The insanity of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 4)



“The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws” (Dan. 4:33).

The king’s insanity is corroborated by history. Josephus quotes from a Babylonian historian named Berasus who mentions a strange malady suffered by Nebuchadnezzar. There is also the testimony of Abydenus, the Greek historian of 268 B.C.

It is possible that Nebuchadnezzar himself gives testimony concerning this. Archaeologist Sir Henry Rawlinson has translated an excavated inscription of the king. It reads:

“For four years the seat of my kingdom in the city ... did not rejoice my heart. In all my dominions I did not build a high place of power; the precious treasures of my kingdom I did not lay out in the worship of Merodach, my lord, the joy of my heart. In Babylon the city of my sovereignty and the seat of my empire I did not sing his praises, and I did not furnish his altars; nor did I clear out the canals.”

The form of insanity in which men think of themselves as beasts and imitate the behavior of a beast is not without precedent. It is known as “Insania zoanthropica”.

Raymond Harrison recites a personal experience with a modem case similar to that of Nebuchadnezzar, which he observed in a British mental Institution in 1946. Harrison writes,

“A great many doctors spend an entire, busy professional career without once encountering an instance of the kind of monomania described in the book of Daniel. The present writer, therefore, considers himself particularly fortunate to have actually observed a clinical case of zoanthropy in a British mental institution in 1946.

The patient was in his early 20’s, who reportedly had been hospitalized for about five years. His symptoms were well developed on admission, and diagnosis was immediate and conclusive. He was of average height and weight with good physique, and was in excellent bodily health. His mental symptoms included pronounced anti-social tendencies, and because of this he spent the entire day from dawn to dusk outdoors, in the grounds of the institution .... His daily routine consisted of wandering around the magnificent lawns with which the otherwise dingy hospital situation was graced, and it was his custom to pluck up and eat handfuls of the grass as he went along.

On observation he was seen to discriminate carefully between grass and weeds, and on inquiry from the attendant the writer was told the diet of this patient consisted exclusively of grass from the hospital lawns. He never ate institutional food with the other inmates, and his only drink was water ... the writer was able to examine him cursorily, and the only physical abnormality noted consisted of a lengthening of the hair and a coarse, thickened condition of the finger-nails.

Without institutional care, the patient would have manifested precisely the same physical conditions as those mentioned in Daniel 4:33 ... from the forgoing it seems that the author of the fourth chapter of Daniel was describing accurately an attestable, if rather rare, mental affliction.”



The events of Chapter 4 were literal happenings. They have the corroboration of history.

1. A Babylonian historian named Berasus, mentions a strange malady suffered by the king.

2. Also the Greek historian Abydenus of 268 BC makes note of it.

We always enjoy your insight, Brother Jack, but I was wondering what brought this thread on?

My brother Blue River,

What brought this thread on is the fact that very shortly there will be a whole lot of People in this Country, as well as all over the world, who will be starving to death, and this tells you of a food which a man can eat, and live on, during those times, while so many will trample this very basic food and starve while looking at it.

Grass (a herb bearing seed - Ge. 1:29) is one of the first foods which was given to man as one of his foods.

If you wish to know more about what man can eat, then check out the Bible for which foods the Lord gave to man. For it changed several times down throughout history.

Definitely, everyone should get an manual or electric grass juicer. ORGANIC grass juice are super healthy, detoxifying, capable of healing the body by addressing the ROOT causes of all kinds of diseases. Too bad that Medicine is BIG $$$ machine in US and so, sorry, you will never hear this in mainstream media like those deceptive dairy commercials. Cereal Grass is fundamental to reversing the causes of diseases, building immune system, and dramatically TURN back the hands of clocks, literally DEFYING aging.

Anyone can grow wheatgrass in 7 DAYS, using kelp/ seaweed as fertilizer, growing media, and sprouted wheat. DITTO for barley, rye, & other grain.

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UCSF Ass. Dean of Medical School, Chief Orthopedic Surgeon cried out to God Jesus to heal her a gigantic tumor, drank large amount of WHEATGRASS, barley green , vegetable juice for healing.

http://www.annwigmore.org/

http://www.dr-schulze.com/ WHEATGRASS advocate. Richard helped thousands of "walking dead" patients (people given death sentences by MD) to naturally reverse all kinds of sickness from diabetes, leukemia, cancer, stroke etc...

Do whatever your body can handle; because this is a very controversial topic, capable of making people ANGRY. Note: People lived much longer on vegan diets prior to Noah's flood; then folks start aging and dying early eating flesh after Noah's flood.

Go RAW, go ORGANIC, go vegan.

Some people write me back and think I was JOKING!!! Oh heavens!
I WAS NOT joking about the healing power of being vegan and raw, particularly the healing power of grass. Many so called WEEDS are actually HEALING FOOD, e.g. Dandelion's greens are liver cleanser. God's food (including grass) & medicines are far SUPERIOR to human's processed food (american diet) & pharmaceutical drugs.

I eat grass myself, I grow grass in my kitchen. My fertilizers for grass are ground up dulse, sea vegetable. I have grown grass for FOOD & MEDICINE in my own kitchen. in fact, anyone can grow it. I chew grass, I drink the juice.

So when Famine comes, as LONG as there is water & sunlight, one can grow. Store:
GRASS SEEDS (variety, life, non GMO, organic)
GRAIN SEEDS(variety, life, non GMO, organic)
DRIED SEA VEGETABLES-- for food & fertilizers (CRUCIAL, VERY IMPORTANT, in nuclear war, sea vegetables neutralizes radiations due to its unique phytochemicals & mineral contents not found in plant food; the biological benefits of eating sea vegetables in a nuclear devastated areas are proven in Hiroshima. Japanese who eat sea veg regularly have minimal health problems from the radiations)

Cautions for those who plan to eat GRASS: BEFORE YOU EAT any grass, make sure that you have DETOXED all your elimination organs FIRST. FIRST THING FIRSt, DETOX the 1 BOWEL, 2 LIVER /GALL Bladder & 3) KIDNEY & BLADDER. The reason is simple. Grass is a HIGHLY nutrients packed food, and a POTENT detoxifying food. Most Americans have decades-old-fecal-impacted twisted & congested colon, black stones packed liver, green stones packed gall bladder, and yellow sands packed KIDNEY/BLADDEr.
You do not believe this scientific statement? CHECK OUT the surgicals photos at
http://curezone.com/cleanse/
http://curezone.com/cleanse/bowel/default.asp

OKAY, if you eat grass with a CONGESTED clogged up elimination system (unhealthy colon, liver, Gb,kidney/BLDR) The detoxifying effects of GRASS will RELEASE these toxins into your blood streams, your lymph, your entire body, MAKING YOU SICK. That is why people who have weak elimination system VOMIT when they eat grass without doing a COMPLETELY thorough cleanse. Liver is called a SILENT organ for it HAS very little nerve cells; it takes YEARS & decades to pack a liver with a rock collection & people are still working running on empty energy with a degenerated liver. Donot expect your MD to understand natural healing, for 99% of the MD out there do not know this "Between diagnosis & prognosis is the choices & life styles of the patient".

please do not write me and say that I am joking, everything I wrote here is sincere. Natural living is backed by not only science, but also clinical trials of many patients who were naturally healed from so called terminal diseases.

http://curezone.com/cleanse/liver/default.asp

I see that SC has made a religion out of this.

Even though SC has been told in PM's of what Famine will be like, what it has been in the past, and how much worse it will be in the future, he rejects all of this, to push his religion on us.

The original posting was to remind all of you Christians that the Lord God Almighty has given us a food, for us to eat when we need to, which will keep us alive when others walk over this food, trampling it into the ground while not even recognizing it. Even in the Bible it speaks of famines in which people were starving to death, eating their own children, just because they forgot of this food that God has given to them.

This is not a joke, and I for one do not find it the least bit funny that someone tries to post to this thread something designed to turn all of you away from even considering what the Bible says.

I see many who read down as far as what SC has posted and is totally turned off of this thread. Thinking because of what SC is posting that it is all just a big whatever, to be ignored.

SC has refused all correction through the PM's. So be it.

It appears that SC has made a religion out of the way that he says that he eats grass, and seems to be insisting that you have to only eat grass the way that he does, or that the eating of grass will HURT you. And that message he is sending is a Lie.

Each documented case of men only eating grass like an animal out in the open fields, the men were never hurt, and ate raw grass only, for many years. And to even suggest otherwise is an attempt to stop you from eating that food which God Gave us, when we need it the most.

Stay with what the Bible says, and not with what SC says.

PEACE. This is misunderstanding. PRAISE JESUS.

EATING GRASS is HEALTHY. Eating standard American Diet & eating refined foods cause health problems.

Dr. DAY WAS healed by JESUS, GOD told Day how to naturally reverse cancer huge as grapefruit & other diseases, in fact, if you ever watched dr day videos, you would see how Day praise God. On the last day of my health insurance expiring, God told me to have faith in GOD's healing power by showing me Day's preaching video. I do not make religion out of vegetarian or out of natural healing, they are tools that God give us for healthy living. PRAISE GOD, PRAISE JESUS, GLORY TO GOD & GOD ONLY!!! Jesus is God & All PRAISE & Worship goes to HIM. PEACE. PRAISE JESUS.

ps My account will expire as of today- stressed from unnecessary arrows/tears. In fact I was afraid to respond, but Peace be with you all.

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"It appears that SC has made a religion out of the way that he says that he eats grass, and seems to be insisting that you have to only eat grass the way that he does, or that the eating of grass will HURT you. And that message he is sending is a Lie. "