Nebuchadnezzar’s Image-Dream

Dark times had come upon Israel, the people of God's covenant in the old dispensation and still more terrible times of affliction and persecution, times of well-nigh despair were awaiting them in the immediate future. In captivity they sighed and groaned under the yoke of foreign dominion, of the oppression of the world power. God had given them up. As many faithful messenger had warned, judgment had finally come upon Israel because of their faithlessness, and severe punishment had been...