'Natural Realm Responded': Filmmakers Detail the Amazing Spiritual Manifestation on Set of the New Movie about Daniel from the Bible

Tré Goins-Phillips : Sep 15, 2026
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"All of a sudden, the natural realm responded to those words of prophetic Scripture." -Matthew Kooman, Director

[Faithwire.com] In Romans, the Apostle Paul wrote about the earth pointing to God's "eternal power and divine nature." The Koomans, two filmmaking brothers, certainly sensed that while making their newest movie, "Daniel and the Fiery Furnace." (Screengrab image: via IMDB-Daniel the Movie)

It unfolded when Mena Massoud, portraying Daniel, and Elijah Alexander, playing King Nebuchadnezzar, filmed a scene on-location in India from Daniel 2, when the king—furious over astrologers who couldn't interpret his dream—ordered Daniel's execution. Facing his would-be killers, Daniel visited Nebuchadnezzar, asking for more time to petition God for an answer to the king's dream "so they would not be executed along with the other wise men of Babylon" (Daniel 2:18, NLT).

When Massoud began reciting his lines, telling Nebuchadnezzar the meaning of his dream, Daniel and Matthew Kooman told CBN's "Faith in Culture" the atmosphere on set shifted powerfully.

The scene centered on the latter part of Daniel 2, when Daniel foreshadowed the coming of Christ and what many Biblical scholars believe to be a reference to Jesus' triumphant return in the end times:

"During the reigns of those kings, the God of Heaven will set up a Kingdom that will never be destroyed or conquered. It will crush all these kingdoms into nothingness, and it will stand forever. That is the meaning of the rock cut from the mountain, though not by human hands, and crushed to pieces the statue of iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God was showing the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true and its meaning is certain" (Daniel 2:44-45, NLT).

"[Massoud is] speaking these words from Scripture, and a wind blows across the set," Daniel Kooman recalled. "Behind the camera, tents were hitting walls and blowing off set. A rainstorm, a crack of thunder—things that we hadn't experienced in the natural realm on any day leading up to that for 25 days of prep and shooting. None of these sort of occurrences were happening until those words of Scripture about the everlasting Kingdom that is coming [were spoken]."

"All of a sudden," he said, "the natural realm responded to those words of prophetic Scripture."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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