14 and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up? 15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”
Nebby was making what he thought was a rhetorical question at the end of that quote. He wasn't conversant with the Great I Am (not to be confused with Michael Phelps, the great IMer) who could pull off miracles like that.
I'm seeing a bit of that in the sports media's treatment of Josh Hamiltion. "What god will be able to rescue you from your substabce abuse problem?" is the implied question on whether he is [worthy of/safe enough for] a long-term contract.
God is a God of miracles, be it big ones like calming a furnace to small ones like fighting off the urge to get wasted one day at a time. He actually works, unlike the small-g gods of legend.
Nebby's question begs this classic "Do you know Him?" video as a rebuttle, for he didn't at the time. He's about to get introduced to Him in a big way.
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