Tuesday 7/10/12 Hot Heat 2

Daniel 3:4 - Then the herald loudly proclaimed, "This is what you are commanded to do, O peoples, nations and men of every language.  5 As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre,  harp, pipes and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.  6 Whoever will not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.  7 Therefore as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations and men of every language fell down and worshiped the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.  8 At this time some astrologers came forward and denounced the Jews.  9 They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever!"  10 "You have issued a decree, O king, that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold, 11 and that whoever does not fall down will be thrown into a blazing furnace.  But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, __________, __________, and __________, who pay no attention to you, O king.  They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.  (NIV)

Good Tuesday morning, my dear brothers and sisters, it is a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  Please pray today for a cure for all those diseases that we need a cure for, things like cancer, heart problems, kidney failures.  Please also pray for Dave, who is crippled up with arthrodesis, Dutch Webster, cancer.  Sally Snyder, kidney failure, Dolores, kidney failure, knee failure (third time) and scoliosis.

Praise report for Dolores.  She as a rule gets shots every other week and was at the doctor's today.  A blood test shows no shots needed for one month.  PRAISE GOD for this report.  Let me get to the message.

Computer reminder.  I will no longer open anything that has more than one forward on it, and then only if I know the person sending it.  Please, when emailing me, do not put a personal note on something that has been forwarded.  Also be sure you have something in the subject line.  Thanks.

Hot Heat (Day two).  In the book of Daniel we find that King Nebuchadnezzar has built an altar of gold which we talked about yesterday.  We also looked at all who had to listen to him and the king summoned people from seven areas, I referred to them as the President, House, Senate, Supreme Court, Governors, those in State Houses, and local governments.  Today we move forward and find out that all these people are to bow down and worship at the gold altar when they hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music.  This is a good time for me to go for another scripture.  Let's go to Exodus again.

Exodus 20:4 - You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth below.  5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. (NIV)

Now we know that we are not to bow down to any idol, and for sure King Nebuchadnezzar built the gold altar and put out the order for all people to bow down and worship the idol.  We also know that if we do this, God will punish the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Him.  And for those showing love to God, and keeping the commandments, they will be blessed for a thousand generations.

Now the order also included a punishment for those who would not bow down when the Washington DC home town band played the music, I mean when the music sounded from all those instruments, again they were the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music.  Well, it seems that when the music played three gentlemen would not bow down, they just would not, they would sooner take their chances with the one and only God!!  Our Lord God, Jesus Christ.

Of course some came forward, they were astrologers, and they finked on the three.  Okay, told the king on them, we call that finked or squealed, and that is what they did.  Let me interject this right here and now, have you seen our president, yes, President Obama, bow down to some of the kings of other countries?  That is a fact, folks.  Now a few questions and some homework for you.  Who were the three men that the astrologers finked on to King Nebuchadnezzar?  Now if you know, that is great, but it is an OPEN BOOK test, so you can look up the answer.  You will find the scripture numbers above.  Wednesday we are going to find out how hot is that hot heat and what it might feel like.  We are going to find out a few other things.  Please hang with me all week as we take this little study from the book of Daniel.  Let's pray.

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for the message and thanks for the good report on Dolores.  Lord, please look at our prayer requests listed above and honor them according to Your will.  Lord, thanks for supplying our needs, and Lord, thanks for our family and the families of all those on this line.  In the name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

Now go forth serving your King, King Jesus, and sharing your blessings with others.  Love ya, Pastor Dan.