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Greatness  [This chapter is based on Daniel 4.]  Exalted to the
pinnacle of worldly honor, and acknowledged even by Inspiration
as “a king of kings” (Ezekiel 26:7). Nebuchadnezzar nevertheless
at times had ascribed to the favor of Jehovah the glory of his
kingdom and the splendor of his reign. Such had been the case
after his dream of the great image. His mind had been profoundly
influenced by this vision and by the thought that the Babylonian
Empire, universal though it was, was finally to fall, and other
kingdoms were to bear sway, until at last all earthly powers
were to be superseded by a kingdom set up by the God of heaven,
which kingdom was never to be destroyed.  Nebuchadnezzar’s noble
conception of God’s purpose concerning the nations was lost
sight of later in his experience; yet when his proud spirit was
humbled before the multitude on the plain of Dura, he once more
had acknowledged that God’s kingdom is “an everlasting kingdom,
and His domi