That is true....but Daniel wrote of those future powers whist still under Babylonian rule. This is how we know when God's Kingdom will come....in the reign of the kings who rule at "the time of the end"....pictured by the feet of iron and clay. (Daniel 2:44) That is the Anglo-American dual World Power.
They were followed by Greece and Rome, and he describes 11 horns, powers, rulers or kingdoms, that grew from the Roman empire which ceased to exist after 476ad in the area under discussion. The 11th horn, described in great detail by both Daniel and John, exists today, having begun to grow and evolve during the reign of the 10 horns, and in the process of destroying 3 of them, gained full power over the other 7, which in time became the foundation kingdoms of modern Europe. That little horn power that reigned over Europe was the Papacy.
All those future world powers came and went in what Jesus called "the appointed times of the nations" or "the Gentile Times". (Luke 21:24) This was a succession of world powers who held dominion over God's people.
In Jesus' day, Rome was the dominant world power, but the coming of God's kingdom, to destroy all the world's corrupt kingdoms and replace them, was still a long way off. Out of the ashes of Rome came the British Empire who ruled until America, (allied with Britain from whom she descended) emerged as a super power in the 20th century. There are no more kings after these.
Dearest AJ,
Just so we all know, the "commentators" and most all "teachers" miss the obvious:
Dan. 2:45 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. ...
-- Where we see the sequence 4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE
... and:
Dan. 2:41 And as you saw the feet and toes partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom ...
As such we MUST anticipate that
Dan. 7 depicts as the details of this FIFTH "
Divided Kingdom":
1. Gold, Babylon
2. Silver, Medo/Persia
3. Bronze, Greece
4. Iron, Roman
-- Clay, "Divided"
-- 5. Lion/Eagle, U.K./U.S.
-- 6. Bear, Russia
-- 7. Leopard (actually a "TIGER"), China
-- 8. "Dreadful", United Nations -- "was and is not" because it has NO Geography, NO Populous, NO Army
9. Millennial Kingdom
10. Eternity in Heaven
... and we should note that after GOD sends satan and his U.N./Secretary General into the pit, the THREE Concurrent Superpowers would continue for a "season and a time" until they're converted into the Millennial Kingdom:
Dan. 7:12 As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
And finally, the Ten "little horn" nations give their sovereignty over to the Eleventh "little horn":
Dan. 7: 20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, the horn which had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and which seemed greater than its fellows.
... were identified in August of 1993 as published in the November, 1993 "U.N. Chronicle":
Current PERMANENT Membership in the Security Council:
1. U.S.
2. U.K.
3. France
4. Russia
5. China
NOMINATED to PERMANENT Membership in the Security Council:
6. Germany (Economic Power)
7. Japan (Economic Power)
8. Brazil (Regional Representative for S. America)
9. Nigeria (Regional Representative for Africa)
10. India (Regional Representative for the Near East)
Thus Scripture outlines and details HISTORY
Before It Occurs!
With VERY Best Regards,
Bobby Jo & ELAM
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