So far in this study we seen that this Image, that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream, runs parallel with the four beasts of Daniel chapter seven.
With that understanding let’s continue with Daniel Chapter 2.
Daniel 2:34 KJVS
“Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.”
This Stone that is cut out without hands meaning, absence of all human instrumentality, is our Lord Jesus Christ upon His return at the Seventh Trumpet.
Cut out without hands, because He is the only begotten of our Heavenly Father, and as Jesus told Phillip in John Chapter 14 verses 8 and 9, ” he that has seen me hath seen the Father”.
When the true Christ returns, He will smite this image upon its feet that will be made of iron and clay and will break them to pieces.
Daniel 2:35 KJVS
“Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
So far in this study we’ve seen that the iron in this image represents Daniel chapter sevens fourth beast, which is exclusively supernatural.
This supernatural element that will have its part in this image is Satan and his fallen angels, which will include ten fallen angel kings. These ten kings are the ten horns spoken about in Revelation Chapter 13 verse 1.
Together and it says together the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold will be broken to pieces, when the true Messiah returns.
After this image which is Satan’s one world religious kingdom is broken to pieces by the true Rock upon His return, then His kingdom will begin to fill the whole earth.
Daniel 2:36-38 KJVS
“This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. [37] Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. [38] And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.”
This interpretation of the dream was given to Nebuchadnezzar, and Nebuchadnezzar was used as a historical type for Satan who will appear as the last king of Babylon in the middle of Daniel’s shortened seventieth week, at the Woe of The Sixth Trumpet.
Nebuchadnezzar is the head of gold, for he was a type for the vile one who will ultimately be the fullness of this image which is the one world system in its actuality. At this point of chapter two, we are beginning to see four kingdoms that are historical types to this one world political beast, that will turn religious in the middle of the five-month long hour of temptation.
Daniel 2:39 KJVS
“And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.”
With Nebuchadnezzar being the head of gold as a historical type, we begin to see what will come after ancient Babylon’s rule. This is yet future to Nebuchadnezzar, but in fact history, which is the past to us.
In the historic types versus this images actuality that will transpire in the latter days, we know that the next kingdom that succeeded ancient Babylon was Medio-Persia, which represents an inferior metal to gold which is silver.
Then it was Greece which represented historically the brass, that succeeded Medio-Persia after its defeat.
moving on.
Daniel 2:40 KJVS
“And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things : and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.”
Historically as a type, this fourth kingdom is Rome. Rome took succession of power after it defeated Greece at the battle of Corinth in 146 BC. This fourth kingdom that represents the historical type for the iron in this image, runs parallel (to a certain degree) to Daniels fourth beast which is diverse from the other three beasts written about in Daniel chapter seven.
Daniel 7:7 KJVS
“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.”
Diverse from the Lion, bear and leopard because it has ten horns, these ten horns in the image’s actuality are ten fallen angel kings that will receive power as kings one hour (five-month long hour of temptation) with the beast as it is written in Revelation Chapter 17 verses 12 and 13. We can also see these ten horns will be mingled within this one world beast along with Satan and the rest of the fallen angels throughout the whole five-month long hour of temptation in Revelation Chapter 13.
Considering Rome as historical type to this fourth beast of iron which consists of Satan and his fallen angels (which includes ten supernatural kings), we see that in its republic it had ten elder statesmen up until it became an empire under Caeser Augustus rule, in which he is also a type for Satan as the antichrist.
We may find it also interesting after Romes succession of power over Greece’s defeat, the Romans Integrated Greek Mythology which is loosely based on the Fallen Angels into their government.
Continuing in Daniel chapter 2.
Daniel 2:41 KJVS
“And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.”
Divided but mixed. In this image that God through Daniel is revealing the interpretation thereof, we see iron, and clay.
We know that the iron is diverse from the clay because its supernatural, but what is the clay?
Isaiah 64:6-8 KJVS
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. [7] And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. [8] But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”
The clay are those who will be of the gold, silver and brass that will be mingled together with Satan and his fallen angels in a one world political beast during the first half and especially mingled with each other when that beast turns religious in the latter half of the five month -long hour of temptation.
Daniel 2:42-43 KJVS
“And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”
Party strong and partly broken this image will stand with a foundation that was never meant to be, because clay (humans) and iron (fallen angels) are never to mix. This graven image is the work of their hands, not Gods.
Deuteronomy 27:15 KJVS
[15] “Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord , the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place . And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.”
There is no clay kingdom, only those four which we see the types of and those four we can clearly see in Daniel chapter seven which are the lion, bear, leopard, and Daniels chapter sevens exclusively supernatural fourth beast.
Daniel 2:44 KJVS
“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
In the days of these kings, our Lord Jesus Christ will return at the seventh trumpet as our rock and smite the iron and clay thus breaking in pieces Satan’s one world kingdom. After Satan’s kingdom is destroyed God will set up His kingdom through His Son that will never be destroyed (Daniel Chapter 7:14). An everlasting kingdom so those who were of the clay at that time can go forth an inherit Christ who was made with no hands, while that which is abominable who were of the iron perishes.
Daniel 2:45 KJVS
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Without hands, a kingdom that was made to be and is eternal as opposed to a graven image that is not. This interpretation has been made known for us, and this dream that was given is certain and will come to pass.
The end.
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