What was the "lesson" Nebuchadnezzar learned? Do you think he will be in heaven? Why or why not?

I believe that Nebuchadnezzar will be in heaven. He was a proud Gentile king humbled by God. Nebuchadnezzar actually wrote a Chapter in the Book of Daniel that ended praising God. Daniel 4:37 “Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.”

Nebuchadnezzar was privy to the visions and miracles of God. First was the dream of Nebuchadnezzar that Daniel interpreted years before. Then there was the miracle of the “Fiery Furnace” and the survival of Daniel three friends. Daniel 3:17, “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.” Not only did God deliver the three young men from the flames, Nebuchadnezzar saw a fourth man in the furnace, possibly an early incarnation of Jesus. Daniel 3:28, “Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God."

How quickly we seem to forget and Nebuchadnezzar had yet another distributing dream. His dream included a mighty tree that was cut down for a week of days leaving a stump. Daniel interpreted the dream and warned Nebuchadnezzar to repent. However, the proud ruler didn’t repent and boasted about all he had accomplished. One boast too many and it took seven years of eating grass to finally convince him of the authority of the one True God. So it was walking on all four for Nebuchadnezzar for a week of years and then later to Heaven for eternity.

Nebuchadnezzar was a remarkable man and important as a time indicator; the “times of the Gentiles” began with Nebuchadnezzar and will end with the Antichrist.