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…I blogged about the Colossus of Rhodes…
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
King Nebuchadnezzar's dream...
...interpreted by Daniel is really about the destruction of the Colossus of Rhodes in 305 BC. So, who was King Nebuchadnezzar? Did Daniel really interpret the King's dream or did he merely tell the King a tale he had wished might come true?
...Ok this doesn't add up, 305 BC came after 586 BC. But nonetheless, isn't it possible that the Colossus's construction was influenced by King Nebuchadnezzar's dream?
...To build the statue, his workers cast the outer bronze skin parts. The base was made of white marble, and the feet and ankle of the statue were first fixed. The structure was gradually erected as the bronze form was fortified with an iron and stone framework.
...the Colossus was broken at its weakest point -- the knee.
King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: Daniel 2:31
The King saw a great statue. 2:32 The head of the statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 2:34 A stone was cut out, not by human hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces. 2:35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, were all broken in pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors...
Was King Nebuchadnezzar himself a prophet? Who was the king prophet from the book of Kings in the bible? What could his relationship to the King of Ai be?
Who were the people of Rhodes?
Kay Gibbs states: This is an interesting physical depiction of the metaphysical or divine nature and demise of a King, a head of gold, arms of silver, and legs of iron, that represent the sedentary life of a King that are all dispersed among the people represented by the crumpling of the statue.
I believe this was the true meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, that he became aware of his fate as a King and was afraid as he most likely witnessed this of his own father.
Kay F Gibbs
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