Quote Originally Posted by allodial View Post
A pertinent addition:



If one considers the story of Nebuchadnezzar and the three boys in the fire, it parallels with the parable of the vineyard. A king or set of rulers who get so full of themselves they want to hold people captive as a way of maintaining a political system, failing to get that they are dealing with something far larger they only think of rulership for their own sakes--pure self-service. Nebuchadnezzar failed to realize the limitations of his office, he mistook himself for being other than a trustee with respect to his official duties (i.e he went ultra vires it cost him dearly). When the State or State actors start thinking of themselves to be supreme lord of all without limitation, you are probably seeing the symptoms of the same disease that afflicted Nebuchadnezzar.
Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael. So you explain why everybody knows them in Christendom to be Meshack, Shadrack and Abednigo?

Yet the Chieftain of the Babylonian Sorcerers and Astrologers retains Daniel PROPHET, and seldom does anybody think of him as Belteshazzar.

I AM David Merrill.