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you have the confederations of ten nations.” There were two
kingdoms; the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God. That’s
why it’s an image of a man. It’s one image with many parts but only
one image; the kingdom of man.

I want victory over me. I want victory over the kingdom of man. I
want victory over the flesh. The New Testament calls it “the old
man”, the “old nature”, “the old Adam”, “the carnal man”, “the
flesh”, “Esau”, “Ishmael” and “Agag”. It’s all the same thing. It’s
the kingdom of the flesh. Let me give you what I think is the
spiritual message. Daniel 2:31, “You, O king, were looking and
behold there was a single great statue; that statue which was large
and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you and its
appearance was awesome.” He saw a great image. It was
extraordinarily large. How tall was it? We get a hint in his second
dream.

Daniel 4:10-11, “Now, these were the visions in my mind as I lay
on my bed; I was looking and behold, there was a tree in the midst
of earth, and its height was great. And its height reached to the sky
and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. The tree grew large
and became strong.” He has a picture of a tree that reached to
heaven and the branches reached to the ends of the earth. That’s a
big tree!

He said that the head of the image was made of gold. He used the
word “great image”; it was a great tree that reached to the heavens
and to the ends of the earth. How great was this image that He
made? That was only a picture of the head, not the whole image.
According to Daniel 3:1 it was sixty cubits, or about ninety feet high.
Just understand that this was very big, very impressive, very large
and very scary. When we think about our own sin nature and we
want victory over it. It’s very big, very large, and very impressive
and it’s very scary. If you have ever struggled with the flesh, you
know how big it is.