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WEEK 3
TOPIC: CONSEQUENCES OF OBEDIENCE
CONTENT:
- The Three Hebrew Youths Escaped Death for Obeying God to Avoid Idolatry, Ex. 20: 3; Daniel 3: 1-30
- Esther Obeyed Mordecai Esther 4: 1-16
Sub-Topic 1: THE THREE HEBREW YOUTHS ESCAPED DEATH FOR OBEYING GOD TO AVOID IDOLATRY. EX. 20: 3; Dan. 3: 1-30
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden image and had it set up in the plain of Dura in the Province of Babylon. He called his officials for the dedication of his golden image. The herald urged everybody to fall down and worship the golden image once they heard music playing. Anyone who did not fall down and worship the golden image would be thrown into a burning fiery furnace; the people worshipped the golden image as was commanded by king Nebuchadnezzar. However, three young Hebrews refused to bow down to Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image. The three Hebrew youths were Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. They were reported to the king by some Chaldeans.
Nebuchadnezzar ordered that the three Hebrews should be thrown into the burning fiery furnace after he had asked them whether it was true that they refused to worship his golden image. Without mincing words, the three told the king that they would not worship the golden image which he had set up.
The king was so angry with them that he ordered his men to heat the burning fiery furnace seven times hotter than it used to be. Then he ordered the strongest men in his army to tie the three Jews and throw them into the burning fiery furnace. The king was astonished and rose up in haste; he said to the counsellors ‘Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?’
Nebuchadnezzar went up to the door of the burning fiery furnace and called the three Hebrews to come out addressing them as the servants of the Most High God. King Nebuchadnezzar praised the Lord, He issued a decree that anyone who spoke against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would be torn from limb and his house made a pile of ruins. Then he promoted them to high positions.
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