Today, I am reading and commenting on Daniel 3-4.

I want to take note of what Daniel says at the end of interpreting Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in today’s passage.  He tells Nebuchadnezzar that he hopes Nebuchadnezzar will renounce his sins and wickedness by being kind to the oppressed so that his prosperity might continue.  So, Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was a prophetic dream, it was a message from God about what God was going to do.  God was going to bring judgement against Nebuchadnezzar.  Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar that if he repents, God will choose not to execute the judgement He predicted with this dream.  This reinforces what other prophets have said when they said that if the wicked turn from their sins when they hear a prophecy that God will bring judgement against them, God will withhold that judgement.  This should also remind us that if the righteous turn to wickedness after God has prophesied good things for them, God will withhold those good things and bring judgement.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.