After Shadrach, Meschach and Abed-nego testified that they would trust in God regardless of what the king does, Nebuchadnezzar responded with full fury determining to punish them as harshly as possible by making the furnace seven times hotter than normal. Obviously, a picture of hell. Nebuchadnezzar is upset that there is the true God who is his Lord. Then, the three men were cast into the fiery furnace. It was so hot that it killed the men that were to throw them in. But just as Peter was able to walk on water instead of being drowned by it, the three men were able to walk in the midst of the fire. Nebuchadnezzar saw one like the Son of God had joined them. All the leaders of the provinces were in Babylon to bow down to the idol the Nebuchadnezzar set up gathered, but instead saw that he was not the supreme ruler of the world. Unlike the Jews that saw the miracles of Jesus and the apostles and wanted to destroy them as we saw in Acts, Nebuchadnezzar made it illegal throughout his kingdom to blaspheme the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Adeb-nego. A couple things to consider from the passage. The first is do you truly think of God as the first cause of all things. We think that fire burns and consumes, but that is just because God ordered it that way. The fire of hell doesn't consume. Nature doesn't rule over God, God rules over nature. The second thing to consider is where the Jews had failed to declare the truth to the world and were being judged for it, God uses these four men to cause the truth of who God is to spread throughout the civilized world through the actions of three faithful men and the power that He had given to a fourth. God conquers His kingdom. We ju
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