The whole course of history......

"Nebuchadnezzar was thinking of...
Daniel 2:29 ...what should come to pass hereafter.

 
It is evident from what did come to pass later in his own experience,

that he was thinking of his own kingdom as one likely to endure for an indefinite time, having already a universal dominion, and almost limitless resources for preserving and transmitting its glory unimpaired. Who can overthrow his kingdom, or prevent it from standing forever?

 

The whole course of history is but the preaching of the Gospel of the kingdom of God, the revealing of the failure of anything to endure, which is not in harmony with the principles of that kingdom. When future events are made known before they actually happen, it is simply preaching the Gospel in advance. 

And so we read: 

Jeremiah 9  

24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands
and knows me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: 

for in these things I delight, says the Lord." W.W. Prescott