Frameworks IIIA - All of Human History in a Statue
What is represented specifically in the body of the statue?
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Human History Reresented
Ancient Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Babylon . . . Iran, Civilization, History - "Persepolis The Persian Empire" . . . The Greek Empire
4. Ancient Rome (video 1,2,3,4)
Rome further Study of Caesars
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We know of these worldwide kingdoms in history so that in itself is a major declaration that the Bible is indeed true. Yet there are two types of interconnections. One is the political connection, and two is the religious connection. This is very important for as one empire overthrew the next, political ways of thinking changed, philsophical ways of thinking changed, and religious ways of thinking changed. Yet, in each culture that superceded the last there was a retention of some of the previous cultures, both political and religious in nature.
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Therefore the conglomerate of the whole Nebuchadnezzar statute will bear charactaristic elements of politics and religion of all four world kingdoms when the final ten kingdoms or toes arise up in a new world order of government from the fourth kingdom. We see the seeds of formation of this globalized kingdom attempting to be brought about through the roadmap to peace, but as of yet, has not been obtained. It will take a leader to step up to the plate and unite this world in its very troubled time. This leader will be Satan himself taking a human form and will deceive the earth with signs and wonders and deceptions just like a magician would do with his illusions.
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So what we are going to get into is to show what kinds of things will be present in these ten toes, and how these frameworks are interconnected. We may show some political frameworks, but primarily we are going to focus on what kinds of religious deceptions and other kinds of deceptions are in these united ten toes, which are a remnant of the earlier Roman Empire. The ten toes or kingdoms will be established by the antichrist, but the frameworks for these kingdoms, politically and religously are already being set up, and the precursors to these kindoms and religions are already in place.
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In Rome for instance we know that it was split into two major kingdom parts, and thus the legs, but there was also a split in the religious structure and the political structure. The Politician was called Caesar, and the Religious representative was called the Pontifex Maximus. In a short historical review of Julius Caesar, you will see that he accomplished both, and some references say he declared himself to be God. The antichrist will do something similar, but he will have a false prophet with him to handle the religious side of these ten divisions of land, or kingdoms.
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We see globalization occuring over many lines. We see globalization in medicine, money, government, environmental issues, energy, media, and religion. It is still in a formative state, but I am going to let you see a link that will probably make your mouth drop open. It is called religious tolerance.org It is an organization that is dedicated to bring about the union of religions regardless of belief system. The basic premise is Let's all worship God together in our own way. Let's all love each other like God wants us to. It's sounds very noble, and sounds like a good idea. There is just one problem with this however, and that is this. Jesus said in John 14:6 that He was the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father, but by Him.
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So now, if I was an enemy of God, an enemy king, for instance, I would probably try to get out alot of disinformation to throw people off the track. Disinformation like, "Well we know that Jesus was a good man, and he was a good religious teacher, but he was just a man. In fact he married Mary Magdalene, and had a kid", such as in the deceptions of the Da Vinci Code. This along with many, many other kinds of deceptions we will look at and compare, so you can see the links of these frameworks of deceptions clearly. However, one thing I will make very clear now. Satan is playing for keeps, and he means buisness, and he is serious as a commander of terrorists, willing to do whatever it takes to bring down their enemy and that without mercy.
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Thank God there is a God of mercy who loves us very much and is willing to let us know what is soon to take place.
The Frameworks of flow that ends up in the Toes. (Part I)
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James Regan Copywrite August 24, 2007 All rights reserved.
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In this article we are going to explore some of the main religious and political ebbs and flows that are influencing upon and moving through the Nebuchadnezzar time statue of the four major world empire kingdoms.
A. The details
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The flow will start from the golden head of Babylon kingdom, move into the silver chest and arms of the Medes-Persia kingdom, flow down into the bronze or Grecian kingdom, cycle through the iron or Roman kingdom, and finally settle into the iron and clay mixed in the feet and toes kingdom of this age.
Since in history the prophetic statue of Nebuchadnezzar showed a two division split in the Medes-Persian chest and arms area, indicating two nations united in one kingdom, and then again a split in the iron legs area reflecting the split of Rome in a eastern and western kingdom(western empire ruled from Rome and the eastern empire ruled from Constantinople), we can be sure that the ten toe divisions of iron and clay represent ten political kingdom divisions or areas of political power.
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The ten toes, however, are 5 toes split each amongst two feet. Therefore, there should be a retaining from ancient Rome of that eastern and western division (Greece was in eastern division with Asia Minor). What that would mean is that since the toes are part of the foot, which is the body’s support and locomotion system, that foot with the toes will act together as a composite unit. Therefore, there would be an eastern foot unit and a western foot unit.
The eastern foot would contain political and religious influences from east of Constantinople(modern day Istanbul Turkey) and Greece, and the western foot would contain political and religious influences from the western world (west and north of Greece). What is interesting is that if you consider the toes on the feet more closely, you will notice a big toe, which has stronger muscular power and flexibility than the four smaller toes. The bigger toe is about twice as thick bone-wise than the smaller toes.
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The smaller toes which appear to be participating in the foot’s stride and balanced all seem to line up like little ducks in a row, compared to the larger, stronger, more flexible and independent toe. This seems to suggest there is a potential leadership role for the big toe amongst the other four toes.
The consistency of iron and clay of the feet has been known to represent a strong and soft willed government. A strong and mighty force like Rome’s unstoppable military that would represent the iron and the softness of modern day democracy that would represent the clay. Yet, I believe it is much more than just politics. I believe its a combined mixture of religious, mystic, occultism, humanistic, and philosophical human conceptual constructs that make up the present day frameworks of this time statue of world kingdoms.
You will recall that each kingdom was a metal starting with the most precious of metal gold, and cascading down through silver, bronze, and iron. All were metals found in the earth, and of descending value, and the iron then turns into a mixture of iron and clay. (Compare to Paul talking about vessels of different quality in 2 Tim 2:20). Clay is much more of the earth or dust itself and can be easily molded with water. Metal is tougher but can be molded with fire. Clay, however, does have metals in it, primarily aluminum, silicon, and iron! They say that red clays with a two percent iron composition will do well in the pottery hardening furnace.
B. How did the Iron and Clay mixture develop?
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Yet how might this mixture of clay and iron, which does not mix, of two feet containing the ten toe kingdoms have come to be or yet have come to be? What might be the underlying forces that are and have been at work bringing about these feet, along with the formation of these ten toes? If we take a short look at the tale end of the Roman Empire proper, and what happened to this kingdom in physical history, we might find some clues that might help us to understand this time statue of Nebuchadnezzar seen in Daniel's vision in Daniel Chapter 2 of the Bible.
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The first thing that happened was a split in the kingdom internally where the western Caesar ruled from Rome, and the Eastern Caesar ruled from Constantinople. The next level of split or division came from an internal religious division between the west orthodox Roman Catholic church and the east orthodox Roman Catholic church. This tended to separate the empire even further, one from the Latin speaking Rome, and the Grecian speaking Rome, each with their corresponding slight variances in thinking.
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***Again while videos are not necessary for one's understanding article, viewing them will give the viewer a much deeper appreciation of this time statue and how it was molded the events of history.
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***(See first video describing the overview of the fall of the Roman western empire.)
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***(See a video series on the eastern empire Byzantine, which will give the viewer a more robust understanding of the eroding forces at work, while Christianity within the empire helped to maintain it for as long as it did.) 1,2,3,4,5
Western Europe in the Middle Ages
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This weathering of the Roman Empire by repeated war and invasion and counter-invasion, little by little, wore it down like a boulder will be worn down by the wind (Scroll down to soil production on link) to produce minerals, silt, sand and clay. The Crusades was the attempt by the remants of this empire which was mostly the Byzantine empire to push back the Islamic attackers and regain control of what the Holy Roman Empire had lost.
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(See the interesting series of videos on the Crusades and the Knights Templar along with the link on the Inquisiton. Upon viewing these videos you will begin to appreciate the struggles for power that were within and without of the threatened empire. In fact you may be quite surprised what these links reveal.) Crusades 1,2,3, and The Inquisition.
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C. Did the spinning wheel of war mold the Roman potters clay?
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All of this turbulence, weathering, and fighting ultimately exchanged cultural, philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas. Even cultic and mystical rituals began to exchange across these cultures as the exchange occurred down through the ages in the time statue of Nebuchadnezzar. This is how you arrive at the feet being mixed with iron and clay, instead of just iron. The clay has molded and matured since Rome proper, along both internal and external influences.
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One of the most significant events in the formation of the two individual entities of the Iron and Clay feet was the struggle between Political and Kingdom authority, which was tied with Church authority, versus the age of enlightenment and reason which brought about not a belief in supreme authority, but rather a type of democracy or a government of the people and for the people, for the reason of not being abused by authority. There also seems to be an element of one ruling oneself with reason instead of God, which clearly shows up in the time of Darwin at a later date.
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The struggle between these ideas of kingdom authority versus freedom to rule oneself as equals via reason, violently crystalized and precipitated into the two separate Iron and Clay entities primarily through the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte. See a great series of videos on the French revolution (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) The general story of the French Revolution.
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Yet, this softness of democratic clay has an element of rebellion in it. Its justification for its formation is the fact that those in authority had abused their authority over the peoples, both in political and religious jurisdictions, like an abusive husband can abuse and neglect his wife.
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Yet, the rebellious element is found to be inherent in the humanistic wisdom itself, in that it says it can rule itself without the aid of an authoritive king or an authoritative religion, but would rather set up its own rule on a fairer note by reason. This separation of wisdom and authority seems to ping and echo down from the ancient biblical halls of history from the Adam and Eve story and the temptation of acquiring wisdom by the suggestion of the serpent. The same echoes and struggles have continued down through Hitler's totalitarian rule, down to us where we are now in this very time that we find ourselves.
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This is not to say that democracy is not good, no, not at all. Democracy mixed with the gentle love of Christ like the early American fathers had done puts a proper balance to the wisdom and authority. A kind of wisdom and authority that Solomon had when he ruled Israel.
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D. What might the sands of time reveal?
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As a final thought on this part, before we examine specifically these religious influences that have flowed through this time statue, consider the idea of Rome proper primarily being the iron that was defeated on the western side by Germanic tribes and later on the Eastern side by Islamic tribes. While this mixture of the iron and clay has occured and is still maturing until the final formation of these ten kingdoms, consider that Islam as a nation that conquered and was from the sand.
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The Germanic tribes were barbaric and thus very close to the earth civilization wise like Adam came from the dust. The mixture of the earth or germanic influence, and the claylike or soft influence of the Greeks and other cultures, make a somewhat cohesive mixture with the iron from the previous Rome. Yet, remember in Daniel 2, the mixture would be mixed but it would not truly mix. It will take something else to cause an effective cohesiveness for the time. Like sand is mixed with a more fine and powdery substance like clay, and then gravel rock to make cement, might there not be a cementing of the ten kingdoms, when a savior arises from a nation from the sand?
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No one will know exactly who the antichrist will be until the time comes that the lawless one is revealed. Yet, it is a interesting possibility to consider, as the there is a savior scheduled in the Islamic beliefs and text called Al Mahdi. (Note that in this linked article, Muhammed's mother was a princess of the Byzantine empire, or eastern Roman empire, and thus a blood connection to the Roman empire as well. The Al Mahdi is a bloodline decendent of the Muhammed). He is scheduled to come as a savior but only after a major war occurs.
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Perhaps this is an allusion to the war of Gog and Magog which only after major bloodshed and the realization that Israel will not be moved, will the savior from the sand appear to finally cement the iron and clay ten-toed nations together in a coalition and then make the final peace agreement with Israel for seven years. Perhaps there is a prophetic element to what Jesus said when He said not to build your house on sand or the weak principles of the wisdom of the world, instead of building your house upon the Rock of the Word. The whole time statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, was with its iron and clay feet and toes, standing on the sand as the ground in Babylon was predominately sand.
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Statue Photo by Nadja Girod
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had a very honorable kind of life or else he would have never reached the level of sainthood that he did. Yet, people now would pray to these saints for help in that particular area. In this case it was the area concerning love. This is where the bigger problem lies.
The only problem is that it is the wrong master.
