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DANIEL
THE PROPHET
The
Bible prophet Daniel had several visions
about the future,
but specifically about the Endtime
in which we now live. He was one of the first ones in the Old Testament
to mention the Antichrist!
His first
vision (Daniel Chapter 2) covers the World's history from his
time--600 BC--until our time beyond the year 2000! In 602 BC,
World history appeared to Daniel in a vision (and to King Nebuchadnezzar
of Babylon in a dream!), as a terrible
statue of a man.
God's view on Man in other words!
The statue was composed of 5
sections: made
from gold,
silver,
brass,
iron
and iron
mixed
with
clay,
symbolizing the last 5
Great World
Empires: Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome
and the One
World Order under
the
Antichrist!
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THE
VISION --!
DANIEL CHAPTER 2
31Thou,
O king, sawest, and behold a
great image.
This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee;
and the form thereof was terrible.
32
This image's head
was of fine gold,
his breast and
his arms of silver,
his belly and
his thighs of brass,
33
His legs of iron,
his feet part
of iron and part of clay.
34
Thou sawest till that a
stone was
cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were
of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken
to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors;
and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and
the stone that smote the image became a great
mountain,
and filled the whole earth.
36
This is the dream; and we will tell
the
interpretation
thereof before the king.
37 Thou,
O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a
kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38
And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and
the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made
thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after
thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third
kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40
And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh
in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these,
shall it break in pieces and bruise.
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41
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and
part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it
of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed
with miry clay.
42
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so
the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another,
even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44
And in the days of these kings shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom
shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain
without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the
clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the
king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain,
and the interpretation thereof sure.
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