The Rising by Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

Author:Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780842360562
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2005-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

, I believe that we can place the Serpent in Daniel's time even though the Old Testament never mentions the Serpent after Hezekiah had it destroyed in the Second Book of Kings.

"However, even I would not claim that this is absolute proof ofDaniel 's historical existence or that it unequivocally helps to authenticate his prophecies.

"Then, as I pored over the scroll, it hit me. Actually, it was when I was taking a break in the lounge, when I passed the NO SMOKING sign I've passed a thousand times before, that it hit me. You know the international slash-through sign for taking all the joys out of everybody's life?

"Well, I thought this mark here over the symbol for the king-that would be Nebuchadnezzar-this line aiming at his head, was just a decay line or some dirt on the scroll. But I re-alized it was the writer of the scroll doing his version of a NO SMOKING symbol, except he was saying `no king.' That wouldn't make sense though, for a high priest to be making a sign against his king. After all, what if the scroll fell into his enemies' hands? One look at thèno king' line there and you can bet there would quickly be no high priest's head instead. Unless, I realized,KingNebuchadnezzar had said it was okay to do away with his own head."

"You meanKingNebuchadnezzar committed suicide?" someone asked.

"Not suicide as we know it, no, but he did have himself destroyed. Again in the Book of Daniel, we learn that Nebuchadnezzar let the news of his supreme empire, the Golden Head of his dream statue, go to his own head.

"Nebuchadnezzar had the dream statue built and then went mad worshiping himself. After seven whole years, he re-covered from being crazy and made amends to God by having the statue destroyed, broken into pieces, much the wayHezekiah had the Brazen Serpent broken into three pieces.

"That's right, Nebuchadnezzar went on a tear-literally--when he stopped being a madman and was returned to power. He pledged his renewed loyalty to God by ordering all idols and graven images destroyed-including the Brazen Serpent, which he had broken into three pieces again-and his own giant statue of himself. What this symbol of the line com-ing down toward the king's head has to mean is that Nebuchadnezzar himself ordered the statuedestroyed.

"And this is the amazingly exciting conclusion I have real-ized, ladies and gentlemen. Because I think there is a big fat clue here to a discovery that will absolutely prove that the events inDaniel really took place.

"What the scroll shows us, and what my finding of the tail of the Serpent by following the scroll seems to prove, is that whoever wrote this scroll had secretly gone againstKingNebuchadnezzar 's orders. He had somehow rescued the pieces of the Brazen Serpent from the royal trash heap.

"And why would Nebuchadnezzar's high priest,Dakkuri , save the pieces of the Brazen Serpent? So that one day they could be rediscovered by some worthy person who would put the Serpent back whole, just asDakkuri did after Hezekiah had destroyed it.

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