The Final 6
By Dr. JK Woodall
In Daniel 3, King Nebuchadnezzar built a golden image sixty cubits high and six cubits wide (Daniel 3:1, KJV). At the sound of the music, everyone was commanded to fall down and worship.
But three Hebrew captives—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—refused to fall. They stood when everyone else bowed.
The statue’s size reveals two sixes: 60 and 6. The missing third six is the king himself—Nebuchadnezzar, the man who exalted himself as a god. When man lifts himself to be worshiped, the unholy equation is complete: 60 + 6 + the man = 666.
Revelation calls this “the number of a man” (Revelation 13:18, KJV).
The pattern warns us: be careful of the human—when human pride, human systems, or even human reasoning try to take God’s place.
Nebuchadnezzar’s image was not about worship—it was about control. The same spirit still moves today, demanding that we fall to the image of culture, fear, or power.
Yet Jesus still speaks to captives. He spoke Aramaic, the language of the exiled, because He came to reach those in bondage. He still speaks in the fire—calling you to stand when the world says fall.
> “Our God... is able to deliver us... but if not... we will not fall.” — Daniel 3:17–18, KJV
When humanity says fall, stand in Christ.
For when you stand, He stands with you—in the fire.
