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• In his dream, the king sees a massive and terrifying image, frightening to behold, which towers above him. None of the magicians, soothsayers, Chaldeans or wise men of Babylon can tell him the dream, or its interpretation. But Daniel, after praying to the God of heaven, has the dream revealed to him. The dream tells of events that would follow Nebuchadnezzar - a series of world empires that would end in the stone cut out of the mountains without hands, a reference to the return of Jesus to the earth.
• As we follow through these empires, the next one we come to is the Greek empire. Let us examine the Greek Empire more closely, and in particular its effect on the Middle East, and especially its bearing upon the language spoken by Jews in Israel at the time of Christ.