Tuesday 11/24/15
One outstanding thing about most ancient religions is that
they honored only mythological
gods, heroes, and events. But Judaism and Christianity are based on hard facts.
What strikes Catholics returning from visits to the Holy Land
is that Cana, Bethsaida, the Garden of Olives are real; and Peter, John, and
the Samaritan woman were as real as we are.
While the Book of Daniel was a work of fiction, composed in
167 B.C., about a supposed dream four hundred years earlier , it did picture
true historical eras and personalities in Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetic dream. He
saw a giant statue as a review of the kingdoms that would rule the Middle East
from 570 to 165 B.C..
First, Nebuchadnezzar’s own Babylon was its gold head. Its silver
shoulders was the Kingdom of the Medes, (that the composer of the Book of
Daniel mistakenly thought to have ruled following on Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon.)
The belly and thighs of bronze
stood for the Persians.
The legs of iron were Alexander’s Macedonians; while the
feet of clay were his generals, Seleucus and Ptolemy who took over in Syria and
Egypt. The boulder that would knock them over was the Hasidic followers of
Judas Maccabeus.
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