IN PURSUIT OF A DOOMED NEW WORLD ORDER
World History is heavily marked with the rise and fall of kings and kingdoms. There is, however, one king that uniquely captures the attention of the history student: King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, enthroned late 7th Century BC. King Nebuchadnezzar, like all men, had a passion for tomorrow, the result of which was one of the most remarkable experiences of any monarch. It happened as he lay on his bed and wondered about “what should come to pass hereafter” (Daniel 2:29). It opened up before him and he saw, in dramatic fashion, all that was to transpire on the world political scene – right from his day, cruising through ours, and all the way into the end of time! This privileged preview of the world’s greatest political episodes was in the form of a dream in which the king saw a “great image, whose brightness was excellent.” The image’s head was of fine gold, its breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of brass, its legs of iron, and its feet partly iron and partly clay. The