THE BIBLE & GREECE: THE BELLY OF BRASS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Bible And Greece
a) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Belly Of Brass
a) The third empire in the dream image (Daniel 2:31-45) was Greece. When Philip of Macedon (359-336 BC) was assassinated, his son Alexander the Great took the throne. He had been schooled by Aristotle. It was in the days of Alexander the Great that the Persian empire fell.
b) Incidentally, the Bible also foretold the destruction of Tyre (Zechariah 9:3, Ezekiel 27:32) which Alexander carried out before he captured Jerusalem.
The End ...
1. The Bible And Greecea) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Belly Of Brass
a) The third empire in the dream image (Daniel 2:31-45) was Greece. When Philip of Macedon (359-336 BC) was assassinated, his son Alexander the Great took the throne. He had been schooled by Aristotle. It was in the days of Alexander the Great that the Persian empire fell.
b) Incidentally, the Bible also foretold the destruction of Tyre (Zechariah 9:3, Ezekiel 27:32) which Alexander carried out before he captured Jerusalem.
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