Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
191Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, and Daniel
29 Apr 2024
13:36¶ 35
“But first Daniel and his friends. Their names were not originally Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They were Mishael, Hananiah, and Azariah, names that reflected…”
18:42¶ 45
“This was the program that Daniel and his friends were up against. Some of it they accepted. There’s no record that they objected to…”
42:13¶ 113
“Now, before we return to this there is the history of the three young friends who refused to bow. Nebuchadnezzar gets obsessed with this…”
148Through Fiery Trials
12 Dec 2022
8:35¶ 29
“Yes, exactly. There were some people in that audience who noticed that there were some people not bowing. The people who did the noticing…”
9:09¶ 30
“If you recall, those were not their Hebrew names. Their Hebrew names were Mishael, Hananiah, and Azariah, but no one knew them as that…”
13:34¶ 44
“Again, we’re in the position where they have not been told God is going to work a miracle. They are strictly speaking not prophets,…”
147The Course of Empire
5 Dec 2022
6:19¶ 29
“Those are the young men we know as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, but Daniel talking within his own circle uses their real names, their…”
6:34¶ 31
“They’re not exactly asking that everybody be saved. They’re asking that they might be saved, because these other people, in terms of God’s law,…”
5:29¶ 27
“Of course, we’re back to Daniel and his three friends. God has done one thing that amounted to a miracle. He enhanced their health…”
146To Gain the Whole World
28 Nov 2022
12:38¶ 31
“First of all just in passing, and maybe that’s the problem – that it’s just in passing – we know the three friends, Meshach,…”
13:11¶ 33
“Just call me Shadrach.” The Babylonian names seem to be rooted in the names of Babylonian gods. It’s not that names are unimportant. In…”
13:38¶ 35
“Pretty much. Under other circumstances perhaps they might have chosen them. Sometimes what people call you does matter, but here they were going to…”
115The Idol State
25 Apr 2022
18:22¶ 59
“It matters, and to bow the knee before an idol is to worship the idol, to submit yourself to the idol and the reality…”
17:38¶ 56
“It doesn’t matter what you do with your body, and therefore this is the other side of it doesn’t matter what you do with…”
18:05¶ 57
“I’ve taught through that chapter I don’t know how many times and get the question, “Well, couldn’t they just, you know, bow their knees…”