In the Spirit's Power - William W. Prescott

golden image which I have set up?” “I tell you that
whosoever does not fall down and worship this
image will be cast into the burning fiery furnace.”
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and
said unto the King Nebuchadnezzar, We are not
careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our
God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of
thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto
thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor
worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
At this answer Nebuchadnezzar was all the
more enraged, and commanded that the furnace
should be heated seven times hotter than it was
wont to be, and that the three men should be cast
in. Why, he said, I am Nebuchadnezzar, the king of
Babylon; God Himself has ordained me. What
right have these men to disobey my commands?
And we have the prophecy concerning
Nebuchadnezzar in Jer. 27:5-7: “ I have made the
earth, the man and the beast that are upon the
ground, by My great power and by My outstretched
arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet
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