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the midst of a burning fiery furnace [a type and shadow of Hell]. Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound [the hypnotic voices] of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king (6) had set up.
Hypnotic: Dictionary: synonymous = mesmerizing, spellbinding, rhythmic, soothing, fascinating, magnetic. Serpent = Hebrew: a snake (from its hiss) /// to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell; gen. to prognosticate: divine, enchanter, use enchantment. Commentary: Nebuchadnezzar the king = is a type and shadow of a certain man personally possessed by Satan. Nebuchadnezzar is a certain man within whom the spirit of Satan himself dwelt. This particular man, Nebuchadnezzar, through Gods permissive will, was a type and shadow of the antichrist i.e., the head of the body of antichrists directly opposing Jesus Christ who is the head of the body of Christ, or, the head of the body of true Christians (Matthew 21:42; Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:18). Nebuchadnezzar, at this stage of his life, was an unholy composite of an earthly king of kings (Dan 2:37), and the spiritual god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). Just previously in Daniel Chapter 2, Nebuchadnezzar had experienced a dream from God symbolizing Gods summation of mankind that he himself (being unsaved) was unable to interpret, but Daniel (being saved), by Holy Spirit interpretation, had communicated to Nebuchadnezzar that Thou art this head of gold. (Daniel 2:38). Commentary: Gold was then, as now, the most precious valuable metal commodity and a primary source of power; the head of gold indicates dominion, power, and authority. At that time, Nebuchadnezzar/Satan and his kingdom worshiped many gods. His physical and mystical kingdom extended over all the known world, as does Satans kingdom now. Nothing has changed except, as each head antichrist personality possessed by Satan died, that dead host body was replaced by another living physical body within whom Satan dwelt. Yep, the hidden head of the antichrist body has been with us throughout the ages, and is still with us today, but in these last days, the head or leader of the antichrists is becoming clearly identified, revealed in his time (2 Thessalonians 2:6).
Commentary: Made an image = May we take significant note that the biblical text of Daniel Chapter 3 never identifies the image therein as a man or man-shape in any way. (Spirits are thoughts (2 Corinthians 10:5); do spirits have defined shapes?) Nevertheless, we anthromorphically [the representation of objects especially a god - having human traits] assume, for the purposes of interpretation, that the image is a physical statue symbolizing Nebuchadnezzars summation of mankind, while further conveying the conceptual idea of an amorphous image of Satan. The word description image is much more nebulous, vague, indefinite, and undefinable than the word statue. The not-used word description statue is hard, rigid, and minutely well-defined, whereas the word image begs numerous connotations and is thus broadly ideational (i.e., thoughts; ultimately in context strong holds in the mind: 2 Corinthians 10:4). Commentary: Trees are a biblical symbol of men and the raw material of God; the finished product derived from trees, crafted by Jesus Christ who is the Great Carpenter, being wood planks or boards representing redeemed peoples (priests) who have been separated from this world and are assembled together for the purpose of building a transport vessel to convey saved mankind to Heaven. Noahs ark, the tabernacle of Moses, and Jesus ship (Matthew 14:22) are all vessels of transport to Heaven. The enormous vertical image that was crafted by Nebuchadnezzar (and who was hidden inside Nebuchadnezzar?), which may in similarity of appearance and intent be likened unto a type of the tower of Babel that Nebuchadnezzar built (he climbs up some other way John 10:1) was undoubtedly a huge edifice made of wood, representing Nebuchadnezzar from his point-of-view, but ideationally representing all mankind. The image of wood was covered with gold (pure gold is a soft metal; the metal most malleable in its natural state) which represented, from Nebuchadnezzars point-of-view, personal dominion, power, and authority, but ideationally is a biblical symbol of the purity of God. The crafted wood was covered with gold, as were certain articles of furniture in the tabernacle of Moses that were made of wood and thereafter covered with gold: the table of showbread, the altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant. In these articles, the precious gold covering functionally represented the Old Testament purity of God, and was a type and shadow of the New Testament blood of Jesus Christ. Of course, the image created by Nebuchadnezzar was indeed made of wood (unsaved men in this case antichrists 1 John 2:18), but the gold covering was an uninspired counterfeit imitation of the purity of God, the blood of Jesus Christ, which is unknowable to unsaved men and fallen angels because it signifies agape love, pure love, i.e., the essence of God, and must be internally experienced to be recognized.
Commentary: The construction of Nebuchadnezzars golden image was a failed Nebuchadnezzarian Satanic (mingled) attempt, symbolizing mans failed attempt, to replace God with himself; a vain attempt to replace the unfathomable pure love of the one pure God in an attempt to be equal with God, I will be like the most High (Isaiah 14:14), which is literally and spiritually impossible for our God is love (1 John 4:8,16), and the sole fountain thereof (Rev 22:1). Amen.