Recommended Reading: Daniel 2:40-45;
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. 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.
The second chapter of Daniel has been called the alphabet of biblical prophecy. It provides the building blocks for understanding subsequent portions of Scripture about the Last Days. The chapter describes a great statue representing the ensuing empires that will dominate world history. But the feet and toes of this statue are brittle, part clay, part iron. Verse 42 uses the word “fragile” to describe the governments of the world at the end of time. According to Daniel 2, history is top heavy, and one day soon the entire structure will come crashing down. Then “the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed” (verse 44).
With North Korea testing long-range missiles, Iran developing nuclear bombs, China becoming the world’s banker, Israel facing existential threats, Russia growing increasingly belligerent, and the United States increasingly secular, we don’t need additional evidence that history is fragile or that the end is coming.
“Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him … Even so, Amen” (Revelation 1:7).
”Studying and understanding the events of tomorrow, as outlined in Scripture, will help you live with confidence and hope today.” – David Jeremiah
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