Nebuchadnezzar refused to listen. Even as the words were on his lips, a voice came from heaven, “This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you. You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like the ox” (verses 31–32). The king became an ancient version of Howard Hughes: corkscrew fingernails, wild hair, animalistic. . . . When the mighty fall, the fall is mighty. One minute he was on the cover of Time magazine; the next he was banished like a caged creature. And we are left with a lesson: God
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