The right interpretation of the dream that King Nebuchadnezzar asked Daniel to interpret (2:40-43) is contingent upon understanding that his dream was about himself personally, and by extension, about Babylon, it’s territory, and what will become of it. Each of the four empires that will follow him were represented in sections of the statue. The empires that will succeed him, absolutely must conquer the main territories the Babylonian Empire.
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God’s main purpose of giving the dream to King Nebuchadnezzar was to humble him by putting his position as a temporal king into perspective, in order to get him to rightly glorify God Almighty who gives dominions on Earth to whomever He pleases.
In the statue, King Nebuchadnezzar was told ‘he’ was the head of gold, but the next four temporal kingdoms, represented by the silver chest, bronze hips and iron legs and feet weren’t named.
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Daniel chapter 2: https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/Daniel/chapter2/34
After the 4 metal kingdoms, then comes the final Kingdom, which grows up out of a rock that was cut out of a mountain, although not by human hands. The rock smashes the feet of the statue causing it to topple, break into dust and blow away. The final kingdom is the beginning of the Eternal Kingdom of God.
The Feet Kingdom . . .
. . . is the kingdom that gets hit by the rock cut out from a mountain. The feet kingdom will have iron strength like the legs kingdom did, although it will be short lived. It’s a continuation of the legs kingdom, but with something different that makes it brittle and divided.
Rome isn’t one of the kingdoms in King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream statue. Rome never conquered the vast majority of the territory of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian Empire. Rome only conquered the sliver of the Levant plus smallish contiguous areas directly to the north and to the south of it.
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Scholars have Created a Myth
Beware: So many Bible expositors throughout the long history of the Western vantage point, have colored in maps with Rome, where it never was. It was done in accordance with their lack of historical knowledge and their overconfidence in certain Biblical interpretations. The false maps, until recently, out numbed the true maps online.
Regarding Rome’s borders, there was a small, brief exception, that of Emperor Trajan’s conquest in 117 AD. His troops took the Mesopotamian Babylon area via flotilla, on the way down the river to the Persian Gulf, but they turned around and lost it on the way back and Trajan died that same year. See:
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Trajan in Babylon – former capital of Middle East in 116 CE
https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/article/trajan-in-babylon-former-capital-of-middle-east-in-116-ce/
The Rock Doesn’t Smash the Feet of a Revived Rome.
Islam conquered the entire Babylonian Empire territory. Many pieces of the prophetic puzzle suddenly fit together!
A little history on what was intervening from bronze (Greek) to the iron empires:
After the Seleucid Greek power structure declined in the area that made up the bulk of the former Babylonian Empire, Greek culture continued there for a very, long time.
The Babylonians remained conquered by Greek culture!
Even much later, when a very diminished Persia (kingdom but no longer an empire) regained power over the declining city Babylon and surrounding areas, the culture still continued to be Greek until the ‘Islamic State’ took over; Then the IS crushed everything except Islam. The Islamic State conquered the core territory of the ancient Babylonian Kingdom, although the City Babylon itself had already been reduced to ruins.
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The fourth empire, symbolized by the legs of iron, is the fourth world power that will rule the part of the earth that was controlled by Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon. In the Daniel 7 vision of the four beasts, Rome is left out there as well.
“It will be different from all the others. It will devour the whole world, trampling and crushing everything in its path.” That was a description of the final kingdom from Daniel 7:23.
The Feet Kingdom is Not at all Like Rome.
This is an artist’s rendition of the fourth kingdom: Dan. 7:23 “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on Earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.”
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Compare that to Rome
Rome allowed Greek culture to thrive and even adapted its culture, myths and eventually even its language, especially in the East where the Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire after the Western side fell. The Eastern Roman Empire continued to speak Greek for about 850 years until it was conquered by the Turks in AD 1453. Not only that, but Byzantium, which was actually an ancient Greek colony, became Christian under Rome. So Rome mainly became Greek and Christian culture. Even the Roman Catholic Church was absorbent not destructive. The very word ‘catholic’ means universal or ‘all inclusive,’ which is the kind of false ideology that Mystery Babylon will be built upon.
Why do these details matter?
They matter because the prophesy of the sudden, catastrophic, permanent destruction of Babylon HAS NOT YET BEEN FULFILLED.
The End Time Babylon is called Babylon because it’s spirit goes back to the Tower of Babel
The word ‘Babylon’ came to be the descriptive term God used to describe the idolatry centered economic systems/cities of the great pagan empires of the world, those centered around Jerusalem, the place where God has put His Holy Name. Each of the seven heads of the Beast in St. John’s Revelation vision had its own permutation of the Babylon religion/economic system. The eighth head will have the ultimate Babylon riding it, Mystery Babylon. See:
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22.Mystery Babylon
https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/11/22-babylon/
Babylon the Great was shown figuratively, as a woman riding the seven headed beast and that part of St. John’s vision was from the vantage point of the time when the Beast was being led by its seventh head, which I believe was the Islamic Caliphate, centered in Turkey. At that time, beast still had its other heads attached, probably behind the 7th head. Then St. John saw that the seventh head was mortally wounded, and the beast was no more. . . for awhile. (Rev. 17:11)
According to the wording of the angel, the whole beast “was not“.
But the angel explained next, that the world will be amazed when the 7th head returns and that it will be called the eighth head. (Now we’re looking at the final Islamic Caliphate.) St. John was told that the eighth head of the beast will become the entire beast.
I think St. John’s vantage points in time should be explained like this:
St. John was transported in the spirit, first to the time of the 7the head, then to the interval between the beheading of the 7th head and its revived head. From that interval, he had a vantage point from which he could look back and see the seventh head and it’s fatal wound, but he could also look forward and see it’s revival, all while remaining in the interim when the Beast ‘was not’.
You and I have lived our entire lives in that interim, the approximately 100+ year gap from the end of the Ottoman Empire until the present. That is the only time in history when there has not been a powerful empire directly surrounding Jerusalem.
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God Almighty will allow the ultimate Beast to receive its 8th head and nearly to reach its evil agenda, which is to take God’s throne. God only allows that in order to fully convict His enemies, and so that He, God Almighty, may uproot it utterly; Jesus will accomplish it. It was the spirit of Babylon driving all the heads but God Almighty will not destroy Babylon the Great until just before He destroys the final permutation of the Beast.
Why is the Woman who Rides the Beast called Babylon?
She’s called Babylon because, soon after the Noah’s flood, satanically empowered King Nimrod, who was probably at least part Nephilim, built an empire. All humanity united to follow him in complete rebellion to God. They were building the Tower of Babel, which is a study in itself. This link just has a tiny bit:
https://alephtav.blog/mars-idols/
To put an end to it, God confused the languages of the people forcing them into separate nations, and assigning different ‘elohim’ (spiritual beings) to rule over them, spiritual principalities one for each nation.
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“When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, He fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods (elohim); the LORD’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.”
Deut. 32:8-9
The final Beast will have its most developed and horrific version of its Babylon spirit; It was given a special name by God: Babylon the Great Mother of all Whores and of the Abominations of the Earth. God will allow that abominable rebellious city/economic/religious system to fulminate, for awhile, while driving the eight head, which is the ‘feet kingdom’ of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream statue, the ultimate beast.
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Out of 22 chapters in the Book of Revelation, two are devoted to Gods destruction of this city. It matters because it’s extremely important to God.
It will happen during the seven year countdown to the full manifestation of God’s Everlasting Kingdom, which will be with Jesus Christ’s official second coming to Earth, when He’ll defeat the Antichrist, and the false prophet, throw them into the eternal lake of burning fire, and destroy the abomination of desolation.
4. The Countdown
https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/31/4-last7yrs/
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Next
17.Wake Up Sleeper
https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/16/17-sleeper/
Blessings and keep watching!
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