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Verses 41-45 is a prophecy about the remnant of the “iron” from the legs that will be present in the “feet” and “ten toes” during the last days. The legs are also the longest part of the body and the Roman Empire existed a long time and through several renewals as the Holy Roman Empire in Europe as well as in the Byzantine Empire in the East. Rome was a cruel, conquering empire and its representation as an empire of iron is most appropriate. The Roman empire is represented by the legs of iron, and this fits world history very well as the Roman empire divided into Western and Eastern halves just as the body of the image in the vision spread out to include two separate legs. are not the subject of Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of future gentile empires. The Israelite empires of Phoenicia, Carthage, Parthia, Scythia, etc. Nebuchadnezzar headed a gentile empire so his successor empires should be expected to be gentile empires we well. Readers should be aware that this is a vision about the future gentile world empires that would exist on the earth. He saw a vision of successive world empires which have been seen as the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman empires. This comparison leads us to some very interesting conclusions.ĭaniel 2 is the chapter with the prophecy about the great image seen by King Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire.
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I will be comparing the prophecies about the end-time “ten toes” in Daniel 2 and the end-time “ten heads” in Revelation 17 (also mentioned in Revelation 13:1-5). In this piece, I will compare two prophecies about the latter days which are addressing the same set of events, but with different terminology. These prophecies all need to be taken together to get a complete picture of what biblical prophecies tell us about events to occur at the end of our age. Almost the entire book of Revelation concerns events that will transpire in the latter days in the end of our age.
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Some latter-day prophecies use the terminology “in that day.” Zechariah 14 confirms the term “in that day” is a prophetic shorthand for the term “day of the Lord” as both phrases occur in the same prophecy in Zechariah 14 about the end of our age. Some use the term “time of the end” (Daniel 12:1-4) or some combination of words about “the day of the Lord” (Zephaniah 2, Zechariah 14, II Peter 3:10, etc.). Not all prophecies about the end times in which we are living use the term “latter days” (as is found in Genesis 48-49, Numbers 24:14-25,Jeremiah 30:1-24, Ezekiel 38-39, Daniel 2:26-45, etc.). As I’m sure readers know, there are many “latter day” prophecies in the Bible which address the same latter day events but with different imagery and symbology. This post is to point out to readers a likely linkage between Old Testament and New Testament prophecies about the latter days which, when taken together, offer us some remarkable food for thought about how biblical prophecies will be fulfilled in the years ahead of us.