... Exo 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt ...
If you're going to GRAB ancient nations, START WITH THE
FIRST, and proceed from there:
Gen. 10:8 Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria, and built Nin′eveh, Reho′both-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nin′eveh and Calah; that is the great city.
Or if your history is within a NEW ERA in Government, then start there:
Dan. 2:37 You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory, 38 and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.
Arbitrarily assigning NUMBERS to INSIGNIFICANT KINGDOMS is no different that having owned two dozen cars in your lifetime, and only acknowledge 10 because you ran out of lines on your notepad.
But what made Babylon different from the PRIOR sequence of kingdoms was the
METROPOLIS MODEL:
The Babylonian Empire was “the first true metropolis in western history, a business as well as an administrative center”[1] -- the prototype of governments as we see them to this day. The Babylonians controlled trade and commerce across western Asia, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, building highways, legislating business, and beautifying the capital.[2]
[1] John B. Christopher and Robert Lee Wolf, A History of Civilization, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967, p. 35
[2] Will Durant, Story of Civilization: Part II, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1954, pp. 223-224
Of course the commentators are oblivious to facts that even Comic Book writers see, -- that the World's Governments ALL operate under the Metropolis Model, and so they named the World Greatest City "
METROPOLIS" (New York City), and the place where Superman® worked is called "
The Daily Planet".
And where Nebuchadnezzar built the FIRST AMUSEMENT PARK (
The Hanging Gardens), our modern governments build SPORTS ARENAS and regulate the Ounces of Dispensed sugary carbonated beverages.
So the commentator LIES are parroted by people who don't know any better, but Scripture is substantiated by History:
1. Gold, Babylon
2. Silver, Medo/Persia
3. Bronze, Greece
4. Iron, Rome
-- Clay, "Divided Kingdom"
-- 5. Lion/Eagle, U.K./U.S.
-- 6. Bear, Russia
-- 7. Leopard (actually a TIGER), China
-- 8. "Dreadful", United Nations, which"was and is not" because it has NO Geography, NO Populous, NO Army, etc. It's just a PAPER entity with TEN PERMANENT MEMBERS on the Security Council -- Five Current, & Five Nominated.
Bobby Jo