“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. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 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. And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed…” (Daniel 2:41-44).
In the book of Daniel, God laid out the remaining world empires that would rule over Israel, from Daniel’s time through the end of this present age. This information was initially delivered in a dream given to King Nebuchadnezzar of a giant statue of a man. Daniel was called in to interpret the dream.
The statue was composed of four main metals: gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Each metal represented an empire, and was succeeded by an even stronger metal or empire. The final empire was the iron empire of Rome. Rome would continue in some way, shape, or form through the end of this present age. Ultimately, the kingdom of Christ— represented as a stone cut out of the mountain without hands— would strike the statue on its feet and bring about its downfall.
In the statue, the composition of Rome in its latter days changes from that of all iron to one of iron and clay. What does that represent?
All nations have experienced immigrants to their lands. A normal slow and gradual process results in assimilation into its culture, such as America has experienced over its history.
But what has happened to Europe in the past few years has been a rapid, huge influx of refugees on a constant basis. Instead of gradual assimilation, the masses of refugees have remained within their own enclaves and culturally distinct from the host nations. As a result, we have the mess going on in Europe right now (and also threatening America). We have the Roman descendants of iron not mixing in with the Middle Eastern clay refugees.
The refugee crisis in Europe is what drove the Brexit vote a few days ago. The iron and clay do not mix. They do not “cleave together”, just as iron does not mix with clay. It is akin to adding flour to your mix. Do it slowly and carefully and it mixes in well. But dump a lot of flour suddenly, and you have a real mess on your hands!
NOW I AM GETTING TO THE REAL MESSAGE HERE. In the statue of Nebuchadnezzar, the feet of iron and clay change over into ten toes of iron and clay during the final days. What drives the change from feet into the ten toes? We may be experiencing that right now. It may be the very fact that the iron/clay are not adhering together that forces a CRISIS, which brings about the final government of the ten kings (and Antichrist).
HAS THAT “CRISIS” BEGUN WITH THE BREXIT VOTE? We are naive and much too idealistic if we believe that a vote will somehow solve the already existing refugee crisis. Or that the interdependent global economy will not be markedly affected by this. For the exiting of Britain is inciting other countries to do the same.
If the EU is modern day Rome with its feet of iron and clay, could the BREXIT shaking transform it into the ten toes of iron and clay?
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