The
Image Interpreted
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 for ever. Dan. 2:44
in
the days... In the days of
the ten kings symbolized by the ten toes on the image (Dan. 2:41-45)
and the ten horns on the beasts of Dan. 7:7-8, 7:23-24; Rev. 13:1-18;
17:12-17, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom on earth that shall
never be destroyed. It will break in pieces and consume or take over
all the ten kingdoms and shall stand forever (Dan. 2:44; Zec.
14:1-21; Rev. 19:11-21; 20:1-10). This proves that the ten kings are
yet future and could not have been ten barbarous tribes which overran
the old Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries after Christ.
It
will be noticed in the headings of the text in Dan. 2:41 and Dan.
2:44, one kingdom is the seventh and the kingdom of God is the ninth.
There is no eighth kingdom mentioned in Dan. 2:1-49, but there is in
Dan. 7:23-24; Rev. 17:9-11. Here Daniel does not see a little toe
coming out of the ten toes, plucking out three of the others by the
roots; but in Dan. 7:7-8, 7:19-24 there is a little horn coming out
of the ten horns, and after them. He gets power over them by
conquering three of them and by the others of the ten kings then
submitting to him without further war. This is the same as Rev.
17:9-17. The ten kings give their power to the beast whose kingdom
becomes the eighth kingdom. The seventh kingdom is that of the ten
kingdoms being independent as separate kingdoms; the eighth is made
up of the same ten kingdoms, only they are no longer independent.
They continue under the beast for 42 months as subject kingdoms (Rev.
13:1-8; 17:9-17).
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