A Great Mountain Filled the Whole Earth
While you were looking at it, a great stone broke loose from a cliff without anyone touching it, struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, and shattered them. At once the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold crumbled and became like the dust on a threshing place in summer. The wind carried it all away, leaving not a trace. But the stone grew to be a mountain that covered the whole earth.
(Daniel 2:34-35) Good News Translation
We’re going to model how Earth changes during the tribulation and show how it incorporates a mountain that fills the whole Earth, and the Hydrological cycle of Ezekiel 47.
The featured passage for the month of November is part of Daniel’s description of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. In the dream a giant statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay is smashed by a stone that’s not cut out by hands, which then becomes a great mountain that fills the whole earth. This marks the transition from the end of human rule to the time when Jesus will sit upon the throne in Jerusalem.
One of the fruits of our deductive process is a 3D model of a spherical earth which accommodates all the physical features mentioned in the Bible.
Can it also accommodate the fulfillment of prophecy?
Can we use it to show that this will be accompanied by tectonic changes in the Earth’s mantle and crust as the continents come together to form a great mountain, the top of which is a plateau where Jerusalem is located?
The mountains and hills will be smoothed out, the valleys will be raised up. The Earth will be a flat even surface which gently slopes up to Jerusalem at the summit. Everyone on Earth will be able to see the glory of God because everyone on Earth will have an unobstructed view of it.
It’s interesting that when you search Google for Nebuchadnezzar’s dream there are an abundance of images of what people think the gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay statue looks like.
The pitifully few ideas of what a mountain that fills the whole Earth may look like are bizarre to say the least.
It’s clear that no one takes this part of the prophesy as anything but symbolic.
We worked on the idea that the original Earth was shaped as one large mountain some time in 2,000 when we were working as the Custodian in a church. We were sweeping the balcony one day when we realized that if rivers flowing from Eden watered the whole Earth then they must have started at the highest point. We’re not sure when the penny dropped that this was the reason why several prophesies foretell a return to this condition, but it has to have been by December 2003 when we started making notes about it.
Read through the Bible in a year
| Reading plan | November 11 | |
| Linear | Acts 21-23 | |
| Chronological | John 14-17 | |
| TikTok | A Naked Prophet? | |
| TikTok | A Great Mountain | |
| TikTok | Acts 23-25 |
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
You and the Holy Spirit?
I give credit where it’s due.