How God Disciplined Nebuchadnezzar How could God correct a man of such arrogance and power?
How could he even communicate with a tyrant so accustomed to having his own way that he would destroy any who opposed? Of course, God could easily have consumed him as he sat there on his throne. Onlookers would have been impressed. But destruction does not discipline the one destroyed. And the heavenly Father was only just beginning the instruction of his brilliant but arrogant child. One thing Nebuchadnezzar respected was superior power. When Daniel had been able to remind the king of a dream he had forgotten, Nebuchadnezzar had prostrated himself at the prophet s feet. Truly, he said, your God is indeed God of gods and Lord over kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret. 4 God meets people where they are. So, as he met Moses at the burning bush,5 God met Nebuchadnezzar in the flames of the fiery furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar, greatly agitated, sprang to his feet, saying to his courtiers, Was it not three men whom we threw bound into the fir
