In Part 2 we got through the first three world governments. If you haven’t read parts 1 & 2, I invite you to go over to the End Time Prophecy category and click on it. The next two below this one will be parts one and two.
Daniel 2:40 – 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others.
In 63 BC, Rome became the fourth world government. It truly has been the strongest and the largest government of them all. No one else defeated the Roman Empire. It just started dying and decaying from within and was so big that it just dissolved. Bits and pieces began to be conquered. Probably a better way to put it is the decline of the Roman Empire. By 500 AD it was a remnant of what it was.
Daniel 2:41-43 – 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
Even though the scripture doesn’t really break from verse 40 to 41, you can see that we are now adding clay with the iron and we are going from the two legs into toes. It’s these toes that are Iron mixed with clay. Ten toes to be exact. Ten is a significant number because both in Daniel and Revelation we see 10 horns as a description. But let’s talk about the toes.
The ten toes are a divided kingdom, though they do have some strength like iron in them they still are partly brittle, as clay is brittle. This revived kingdom is definitely linked to the one before it or something other than iron would be mentioned with the clay.
There has been no other world government since the Roman Empire. We have had those who have tried to make one.
A couple of the most recent rulers that have tried were Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte. Both fell short of their goals. They both have tried to do it by the means of conquering.
The world government we see forming before our very eyes is definitely brittle. However, it’s not hard to understand why. Powerful influences have been pushing us towards this world government, but you still have so many different thought processes amongst the people themselves.
They have done a good job of tearing down a great country like America, but do they really think Russia is on board? According to Ezekiel they’re not. They have their own goals and plans. How about the Muslim nations? Sure Christians are taught vengeance is Mine sayeth the Lord and to turn the other cheek. When Christian’s aren’t they bring up the crusades. Do you think the Muslims are going to roll over? No. They have a goal on conquest and their rulers aren’t trying to sell them out like the Christian nation rulers are.
Iron mixed with clay. This world government will definitely be just that. But it’s coming. All one has to do is look at what they have been attempting to accomplish, read bible prophecy, and realize…it’s coming together quickly.
Next week let’s talk about that last Kingdom mentioned in Daniel 2.