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Daniel 4: a tree visible to "the end of the whole earth" — but this is Nebuchadnezzar's dream ("visions of my head as I lay in bed"). Dreams don't provide cosmological data. The phrase "ends of the earth" just means visible far away.

Refuting Those "Flat Earth Bible Verses": You Should Have Checked the Context. 01:03:24 – 01:06:29

Daniel 4 — it's a dream

Introduced by "the visions of my head as I lay in bed" (Daniel 4:10). A tree visible to the ends of the earth is dream imagery, not cosmological description. Even on a flat earth, you can't see a literal tree from the other side. The phrase means the tree was impressively visible from far away.

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