Daniel and the King’s Dream
God’s mysterious message to a king
The king of Babylon had a dream
that upset him.
He demanded that his priests and
wise men tell him what the dream meant.
The king would not tell them the
dream.
He said if the priests and wise
men really had power, they could tell him what the dream was and
what it meant.
The priests and wise men told the
king they could not interpret his dream if he would not tell
them what it was.
They said no man could do that.
The king was angry and said he
would kill all the wise men in the kingdom, including Daniel and
his friends.
When the king’s guard came to take
Daniel and his friends, Daniel asked for more
time so that he could tell the king what his dream meant.
Daniel knew that God knows and
sees everything, even dreams.
Daniel asked his friends to pray
with him.
God showed Daniel the king’s dream
in a vision and taught Daniel what it meant.
Daniel thanked God for answering
the prayers of him and his friends and for saving their
lives.
Then he went to tell the king the
meaning of the dream.
Daniel said the king’s dream was
about a giant statue that was destroyed by a stone cut out of a
mountain. The statue represented the
kingdoms of the earth.
The stone cut out of the mountain
represented the kingdom of God that would fill
the earth.
The king knew that Daniel spoke
the truth.