Possessing the Heavenly Vision — Phil Beach Jr.

Spirit this morning, which has basically been developing all during the week a message from his heart a message from the Word of God a message from the Spirit of God and it's a message for Each and every one of us here this this morning the title of the message is Possessing a heavenly vision.

Possessing a Heavenly Vision

Possessing a heavenly vision. The most important need that the church faces in this late dark apostate hour is that her members would recognize the need to possess a heavenly born heavenly given Heavenly nurtured vision from God.

I would invite you to turn to Acts chapter 26. Acts chapter 26 and in this particular portion of Scripture Paul Makes his defense before King Agrippa. Now I want to begin in verse number 12 of Acts chapter 26.

Verse Number 12 beginning in Acts 26. Beloved I want to beseech you and Implore you to be able to hear this not so much as a sermon not so much as a message. That is enjoyable to hear but rather I pray that you will hear this as a word from the Lord to you personally and I'm asking God that it will reproduce in you a desire a heavenly born desire.

To begin to ask God to give you a heavenly vision. There is nobody Who is? not qualified to be a Possessor of a heavenly vision if in fact Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of your life it is the absence of heavenly vision in our lives in our families in our churches that is resulting in the massive defeat and littleness of what we're seeing for God.

There is great potential for what the Lord Jesus can do through a people but it is Imperative as you will see in the scriptures as we're about to read. It is Imperative that heavenly vision is a part of the very soul and breath of the church.

Earthly Aspirations Versus Heavenly Vision

There is vision today, but it is all earthly. It is earthly vision it is earthly it comes from earth it is an earthly goals earthly aspirations. A lot of people have vision in the world a lot of people dream big dreams a lot of people have visions and many times these visions come the past and.

The problem though is that oftentimes these visions in the world and so many times in the church. Is that they're not visions that are born from the Spirit of God that bring glory to God and bring an increase?

To the kingdom of God, but usually they're a vision from a man's heart that fulfill ultimately his own desires. So I want to challenge you this morning to ask God to give you a desire to seek God in his word until you Experience the birth of a heavenly vision in your life.

You will be an aimless Unproductive person for the kingdom of God without a vision in your heart. Everything that's ever been done in the kingdom of God that has brought glory to him. Beginning back with the days of the part patriarchs even to the Lord Jesus himself.

Jesus had a vision. Jesus walked with a vision. Jesus's life had purpose because he had a vision. He woke up every day and he had a vision from God. He had goals. He knew what he wanted. He knew what God wanted and he was after it and he wasn't going to be turned aside.

And this is the kind of vision that we need today. We need to be focused. We need to have a tenacity given to us by God to see what God wants and then by the means that God provides the Holy Ghost and Prayer and the Word of God and faith that comes from Jesus Christ.

Paul's Obedience to the Heavenly Vision

By these means hold on until the vision come to pass. Acts chapter 26. Whereupon verse number 12 as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests at Midday O King I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the Sun shining round about me and then which sojourned with me and when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me and saying in the Hebrew tongue saw saw why Persecutist thou me it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks and I said who art thou Lord.

And He said I Am Jesus whom thou persecuted but rise Stand upon thy feet. For I have appeared unto thee for this purpose to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and Of those things in the which I will appear unto thee Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles.

Unto whom now I send thee to open their eyes and to Turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God and that they might receive forgiveness of sins and Inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith.

That is in me. I Want you to underline if you write in your Bible if not write this verse down on the notebook that you have because this verse is the secret and key to the Incredible success that Paul had in his earthly ministry to the Lord Jesus Christ everything that God accomplished through that man called Paul of Tarsus was the result of this incredible statement that he makes in verse number 19 and this Incredible statement that he makes in verse 19 is the statement that you and I Must come to in our Christian life and make it with certainty and live by it and die by it.

Verse number 19 acts chapter 26 whereupon Oh King Agrippa I Was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. Paul declared that he was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. Everything that happened in Paul's life all the success that he had as a minister.

All of the souls that he won to Jesus Christ. All of the Churches that he founded by the power of God. All the lives that he's affecting today because of the Word of God. All this all the people that were delivered from the devil.

All the people that were delivered from sickness and disease. All the churches that were Strengthened. All the young men that have been nurtured under the letters of Paul and encouraged all of them have been able to enjoy the benefits of this ministry because there is a man who came to the place in his Christian life where he said I will not be disobedient to the heavenly vision.

He had a vision from God. He had a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ. He had a vision that Christ was all and all and that the only thing that mattered in life Was to know God to know his will and to do his will.

There was nothing that surpassed the intensity in Paul's life. Than that of knowing and doing God's will that my friend is what it is to have a heavenly vision. What means more to you today than anything?

I'm telling you from the heart of God from the Word of God from the Spirit of God. Apart from righteousness that is in this vessel because this vessel has no Righteousness this vessels not able to stay without God.

It is purely by the grace of God. I'm telling you this morning, beloved, that God wants to give you heavenly vision. He wants to impart to you a heavenly vision of himself. He wants to give you heavenly purpose.

It will transform your life, it will transform your family's life. Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. Now, I want to read a section from a book that was sent to me.

And I'm going to read from page 101. Now, I want you to please listen carefully. Because once God gives you a vision of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you make up your mind that you are going to know God and love God.

And serve him and make his will the most important thing in your life. God will not only sustain that vision of himself. But he will give you a heavenly vision of what he wants to do through you and by you.

And you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt That as your eyes are stayed upon Jesus, that vision that he has given to you will come to pass. Jesus said he feasted upon a meat that his disciples didn't know about.

In John chapter 4. And the meat was to do the will of God and to finish it. And that's the meat that Jesus had. He had a vision of his father. He had a passion for his father. He had a compassion for people.

He was determined day by day by day to do not his own will but the will of God. And once that decision was made in the life of the son of God. He was then promoted to the position where not only did he live to see his father.

But he also lived to see what his father wanted to do through him. And was determined by the faith that came to the son of God by God himself. To see the works of God accomplished in his earthly ministry.

The vision of seeing God and the vision of having a heart that was wholly committed to God Was the threshold upon which Jesus entered into a life where he was compelled to see what God wanted to do through him.

And then by the power of prayer and the power of a life of dependence upon his father. See the works of God accomplished. Every single one of us this morning are being invited by the spirit of God and the word of God.

To have both a vision of Jesus Christ but not just an emotional vision. Not just a vision that we talk about Jesus. I'm talking about a vision of the son of God that so affects us. That so devastates us.

That so changes us. So as to bring our heart into a position where we say Jesus you are my passion. I am committed by your grace to do your will and your will alone. I will not rise up my will against your will.

And when I do God I am going to repent. I'm going to come to you and weep and pray that you change that area in my life. God is looking for men and women in this hour who are committed to him. And who will not participate in the spirit of rebellion that is working in the world today.

There is a spirit of rebellion. It gets a hold of people and it makes them walk around like arrogant people. I'm not under anybody's authority. Nobody's going to tell me what to do. Nobody's going to correct me.

Nobody's going to show me my sin. Nobody's going to set limits on me. I'm going to do what I want. I'm going to do it if it feels good. And I'm telling you brother that attitude comes from hell. That attitude comes from the devil.

And it will destroy your life. It will destroy your spiritual life. It will bring you into ruin. You can't walk around and have that attitude in you. And expect God to bless you. You can't expect God to prosper the plans that he has in your life.

A Dream Sustained by God's Providence

We have got to pray that God will give us a vision of himself. Now listen carefully. Uncle Jimmy dreamed of healing the family. Let me tell you about an amazing dream that unfolds before my eyes every day.

At focus on the family. This dream astounds the secular world and inspires tens of thousands of Christians. On the surface the dream appears to have started in 1976 When Dr. James Dobson founded focus on the family.

But this ministry is far more than the work of James Dobson. It started earlier in the heart of an almost obscure minister. Uncle Jimmy, Jim's father and my uncle. Uncle Jimmy gave his life to ministry as a pastor of small churches as an itinerant evangelist.

Later in his life he taught art at colleges in California and Kansas. Two years before his death at age 67 Uncle Jimmy had a beyond imagination dream. That challenged and mystified him. Here's how James Dobson told the story on one of his radio programs.

My father was in prayer for three days and three nights about his own health. And about the health of his brother-in-law back in 1977. Both of them were ministers. And he was asking the Lord to allow him to have more time.

Time to preach the gospel and to win people to the Lord. He had a passion for the ministry. The Lord spoke to him early one morning and told him that he had heard his prayer. And that he was going to answer it.

He said that he was going to reach literally millions of people around the world. But it was not going to be through his brother-in-law who had cancer. He said it is not going to be through you either.

But it is going to be through your son. God revealed to dad all that focus on the family has become. But my father had a massive heart attack the next day. And was never able to tell me that story. My uncle died that very afternoon.

So the story was not communicated to me until seven years later in 1985. My father had shared all of his dream with Alan Swan. His brother-in-law's sister Aileen Swan. His brother-in-law's sister.

And she said she had wanted to tell me about it for seven years. But the Lord had said not yet, not yet. In 1985 when I was going through a really tough time I was on the pornography commission. Focus on the family was going through some very difficult financial struggles.

The burden of this ministry was so heavy. She said the Lord told her This is the time, go tell him. So she wrote me and told me this story. Then I realized for the first time Why the blessing of the Lord has been on this ministry.

It doesn't have anything to do with me. My job is just not to mess it up. The truth of the matter is The Lord answered the prayer of my father. And that's why this ministry is here. And why it is now a worldwide outreach to the family.

It is a gift from God to my father. And the last line of Aileen Swan's letter said The end is not yet. Think of the faithfulness of God to Uncle Jimmy's prayers and dreams. Dr. James Dobson, the son, went to Pasadena College.

And then into the military service. Later he completed a graduate program at the University of Southern California. Earned his Ph .D. and served as a clinical psychologist. On the medical staff at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles.

He wrote a bestseller, Dare to Discipline That helps families apply Christian principles to their children. Then one day this focus on the family idea clicked with Dobson. Following God's dream, Dobson resigned his position at the hospital.

Rented a little office and began a modest ministry. His first radio broadcast was made in Chicago. On the same day he had been beaten up emotionally and spiritually On the Phil Donahue show. Just before Donahue and Dobson walked before the cameras.

The host told Jim, I want you to know that I disagree completely with everything you believe in. And will do my best to prove it before this audience today. After the television program, Dobson returned to his hotel room.

He stood looking out the window and prayed Lord, I'm embarrassed. I've been disgraced before a nation of people. I am deeply discouraged and I am supposed to go Begin a radio ministry tomorrow. We have no money and very few radio stations.

Very encouraging circumstances, huh? At that moment, God gave him a wake-up call. More real than an audible voice. Jim, remember what your dad prayed. Remember what your dad believed. Remember what your dad thought.

The dream has never died, son. It is still alive in you. That night, Dobson taped three radio programs. Starting a ministry that reaches around the world. Uncle Jimmy dreamed for his son. And he could not dream for himself.

At the time of this writing, the broadcast is heard in more than 1 ,500 radio markets. Now it's 1 ,800. This is a few years old In the United States, Canada, plus several thousand more In over 56 countries around the world.

Joshua's Commission and the Source of Godly Vision

And the dream continues to bear unbelievable fruit. Turn your Bibles to Joshua chapter 1. Let me tell you from the word of God this morning. From the word of God this morning. Where all true dreams begin.

Where all true dreams are sustained. Where all true dreams come to maturity. And where all true dreams are brought to incredible fruitfulness. Joshua chapter 1. Beginning in verse 1. Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord It came to pass that the Lord spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun Moses' minister saying Moses my servant is dead.

Now therefore arise and go over this Jordan Thou and all this people Unto the land which I do give to them Even to the children of Israel. Moses was a man with a dream. Moses was a man whose heart had been stirred from his youth With a passion for his God.

We can read that in the story of his life. We can read that in the story about him in the book of Hebrews. Moses was a man with a dream. He was a man with a passion. Moses was a man who was governed by a heavenly vision.

And because of that Perhaps there is not another person in the whole world Other than the Lord Jesus himself Who has affected the world As much as one man called Moses Who was according to the decree of Pharaoh Supposed to have been killed Because he was the first born And the first born of the Hebrews Were supposed to be killed.

But God said no. No. This one Moses is going to be plucked out of the water. No. Excuse me. Ok. I'm sorry it was all the boys. Thank you. All the boys All the male childs Were to be killed. But God said no Moses I'm going to snatch him out of the water.

He was a dreamer. He was a man with vision Because he met The God who authors visions. You need to have a vision in this world. Because when you look at the world And you don't have a vision and a dream Of what God wants to do.

You're going to look at the world And think that's the way it's supposed to be. You're going to look at your circumstances And think well that's just the way it's going to be. And because my circumstances are contradicting What I believe God wants to do Then that means I'm just going to have to Succumb to my circumstances And abort and abandon the vision.

If you're not a man or a woman of vision today You're going to be defeated. The reason why the children of Israel Didn't enter into the land of Canaan Was because the spies came back And they didn't have a dream.

They didn't have a vision. They didn't see things the way God saw them. But they saw the circumstances They saw the difficulties. They saw the giants They saw all the difficult problems That they were going to come up against.

And they came back and told all Israel We can't do it Moses we can't do it Joshua we can't do it. We're going to fail. And they failed because they didn't dream. They didn't have a vision. And today You and I fail When we cease To have a vision from God.

If you don't have a vision For your life You're going to fail. If you don't have a vision for your family Your family's going to fail If you don't have a vision. If you don't have a heavenly dream That you are praying about And seeking after And letting God speak to you about You are going to fail.

Moses my servant is dead. Verse 3. Every place that the sole of your foot Shall tread upon That have I given unto you As I said unto Moses From the wilderness And this Lebanon Even unto the great river And the river Euphrates And all the land of the Hittites And unto the great sea Toward the going down of the sun Shall your coast be.

There shall not any man Be able to stand before thee All the days of thy life. And as I was with Moses So I be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. This is a vision that God had given To Joshua the servant And minister of Moses.

But I want you to see Beloved That even though Joshua had a vision First of all Joshua had a vision Of the God of Moses The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. Joshua knew God Because Joshua was nurtured By Moses.

And Joshua was taught by Moses. And Joshua was instructed by Moses. And when Moses pitched a tent And went into it And the glory of the Lord appeared. Joshua was usually right there next to him Basking in the presence Looking and watching.

He learned to worship God at the feet of Moses. He learned to weep before God At the feet of Moses. When Israel went into apostasy And God said I'm going to destroy him. And Moses began to weep And say God don't Don't destroy your inheritance.

Joshua watched Moses And probably put his head down and said Wow God this is incredible. I see a picture of an intercessor I see a man that's got so much Passion and compassion. Joshua was nurtured by Moses.

So he had a vision Of God. And now that vision Of God Went into and was transformed Into a vision Of what God wanted to do. You cannot have a vision Of God through the Holy Ghost and by the word of God Without eventually Getting a vision of what God Wants to do first of all In your personal life.

Second of all in your family's life. Third of all In your church's life Where you are a part of in a local assembly. Then you're going to get a vision For your community. You're going to get a vision for your state.

And before you know it You're going to be dreaming dreams That God will turn the nation aside. That's what God does. He wants you to see things The way he sees. What does the word say. God is not willing that who That any should perish.

But that all should come To repentance. That's the bigness of God's heart. But I tell you beloved Even though Joshua had a vision of God. And even though Joshua had a vision Of what God wanted to do It wasn't a guarantee.

It wasn't something That Joshua could look at and say. Well I know this is going to happen No matter what I do God specifically Told Joshua. Instructions. Beloved I want this to be very clear. This morning I want this to be crystal clear.

If you ever get a vision of God If you ever get a vision of what God wants to do It's going to come out of Sincere Humble Meditation In the word of God. The word of God Is the birthing place From which men Get a vision of God.

Get a vision of who God is. Get a vision of what God wants to do In them and through them. And in their churches and in their communities. So therefore Let's hear What God says to Joshua. And let us pray That God Will speak these words Into our heart today.

Do you want to be a man of God. Ladies. Do you want to be women of God. Do you want to make a difference In your generation. You say brother that's a big thing. I don't even think about my generation.

Alright let's bring it right down To where we're at. Do you want to make a difference in your life and in your home. You don't have to stop There though. You don't have to stop there. You can make a difference in your home.

You can make a difference in your children's life. But you can make a difference in your church. You can make a difference in your community. You can make a difference. You can do it If God be for you.

Who can be against you. One man called Paul Of Tarsus Made such a difference. He's been dead for how long. And he yet speaketh. He's still making a difference. Every single person Who gets saved Is introduced to Paul through the scriptures.

Meditating on God's Word for Strength and Success

And everyone who gets Saved comes under The discipling hand of the Apostle Paul through the scriptures. He's still making a difference. And it's been almost two thousand years. Verse number six Begins The word that we need to meditate Upon.

The Lord gave me this several weeks ago A month ago. And I tell you beloved this is as sure As anything. Let me tell you the stock market Is not certain today. There's a lot of questions going on. There's no certainty with the stock market.

You might get a good month. You might get a good six years. You might get a good year. But inevitably the uncertainty of riches will fail. Those who are placing their trust in it And they're going to discover That the money that they have hoped in Is going to fail them.

And they're not going to be able to get deliverance from money. I don't know what you're trusting in today. I don't know what you have your hope in today. But I want you to know By the word of the Lord That there is nothing that is certain.

There is nothing that is sure Except what we're about to read. And that is the word of God to Joshua And to you and I today. Be strong. Verse six. And of good courage. For unto this people Shalt thou divide for an inheritance The land which I swore Unto their fathers to give them.

Only be thou strong And very courageous That thou mayest Observe To do according to all The law which Moses My servant commanded thee. Turn not from it To the right hand Or to the left. That thou mayest Prosper whithersoever Thou goest.

This book Of the law Shall not depart Out of thy mouth. Now in order for the word of the law Not to depart out of your mouth. Where does it got to be? In the heart And in the head. Because the Bible says Out of the abundance of the heart The mouth speaketh That is the things you say With your mouth reflect What's in your heart For the most part.

Now sometimes we say stupid things Because we get stupid thoughts. But that really doesn't reflect What's in our heart. But generally that's not the case. Generally we are saying The very thing that's in our heart.

And the reason why we say So little word is because There's little word in us. There's little word in us. We need to get the word In our heart so that The book of the law Will not depart out of our mouth.

Listen to this now. Verse 8. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth. But thou shalt meditate therein Day and night That thou mayest observe to do According to all that is written therein.

For then When? For then Shalt thou make thy way prosperous. And then thou Shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee. Be strong and of good courage. Be not afraid. Neither be thou dismayed For the Lord thy God is with thee Whithersoever thou goest.

God's word tells us That we will Prosper and we will Have good success. If the word Of God Doesn't depart from our mouth Which Means that God's word Has got to get in our hearts. God's word has got to get in our Thinking.

God's word Must become that which sustains Us that which we live Upon that which morning by Morning we go to And receive strength. God's word must be the book That we govern our lives on Must be the book that we teach.

Our children must be the book That as couples we pray over And we meditate upon. We must let God's word correct us. We must let God's word Reprove us. We must let God's word Be God's word to our hearts.

And the Bible Says that if God's word Doesn't depart from our mouth Then we will prosper And be successful in whatever We do now the thing About this whole thing is this. If God's word gets into our Heart and God's word gets into Our mind we're not going to be Wanting to do our own thing.

We're not going to be wanting to make our own Plans. Well this is a promise. The promise is this God says if you meditate on my Word I'm going to give you A vision of me and I'm Going to give you a vision of my plans.

And those plans And those thoughts will Prosper. It is a Promise from God that anyone Hallelujah anyone Who is a dreamer for God and has a dream from God will not Fail if They stay in the word and Stay broken before God and Allow God to fill them With his word they Will not fail.

Be Not afraid neither be thou dismay. For the Lord thy God is with thee Whither so ever Thou goest. Hallelujah Hallelujah. Where are you Going when you got God's Word in you. Where are you Going when you've got the Vision of what God wants to do.

Faith Tested in the Fiery Furnace

I'll tell you where you're going you're going Right to Daniel chapter 3. You Could turn there. Oh this Is a great thing to have a vision from God. This is a great thing to be Governed by a vision. This is a great thing to have a vision From God is it going to lead you To an easy life where you're going to Have no difficulties and no troubles.

Is it going to lead you to a Place where you're just happy and your Circumstances are so nice and You have no difficulties and you're Living in an ivory palace. I say Not Vision from God lead Paul. We're going to find out where it led Daniel brother where did it lead Paul.

It led Paul Into one of the most difficult lives That a man ever lived and it was Because he had heavenly vision. It was because he had a vision of Jesus As Lord and it was because He had a vision of what Jesus As Lord wanted to do through his Broken earthly vessel.

And anybody who dreams A dream from God and gets Into the word of God where their life. And their mind and their heart is Wrapped up in the word and they Believe the word and they live By the word and they meditate On the word and they love the word.

And they seek God and they Talk with God and God talks with them. They're going to be led into Trouble they're going to be tested By fire. It's just the way it is. Suffering is inevitable For the righteous but the word Of God says but the Lord shall Deliver them out of all Their afflictions out of all Their troubles.

Daniel Chapter 3. Hallelujah to God. Hallelujah to God. Daniel was a man who had A vision. Daniel Had a vision of God and he Had a vision of what God wanted to do. And this is where Daniel's Vision led him.

Verse 1. Chapter 3. Suffer the reading of the word this morning. Please and I encourage you all To please get a copy of this Tape and listen to it. And meditate on the scriptures. And let this word get into your Spirit because this Word alone from the Bible That is being preached this Morning is what's going to sustain you In the days and years to come.

This word alone I'll tell you It's going to be those who are going to do exploits For their God in the days to come. If Jesus should tarry it's going to be Those people who have a heavenly vision Of a heavenly Savior.

They have a heavenly vision of what Christ came to do. He came to destroy the works of the devil. They're not going to be in this world Flirting with the world going around Doing the things of the world.

They're going to be men and women of vision And passion prepared to die for Jesus Prepared to go Into the death sentence with Jesus. They're going to be A people who lose their life For Christ. You say I don't know if I'm prepared to do that.

Of course you're not prepared. Neither am I. But it's not whether I'm prepared. It's God, God will make me prepared. God will give you the strength. You say well what do I have to do. Just come to God and be willing.

Say God I'm willing To go all the way with you. But I can't in my own strength. God says fine I'll give you my strength. Don't look at your Resources, you'll get discouraged. How many have ever gotten discouraged By looking at your own resources.

How about your track record. Have you done real well. No, have you made a lot of Mistakes, yeah, are you still Making them, yeah. Real discouraging isn't it. Alright, let's pretend this whole Thing hangs upon your Faithfulness and your perfect track Record, who among us can stand up And say well God can still use me.

Come on, where's The one, let me sit down. None of us can. But yet this vision is still in our heart. How come, this vision is Still living, how come. Because God didn't make the promise To you and I because of our Faithfulness, he made the promise Because of the faithfulness of his son.

Get delivered from yourself. Get delivered from looking at yourself And your failures and your Worst and then saying it'll never happen. Of course it'll never happen By your own power. Pray God give me a Humble attitude, God will use The meek, not the perfect.

God will use the humble Not the ones who have no sin. So it's Not a matter of having a perfect Track record, it's a matter of I am the Lord. I dwell in the heavens I inhabit eternity. But I also will Come and live and make My abode with him that what Is of a humble and a Meek and a broken and a Contrite spirit, if you've got A humble and a meek and a broken Contrite spirit this morning.

And you're willing as Lucy said To acknowledge your sin and Not to cover your sin and to call An ace an ace and a spade a spade And to call it like it is and to Come up and confess to God and to Those that you need to confess to.

Then as far as God's concerned You're a champion, you're an Overcomer, you're a winner. And if you don't give up, God will give you A dream and he'll bring it to pass. I don't know about you, but I Am encouraged this morning Because the Lord is Speaking to this all weak Vessel and is strengthening it To go on!

Refusing the World's Image

Chapter 3, verse 1. Nebuchadnezzar, the king Made an image of gold Whose height was threescore cubits And the breadth thereof six cubits. And he set it up in the plain Of Dura in the province Of Babylon.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king Sent to gather together the princes The governors and the captains The judges, the treasurers The counselors, the sheriffs and all The rulers of the providences to come To the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Then the princes The governors and the captains And the judges and the treasurers And the counselors and the sheriffs And all the rulers of the providences Were gathered together unto the dedication Of the image that Nebuchadnezzar The king had set up.

And they stood before the image That Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Guess who knows what the image was? Himself The image was An idol of himself Nebuchadnezzar. Then a herald cried aloud To you it is commanded.