The heart of Nebuchadnezzar is precious to God in some way. And there's, each one of these

stories shows that God is not just like, hey, we'll try once and hope for the best. He's saying,

we're going to keep coming after Nebuchadnezzar's heart. And ultimately, we see that God has saved

the most drastic, the most important intervention for the very last.

He saves the thing that is really going to win, not just Nebuchadnezzar on the periphery,

but Nebuchadnezzar at the core, win his heart.

Yeah. I'm Dean Cullinane, and you're listening to Why They Did That, a show that explores the motivations of biblical characters and how their choices can guide yours. Today's guest is one whom I hold in the highest of regards.

Over the years I have grown awfully close to him, and if you're wondering how close,

I watched his birth at his house with his parents one

fateful evening captured on one of those old handheld recorders.

It was incredibly entertaining as he himself often is.

And the Lord has him doing some fantastic work down in San Gabriel Academy in Southern California,

doing what all good Christians were always meant to do,

point their students to a loving and living God.

R.D. Galant, a former dean, a budding photographer,

and currently just a super nice dude,

joins us today as we discuss one of the muddiest characters

we've ever gone near on this show. History is unfortunately plagued by men whose entire legacy

is written in blood, the blood of the poor, the innocent and the unfortunate.

It seems as if each generation brings with it a tyrant, a dictator or some other great

authoritarian oppressor.

It seems inevitable that some incredibly driven man will find himself sitting with untold power

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