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"and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
Thou, O king, are a king of kings---in other words, a WORLD
RULER---" for THE GOD OF HEAVEN HATH GIVEN THEE A KINGDOM."
(Verses 36-37).
Note it! GOD gave the kingdom over to him! Now God never
makes covenants with GENTILES. God never did, and never will,
marry a Gentile people as such, or establish them as HIS kingdom,
HIS government, HIS organization, HIS church!
Yet it plainly says, here, that GOD GAVE NEBUCHADNEZZAR A
KINGDOM! How? and WHY? Since God could not have established or
set up a kingdom in Babylon, among the Gentile Chaldeans, the only
way God could have GIVEN Nebuchadnezzar a KINGDOM was to have given
OVER to him the kingdom He had already set up---the one set up AT
SINAI!
Babylon never was the Kingdom, the Government, or the Church
of God! But Nebuchadnezzar, under God's divine direction, TOOK
CAPTIVE the people of God's kingdom and church. And so God GAVE
OVER TO HIM the KINGDOM---that is, the GOVERNMENT---the AUTHORITY
to RULE---which had been set up at Sinai!
Understand it! The AUTHORITY to RULE and to GOVERN was now
taken away from the people of God, because of disobedience, and
this AUTHORITY was transferred over to NEBUCHADNEZZAR and HIS
SUCCESSORS for 2520 years!
WHEN THE KINGDOM IS RESTORED
Now notice the truth revealed in this Gentile Image a little
further.
The AUTHORITY TO RULE was not only turned over to
Nebuchadnezzar---not just temporarily---but it was to continue in
power of his successors 2520 years.
"And after thee shall arise another kingdom . . . and another
third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule OVER ALL THE
EARTH." (Verse 39). Note it! The RULE God had transferred over to
Nebuchadnezzar was to continue in the Persian Empire, and the
Grecian Empire---they were to bear RULE over ALL THE EARTH! Yes,
and by God's ordination!
Then followed the fourth kingdom of iron---the ROMAN Empire.
In the latter days---at the end of the 2520 years---NOW---in OUR
generation today---this Roman Empire is once more to be restored
by a union of ten European Dictators, as foretold in Revelation
17.
And then what shall happen, at the END of this 2520-year
Gentile reign?
"A STONE (Christ). . . smote the image,"---smashing this
Gentile reign into pieces. Yes, CHRIST, at HIS SECOND COMING, is
to SMITE it, and end it. What will happen then?
"The God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be
destroyed: . . . but it shall break in pieces and consume all
those kingdoms, and IT shall stand forever." (Verses 34,44).
Jesus' disciples understood that the KINGDOM, with all
authority to GOVERN, whether civil or church government, had been
taken away from His people, and turned over to Gentiles. You'll
remember how they asked Him, "Lord, wilt thou at this time
restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6). But He did
NOT restore it, then. He did NOT bring the government, the
organization, the authority to rule, back from the Gentiles to His