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[Daniel 4:28 NKJV] - All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.

[Daniel 4:28 ICB] - All these things happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Thank You Lord for enabling me.

That king, Nebuchadnezzar, had two significant dreams in different days, weeks, months or years apart: but before all things of the first dream could come to pass, behold all things of the second dream came upon the dreamer. Messenger Dreams or Prophecies do not necessarily follow the protocol of first to come is first served, especially when they are not "Sequential" but are "Consequential."

*A* - The First Messenger Dream of Nebuchadnezzar was Sequential — Therefore, it was time based, following program schedule or Calendar Timeline of events to the last days.

*B* - The Second Messenger Dream of Nebuchadnezzar was ConSequential — Therefore, it was not time based but "Heart Based," waiting for a specific heart, mindset, thoughts, words or act of the target.

In the top bible verse above, all the things or prophecies of the second messenger dream of Nebuchadnezzar came upon him: And I say the reason was not necessarily because they must be infallible or inevitable, but because the heart, mindset, thought-set or more precisely the word-set of Nebuchadnezzar the king, caused them to befall him. And when you read the next couple of verses following the top one above, you will come to where a particular word was yet in his uttering mouth and then the things of that dream befell him, for his heart, mindset & words.

Here are three examples of Consequential or Heart based prophecies that were dependent on the condition of the king's heart or mindset: *1* In one example the king who did not have the heart for such prophecy suddenly developed or received the heart for all those things to come upon him, so that God would not allow the prophet's prophecy to fail because the king did not have the heart. *2* in another example the king was having the heart for such prophecy to befall him, but he humbled himself and that humility altered his heart and therefore the things of the prophecy were suspended from him but they were hanging waiting for his descendant to develop that heart for the prophecy to befall his descendants after that humbled king had died and gone; and somehow God had to codedly apologize to the prophet who delivered that prophecy to the king that later humbled himself, because God respected that prophet so much that God wouldn't allow anything that prophet says to any man to fail even if the prophet spoke it carelessly. *3* In the third example a king and his city totally changed their heart in humility and deep repentance to a degree that God had to cancel or nullify (not suspend) the entire prophecy of the prophet; and the prophet was mad with the rage of anger because he didn't initially want to deliver that message of God in the first place and God had to force him and punish him with badluck (jinx) following him wherever trip or business he was going to do, so that he was forced to go deliver that prophecy in pains, only for God to later change His Mind and wouldn't do what the prophet painstakingly suffered to prophesy.


*Example 1*
Samuel was the prophet of whom God would not allow any of his word fail, and Saul was the king to whom God gave another heart for the heart based or consequential prophecy of Samuel to come upon Saul the king:

[1 Samuel 10:9 BSB] — As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.

*Example 2*
Elijah was the prophet to whom God codedly apologized by showing him reason God would not be fulfilling his prophecy on Ahab the king because of the humbleness that king put on after Elijah's prophecy: but because of Elijah the prophecy would still be hanging (not cancelled) against the children of Ahab after he passed away.

[1 Kings 21:28‭-‬29 AMPC] — And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before Me? Because he humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his lifetime, but in his son's day I will bring the evil upon his house.

Therefore, when that prophecy finally came upon the house of Ahab in the absence of Ahab the king, the scripture gave credit or accordance to the Lord's words to Elijah - for it's Elijah's sake the prophecy was not cancelled but postponed and then fulfilled even after Elijah was already taken away from the earth to be with Enoch in the heavenly places. The entire generation or lineage of that king (including Jezebel) was wiped out or annihilated from the earth's surface to fulfill God's word to Elijah:

[2 Kings 10:17 AMP] — When Jehu came to Samaria, he killed everyone who remained of Ahab’s family in Samaria, until he had destroyed all of them, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He spoke to Elijah.


*Example 3*
Jonah was the prophet that gave the prophecy, and the king and city of Nineveh (Assyrian Capital) totally changed their heart in humility and deep repentance to a degree that God had to cancel or nullify (not suspend) the entire prophecy of the prophet.

[Jonah 3:10 AMPC] — And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God revoked His [sentence of] evil that He had said that He would do to them and He did not do it [for He was comforted and eased concerning them].

Nevertheless, among these three prophets, Jonah has been more compensated by God than all the other prophets in regards to God fulfilling the words of their prophecies. The reason is because the Very Word of God Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, subjected Himself to fulfilling the Sign of Jonah. Roman Catholics celebrate "Sign of the cross" but the Lord Jesus Christ Himself with His Cross, Death and Resurrection celebrated and fulfilled the "Sign of Jonah" being in the belly of the beast three days and nights. And even till now, the church of the last days are replaying in prophetic patterning or figuratively, the ways of Jonah before, during and after Jonah was swallowed of the sea beast.

Back to Nebuchadnezzar the king, and Daniel being the prophet who wished that his own prophecy would not even come upon or befall that king, but yet all those things befell the king notwithstanding the wise counsel or advice of that proohet to avert his prophecy or interpretation.

The fact that all those things befell the king Nebuchadnezzar meant the heart of Nebuchadnezzar was not changed, neither was their repentance nor humility of heart to alter the messenger dream. This means his heart was hardened like pharaoh's heart was hardened before Moses, though Moses the prophet advised him against it. The same way the kings of Jerusalem were hardened inspite of Jeremiah's prophecies until the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, finally befell them to destroy Solomon's temple and the city of Jerusalem, so also was the same Nebuchadnezzar hardened inspite of the warning of Daniel and the Watchers until all those things befell him.

Nevertheless, understand that some prophecies or revelations would be averted or suspended because they actually do not have their own time for everything but only have their own heart/mindset for everything under the sun - and God can reverse His own words in such prophecies:

[Jeremiah 18:6‭-‬10 AMP] — “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter does?” says the Lord. “Look carefully, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My Hand, O house of Israel. At one moment I might [suddenly] speak concerning a nation or kingdom, that I will uproot and break down and destroy; if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent and reverse My decision concerning the devastation that I intended to do. Or at another time I might [suddenly] speak about a nation or kingdom that I will build up or establish; and if they do evil in My Sight by not obeying My Voice, then I will reverse My decision concerning the good with which I had promised to bless them.

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