Jeremiah 29:4-7 CSB This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles I deported from Jerusalem to Babylon: “Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce. Find wives for yourselves, and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. Pursue the well-being of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it thrives, you will thrive.”

MOST CHRISTIANS THINK THE OPTIONS ARE EITHER:
1. Assimilation
2. Separation
3. Transformation

Daniel 2:1-3 In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled him, and sleep deserted him. So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, mediums, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. When they came and stood before the king, he said to them, “I have had a dream and am anxious to understand it.”

Daniel 2:10-12 The Chaldeans answered the king, “No one on earth can make known what the king requests. Consequently, no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, medium, or Chaldean. What the king is asking is so difficult that no one can make it known to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.” Because of this, the king became violently angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

Daniel 2:17-22 Then Daniel went to his house and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah about the matter, urging them to ask the God of the heavens for mercy concerning this mystery, so Daniel and his friends would not be destroyed with the rest of Babylon’s wise men. The mystery was then revealed to Daniel in a vision at night, and Daniel praised the God of the heavens and declared: May the name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to him.He changes the times and seasons; he removes kings and establishes kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals the deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him.

Daniel 2:26-28 The king said in reply to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me the dream I had and its interpretation?” Daniel answered the king, “No wise man, medium, magician, or diviner is able to make known to the king the mystery he asked about. But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay in bed were these:

• GOD OFTEN VALIDATES HIS MESSAGE SUPERNATURALLY

Hebrews 2:3-4 The gospel was declared to us at first by the Lord (Jesus), and then it was attested to us by those who heard him (the Apostles), God bearing witness with them through signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 CSB My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.

1 Corinthians 14:25 The secrets of his heart will be revealed, and as a result he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is really among you.”

1 Kings 18:24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The God who answers with fire, he is God.”

Daniel 2:34 As you were watching (Daniel says to Nebuchadnezzar), a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet and crushed them. 35 Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 44 “The great God has told the king what will happen in the future… In the days of those kings, the God of the heavens will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed… It will crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself endure forever.”

Matthew 21:41 that this Rock coming from heaven was a picture of him.

Daniel 2:35 “…they became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.”