DANIEL 2:31

 

Eyes-Witness
 

The King was sleeping but saw what stood before him. Someone had experienced a vision where an image or statue appeared like a being (an angel or demon) before him in his room while he slept on his bed. Though the king's eyes were physically closed in sleep, they were opened in a trance. Thus, he was very aware of what stood before him and his environment, even while sleeping.
 

[Numbers 24:4] — "He has said, who heard the words of God and saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but with his eyes open."
 

The statue or sculptured image was not a living creature, but it stood before the king with a greatness that surpassed the king's own greatness. It had a brilliance or brightness that exceeded any brightness known to the king, and a form that inspired fear in a fearless king like Nebuchadnezzar. Somehow, the king felt before this giant statue what King Saul felt before the giant Goliath of Gath for forty One days and forty One nights. Saul used to be the tallest man among those over whom he presided as king, until he encountered the taller Goliath. Similarly, Nebuchadnezzar had not seen any king or man who commanded more respect in stature and appearance than himself until he beheld this gigantic statue and image that he could not look down upon.
 

Now, God does not approve of His people making graven images or statues to bow down to or worship. However, in the dream, God used a molten image or statue that possessed attributes of gods. If it appeared in physical form, people would have been compelled to bow down and worship it. The reason is that the image had these four great attributes associated with gods:
 

1. The image/statue was great (magnificent).

2. The image/statue had excellent brightness.

3. The image/statue stood before the king, not bowing before him. Later, the same king would command all those who used to bow before him to instead bow to a similar image at the sound of music because even the king gave his glory and honor to that standing image.

4. The image/statue had a terrifying or awe-inspiring appearance.
 

Joseph's sheaf stood up in his dream, and even in the dream, his brothers' sheaves bowed down to the image or sheaf of Joseph. Their stars also bowed down to the appearance of Joseph in the dream. Such dreams, including the one where others bow before an image, are always about kingdom, kingship, or rulership. However, if those people, images, or symbols were to do the same things in physical reality, it would constitute idolatry or idol worship.
 

In the next chapter, Nebuchadnezzar sought to reproduce the ideas of the dream's image in physical form and have everyone bow down to a similar image. But though that may be overlooked in a dream, it is an abomination for Christians like Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
 

In the Bible verse mentioned above, Daniel was telling and convicting the king of what he saw as an "Eye-Witness." Does it occur to you that there will be an exposition of those things your eyes saw or witnessed? Someone else will see through your eyes while your eyes remain with you, and someone will tell you that they saw what you saw when no one else saw those things with you. Scientifically, there are ways to capture the last images seen by a recently deceased person and extract what they saw last before they died.
 

The coming Judgment of God has ways of indicting men by showing them exactly what/who they saw and what/who they did not see. I am not talking about seeing nude ones or pornographic content or observing people's shame. Instead, I am talking about seeing heavenly things, heavenly people, or eternal treasures. These things or people keep records of those who saw them from the earthly realms and how much of them were seen or known by those on earth now. Remember they are invisible for some reason, and their being invisible means they are very sensitive to being seen by those whom they are by default hiding from.
 

Between a woman that's hiding her nude conservatively and another woman that is a stripper or nude public actress, who do you think will be more sensitive and keeping record of those who have seen her bumbum or nudes? Is it not the woman that is conservative and hardly revealing her nudity, so that she could count how many people have seen certain parts of her private or invisible parts and how much those who saw those about her know? Does the stripper or public nude actress care about who or how many have seen her navel or buttocks when she made those parts of her visible and glaring to all men that cared to look? Even so, most invisible and spiritual things are very sensitive to being seen, heard or noticed by those from physical world, and their hiding or invisible tendencies entail keeping records of being seen.
 

It's similar to reading, playing, or watching content on certain websites that keep records of views, impressions, visitors, and identify specific individuals who accessed their content. Spiritual heavenly things/people are even more sensitive and keep records of the degree to which you saw them, visited them, and what you did when you saw them. It's not just your eyes that know you saw them and what you saw about them, but they also know when your eyes and light saw and connected with any part of them, along with the transactions that occurred as their virtues interacted with your eyes and knowledge of them.
 

The Priest and Levite were unaware that there was a record that bore witness to them seeing the wounded and helpless man on their way. They thought they only saw the man without the man seeing them, so they followed another path or turned their faces, pretending they never saw him. Be cautious if you constantly see heavenly treasures and people but act as if you did not see them, either from shame or a refusal to identify with them, or from being afraid or you hate/envy the ones manifesting them. For those things also know you saw them, or those people shall know later you saw them at those states, stages, times or conditions. The goats of the Nations shall be told when they saw the least of the brothers/sisters of the Lord Jesus Christ, but ignored, despised or neglected them for whatever motive or reason: because those people and their messages/treasures are parts of heavenly eternal treasures.
 

Therefore, Daniel declared to Nebuchadnezzar what the king saw in that dream because that was a heavenly vision, and the dream bore record of how, what and when the king saw it.