Chapter 03


In oil-rich Iraq there was no problem getting a burning, fiery furnace!*
In oil-rich Iraq there was no problem getting a burning, fiery furnace!

In Daniel chapter three Daniel himself is absent when Nebuchadnezzar tries to raise his people's morale by building an enormous statue whose head - and all the rest - was of gold.

In this talk I set the historical background to this story and describe its remarkable outcome when a conquered king was ordered to swear loyalty by a conquered god.