Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-10-03

fls not thus great Bdbyton that 6uiH
for the house Of The kingdom, By the
might Of my orsr, and for the
|hoaor Of my majesty Dan. A: 3O) in
this very instant a voice from heaven
pronoances his sentences and declares
to him that his kingdom was departed
from him, that he should be driven from
men, and Ais daoe1zing De aoith The beasts
| Of the field, until he knew that the most
High ruled IN the Kingdoms Govern
ments) Of men, and gare then. to aohona-
soeper he soould. But, prior to this
time, Sin the second year of his reign"
as universal king, this great Nebuchad-
nezzar had dream, or vision, and was
determined not to be cheated in the in
depreciation of it. He was very saga
cious here-thinking that he who could
tell the dream, could surely give the in
! depreciation correctly.
Daniel, in the presence of the King,
said that the magicians, the sooth say
ers and astrologers could not give the
secret which the king demanded. But
there is ''God in heaven" that maketh
known what shall be in the "latter days" !"
(Dan. I'd chapter
"Thou, o, King, sawest and behold a
great image" "This images head was
of fine gold, his breast and his arms of
silver, his belly and thighs of BRASS
His legs of iron, his feet part of iron
and part of clay. Thou sawest till that
stone was cut out, without hands,
which smote the image upon his feet
that were of iron and clay, and break
them in pieces"
This is the dream, and the interpre-
ia ton is as follows
"Thou, o, King, art this head of gold
and another kingdom shall arise after
thee, Inferior to thee, and another
third kingdom of brass, which shall
bear rule over all the earth, and the
fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron"
"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, they shall mingle them
selves with the seed of men,
"And in the days of these kings shall
the God of Heaven set up kingdom
that shall never be destroyed" The
dream is certain, and the Interpretation
thereof is sure, says Daniel. Let US
take up history and trace out its fulfill
ment. Time rolls on. Nebuchadnez-
zar sees another vision, which is fulfilled
during his life, (Dan. 4th chapter and
after reigning forty-three years, dies,
and is succeeded by his son, Evil Mer-
odash, who reigned two years, and was
murdered. Other changes take place,
until, by the hand of Providence, Laby-
nit or Bellshazzar becomes king.
Daniel still lives, and the most High,
wishing to make as strong an impress
sion in regard to things which were to
come in the first year of this reign,
causes Daniel to see the same vision in
point of fact, with that of Ncbuchadnez-
Ear, representing the four great king
doms unper the figure of four great
beasts, and the kingdom of Cod as one
III human form, or as one "like the son
of man" Daniel, chapter ~ The
storm of war was close at hand-the ar
mics of the Medes and Persians attack
that mighty city with it's massive walls
and gates of brass, and through the
Providence of God, while the King and
his lords are feasting in carnal security,
Cyrus and his veteran soldiers march in
and take Observation-Disclosures is
slain-and Babylon, which had been the
capital of the Assyrian empire for hum
dreds of years, was surrendered.
Thus while Daniel yet lived, the first
and most improbable item in the great
vision was fulfilled About this time, as
though everything was to be made
doubly sure, Daniel saw another Wis
ion ''after that Of the first" under the
figure of ram with horns, and a goat.
Daniel, 9Th chapter.)
Now let us read the following from
Josephus in reference to the fulfillment:
"Daniel wrote that he saw these Wis
ions in the plain of Susa; and he hath
informed us that God interpreted this Wis
ion after the following manner: He said
that the ram signihed the kingdom of
the Mcdes aud Persians, and the horns
those kings that were to reign in them,
and, the last horn signiGed the last
king, and that the goat signifed that
one should como and reign from the
Greeks, who should twice fight with
the Persian, and overcome him in bat
tie, and should receive his entire do
minion; that by the great horn which
sprang out of the forehead of the he
goat was meant the first king; and that
the springing up of four horns upon its
falling off, and the conversion of them
to the four quarters of the earth, signi-
fed the successors of the first king, and
thu partition of the kingdom among
them, and that they should be neither
bis CHI hildren, nor Of his kindred, that
should reign over the habitable earth
for many years; and that from among
them there should arise certain king