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urers, Lawyers, judges, nobles
and people from all nations stood
before it.
58 II One exhorted shouting -
O people from various countries,
O people of various languages,
prostrate before the golden
image. At that time God who wa-
nted to prove that He is the living
God, revealed Himself to the king
through three youngsters.
59 Then Nebuchadnezzar made
a decree that the idol I have
made is lifeless and I have made
a commandment to all nations to
the end of the world stating -
Blessed be the God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, who
delivered His servants who trus-
ted in Him.
60 But later when he exalted
himself upon God,
61-65 a voice fell from heaven:
“King Nebuchadnezzar, to you
it is spoken: the kingdom has
departed from you! Moreover,
they shall drive you from men,
and your dwelling shall be with
the beasts of the field. They shall
make you eat grass like oxen. Th-
en he was driven to Dura forests
from among men, and ate grass
like an ox, and his body was wet
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with the dew of heaven till his
hair grew as long as eagle’s feat-
hers and his nails were like
bird’s claws. Then after He lifted
his eyes to heaven and his reason
returned to him, and he blessed
the Most High and praised and
honored him who lives forever.
For his dominion is an everla-
sting dominion and his kingdom
endures from generation to
generation: And all the inhab-
itants of the earth are accounted
as nothing: and he does accor-
ding to His will in the army of
heaven, and among the inhab-
itants of the earth: and none can
stay His hand, or say unto Him,
What have you done? For all His
works are right, and His ways
are just: and those who walk in
pride He is able to humble.
66 Then he praised the Lord of
Lords and the King of kings,
made a statue He was the only
true God and fell asleep in his
own generation. Then the later
king Belshazzar exalted himself
upon God,
67 He put down all the power
of Chaldeans overnight and
brought forth Medo-Persian
kingdom, the fourth world pow-
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er into existence.
68 II God raised Cyrus, the king
of Persia according to His will,
even before he was born, prop-
hesied through the prophet Isaiah
- ‘He is My shepherd, And he
shall perform all My pleasure’,
69 and made him the king (Em-
peror) of Persia, He grasped the
will of God, pronounced the
written decree in his kingdom
and all the kingdoms to the end
of the world -
70-71 All the kingdoms of the
earth the Lord God of heaven has
given me. And so I have comm-
anded you to every people to go
their places and the children of
God will go to their country and
build Him a house at Jerusalem
which is Judah. And he gave the
inhabitants of the earth freedom
and liberty lived in the captive
and made them live a quiet and
peaceable life.
72 II People under the sun
enjoyed the freedom and liberty
in the tenure of King Cyrus. But
the kings came later, persecuted
the people and exalted themse-
lves above God,
73 the Lord who will cast down,
bring down the haughty, put
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down the kingdom of Medo-
Persia like a bird struck down
by the arrow of a hunter and
brought forth the kingdom of
Greece led by the great Alex-
ander into existence.
74 He spread his kingdom on
all sides like a goat as proph-
esied by Prophet Daniel, and
established it like a nail
75 became a drunkard, ignoring
the struggles of people, exalted
himself above God in a Hellenic
lifestyle without knowing the
living God and died of a mos-
quito bite. It happened as a fulf-
illment prophesied by Prophet
Daniel.
76 II After he died, his kingdom
divided into four parts and one
among them is the historical
Roman kingdom.
77 The kings of Roman king-
dom are haughty, boastful,
exalted themselves above God,
called as God, lay hard bondage
on people, killing many people,
and fulfilled the prophecy of
Daniel.
78 Then the supreme God and
the Lord Jesus who came into
this world when the time fulfilled,
and was born in the virgin for