Daniel 4:34
Daniel 4:3434But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
The Watchtower reads as the end of the king's personal seven-year madness, but the 1914 framework requires treating this fulfilment as merely the primary layer of a two-layer prophecy whose greater meaning points to the end of the Gentile Times in October 1914.
is the narrative resolution: "And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to the heavens, and my understanding began to return to me; and I blessed the Most High, and the One living forever I praised and glorified." The verse closes the chapter's own prophecy on its own terms. The king's sanity returns, he acknowledges God's kingdom over mankind, and the dream has done exactly what Daniel said it would do. A prophecy that is given, interpreted, and fulfilled within a single chapter does not normally carry a hidden secondary timeline requiring a day-year arithmetic the text never mentions. The New Testament, which freely cites Daniel 2 (the stone kingdom), Daniel 7 (the Son of Man), Daniel 9 (the seventy weeks), and Daniel 12 (the time of the end), never once cites Daniel 4 as a future-kingdom prophecy. Neither do the Gospels, the Epistles, or the earliest church fathers. The 1914 reading is unique to the nineteenth-century adventist calculations the Watchtower adopted.