Daniel Chapter 4 Verses 1-3

1 King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! 2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has wrought toward me. 3 How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

King Nebuchadnezzar is much like us – his spiritual life has its ups and downs!

After Daniel interpreted his first dream, Nebuchadnezzar praised God, but in the very next chapter he made a giant graven image.

After God saved Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the fiery furnace, Nebuchadnezzar again praised God.

Here in chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar again praises God but only after he has undergone a very humbling experience about which we will learn more in just a moment.

This account of Nebuchadnezzar’s experience, however, was written after the fact and thus his praise of God at the beginning of the chapter occurred after the experiences the chapter describes.

Did he finally learn his lesson? We don’t know for sure because the book will tell us nothing more about him.

Even if Nebuchadnezzar’s motives are dubious (gratitude or fear of silence?), he speaks the truth about God.

His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.

This is what Daniel had told Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2:44 about the church.

But it also true in a larger sense. God’s kingdom and dominion are eternal. He has always and will always rule over everyone and everything.

Nebuchadnezzar thought his kingdom was eternal, but it was not. Human rule is transient. God’s rule is permanent.

History is full of kingdoms that thought they would be last forever. (Babylon, Greece, Rome, Nazi Germany)

There is but one eternal kingdom.

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