Looking at the Current affairs of their day, the people of God in exile, would see a contradiction between the Covenant Promises and the status qou. The fall of the Jerusalem, the destruction of the Temple of Solomon, and the deportation of the leadership and upper classes of Judah in 586 B.C. was the most devastating historical and theological event in all of Israel’s and Judah’s long history.It evoked a most profound question: who, indeed, is sovereign, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian and Persian successors or the God of Israel who either allowed it to happen or was powerless to prevent it?That might be the similar perception by some today, which brings us to the question, who is this King in the King's Dream, when is his Kingdom going to be ushered in?In this sermon, Pastor Gideon MacGovern Mpeni expounds from Daniel 1. A Glorious Kingdoma. Despised by men on its first Comingb. Destroys the kingdoms of men in second Coming2. A  Gracious Kingdoma. Redeems the Rebels and makese them sons (Rom.b. Reigns with them as Heirs (Rev.20)Listen to the full Sermon From Daniel by Pastor Gideon Mpeni