Nebuchadnezzar was banished from the world of men. He was like a beast because of his insanity. After seven equal periods, his mind returns to him. He is able to think and speak normally again. The first thing from which you can see that God’s judgment is departing from him is that he is again looking upward, toward heaven. He stands up straight again. When Nebuchadnezzar gets his reason back, we see a different king of Babylon. It is no longer the king who is fighting the Lord as the King of all kings. Now he is the king who recognizes and exalts the Lord. He knows that the kingdom of God is the eternal kingdom. No one, not even a powerful man, can stop the Lord. What he wants to do he does. No man, no creature can change that.
When Nebuchadnezzar later tells the inhabitants of his kingdom about this, the haughty I completely disappears from his language. It is all about the Lord! He wants to tell the wonders and signs of God who is the Most High. He tells all the nations in his kingdom about the Lord, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;