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acclaim. But this God is still “the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,” and not
the God of Heaven and Earth, the Only Living and True One, the God whom alone
Nebuchadnezzar should serve and to whom he should bow his heart and his knees.

When the circumstances of the story were finally rehearsed in the ears of Rhea,
with many of the shocking details omitted or diluted, she with her awakened faith and
spirituality, was quick to discern that her husband while greatly impressed with this

additional demonstration of the power of Jahveh, was still unyielded, and while bent,
was still unbroken.

More fervently than ever did she apply herself to prayer that her proud husband, by

whatever means, would be brought to a state of heart surrender, that he would learn to
obey and to adore another than himself. Not only for her husband did she pray, but for
the unborn child that she had conceived, the fruit of their union, that it might from birth
be consecrated by both its parents to the worship and service of the One True and living

God.

And for the noble three who had walked unhurt through consuming flames, the
greatest satisfaction was not in the preservation of their lives, or even in the triumph

and public vindication of their faith, but in the fact that in that fleeting hour they had
walked and talked with the King of the all kings. Six hundred years before His
incarnation as Bethlehem’s Babe, He had communed with them amid the
conflagration―Jehovah-Christ, not a son of the gods, but The Son of God!