The right interpretation of the dream that King Nebuchadnezzar asked Daniel to interpret (2:40-43) is contingent upon understanding that Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was about himself personally, and by extension, about his Empire Babylon, its 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 core territories of the Babylonian Empire.
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God aimed for Nebuchadnezzar to recognize His sovereignty and to humble himself. This was crucial for the king to understand that his power and authority were not self-derived but granted by God. God gives dominions on Earth to whomever He pleases.
In the dream, King Nebuchadnezzar was told that he was represented by the head of gold, and that the four future kingdoms, are represented by the silver chest, bronze hips, iron legs and mixed iron and clay feet; None of those kingdoms were named. But then . . .
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. . . after the 4 metal kingdoms, final Kingdom will come. It will grows up from a rock that was cut out of a mountain, but 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 that begins with the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ and that’s followed by the new heavens and the new Earth; The New Jerusalem will come down and God the Father and God the Son will dwell therein.
Daniel chapter 2: https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/Daniel/chapter2/34
The Feet Kingdom . . .
. . . is the kingdom that gets hit by the rock. Although the feet kingdom will have iron strength like the legs kingdom did, it will be short lived. It’s a revival 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 because 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.
Timeline of Four Empires
https://endtimebible.com/timelines/4empires/index.html
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, 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 I.S. 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 Earth that was controlled by Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon. It’s not surprising that 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 in the Daniel 7 vision, which was only concerned with the kingdoms that came after Babylon; It’s described in two parts, and is the same as the 7th and 8th head of the Revelation beast.
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The little horn coming out in the middle, will become the 8th head. It comes up from the roots of the ten horns that survived the destruction of the 7th head and the horns were only mentioned in the Daniel 7 vision between the original and the final episode of the beast’s activities.
“He (the angel) gave me this explanation: . . . “It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.” (Dan. 7)
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 its spirit goes back to the Tower of Babel, before the Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian Empires existed.
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, but the eighth head will have the ultimate Babylon riding it, Babylon the Great! See:
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22.Mystery Babylon
https://alephtav.blog/22-babylon/
Babylon the Great was shown to St. John, figuratively, as a woman riding the seven headed beast.
But, four chapters prior to that scene, the beast had already been introduced to St. John as it rose out of the sea while the dragon (symbolizing satan), who empowered the beast, was standing on the shore. St. John saw that the beast had 7 heads each with blasphemous words against the most high God written on them. The seventh head seemed to have been mortally wounded, but had been healed. And then St. Paul saw that the world was in wonder that the 7th head had returned; So they followed the Beast. They worshipped it and said “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?
Then St. John was told that the return of the seventh head is the eighth head, which will, by itself, lead the entire Beast. Showing it to St John in this way makes good sense because it’s a teaching tool for us. If God had shown the Beast rising with only it’s 8th head, we wouldn’t understand what it was made out of, where it came from, or what it represented in the past and how its future derives from it’s past.
You and I have lived our entire lives in the gap between the 7th head and it’s revival the 8th head. It’s the approximately 100+ year gap from the end of the Ottoman Empire until the present. It was the only time in history when there hasn’t been a powerful, gentile empire directly surrounding Jerusalem. But it’s about to end . . .
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God Almighty will allow the ultimate Beast to receive its 8th head and for it to nearly reach its evil goal, which is to take God’s throne. God only allows this in order to fully convict His enemies, and also in order that, He God Almighty might utterly uproot it; Jesus will accomplish it. It was the spirit of Babylon riding all the heads of the beast. God Almighty will make use of the Beast to destroy Babylon the Great when it receives its 8th head. Only after that will God destroy the final permutation of the Beast itself.
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
Recap – The final Beast will support the most developed and horrific version of the 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 system: city/economic/religious, to fulminate, for awhile, and drive the eight head, which is the ‘feet kingdom’ of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream statue.
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Out of 22 chapters in the Book of Revelation, two whole chapters, 17 & 18, and a little bit of 19, are devoted to Gods destruction of this city. So it’s extremely important to God.
It will happen toward the end of the second half of the seven year countdown to the full manifestation of God’s Everlasting Kingdom. That will be soon before Jesus Christ’s official second coming to Earth: That’s when He’ll defeat the Antichrist, and the False Prophet and them into the eternal lake of burning fire. And then He will destroy the abomination of desolation.
4. The Countdown
https://alephtav.blog/4-last7yrs/
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17. Wake Up Sleeper
https://alephtav.blog/17-sleeper/
Blessings and keep watching!
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