DANIEL 4:1

[Daniel 4:1 NKJV] — Nebuchadnezzar the king, To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

[Daniel 4:1 GNT] — King Nebuchadnezzar sent the following message to the people of all nations, races, and languages in the world: “Greetings!



"Daniel 4" is basically an "Epistle" and qualifies as "General Epistle" though it was from Nebuchadnezzar the king of kings then, and hereby written to us (Christians) through Daniel the prophet.

*1* "Epistle" means special letter written and ministered as *Open Letter* but more importantly as the Oracle (Utterance) of the Spirit of God. This is because without the Spirit of God, Epistles would be mere Letters, and the Letter kills but the Spirit gives life. So when a written letter contains and transmits the Spirit and Life, it is an Epistle.

I earlier wanted to say "Many of the Books in the New Testament" but I am directed to rather say, "All of the Books in the New Testament Scriptures are basically *Epistles." And everyone who qualifies to write an Epistle in the New Testament but himself/herself first becomes an Epistle of Christ. You must be an Epistle of Christ to effectively write an Epistle in Christ. So the true Ministers of Christ are first of all the Epistle of Christ read by all men better and before all men; and as a minister of Christ, you and your life are inside your own written epistle or scriptures by the Holy Spirit of God. You are part of your message, just as Nebuchadnezzar's part of his epistle in Daniel 4 beginning in the top Bible verse.

Everyone of us was first part of the Living Book of God before we became living beings on earth; and more of the written Epistles of God are being declared for us to live by. Man shall not live by bread alone, but live by each declaration of the Living Word/Epistle of Christ's Book. To die is to have no part or portion in the Living Epistle/Book of Christ Jesus; but to live forever is to have part or portion in the Book of Life to live forth forever.

*2* "General Epistle" means the epistle cuts across racial, national, tribal, ethnic, geographic and timeline boundaries to all. As you saw in the top Bible verse above, Nebuchadnezzar the king was addressing all tribes, nations, languages, peoples, cultures, in all the earth: thus, it's a General Epistle, not private epistle.

In the New Testament Scriptures, Paul wrote many Epistles but they were not classified as "General Epistles" by men because Paul wrote them to special groups of people in certain locations or tribes. And Paul's letters or Epistles bore the titles or names of the special Bodies he was addressing to, unlike other Books in the New Testament Scriptures that bore the name of the writers. Examples Paul's letters to the Romans, to Colossians, to Ephesians, to Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Philemon, to Corinthians, to Hebrews etc. But the "General Epistles'' in" the New Testament Scriptures are those who were addressed to all men or all Christians and Jews in all parts of the world. As the Lord Jesus instructed, go into all the world, and preach to every creature. So the General Epistles are addressing the general audience and use jargon/terms applicable across all divides. The Book of Enoch (cited by Peter and Jude) is one of the most General (if not the most General) Epistle or scriptures written by men of God, cutting across all ages and all generations of mankind, from beginning to the end. The Book of Revelation is General Epistle, but focussed on end times. The Books of James, John, Peter, Jude, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Acts, are General Epistles.

However, though Paul's letters were not originally "General Epistles" but were "Sectarian Epistles" or "Denominational Epistles," yet the Lord made them Scriptures because the Spirit of the Lord speaks through them across and beyond those sectarians or denominations of churches to all men far and beyond thereafter. As it is written, "Let him that has ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches" (Notwithstanding which sect or denomination of churches the Spirit's letter/epistle was addressed to) [Revelation 3:22].

So though Old Covenant Scriptures apply to the Jews, not Gentile Church, yet I will hear what the Spirit of God is saying to those under the law because I have the ear to hear. It is as many as are led by the Spirit of God that are the sons of God, not as many as are led by New/Old Testaments or by certain denominational/Sectarian doctrines or traditions.

*3* "Greetings or Peace or Gospel - Beginning of Epistles after Address." In the top Bible verse above, Nebuchadnezzar, after establishing the epistle to be "General Epistle" and not sectarian, by the protocol of people/persons he named/tagged in the address before his main speech, he began his Epistle by "Greetings or Peace be multiplied to you."

No matter the pressure or urgency of the written Epistles, they usually begin with either joyful news, greetings, gracias, blessings or peace to the readers/hears. The Book of Revelation practically pronounced "Blessing to the readers of the Book and more to the doers." Behold, Nebuchadnezzar's as the king of the world then, greets you and decreed multiplication of peace to you, if you are his audience and reader of this epistle in Daniel 4.