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Be the seed that fell on good soil... -Jesus Matthew 13:23

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“So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” 1 Corinthians 3:7 NIV 🌹

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On my easel today 🌿Oil painting.

Gm☀️ Let’s start this Monday with energy and hope for better days. Have a nice day!

Lights In The Estuary 🎨 acrylic on canvas 11x14”

• Linda Katmarian • .

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@_Neonymous Hallelujah Neo! God bless you!

WHAT IF DANIEL 2 PROVES GOD CONTROLS THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES? Thousands of years before the modern world existed… Before Rome ruled… Before Greece conquered nations… Before Medo-Persia rose to power… God already revealed the future. Daniel 2 is not merely a story about a dream. It is one of the greatest prophetic chapters in all of Scripture, demonstrating that the God of Israel rules history itself. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was the most powerful man on earth. Babylon was wealthy, sophisticated, militarily dominant, and feared by the nations. Its hanging gardens, walls, temples, armies, astrologers, and wise men made it appear invincible. Yet the king was terrified. “And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled.” Daniel 2:1 The mighty king of Babylon could not understand his own dream. So he demanded something impossible from his wise men: not only the interpretation, but the dream itself. “There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter.” Daniel 2:10 That admission exposes the limits of human wisdom. Political power cannot reveal truth. Pagan religion cannot reveal truth. Human philosophy cannot reveal truth. Only God can. The astrologers and magicians of Babylon stood helpless before a mystery from heaven. But Daniel responded differently. He prayed. “Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah… that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret.” Daniel 2:17–18 Before Daniel stood before kings, he bowed before God. And God answered. “Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.” Daniel 2:19 Daniel immediately gave glory to God rather than taking credit for himself: “He changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings.” Daniel 2:21 That verse alone destroys the illusion that rulers ultimately control history. Empires rise because God permits it. Empires fall because God decrees it. Daniel then revealed the dream: a massive statue composed of successive metals representing Gentile world empires. The head of gold was Babylon. The chest and arms of silver were Medo-Persia. The belly and thighs of bronze were Greece. The legs of iron were Rome. The feet mixed with iron and clay point to a divided kingdom connected to the Roman system. What makes this prophecy astonishing is that Daniel wrote this centuries before several of these empires even existed. Babylon fell. Medo-Persia rose. Greece conquered the world under Alexander. Rome crushed nations with iron strength. Exactly as God foretold. As Chuck Missler once said: “The Bible is the only book that stakes its authority on its ability to predict the future.” And then the vision reaches its climax. “A stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet.” Daniel 2:34 That Stone is not a human empire. Not democracy. Not the United Nations. Not political reform. Not military power. It is the Kingdom of Messiah. The Stone was “cut without hands,” meaning its origin is divine, not human. God Himself establishes this Kingdom. “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed.” Daniel 2:44 This is why Daniel 2 matters so much prophetically. History is not random. The nations are not spiraling out of control. God already revealed the outline of Gentile dominion long ago. The final phase of the statue, the iron and clay feet, appears strong outwardly but internally fragile. It points toward a future divided global system connected to the legacy of Rome. Scripture later reveals that this final kingdom will culminate in the rise of the Antichrist before Messiah returns to establish His reign. But the Antichrist does not get the final word. The Stone does. “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Psalm 118:22 Yeshua Himself applied this imagery to Himself: “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Matthew 21:42 The rejected Stone will one day crush every rebellious kingdom of man. Daniel 2 also speaks powerfully to believers living in today’s cultural Babylon. We live in an age obsessed with power, self, technology, entertainment, political salvation, and moral compromise. The pressure to conform is constant. Truth is redefined daily. Many churches compromise simply to avoid conflict with the spirit of the age. But Daniel remained faithful in exile. Before the lions’ den came the prayer room. Before public influence came private conviction. Before national impact came personal holiness. Daniel did not blend in with Babylon. He stood apart from it. And God honored him for it. John Walvoord wrote: “Daniel 2 is the foundation of Gentile world history in prophecy.” But it is also a call to courage. God is still sovereign over kings. Still sovereign over nations. Still sovereign over history. And one day every empire, ideology, rebellion, false religion, and throne raised against God will collapse like dust before the returning King. The Stone rejected by the world will fill the whole earth. “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 11:15

"To console those who mourn, to give them beauty for ashes. The oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. That they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.” Isaiah 61:3 NKJV 🌹

“Life must be rich and full of loving—it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.” ~ Jack Kerouac

Painting by Ivan Sheremetyev. "Bouquet of lilacs"

Reflection, by Ann Marie Bone.

With a grateful heart

my new painting 🎨 acrylic on canvas 12x12”