may receive the dream and
[3:17] Speaker 2: its interpretation. That night, God gave a vision to Daniel,
[3:22] Speaker 2: revealing the dream and its meaning. Then Daniel went to
[3:26] Speaker 2: the guard executing the counselors and said, Stop! Take me
[3:30] Speaker 2: to the king so I may interpret his dream. When
[3:33] Speaker 2: Daniel was taken before the king, Nebuchadnezzar asked him, Can
[3:38] Speaker 2: you tell me what I saw and understand it? Daniel said,
[3:43] Speaker 2: No man on earth can do such a thing. But
[3:46] Speaker 2: God has revealed to me from heaven these mysteries. God
[3:50] Speaker 2: has shown you the future through your dream. In your dream,
[3:54] Speaker 2: you saw an enormous, dazzling, and beautiful statue. The statue
[3:58] Speaker 2: had a head of pure gold, arms and a chest
[4:01] Speaker 2: of silver, stomach and thighs made of bronze, legs of iron,
[4:06] Speaker 2: and feet made of partly iron and partly baked clay.
[4:10] Speaker 2: When looking at the statue, a rock not made from
[4:13] Speaker 2: human hands, struck the feet of iron and clay. This
[4:18] Speaker 2: shattered the entire statue into little pieces. The wind blew
[4:23] Speaker 2: all the pieces, and all that was left was the rock.
[4:26] Speaker 2: The rock became a mountain and covered the earth. Here's
[4:31] Speaker 2: the meaning of the dream. Your majesty, you are the
[4:35] Speaker 2: head of gold. It has given power for you to rule.
[4:40] Speaker 2: After your reign, a kingdom will rise that is less
[4:43] Speaker 2: mighty than yours. This is the chest and arms of silver.
[4:47] Speaker 2: The third kingdom is a bronze kingdom that will take
[4:50] Speaker 2: over the world. Then a fourth kingdom will be strong
[4:54] Speaker 2: as iron, for iron destroys everything, and it will crush
[4:58] Speaker 2: everything in its way. After that, a divided kingdom will emerge,
[5:04] Speaker 2: which explains the partly iron and partly baked clay feet.
[5:08] Speaker 2: Some parts are strong like iron and others will be
[5:11] Speaker 2: brittle like clay. This also means that the people will
[5:15] Speaker 2: be mixed and divided like the clay and iron. It
[5:19] Speaker 2: will be during this time of division when God will
[5:22] Speaker 2: bring his kingdom down. This kingdom will never be destroyed
[5:27] Speaker 2: or taken. It is the rock made by God that
[5:30] Speaker 2: crushes all the kingdoms and lasts forever. This dream tells
[5:36] Speaker 2: the future, and God has shown it to the kings.
[5:40] Speaker 2: King Nebuchadnezzar fell before Daniel and said, Your god is
[5:45] Speaker 2: the god of all other gods and the king of kings.
[5:49] Speaker 2: You solved this great mystery for me. He rewarded Daniel
[5:54] Speaker 2: and appointed him as ruler of Babylon.
[6:02] Speaker 1: A big, huge, sparkly statue? A mountain as big as
[6:07] Speaker 1: the world? King Nebuchadnezzar has been having some crazy dreams,
[6:12] Speaker 1: hasn't he? Now you know that dreams can be scary
[6:15] Speaker 1: or silly or even funny. But this dream was special.
[6:19] Speaker 1: God used it to give King Nebuchadnezzar and us a message.
[6:24] Speaker 1: Do you remember this story? Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful
[6:29] Speaker 1: king in the whole wide world. He and his army
[6:33] Speaker 1: had conquered every nation, including Judah. the land God had
[6:38] Speaker 1: promised his people, and gave the land to the Jews
[6:42] Speaker 1: so he could live with them on earth. He wanted
[6:47] Speaker 1: to lead them as their good king. But even though
[6:50] Speaker 1: God is the best leader ever, his people didn't want
[6:54] Speaker 1: to follow him. They chose to follow fake gods instead. Now,
[6:59] Speaker 1: to follow these fake gods, you had to do bad things.
[7:03] Speaker 1: This made God angry because he loves his people very
[7:07] Speaker 1: much and wants to protect them. So God used King
[7:11] Speaker 1: Nebuchadnezzar to give the Jews a long time out. He
[7:15] Speaker 1: wanted them to understand that they would never find another
[7:19] Speaker 1: God or leader who was bigger, stronger, or who loved
[7:24] Speaker 1: them more than he did. In a way, that's what
[7:27] Speaker 1: Nebuchadnezzar's dream was all about. You see, the king thought
[7:31] Speaker 1: he was the roughest, toughest, mightiest, most powerful person who'd
[7:36] Speaker 1: ever lived. But his dream scared him. So he called
[7:40] Speaker 1: all his wise men and said, I had a dream
[7:43] Speaker 1: and I need to know what it means. Tell me
[7:46] Speaker 1: what I dreamt about. Then I'll know I can trust
[7:50] Speaker 1: you to explain it to me.
[7:53] Speaker 2: What? What?
[7:54] Speaker 1: Could you guess what someone else dreamed about last night? No,
[7:59] Speaker 1: no one can do that. What King Nebuchadnezzar asked was impossible.
[8:05] Speaker 1: But Daniel, a Jew who loved the Lord, knew nothing
[8:09] Speaker 1: was impossible with God. And when Daniel prayed, he asked
[8:14] Speaker 1: God about the king's dream, and God answered him. You see,
[8:19] Speaker 1: in the king's dream, he saw a big, huge, sparkly
[8:23] Speaker 1: statue with a gold head, silver chest and arms, bronze belly,
[8:29] Speaker 1: iron legs, and feet with toes of iron and clay.
[8:34] Speaker 1: And through Daniel, God told Nebuchadnezzar that one day his
[8:39] Speaker 1: great kingdom of Babylon would fall. And each of the
[8:43] Speaker 1: medals on the statue represented a different kingdom that would follow.
[8:49] Speaker 1: Just as God said, years later, Babylon was conquered by
[8:53] Speaker 1: the Medes and the Persians. And they were conquered by
[8:56] Speaker 1: the Greeks. And they were conquered by the Romans. And
[9:01] Speaker 1: each of those kings thought he was the roughest, toughest, mightiest,
[9:05] Speaker 1: most powerful person who'd ever lived. Just like Nebuchadnezzar. But
[9:10] Speaker 1: they were all wrong. Because also in the dream, a rock,
[9:15] Speaker 1: not cut by human hands, struck the statue and poof,
[9:20] Speaker 1: the whole statue crumbled into dust and blew away. But
[9:24] Speaker 1: the rock grew and grew into a mountain that filled
[9:27] Speaker 1: the whole world. God was letting us know that people
[9:31] Speaker 1: who think they're in power are like that statue. Everything
[9:36] Speaker 1: they build will one day just poof, crumble and blow away.
[9:41] Speaker 1: Like every other kingdom. But God's kingdom is like a
[9:45] Speaker 1: rock that will last forever. It will never crumble or
[9:48] Speaker 1: blow away. Someday it will fill the whole world. God
[9:53] Speaker 1: wanted King Nebuchadnezzar to know that he was not the roughest, toughest, mightiest,
[9:58] Speaker 1: most powerful person. who'd ever lived. And neither was any
[10:03] Speaker 1: other king. Those leaders only had power because God, the
[10:07] Speaker 1: true king, allowed it and would do something wonderful through it.
[10:13] Speaker 1: And only one king, Jesus, is the true rock. There's
[10:18] Speaker 1: no other God or leader who is bigger, stronger, or
[10:21] Speaker 1: who loves you more than he does. Anyone can think
[10:25] Speaker 1: they're in charge, but God is the one who's really
[10:28] Speaker 1: in charge, and you can trust him. I'm so glad
[10:32] Speaker 1: you joined me for today's story. Come back next time
[10:35] Speaker 1: to hear what happens when Daniel's friends say no to
[10:39] Speaker 1: King Nebuchadnezzar, and he gets really mad. Remember, the Bible
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