Dominion was given. (Dan. 7:6). As is declared in Daniel 2:21, God is the One who exercises sovereign control over the elevation of each of the four successive Gentile nations; Daniel 7:6 confirms the fact that Alexander’s Grecian kingdom and all he would accomplish would have to do, not so much with his own abilities, but rather God’s sovereign choice.
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown point out:
“So Alexander, a small king of a small kingdom, Macedon, attacked Darius at the head of the vast Empire reaching from the Aegean Sea to the Indies. In twelve years he subjugated part of Europe, and all Asia from Illyricum in the Adriatic to the Ganges … not so much fighting as conquering. How unlikely it was that 30,000 men should overthrow several hundreds of thousands.”
It becomes increasingly clear that the inspiration behind the seemingly miraculous career of Alexander, which in times past has seemed such a mystery to secular scholars, can now be understood if one is willing to admit that it was God who granted supernatural empowerment for a brief season to Alexander.
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