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THE ROMAN EMPIRE TODAY
MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS AGO, GOD GAVE HIS SERVANT DANIEL ....
A VISION OF THE FUTURE
WE RECOGNIZE HIS VISION TODAY AS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PROPHETIC INSIGHT EVER REVEALED TO MANKIND.
*/DANIELS PROPHESY IS FOUND IN THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE SAME BOOK THAT BEARS HIS NAME./*
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A KING HAD A DREAM*
ACTUALLY THE FIRST REVELATION THAT GOD GAVE TO US CAME THROUGH A HEATHEN KING NAMED NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS KING OF BABYLON
AND ONE NIGHT HE HAD A DREAM.
HE KNEW IT WAS AN IMPORTANT DREAM, BUT IN THE MORNING HE COULDN'T REMEMBER ANY OF IT.
*THIS IS HOW IT ALL HAPPENED.*
THE KING CALLED IN HIS TOP OF THE LINE "WISE MEN" AND ASKED THEM TO INTERPRET HIS DREAM.
THEY SAID, OK KING.
TELL US THE DREAM AND WE'LL INTERPRET IT FOR YOU.
BUT THE KING HAD FORGOTTEN THE DREAM AND SO HE DEMANDED THAT THEY TELL HIM THE DREAM
AND ALSO GIVE THE INTERPRETATION.
WHEN THEY COULDN'T DO IT, NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS ENRAGED AND DECIDED TO HAVE EVERY WISE MAN IN THE KINGDOM KILLED.
BEFORE LONG THE EXECUTIONER ARRIVED AT DANIEL'S HOUSE AND WAS ABOUT TO TAKE HIM AND HIS THREE FRIENDS INTO CUSTODY,
WHEN DANIEL ASKED WHY THE KING HAD ISSUED SUCH A HARSH DECREE.
AFTER THE SITUATION WAS EXPLAINED TO HIM,
DANIEL WENT TO THE KING AND ASKED FOR SOME TIME
SO THAT HE COULD FIND THE INTERPRETATION FOR HIM.
THAT NIGHT AS DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS WERE PRAYING,
GOD REVEALED THE MYSTERY TO DANIEL IN A VISION.
THE NEXT DAY, DANIEL WENT BEFORE THE KING AND EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT NO ONE COULD DO WHAT THE KING HAD DEMANDED,
BUT THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN WHO REVEALS SECRETS, AND HE HAS SHOWN THE KING WHAT WILL BE IN THE LATTER DAYS.
THEN DANIEL TOLD THE KING WHAT HE HAD DREAMED.
*Daniel 2:31-33 (NIV) \\ \\ *
*31 **“You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.
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*32 **The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.
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DANIEL THEN BEGAN TO EXPLAIN TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
WHAT HIS DREAM MEANT.
IT WAS ABOUT FOUR KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD.
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THE FOUR WORLD EMPIRES*
DANIEL EXPLAINED TO THE KING THAT THE STATUE REPRESENTED FOUR SUCCESSIVE GENTILE WORLD POWERS THAT WOULD RULE OVER ISRAEL IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
THE FIRST EMPIRE,
REPRESENTED BY THE STATUE'S HEAD OF GOLD
WAS NEBUCHADNEZZARS OWN KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
IT WAS KIND OF APPROPRIATE THAT THE HEAD REPRESENTING BABYLON WAS GOLD, BECAUSE THEIR CHIEF Idol~/god WAS MARDUK.
MARDUK WAS A GOLDEN STATUE SEATED ON A GOLDEN THRONE BEFORE A GOLDEN TABLE AND A GOLDEN ALTAR.
SO RIGHT ALONG WITH THE PRESTIGE OF BEING THE HEAD OF THE STATUE,
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM WITH BEING REPRESENTATED BY A GOLDEN HEAD.
THE SECOND WORLD EMPIRE REVEALED IN THE KING'S DREAM IS REPRESENTED BY THE IMAGE'S CHEST OF SILVER FROM WHICH TWO SILVER ARMS EMERGED.
THIS WAS THE MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE THAT CONQUERED BABYLON IN 539 BC.
LATER ON IN *DANIEL 5:28* WE RE TOLD THAT THIS SECOND KINGDOM WOULD BE A DUAL MONARCHY OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS.
THE THIRD WORLD EMPIRE REVEALED WITHIN THE IMAGE IS REPRESENTED BY ITS BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRONZE.
DANIEL TOLD THE KING THAT THIS ONE WOULD BE A KINGDOM OF BRONZE WHICH WILL RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH.
THIS WAS THE EMPIRE OF GREECE,
THE KINGDOM OF PHILLIP OF MACEDON
AND HIS FAMOUS SON ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
DANIEL SPECIFICALLY NAMES GREECE IN DANIEL 8:21
AS THE THIRD KINGDOM.
IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT THIS THIRD KINGDOM IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE BRONZE MIDSECTION OF THE STATUE.
ALEXANDER'S SOLDIERS ARMORED THEMSELVES IN BRONZE AND BRASS HELMETS AND BREASTPLATES,
AND CARRIED BRONZE AND BRASS SHIELDS AND SWORDS.
THE FORTH EMPIRE DISPLAYED IN THE IMAGE IS SYMBOLIZED BY IT'S LEGS OF IRON.
DANIEL DESCRIBES THIS EMPIRE AS STRONG AS IRON, INASMUCH AS IRON BREAKS IN PIECES AND SHATTERS EVERYTHING.
AND JUST LIKE IRON, THIS KINGDOM WILL BREAK IN PIECES AND CRUSH ALL THE OTHER KINGDOMS.
HISTORY SHOWS US CLEARLY THAT ROME
IS THE FORTH KINGDOM.
HISTORIANS OFTEN USE IRON AS AN ADJECTIVE WHEN CHARACTERIZING THE ROMAN EMPIRE:
ROME'S IRON HAND
ROME'S IRON GRIP
ROME'S IRON RULE
ROME'S IRON FIST
ROME'S IRON HEEL
AND ROME'S IRON LEGIONS.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE CAME INTO EXISTENCE FIFTY YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, AND IT CONTINUED IN POWER THROUGHOUT THE LORD'S MINISTRY AND WAY BEYOND.
THE FACT THAT ROME IS REPRESENTED BY TWO IRON LEGS IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT.
IN AD 395 THE ROMAN EMPIRE SPLIT INTO TWO POLITICAL AREAS OF RULE.
THE LATIN SPEAKING WEST WITH ITS CAPITAL IN ROME.
AND THE GREEK SPEAKING EAST WITH ITS CAPITAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
BUT ACTUALLY THIS SPLITTING OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE INTO TWO POLITICAL UNITS WAS NOT THE LAST DIVISION OF THIS KINGDOM.
THE FEET AND TOES WERE COMPOSED OF BOTH IRON AND BAKED CLAY.
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE POSITIONED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STATUE, THE FEET AND TOES WERE HIGHLY IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE DANIEL SAID AS MUCH ABOUT THEM AS HE HAD ABOUT ALL THE OTHER PARTS COMBINED.
*Daniel 2:41-43 (NIV) \\ \\ *
*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.
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ACORDING TO DANIEL, THERE IS GOING TO BE
YET ANOTHER DIVISION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
NOT A DIVISION OF TWO, BUT A DIVISION OF TEN
AS SYMBOLIZED BY THE TEN TOES.
DANIEL IS SAYING THAT THERE IS COMING A TIME WHEN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WILL CONSIST OF
TEN KINGDOMS OR TEN LEADERS.
WHEN WE LOOK BACKWARD INTO HISTORY, WE CAN FIND NOTHING THAT EVEN REMOTELY CORRESPONDS TO A TENFOLD ROMAN COALITION.
THEREFORE THIS FINAL FEET AND TOES STAGE OF THE ROMAN KINGDOM IS YET TO COME
AND IS YET TO PERFORM ITS PRESCRIBED ROLE
IN HUMAN HISTORY.
THERE'S ONE MORE PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GIVEN THAT HELPS US UNDERSTAND
THE TIMING OF THESE EVENTS.
WE'RE TOLD THAT THIS FINAL FORM OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WILL BE HERE ON EARTH WHEN GOD RETURNS TO SET UP HIS EARTHLY KINGDOM.
*Daniel 2:44 (NIV) \\ \\ *
*44 **“In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people.
It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.
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*DANIEL HAD A DREAM TOO.*
THE BOOK OF DANIEL ISN'T ONLY ABOUT THIS KINGS DREAM.
THE BOOK OF DANIEL CONTINUES ON TO OTHER VISIONS THAT GOD GAVE DIRECTLY TO DANIEL.
IN THE VISION, THAT'S FOUND IN *DANIEL 7:3 *DANIEL SAW
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