A Stone Turns into a Mountain that Fills the Earth
"The stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth" (Dan. 2:35). This is the closing image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. A dream which the megalomaniac ruler kept secret from his royal advisors. The very dream he demanded them to discern under the threat of death. The pagan court was without any ability to read their king's mind, in spite of the occult powers of their magicians and conjurers purported to have. Fortune tellers without any real ability to tell anyone the secrets of the universe. It was not a fortune teller with their alleged psychic powers that could save the lives of the Babylonian royal court; rather, it was Daniel, a faithful servant of Yahweh, who brought good news to the king and deliverance of frightened court from the sword of the executioner. Daniel's ability to discern the secret dream and interpret its significance demonstrated that the paganism that dominated Babylonian culture could never really save