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In Daniel 3, Nebuchadnezzar created a gold statue of himself and required all the people to bow down to it whenever the music played. Daniel’s three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, refused, and the king had them thrown into a blazing furnace. Miraculously, God protected them, and when they came out of the furnace, Nebuchadnezzar proclaimed, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God. Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way” (Daniel 3:28–29).

In Daniel chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar is given another dream by God. Daniel interpreted the dream for Nebuchadnezzar and informed him that the dream was a warning to the king to humble himself and recognize that his power, wealth, and influence were from God, not of his own making. Nebuchadnezzar did not heed the warning of the dream, so God judged him as the dream had declared. Nebuchadnezzar was driven insane for seven years. When the king’s sanity was restored, he finally humbled himself before God. In Daniel 4:3, Nebuchadnezzar declares, “How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.” Nebuchadnezzar continued in Daniel 4:34–37, “For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and n...

July 18, 2017 ·  Appendix 6 (from: Quran The Final Testament, by Rashad Khalifa, PhD.) Greatness of God We learn from Verse 39:67 that God's greatness is far beyond human comprehension - the verse states that all seven universes are "folded within God's hand." Supported by the Quran's formidable mathematical code, we are taught that our universe is the smallest and innermost of seven universes (41:12, 55:33, 67:5, & 72:8-12). Meanwhile, our scientific advances have shown us that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is 100,000 light years across, and that our universe contains a billion such galaxies and a billion trillion stars, plus countless decillions of heavenly bodies. Our universe is estimated to span distances in excess of 20,000,000,000 light years. Count the Stars! If we take only a quintillion [1,000,000,000,000,000,000] of the stars and simply count them [from 0 to quintillion] one count per second, day and night, this will take 32...

November 2, 20186:46 PM ET VANESSA ROMO Twitter The Regional Commissioner of Tanzania's largest city announced the creation of an anti-gay surveillance squad that is expected to begin a roundup as early as Monday. In an interview with Dizzim TV on Monday, Paul Makonda ordered residents throughout Dar es Salaam to report gay people to a phone hotline in advance of the widespread sweeps. "Report them to me," Makonda urged, as translated from Swahili by NPR, adding that "from next Monday we start arresting them." Homosexual acts are illegal in Tanzania and punishable by up to 30 years in prison. As a result, gay, lesbian and transgender Tanzanians are forced to hide their sexuality. People With HIV Are Panicking Due To Tanzania's Crackdown On Gays GOATS AND SODA People With HIV Are Panicking Due To Tanzania's Crackdown On Gays AFRICA Critics Of Tanzania's President Say He's Moved Country Toward Authoritarianism The task force will c...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that US President Donald Trump has "disgraced" US prestige and would be the ultimate loser from re-imposing sanctions on Tehran. The United States restored sanctions on the Islamic Republic's shipping, energy and financial sectors on Friday. The measures will come into effect on Monday. "This new US president ... has disgraced the remnant of America's prestige and that of liberal democracy. America's hard power, that is to say, their economic and military power, is declining, too," Khamenei said on Twitter on Saturday, quoting a speech he gave earlier in Tehran. Khamenei was speaking on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran. "The challenge between the US and Iran has lasted for 40 years so far and the US has made various efforts against us: military, economic and media warfare," he said. "There's a key fact here: in this 40-year ...