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...Daniel 7:23 holds the Clay and Iron within the four Beast Empire/System. ...
Daniel 2:45 (NKJV)
[sup]45[/sup] ... the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold ...
4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE
If you can't resolve simple Scripture, then your speculations are empty.
BibleScribe
To All,
The Jews are so concerned about EVERY dot and title, that if they make one mistake they destroy the entire page and start over. However, Christians, being under "grace", think they can take whatever liberties and not be held accountable. -- And this is foolishness.
The TRUTH is, GOD has provided HIS Word to equip the church. As such it would behoove us to either following that guidance as provided, (to the dot and title), or provide an alternate ~interpretation~ as to that significance. And thus far, where Daniel 2:45 provides a ~4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE sequence, "Insight" has neither performed to, nor has he provided an alternate explanation for that (4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE) text.
So it's no longer ~ignorance~, -- it's disobedience.
BibleScribe
Like I said and now you have proved with your above numeric. Daniel 7:23 holds the Clay and Iron within the four Beast Empire/System. The Word presents it such a way to allow you no excuse in misrepresenting the fourth beast, or trying as some do to imagine a 5[sup]th[/sup] beast!
"Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth" Its clear from this verse the four beasts represent four kingdoms or empires, and match the four metals of the Image seen by Nebuchadnezzar, as in Daniel 2 – You are right to suggest a fifth phase in the feet of the image but the four beasts of Dan & and the Revelation speak to this fourth beast.
"Which shall be diverse from all kingdoms" So with this understanding we see the fourth beast in its final or latter-day manifestation is said to be diverse, or different, from the others.
In what way is it different?
Well as you rightly suggest this fourth beast is a confederacy of nations represented by the ten horns.
"And shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces"
Any historian worth their weight in books will know the Roman Empire developed into a world-power, far more extensive than those of earlier history. It was far more ruthless, brutal than those empires that went before it.
Now concerning the iron power of Rome, Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar:
"forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise" (i.e the other nations Dan. 2:40).
I will say it again - - No 5th Beast.
Maybe Biblescribe you could deal with Dan 7:24 and continue where I have left off?
I will say it again - - No 5th Beast.
If you can't resolve the FIVE, (and some people know that FIVE ≠ FOUR), then you can't resolve the FOUR:
Daniel 2:45
[sup]45[/sup] ... the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold ...
4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE
Daniel 7
1. Lion/Eagle
2. Bear
3. Leopard
4. "dreadful".
FOUR
BibleScribe
Ah but with one exception.
To all,
I am able to interprate the iron in the feet along with the clay, whereas Biblescribe cannot find a 5th beast.![]()
Biblescribe,
Now you would blame the Scripture for your inability to locate your 5th beast.
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Is the Roman element of Iron present when Christ (stone) hits the feet (returns)?
Please answer the question.
Is the Roman element of Iron present when Christ (stone) hits the feet (returns)?
Cant sleep.
Dan 2 & 7 running through my mind.
Does the iron in the feet represent the Roman element of the legs?
Insight