Does Nebuchadnezzar's second dream (loosely?) represent - other than the Babylonian fulfulfilment - mankind as a whole? (Daniel 4:22-23, but whole chapter.) And Nebuchadnezzar (the tree in the dream) as representative of mankind? For seven years (7000 years) he was like an animal (as a madness) and "living like an animal with the dew falling on him".
And the tree was cut down and a band of iron and bronze was put around it. And it was "left in the grass" ..the wilderness of his madness..
Iron and bronze was in Nebuchadnezzar's first dream (Daniel 2). Most agree they represent Rome and Greece. Ultimately mankind becomes imprisoned via a Roman-Graeco institution? ..of man and his madness? (A last great idol to replace God Most High?)
[Iron and bronze are also in the "beast more terrible" of Daniel 7:7,19-20, which cross references the one of Revelation 13:1-10.]
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..things like this make me think scripture cannot be only spiritual, but of course everything(?) has both an individual and a collective application.. :girlheart:
I came across this lately, about prophecy, that the word "end" the Greek is "tel" and "end-aim" - "This root (tel-) means "reaching the end (aim)." It is well-illustrated with the old pirate's telescope, unfolding (extending out) one stage at a time to function at full-strength (capacity effectiveness)."
The telescoping nature of prophecy? With a 'smaller' scope fulfilment and later a fuller scope fulfilment..
- https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_corinthians/15-24.htm #5056 (verse doesn't fit exactly but it's the one I always think of.
The bands of bronze and iron also remind me of the Babylonian religion, which went to Greece and then to Rome. It's still around today, and the tree is very much alive.
Quote from: Lazarus Short on January 14, 2020, 04:05:15 PM
The bands of bronze and iron also remind me of the Babylonian religion, which went to Greece and then to Rome. It's still around today, and the tree is very much alive.
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