Faithfulness in Exile: Daniel Part 2 - The National Idol
Exploring My Strange Bible
Babylon Here Is Being Presented for Readers of the Book
You must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. This happens in many stories, none of the main characters of the book have even appeared yet. Babylon here is being presented for readers of the book. It is this iconic, kind of almost archetypal representation of the most powerful empire at the time - exalting its own power to the place of the gods. And all of the world is being asked to give its allegiance, declare its allegiance to the statues.
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