The Order for Reading the Book of Revelation
By Norma
| Chap-1 Statue Dream | Chap-2 4 beasts of Daniel | Chap-3
Ram & Goat | Chap-4 Partthian history | Chap5 Kings of the North | Chap-6 Olivet Discourse pt1 |
Chap-7 70 Weeks of Daniel | Chap-8 Olivet Discourse p2 |
Chap-9 2Thes- Paul | Chap-10 Gog of Magog | Chap-11 Beast of Revelation | Chap-12 Seals, Trumps & Bowls | Chap-13 Woman-Rev 12 | Chap-14 The Harlot Babylon | Chap-15 2nd beast of Rev 13 | Chap-16 Image of the first Beast | Chap-17 Islamic Empire | RETURN HOME |
- The Statue Dream-Dan2
In the beginning of Daniel's
writings, while the Israelites were being held captive in Babylon, Daniel was
given the interpretation of the king's dream. The dream was of a statue,
which symbolizes empires that would be on this earth until the end of the age.
Daniel's interpretation was:
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Daniel 2:31-36 You, O
king, were looking and behold, there was a single
great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was
standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome. The head of that
statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of
silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly
of iron and partly of clay. You continued looking until a stone was cut out
without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them. Then the iron, the clay, the
bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time, and became like chaff from the summer threshing
floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found.
But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the
whole earth. Dan. 2:39 And after you
there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom
of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. |
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· The Head- Babylon, under Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean. · Upper Body and Arms- Media-Persia, under Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Persian. · Belly and Thighs- Greece, under Alexander the Great. (thighs - Seleucus (Babylonia) and Ptolemy, (Egypt) · Legs and Feet- The last days beast and 10 Toes – the revived empire |
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This statue is symbolic of the time from
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, in 607 BC, to the last Empire of this age, the
Gog Empire that brings on the last war of this age. Each of these empires have, or will have
in the future, conquered Israel. It is the struggle over Israel (Jerusalem)
that will bring about all the end time events that, in turn, will bring this
age to an end.
Jesus, as the
stone not made without human hands, and will be the one to destroy this last
Empire by crumbling the feet of the statue on the last day..
As I was studying about the
first three empires of the statue dream I noticed a
common thread.
King Nebuchadnezzar ruled
over his lands and Israel from the city of Babylon. The Media-Persians set up
kings to rule over Israel from the city of Babylon, as we see from the book of
Daniel. Alexander the Great moved to the city of Babylon and made it his
capital city in the east. Most people don't know that Alexander fell in love
with the city of Babylon and moved there to rule his
kingdom from there. He died there, and his empire was split up between his generals. Two became
very powerful. The king in
the North, which was
Seleucus, and the king in the South, which was Ptolemy. Seleucus built a new
city in the land of Babylon called Seleucia, just 40 miles from the city of
Babylon which now lay in ruin, and from there he rued over Israel. The
Seleucid, Northern kingdom, included not only the Babylon area but also Syria,
which is located directly North of Israel. Seleucus is sometimes called the
King of Syria, because he had a second palace there.
But He ruled from his capital city that lay between the two rivers in the Iraq
area. Babylon and all the following empires that
occupied that area attacked Israel from the North and that is what all these
visions are really about. In fact, many of the
battles took place in the same northern valley in Israel that will be the place
of the final battle called Armageddon.
These first empires are
consecutive and so it has been thought that Rome was the legs and feet and is
the final empire. and will be the revived empire in the end days.
However, Rome did not
rule over Israel from the Babylonian area as the others did, in fact they were
never able to take Babylon at all. They were stopped by Parthia, the last of the Grecian empires.
Rome was not the next empire to conquer King Neb’s old empire of Babylon and this is something I hope to prove to you as we
continue in this study. If Rome was the answer to the legs and feet of the
statue then God wouldn't have given Dan the visions of Chap 7, 8, 11 and 12 to
give better understanding. He shows the path from King Nebuchadnezzar's dream
all the way until the resurrection of the dead in chap 12. Let's try to follow
that path through history.
Further along in this study, in
the King of the North time-line vision in Daniel 11, I will be matching
scripture with history about these kingdoms represented in the statue dream as
the chest.
The last King of the North of the
time-line prophecy is the empire of the feet and 10 toes of the statue
dream. It will come out of the dust of the Northern Grecian kingdom of
Seleucus (in the same northern lands of Syria and Iraq and will be the revived
empire, a caliphate. Revived from the first Caliphate set up in Iraq/Syria
area. This Caliphate, like the former one, will lead all radical Islamics in an
attack against Israel. I believe this is also the one God calls Gog.