You're not actually saying much with the above. Bible Scripture that relates to each other between Books in God's Word does NOT limit one's correct interpretation with allowing God's Word to interpret God's Word. Misinterpretation actually happens most often by NOT allowing Scripture to interpret Scripture for us. So does the Book of Daniel relate to the Book of Revelation, and even Christ's Olivet discourse about the end of this world? You bet it does, and we can count on it.The statue of Daniel 2 is the blueprint for the rest of prophecy. Anything that is interpreted from later prophecies that disagree with the basic skeleton of history as revealed in Daniel 2 must be set aside until understanding harmonizes.
The important part is the final beast kingdom, which is the one for the 'end' shown in Revelation 13:1, for that is the one that will be manifest in the day when Jesus returns in our near future. It is a 5th beast.Daniel 2, 7, and 8 all agree on the basic empirical nations that dominated the world. Babylon, Meda-Persia, Greece, and pagan Rome. After pagan Rome falls, we see in later history there's that union of iron and clay, and in Daniel 7, 11 horns growing from the head of pagan Rome. The question we need to settle before going off into tangents, is, 'what is the relation of the iron and clay, and does it parallel the horns from the 4th beast'?
Dan 2:44-45
44 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.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
KJV
Count those pieces in red above. They are shown separately for a reason.
1. iron
2. brass
3. clay
4. silver
5. gold
That is FIVE beast kingdoms, with the final one as the 5th one for the end, and is the one we today are to be concerned with regarding Lord Jesus' future coming. That "stone" represents Lord Jesus Who will smite that final 5th beast when He comes, and will setup His everlasting Kingdom.
So QUIT just saying... that Final 5th Beast Kingdom is "pagan Rome", since the pagan Roman empire ended centuries ago, and those "ten horns" (ten kings) of both the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation have NEVER been established yet to this day, but will ONLY manifest at the very end of this world when the real Antichrist appears in JERUSALEM... and NOT in Rome!
(Something to note Brethren in Christ about these who today keep trying to 'use' the old Reformer's beliefs of the 16th-17th centuries about Rome and a pope being the Antichrist: they keep changing their story about the "ten horns" (ten kings) that manifest, some of them claiming they manifested as 10 nations under the old papal authority, and then some of them now changing their story, like Brakelite did, with saying they manifest at the end under a "pagan Rome", suggesting a revived Rome just like the Pagan Roman Empire of old! They just can't make up their minds, which is what men's doctrines always do, modifying their theories to try and make their baloney more flavorable.
Men's false Pre-trib Rapture theory actually has done this changing their story a lot over the years. When John Darby first taught a false pre-trib rapture, he pointed to it as being a 'secret rapture', that only those raptured would know. They steer away from that word 'secret' today, but still teach that idea indirectly, when they show people raptured and the unbelieving suddenly wonder what happened to them. That is how a hoax by men works. They have to keep changing their story to make their theory more tasty for the deceived.)
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