How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Daniel's friends, Shadrack, Meshach and Abedniko

had every reason to be terrified. In fact, they faced a choice that determined if they lived

or died. God had miraculously delivered them before, but would he do it again?

Welcome to Through the Bible, where our teacher, Dr J. Vernon McGee is going to tell us the rest of the story

in Daniel Chapter 3.

So find your seat on the Bible bus, as Dr. McGee loved to call it, and we'll take a brief

detour with an introduction to help put

our study into context.

Now we've been giving some overview our background material of the places that are being touched in prophecy and the

historical background, the philosophical background, and the psychological background that's all going

to lead finally to the Antichrist.

And I feel that at this particular time the question that's going to be asked by many out there.

Well, what about the church?

Where does the church fit into this picture?

Friends, let me say to you that the church is not in the book of Daniel.

Daniel makes no reference at all to the church.

This man taken from the little nation of Israel where I'm

sure his thinking was very provincial as he was there. Now he's put down in this great first world kingdom and I tell

you his mind is being stretched And he sees something now that a great many people don't even see today,

although we have the history for it today.

The tremendous history of man under governments that began by

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