Daniel 2. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream. We enter in this chapter into the region of Apocalyptic (pp. 431- 435). The colossal image, which forms the centre of the king's dream, is in reality a pictorial representation of the world's history during three and a half centuries. The message for the writer's own age lies in his confident prophecy of the speedy advent of the Messianic kingdom (Daniel 2:44) which is to follow upon the defeat and destruction of Antiochus Epiphanes.