Yesterday I left you in a very precarious situation, do you remember? We were standing on the plain of Dura near Babylon, about 2600 years ago, looking at a gigantic, 90-foot, gold plated statue of the great King Nebuchadnezzar. We were surrounded by hundreds, maybe thousands of people, all of them leaders in their districts, who had come from all over the great Babylonian empire at the invitation of the most powerful man in the world, Nebuchadnezzar. (Daniel 3:1-3)
As we gathered, these instructions were pronounced to us: “Nations and peoples of every language, this is what you are commanded to do: As soon as you hear the sound of the horn and other instruments, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. “(Daniel 3:4-6)