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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'1-');">Daniel 4</a></h2>
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<p class="cmn">The Affadavit of a Gentile King! An statutory edict officially published throughout the world. (Issued in 562 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span>, the year he recovered from insanity.) [One of the longest chapters in Daniel.] [Cf. the words of Elihu: <a onclick="return mV('Job',33,'12-17');">Job 33:12-17</a>.)</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'8');">8</a>] Daniel + Belteshazzar: remember, the edict went all over the world...</p>
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<p class="cmn">"Master of magicians" = scholars... cf. <a onclick="return mV('Eze',28,3);">Eze 28:3</a> ref: confirms a 6th century Daniel.</p>
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<h4>Tree of the World</h4>
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<p class="cmn">A man: <a onclick="return mV('Psa',1,3);">Psa 1:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,35);">37:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',52,8);">52:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',92,12);">92:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',56,3);">Isa 56:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',17,8);">Jer 17:8</a>.<br>Assyria: <a onclick="return mV('Eze',31,'3-18');">Eze 31:3-18</a>.<br>Mustard "tree" in <a onclick="return mV('Mat',13,'31-32');">Mat 13:31-32</a>.<br>Olive tree: Israel; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,'16-24');">Rom 11:16-24</a>.</p>
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<p class="cmn"><a onclick="return mV('2Ki',14,9);">2Ki 14:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',1,3);">Psa 1:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',37,35);">37:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',52,8);">52:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',92,12);">92:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',17,'1-');">Eze 17</a>. <a onclick="return mV('Eze',31,'1-');">Eze 31</a>: Assyrian and Egyptian Pharaoh are compared to cedar of Lebanon.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Transplanted shoot: <a onclick="return mV('Eze',17,2);">Eze 17:2</a>ff; <a onclick="return mV('Eze', 22,24);">22:24</a>; stump: <a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,1);">Isa 11:1</a>.<br>Immediate application: Nebuchadnezzar.<br>Prophetic: ecumenical outreach of Babylonianism and Gentile power in the last days and final overthrow. (Seven years of insanity and confusion!?)</p>
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<p class="cmn">Conversion took place after the 7 years of madness. The tree did not sprout again until after it had been cut down... <a onclick="return mV('Act',15,'14-17');">Act 15:14-17</a>; "take out" of them a people for his name... "after this I will return"...</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'14');">14</a>] "His" branches...his...his...</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'15');">15</a>] "times" = "years" <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,'25');">7:25</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'17');">17</a>] Councils in heaven: <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',22,'19-22');">1Ki 22:19-22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',1,'6-12');">Job 1:6-12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',2,'1-6');">2:1-6</a>. Powers that be are ordained of God; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',13,1);">Rom 13:1</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'28');">28</a>] The Dream Fulfilled.</p>
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<h4>Babylon</h4>
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<p class="cmn">Origin: <a onclick="return mV('Gen',10,'8-10');">Gen 10:8-10</a>, Nimrod, the first world dictator. Herodotus: 15 miles square; 350 ft wall, 87 ft wide (6 chariots abreast!?); 2nd wall, moat; 250 watchtowers, 100 ft above the wall; Tower of Bel (Bab-El) 600 ft!? Banquet hall: 56 x 173 ft. The magnificence of Babylon led to Nebuchadnezzar's downfall. He still had a major ego problem and a Babylonian inscription has been discovered that highlights this:<sup>1</sup></p>
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">I, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,<br>I am the son of Nabopolassar, King of Babylon.<br>I who erected the Ezida Temple,<br>I who built Procession Street,<br>The Street of the Forgiven Son,<br>The Street of Nebu,<br>And paved it with shimmering stones.<br>Nebu, you the divine minister,<br>Grant me immortality.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Hanging Gardens of Semiramis = one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. (Saddam Hussein has offered prizes if anyone can figure out how they were irrigated...)</p>
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<p class="cmn">[Has a prophetic destiny at the end of the age. See Chap. 5.]</p>
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<p><b>Pride</b></p>
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<p class="cmn">God hates it. <a onclick="return mV('Pro',6,'1-');">Pro 6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',4,6,7);">1Cr 4:6-7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Phl',2,'3-4');">Phil 2:3-4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ti',6,'4-10',17);">1Ti 6:4-10, 17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jam',4,'13-17');">James 4:13-17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',16,5);">Pro 16:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',16,18);">16:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',21,24);">21:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',26,12);">26:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',29,23);">29:23</a>. [Why? Satan's fall: <a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,'4-14');">Isa 14:4-14</a>] One of the most dangerous things in life is when things are going well. Our mistakes are our lessons; our pains and sorrows are our credentials.</p>
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<p><b>Lycanthropy</b>: (Greek: <i>lykos,</i> "wolf"; <i>anthropos,</i> "Man")</p>
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<p class="cmn">Mental disorder in which the patient believes he is a wolf or some other animal. Stimulated by the once widespread superstition of a supernatural condition in which men actually assume the physical form of werewolves or other animals. Linked with belief in animal guardian spirits, vampires, totemism, witches, and werewolves. Folklore, fairy tales, and legends of many nations and peoples show evidence of lycanthropic belief. Romans called anyone who was supposed to have been turned into a wolf by means of magic spells or herbs <i>versipellis</i> ("turnskin"). Widely believed in Europe during the Middle Ages.<sup>2</sup></p>
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<p class="cmn">Boanthropy: an ox... Raymond Harrisons observed a case in British mental institution in 1946. Early ?20s; hospitalized for 5 years; fitted description in <a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,33);">Dan 4:33</a>. <sup>3</sup></p>
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<p class="cmn">Eusebius references from Abydenus, a Greek historian of 268 <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>BC</span>, aspects of Nebuchadnezzar's insanity, being on the roof, and other details.</p>
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<p class="cmn">Josephus attributes to the Babylonian historian Berosus, a Chaldean priest of the time of Alexander the Great, a definite reference concerning a strange malady suffered by Nebuchadnezzar before his death.<sup>4</sup> Berosus learned Greek, opened a school, and had Abydenus as one of his pupils. He wrote 3 books on Chaldean history; fragments are preserved in Josephus and Eusebius.</p>
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<p class="cmn" style='line-height:10.5pt'>Talmud: care provided by Daniel.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent"><b>Prayer of Nabonidus:</b> found in Cave 4 at Qumran:</p>
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<p class="cmn"> "The words of the prayer that Nabonidus, the king of A[ssyria and Ba]bylon, the [great] king, prayed [when he was smitten] with a malignant disease by the decree of the [Most High God] in [the city of] Tema. I was smitten for seven years and from [men] I was put away. But when I confessed my sins and my faults, He [God] allowed me (to have) a soothsayer. This was a Jewish [man of the exiles in Babylon. He] explained (it) and wrote (me) to render honor and g[reat glor]y to the name of the [Most High God]..."<sup>5</sup></p>
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<p class="cmn">Words in common to both accounts: <i>pitgam,</i> "decree, decision"; <i>gaz rayya,</i> "soothsayer, diviner." (Aram<i>ic nbny</i> in Cave 4 = Nabodnidus? <i>(nbnd)</i>; confused with <i>nbkd,</i> Nebuchadnezzar.)</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'34');">34</a>] Restoration... Summary by Daniel: <a onclick="return mV('Dan',5,'20-21');">5:20-21</a>. Saved? A heart given unto him: <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,'4');">7:4</a>.</p>
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<p class="hangIndent">[<a onclick="return mV('Dan',4,'37');">37</a>] The last we read of Nebuchadnezzar. After his restoration, he lived about one year. His son Evil-merodach succeeded him as Babylon's next ruling monarch; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,'23-24');">Jer 9:23-24</a>.</p>
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