Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

The 2,000 Stripling Warriors were the children of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s. The people of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s wanted to help the Nephites defend against the Lamanites, but they had all promised God that they would never lift a weapon to kill a person again. The Nephites did not want them to break their promise to God so they told them to not come into battle with them. The youth of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s never made that promise to God so they prepared for war and chose their leader Helaman to lead them into battle. The first mission that they had was to bring supplies to a group of Nephites. The Lamanites were behind them and the Nephite army was waiting to ambush the Lamanites following the Stripling Warriors. The attack started and the Stripling…

Introduction In 605 B.C during Jehoiakim’s reign, the Babylonian’s king Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel and his friends as captives when he besieged Jerusalem. Daniel was taken captive because he fit in the standards, which the king was searching for: young men, good-looking and smart. During the time of captivity, Daniel, the author of the book of the Bible with the same name , writes about the dreams, visions and situations he passed in the course of the captivity. Indeed Daniel’s actions…

The Book of Daniel follows the life of Israelite named Daniel during the Babylonian captivity. Daniel and his friends are taken into captivity, but they soon serve under Nebuchadnezzar as interpreters. Nebuchadnezzar has a dream where sees an enormous statue with a head of gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of mixed iron and clay. The statue is then destroyed. Daniel interprets the dream as four empires that will be crushed by God’s kingdom. In…

Nehemiah Leading Through Change Nehemiah was considered a great leader, and decided with the help of the Lord to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Once Nehemiah set his heart to help the people of Jerusalem, many obstacles were faced. Nehemiah through faith and perseverance proved to be a great leader. Nehemiah served as a cupbearer for the king of Babylon. When Nehemiah heard that the walls of Jerusalem were never rebuilt and the city was going through turmoil, Nehemiah felt obliged to help his…

Rev. Franklin Graham has been voicing out against U.S. President Barack Obama’s order to give transgender access to public school restrooms, but now he has upped the heat in the LGBT debate by urging his followers to be willing to be martyred for their “intolerant” beliefs. In a Facebook message posted on Sunday, Rev. Franklin Graham asked his followers about the things or principles that they would be willing to take a bullet for. Citing the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who…

The devil is always roaming the world to tempt us and to sabotage our faith in God, but God uses multiple tests to develop our faith in Him. We as a human being must be tested by faith for God to trust us with His word. False faith fails at times of us being tested in our trial, but crazy faith helps us to grow and mature in areas to edify God 's Kingdom. Faith clarifies why God authorized the three "black" Hebrew men who names were, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be tested by their faith.…

For example, he referred to himself as an Apostle Paul like figure, because they both traveled out of their hometowns to share their beliefs with others, and they both ended up in prison because of that. The specific text said, “…and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.” He also referenced the…

For example, when Daniel’s friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, get thrown into the furnace in Daniel 3, the three of them and an angel of the Lord come out of the furnace. This caused Nebuchadnezzar to worship God. But not soon after does he have a second dream,and when Daniel interprets it, the king gets angry. But what Daniel interprets comes true, proving the righteousness of God. Then, later on, with King Darius, Daniel was thrown into the lion's den. God protects him, and the next…

Specifically, with his comparison to Jesus, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, he introduces the term extremist. Extremist although heavily packed with a negative connotation is premised here as positive by King. In his letter, King says, “Was not Jesus an extremist for love... Was not Amos an extremist for justice...? Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel...? Was not Martin Luther an extremist...And John Bunyan? (706)” By mentioning all those biblical figures along with influential…

King writes, “It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar.” When King writes about Nebuchadnezzar, he alludes to the story in the Book of Daniel when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to bow to Nebuchadnezzar’s idol. Nebuchadnezzar is furious and throws them into a fiery furnace. They don’t burn and are not harmed. King alludes to this event to show that sometimes people can disobey, be punished, and still be unaffected.…