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Published: 2008-02-10 04:22:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 2598; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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This is the first piece of a freelance job I'm working on.I asked the creator of the project to do the write up:
"In one of his waking visions, John Quince finds himself face to face with a dream.....or nightmare from the ancient past. An encounter he isn't ready for.
John Quince is a man who lives a life centered on himself but runs into a few things he never anticipated. His days are filled with strange visions, murderous priests and an incredible encounter with a relic from the ancient past..... I ask you to take a revealing journey with John through his maze of self-discovery, his failings, his triumphs and....maybe.... his new direction in life. "
You can learn more about the story at [link]
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You're right about the image's posture, it's usually folded-arms style. Your style is quite cool, the new stance and all.
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the folded arms would have seemed silly from the forward view ive got going thats why i skipped em
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Greeat work man. This is quite awe inspiring.
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Great work. The dream Nebuchadhoweveryouspellit had was enough to trouble him so much that he could couldn't sleep, and the proud king confessed he was quite anxious about the dream's meaning (of course, then he erected an image just like it, except it was covered entirely in gold, to suggest his own kingdom would last forever. He then made everyone bow to it... kind of a foreshadowing of the antichrist's abomination of desolation). What I appreciate is your rendering depicts the statue as intimidating, ominous, and almost alive. Most illustrations I've seen depict the image as cold and dead, not very scary, and not something that would strike fear into the monarch's heart.
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You're a Bible student too!
In the Bible, though, the dream image of gold, silver, copper, iron, clay represents various kingdoms of mankind's history, and the golden image was made as an idol etc....
Are they not two different images? 'Cause the latter was just gold, and it don't seem like Nebuchadghetto ever made an idol of his dream image....
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Yeah, most certainly two different images. One was accurate in it's symbolic representation of history, and one was wishful thinking by a pompous little king. Nebuchadnezzar was making a statement when he made the idol all gold. Basically he was sayingβ "My kingdom will never end", and he said this and made the statue BECAUSE of Daniel's interpretation. The king was shaking his fist at God. It's kind of funny, this little man saying, uhβ I know the dream I had informs me that my kingdom will be replaced by another weaker one, but I'm going to revise the dream a bit, and fashion one out of gold from head to toe, because I'm not going anywhereβ my kingdom will last forever. He thought, evidently, that he was God, like so many of the leaders of the ancient world proclaimed themselves to be.
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Yeah, those dudes often did think they were divine. Does it really say in the Bible he made the image because of the dream? Or do you think this the case because the latter appears right in the beginning of the following chapter? I see whatchoo mean. I don't think though that Nebuchadnezzar would've tried to kill these servants of the God of Daniel after Daniel interpted the dream....on the other hand, it doesn't seem that Nebuchadnezzar became a worshipper of the God of the Hebrews despite all the things Yahweh had fall upon him which certainly fits with the thought you mentioned...
Hmm!
I'ma look into this further, still!
Interesting stuff.
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He was not stable emotionally, either. God called him and gave him the kingdoms of the known world for some reason, but the Lord seemed to use his reactionary kind of personality for His own glory. Besides, in those days Babylon was an amazing city. They had chariot races on the top of the wall of Babylon, and the hanging gardens of Babylon are called one of the 8 wonders of the world. Daniel was in over his head as a Jewish boy when he first arrived, but he must have truly been a wonder in terms of wisdom. He really is a great character; one of the greatest, who never fell from the favor of God. David, as you know, committed murder. Uriah was one of the Mighty Men, not your average soldier-- and he loved David. Bathsheba was no doubt a fox, but he really did something terrible when he had Uriah killed. Thank God for his grace!
You don't see any other pagan king EVER praising the God of the Jews. Herod, nor any of the Roman rulers. In fact Herod was killed by God for taking credit for his successful reconstruction of the temple (and he was half Jewish!) Even so, I don't think Nebuchadnezzar ever personalizes his references to God, calling him "Daniel's God", or "the God of the Jews". He does praise the God of Daniel, though.
The Bible doesn't say that he created the all gold statue as a result of Daniel's interpretation, it's inferred. The order of events and Nebuchadnezar's meglomaniacal personality suggest he created the statue in order to declare, in spite of his dream, that his kingdom would never fall, it would be eternal.
Cyrus of Persia was also a king God used in the book of Ezra. The proverbs talk about how God "directs the hearts of earthly kings like a watercourse", and it's clear from the scripture that God used these men despite their massive egos! God bless, man. Your work is great...
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Thanks. Interesting stuff....Just today I's looking where Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are being asked why they didn't bow down to the image, and the king said:"Who is that god that can save you from my hand?" -He said it quite tauntingly, so I'm still thinking this is before the dream, because after that dream is interpreted he's like:'Oh, yer God's the greatest God ever!' and stuff. -However-Aheh, that same dude got stricken with divine lycanthropy one might say when he was getting all full of himself. So it seems like there were three occasions at least where Jehovah had to tell ol' Nebuchadnezzar what's what, so maybe this gold idol was indeed after God had already shown his skills....
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I did a google search on the statue and there's some good art pieces but for some reason they are almost all posed with arms folded like a stand-offish harbinger of doomed man-made kingdoms.
..and forever more I shall use the word "Nebuchadhoweveryouspellit" when describing this piece.
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Nebuchadnezzer, y'all!-But the other way has much more comic appeal!!
Aheh, heh.....
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mmmm..maybe you had an aunt who had one in her yard?..next to her gnome?
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I recognize the statue; its the one Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream
and Daniel interpretted what it meant. I've always been intrigued by it.
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it is that statue.!.I guess I forgot to mention that huh?
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thanks!..how are the non-creepy drawers doing?
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they are very non creepy as usual but i bought a creepy drawer yesterday and it scared all my non creepydrawers away so no im stuck with just one creepy drawer but other than that im good
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Interesting
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ha ha..no thats the main character in the story.
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I certainly can feel emotion in this....waking up (or dreaming) to THAT would certainly make my eyes pop. It's the sort of vision that stops your breath right in your chest...
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Well..I guess that means I did it up right then.
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