Daniel 2- But God Can

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Daniel 2- But God Can Read Daniel 2

Daniel has been through three years of training and is working in the king’s court. He is one who has proved himself wise enough to be there but this is the ultimate challenge. There is an impossible task, all the other wise men hopelessly say it’s impossible, Daniel agrees it’s impossible, but then he says, “But God Can.” There was a weird dream with a weird interpretation. The interpretation couldn’t be proven for generations and that is an interpretation of hindsight. Nebuchadnezzar knows that kingdoms rise and fall. They disperse into smaller kingdoms. But he sees that Daniel is tapped into the one who is beyond time and the kingdoms of men. We must remember that we are tapped into the one who is beyond time and kingdoms.

The king asks an impossible task. The wise men are told they have to tell Nebuchadnezzar what the dream is and interpret it. He could tell them the dream and they could make up an interpretation. That’s easy. They’d probably done it before. He’d had enough of that. They tell him it’s impossible and no one has ever asked this. The king commands the wise men to be killed. Daniel asks for time because God can reveal it.

1. When the task feels impossible. It doesn’t seem like there is a way through. “This has never been done before.” What do you do? Have you ever whispered to yourself in that space, “But God Can?” Have you met the God of the impossible in your life?

2. We don’t know how it happened but God revealed the mystery to Daniel. He woke up and praised God. He says, “He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others.” Considering the dream about kingdoms rising and falling, why do you think this is part of the praise?

3. Daniel tells the King what his dream was and interprets it. Why does Daniel tell the king, “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future” if the kind didn’t know but Daniel showed him the dream and it’s meaning?

4. In verse 47 the king says to Daniel, “Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.” This story positions Daniel in the rest of the book as a wise man who reveals mysteries. That is a major theme of the book. Why do you think and oppressed people group like the Jews held to this story through the years. Is there a value we could adopt? What do we need to seek based on this story?

5. What are you seeking wisdom on right now? How are you calling on the revealer of mysteries?