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him. "-Ezek. 81 :25-27.
This prophecy was fulfilled when the
King of Babylon came against Israel,
took the people captive and removed
their King. Though later restored by
Cyrus, the Mede. they were subject to
the successive empires of Medo-P Persia,
Greece and Rome, down to the final
destruction of their nationality, A. D.
20, since which time they have been
scattered among all nations. This
Kingdom of Israel was the only one,
since the fall, which God ever recog-
nized as representing his laws, etc.
No other nation was ever 30 recogniz-
ed. All other kingdoms than that of
Israel are Scripturally styled heathen
or gentle kingdoms, ''Kingdoms of
this world" unuer "the prince of this
world" Satan. Thus we note Jeho-
vab's dealing. With the overthrow of
Zedakiah, the world was left without
any government of which God could
approve, or whose heads He specially
directed. However, we see that Gen
tile governments we're to be instru-
ments in Jehovah's hand for the full
''seven times" of chastisement which
of old were prophecied to be meted out
to his chosen, but rebellious Israel.
As Paul says, these Gentle times and
governments were s'ordained of God. ("
This ordination or permission was
granted for a two-fold purpose, first,
as our Lord explains, Luke 81, 2:4,
that the Jews should be led captive
into all nations, and that Jerusalem
representing their nationality )should
be trodden down of the Gentiles, until
the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
In other words, the Gentle powers
we're to hold sway for limited time,
i. g., "until He come whose right it
is to take the Kingdom. Gentle rule
has also been permitted for the pur-
pose of teaching man his inability to
properly govern himself and cope with
sin; that be might see his need Of
Mighty Deliverer, and by contrast
learn to love righteousness when fully
established by Jehovah. Now we
know Just when the times Of the Gen
tiles began They began with the ov-
erthrow of Zedakiah, the last to sit on
the throne of the Lord. This we know
from Dan. 2:3t-45 Here is related |
Nebuchadnezzar's vision of earth's
governments and its divine interpreta-
tion through the prophet as follows:
'Thou, oh King. sawest, and be-
hold great image. This great image, |
whose brightness was excellent, stood |
before thee; and the form thereof was
terrible. This images head was of |
fine gold, bis breast/and arms of sill
yer. his belly and his thighs of brass.
his legs of iron, and his feet part of
iron and part of clay. Thou saw est
till that stone was cut out without
hands, which. smote the image upon
bis feet that we're of iron and clay,
and brakesthem in pieces. Then was
the iron, the clay. the brass, the silver
and the gold broken to pieces together,
ind became like the chaff of the sum
ner threshing floors and the wind car
lied them away, that no place was
'ound for them; and the stone. that
mote the image became great noun
ain and filled the whole earth. This
8 the dream and we will tell the in
thereof. Thou, 0 King,
.rt this head OF gold = for the God
# heaven hath given thee Kingdom, I,
,ower and strength and glory. There
he powers that be, were ordained of
3od And wheresoever the children
# men dwell, the beasts of the field
Ind the fowls OF heaven bath be given
nto thine band, and hath made thee
uler over them all *** And after
bee shall arise another Kingdom in
erior to thee (silver), and another
bird Kingdom of brass, which shall
'ear rule over all the earth And the
ourth Kingdom shall be strong as
ron ~ And whereas chou sawest
he feet and toes, part of potters' clay
nd part of iron. the Kingdom shall |
70 mixed; ~ And as the toes of
be feet were part of iron and part of
lay, SO the Kingdom shall be partly
trong and partly brittle. Dan. s:st-
5.
The close student can easily trace