What did Daniel tell the pagan king about God revealing prophetic events?
Daniel declared to the pagan king that there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets and makes known what shall be in the latter days. He told the king that God had revealed prophetic events to him, showing that true prophecy centers on Israel.
Les explains that Daniel came back to the pagan king amid all his splendor and pomp and told him that there is a God in heaven, verse 28, who reveals secrets and makes known to the king what shall be in the latter days. Daniel immediately said God had revealed prophetic events to that king. Les stresses that all true prophecy centers on the nation of Israel and usually has a time frame; God gives details and places them in time, as with the 490 years determined on Israel in chapter 9. By contrast, the church age has no prophecy like that; no prophecy concerns the church. The church nearing the end of the age of grace is seen by events preparing for prophecy, but that is evident.
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
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What did Daniel tell Nebuchadnezzar about God and future events in Daniel 2:28?
In Daniel 2:28, Daniel told pagan King Nebuchadnezzar that there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets and makes known what will happen in the latter days, and Daniel explained that God had revealed prophetic events to the king.