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God's Promise
"Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven
hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 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 his head of gold."
(Daniel 2:37,38) [The verses describe a man as
a world system over time.]
And after the second and third, ".. 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.
"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.
"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.
"And whereas thou sawst 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.
"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 forever.
"Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out
of the mountain without hands, and that it broke 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.
(Daniel 2:40-45) |