Daniel 4:10-17

Why, then, was it to be like the prominent tree described in Ezekiel’s prophecy, chapter thirty-one, Eze 31 verses three through fourteen, in being cut down? How could the chopped-down tree trunk have had the “heart” of mankind and this be changed to the “heart of a beast”? How could the chopping down of the tree and the letting of its fallen trunk lie on the grassy earth for “seven times” prove that “the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of mankind and that to the one whom he wants to, he gives it and he sets up over it even the lowliest one of mankind”? According to the angelic “watcher” or sentinel or guardian, that was the purpose of the action portrayed in the king’s dream.

Let its heart be changed from that of mankind, and let the heart of a beast be given to it, and let seven times pass over it.

¹⁶ So that heaven-high tree stood for rulership, a worldwide rulership as invested in someone as ruler. It was this ruler that had a “heart” that could be changed from that of mankind to that of a beast. Such a change would mean a fall, a debasement, would it not?