Daniel 3 : 10 - 30 - 4th person in fiery furnace

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In the book of Daniel 3: 10 - 30 these 3 men, SHADRACH, MESHACH, ABEDNEGO were thrown into a fiery furnace for not falling to the golden Image created by the King Nebuchadnezzar.

However, in the story there is a 4th person in the furnace with them. The 4th person is not identified… **Who is it? **

( I believe I’ve heard people claim that this is Christ in the OT).

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I’ve read the same thing – that it’s a theophany, an OT appearance of Christ.
 
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I am studying Daniel right now and we just went over it. The Jews think it was an Angel I think Gabriel or Michael. Christians believe it was Jesus. The truth is we really dont know except who it was was sent from God. Either way of thinking is fine. If you read further notice how the King does not ask for that 4th person to come forward. He was afraid. He knew it was their God protecting them.😃
 
its sorta OT, but a group at my school recently did a Bible study of Daniel. in my opinion, Daniel as an AMAZING bible study book for a college.

I guess I never thought too hard about who the 4th person was, God was obviously there and the story is amazing enough, who it was never really seemed important
 
From the Navarre Bible Commentary:
Nebuchadnezzar, looking down, on the furnace, is able to see that they
are safe. To someone like the king, a believer in all sorts of gods,
the fourth person who looks like “a son of the gods” (v. 25) must have
seemed a divine being; but the author makes it clear that he is simply
an angel (v. 28). It is through the angel that God manifests his
providence. The divine help given to the three young men, Novatian
comments, “will not allow even their clothes to be singed by flame.
This is just and right, for God sustains everything in the world in
being and has power over all, each and every thing; therefore, he can
furnish any thing or person with his help, since he is Lord of all”
(“De Trinitate”, 8, 43).
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The Fathers saw this “son of the gods” as meaning Christ. "Daniel knew
the Son of God and saw the works of God. He saw the Son of God who
cooled the fires of the furnace with dew. But when he says “Bless the
Lord, all works of the Lord”, he does not include the Son among them,
because he knows that He is not a creature, but the One through whom
all creatures were made, and who should be praised and exalted in the
Father” (St Athanasius, “Epistulae Ad Serapionem”, 2, 6).
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