Kevin Snow
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You've got yourself mixed up. The scriptures clearly state that Rome is the 6th Babylon and that can't be argued. What you do next is up to you. If your model uses Rome as the 8th Babylon, the Beast, or as the prostitute, the 7th Babylon, then you are simply missing the plain historical context of Revelations. Everything else you list about symbols and all that has nothing to do with the fulfillment of scripture.No sir.
4 kingdoms.
From verse 40 he is describing the fourth kingdom that was a world governing kingdom.
And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.
Verse 41 is a continuing description of that kingdom which is the Roman Empire.
The legs of iron describe it during the days of John while the iron and clay describe it in the last days when it’s divided up into 10 regions and ruled by the 10 kings with the antichrist.
The club of Rome has the earth divided up into 10 regions right now.
The European Union is the prototype.
It’s symbol is a woman riding on a beast with 13 stars.
I will provide some pics in the next post.
36 “This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; 38 and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all—you are this head of gold. 39 But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly [m]fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall [n]break in pieces and [o]consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.” Daniel 2:36-45
JLB
Now I show without a shadow of doubt that Macedonia under Alexander is the Iron nation for it fulfills the passage when it says "they mix with the seed of men" and this is the reason they are iron and clay. It says actually in another vision, the vision of the ram and goat that this nation is broken up into 4 parts to the four winds of heaven; NOT 10 parts. You are splicing end times prophecy with Christ's first coming prophecy and you must not do that. My book shows in history that indeed Macedonia under Alexander gets split into 4 parts just as the prophecy foretells. And the leading nation from that weak clay kingdom is Seleucia. This nation rules for a brief moment before Rome sweeps it all away. So Nebuchadnezzar's dream describes 5 nations and this is shown in history. The 5 nations in Nebuchadnezzar's dream are the same five kings who had already fallen at the time of Revelations. And this is simple to see. This is the only model that describes the history of the kingdoms to fulfill the scripture that Rome is the 6th Babylon. Rome cannot possibly be the 7th because it does not last "for a little while" at all but it lasts longer than any other Babylon in history. Rome was in power at the time of the writing of Revelations. For you to ignore this simple fact means that you cannot possibly interpret the rest of the vision of Revelation. For it says
The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. ~Proverbs 18:4
And you must understand that the nature of the vision is that it is plainly and readily spoken without any secrets. But it is written for the purpose of revealing exactly who is who through history. This principle escapes your interpretation and you overcomplicate things and miss what is obviously lying before you.