Chuck Missler (from now on CM) states that he expects to see Nebuchadnezzar in heaven. Why?BIB 522 - 01-4

It is always interesting to go back to some of my earlier discussion questions concerning similar topics and update them for current classes. King Nebuchadnezzar has certainly been and continues to be an interesting study. From a proud pagan world ruler to a believer who wrote a chapter of the Bible.

Nebuchadnezzar was privy to the visions and miracles of God. First was his dream that he (Nebuchadnezzar) didn’t share with his sorcerers. After the king had his fill of the sorcerer’s failures, enter the young Daniel. Daniel was not only able to tell Nebuchadnezzar his dream but also was able to interpret it for him.

Later the arrogant king was influenced by his advisers to build a statue and require the people to bow down to it. Daniel’s three friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to do so and were threaten with a horrific death. They were quoted in Daniel 3:17, “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.” The three were thrown into the notorious fiery furnace. It is said that the king looked into the furnace and could see four people there, likely an early incarnation of Jesus along with three boys. Daniel 3:28, “Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God."

How quickly Nebuchadnezzar forgot and had yet another distributing dream. His dream included a mighty tree that was cut down for a week of days leaving a stump. Daniel interpreted the dream and warned Nebuchadnezzar to repent. Of course the proud and arrogant ruler didn’t repent and he boasted about all he had accomplished. After one boast too many God literally brought the king to his knees (and hands) and it took seven years of eating grass to finally convince him of the authority of the one True God. So it was walking on all four for Nebuchadnezzar for a week of years and then later to Heaven for eternity.

I sure believe that Nebuchadnezzar will be in heaven. Not only was he a proud Gentile king who learned by being humbled by the power of God; Nebuchadnezzar actually wrote a Chapter in the Book of Daniel. That chapter ended praising God. Daniel 4:37 “Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.”