BibleScribe
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I think we all agree that the clay & Iron empire is a divided empire that comes after the Roman empire. doe not the empire have iron within it? Therefore it has the Rome within it.
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Hi Tsigano,
I think it's readily apparent that the empire of the Iron and Clay comes after the Roman empire. However your "Roman" doctrine fails to comply with the Daniel 2:45 sequence (i.e., 4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE) and instead follow the false 1,2,3,4a/4b, by assuming that somehow a Revived Rome is affiliated with this FIFTH empire. For History tells us Rome is DEAD, and another (Italy) occupies that ancient geography. And so if Rome is DEAD, then what is the Iron that is retained in this distinct FIFTH "divided" world empire?
The answer is a simple as world History which acknowledges that the Roman Empire was never conquered, -- it simply dissolved from within. And where all the disparate kingdoms, fifedoms, and regions followed the Roman Representative Republic model, when Rome fell there was no new model to conform with. So the people were no longer Roman, but they retained the Republic form of governance such that today we see virtually all the world's nations using representative governments, as evidenced:
... and to the Republic, for which it stands ...
And of course we also evidence the era of a "divided" empire, consisting of three-superpowers, one of which is a "Lion/Eagle"; the second a "Bear"; and the third a "Leopard", (which is actually a Tiger), -- all in conformance with the simple math of:
Daniel 2 FIVE (for which the fifth is "divided")
Daniel 7 FOUR (which represent the FIFTH "divided" empire)
For as our second grade teacher insisted, FIVE ≠ FOUR.
However, if you insist that Daniel 2:45 does not have the above significance, then please provide a rational explanation for the sequence: ~4,3,5,2,1.
BibleScribe