The prophet’s striking prophecy came to pass!

The second prophecy for the time of Advent is found in the last book of the Old Testament, the book of Daniel.

The book evokes, in chapter 2, king Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, in which he sees a rock breaking a great statue made of layers of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay. The king is troubled until Daniel gives him the right interpretation: "After you will rise a kingdom inferior to yours, then a third kingdom, of bronze... And there will be a fourth kingdom... In the time of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed and will not pass to another people. He shall destroy all these other kingdoms, and his shall subsist forever" (Dn 2:39-45).

And in fact after Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians came, then the Greeks, with Alexander, and then the Romans who, by the power of iron, reduced all their adversaries to dust, before Israel was divided between the iron of Rome and the clay of Herod.

The coming of the humble Virgin Mary opens the messianic reign which "will never be destroyed and will eternally subsist." Blaise Pascal wrote this about the prophecy of the little rock that becomes a mountain: "It is predicted that Jesus Christ would be small in his beginning and that he would then grow."

lafoichretienne.com (Christian Faith) Team