Lady Liberty Emphasizes Freedom

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar,
Nebuchadnezzar had a dream: his spirit was
agitated, yet he was overcome by sleep.

27 The mystery about which the king has
inquired--wise men who cannot tell to the king,
but there is a God in heaven who reveals
mysteries, and He has made known to King
Nebuchadnezzar what is to be at the end of days.
This is your dream and the vision that entered you
mind in your bed; O king, the thoughts that came
to your mind in your bed are about future events:
He who reveals mysteries has let you know what is
to happen. Not because my wisdom is greater than
that of other creatures has this mystery been
revealed to me, but in order that the meaning
should be made know to the king, and that you may
know the thoughts of your mind.
31 O king, as you looked on there appeared a great
statue. This statue, which was huge and its
brightness surpassing, stood before you, and its
appearance was awesome, The head of that statue
was of fine gold: its breast and arms were of
silver; its belly and thighs, of bronze; its legs
were of iron, and its feet part iron and part
clay. As you looked on, a stone was hewn out, not
by hands, and struck the statue on its feet of
iron and clay and crushed them. All at once, the
iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were crushed,
and became like chaff of the threshing floors of
summer; a wind carried them off until no trace of
them was left. But the stone that struck the
statue became a great mountain that filled the
whole earth.

Word Definitions

36 Such was the dream, and we will now tell
the king its meaning. You, O king--- king of
kings, to whom the God of Heaven has given
kingdom, power, might, and glory; into whose
hands He has given men, wild beasts, and the
fowl of heaven, wherever they may dwell ; and
to whom He has given dominion over them
all--- you are the head of gold. But another
kingdom will arise after you, inferior to
yours; then yet a third kingdom, of bronze,
which will rule over the whole earth, But the
fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron;
just as iron crushes and shatters
everything----and like iron that
smashes----so will it crush and smash all
these. You saw the feet and the toes, part
potter's clay and part iron; that means it
will be a divided kingdom; it will have only
some of the stability of iron, inasmuch as
you saw iron mixed with comman clay.

And the toes were part iron and part clay;
that [means] the kingdom will be in part
stong and in part brittle. You saw iron mixed
with comman clay; that means: they shall
intermingle with the offspring of men, but
shall not hold together, just as iron does
not mix with clay. And in the time of those
kings, the God of Heaven will establish a
kingdom that shall never be destroyed, a
kingdom that shall not be transferred to
another people. it will crush and wipe out
all these kingdoms, but shall itself last
forever--- just as you saw how a stone was
hewn from the mountain, not by hands, and
crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and
gold. The Great God has made known to the
king what will happen in the future. The
dream is sure and its interpretation
reliable.