Previously on the chosen people.

Hear the decree of your king.

At the sound of the horn, the flute, the liar, the harp, the pipe,

you are to fall down and worship the image I have set before you.

Great Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

We bow to the one true God of Israel.

Look around you.

I built these towers.

I gathered these armies.

I have the furnace to burn you all to a crisp.

There is no God here but me.

The roar of the furnace was deafening now, a constant ravenous bellow.

Heat rolled across the plain in suffocating waves, carrying the acrid tang of burning pitch.

Nebuchadnezzar's eyes snapped toward the furnace. Inside, where clothes should have blackened to ash,

where flesh should have been consumed in moments, the three men were walking, walking, and then

there was a fourth figure in the flame.

Who are you?

The fourth man's eyes lit with a heavenly glow, and from his mouth a sword appeared, I am. For the first time in years,

the great king of Babylon had met someone who did not fear him more than God, and though he would not

admit it, not yet, that encounter would haunt him far longer than the dream itself.

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