A Book You Can Trust

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Yet another prophecy is having a remarkable fulfillment in our day.  The prophecy involves King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and a dream he had about an immense image. The body was divided  into five parts-the head, the breasts. the arms, the belly and thighs,  The legs and the feet-each one a different metal composition.  (Daniel 2:31-32)  These metal parts stood for a succession of governments, or kingdoms, that started with Babylon and continues down to the Anglo-American World Power, the seventh of Bible history. - DANIEL 2:36-41. 

Daniel discloses that in the feet and toes of the image, there was a noteworthy change of materials.  How so?  Pure metal was replaces with a mixture of iron and moist clay. By way of explanation, Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar:   "Whereas you beheld iron mixed with moist clay, they will come to be mixed with the offspring of mankind; but they will not prove to be sticking together, this one to that one, just as iron is not mixing with molded clay." (Daniel 2:43)  Yes, mixing iron with clay results in a fragile union; there is no "sticking together." How accurately this describes the politically world in which we live today! 

Daniel also reveals another significantly development. In his dream, King Nebuchadnezzr saw a stone that was cut out of a large mountain.  This stone was lifted up. and "it struck the image on its feet of iron and molded clay and crushed them."  (Daniel2:34)  What does that mean?  Daniel himself answers:  "In the days of those kings [during the time of the final world power] the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the Kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people.  It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite."  (Daniel 2:44)  That prophecy pointed toward a Kingdom ulike any other government known to mankind. Its King is Jesus Christ, the Messiah. As mentioned in the previous articles of this series, Jesus will crush Satan and his followers, human and spirit, thus bringing about universal peace and harmony. - 1 CORINTHIANS 15:25.

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