Daniel 2:31-39 “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. (32) This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, (33) its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. … (36) “This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. (37) You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; (38) and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all--you are this head of gold. (39) But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.”
So what else do we know about this person called the Anti-Christ? We have also seen earlier in this teaching that the reign of the Anti-Christ will not be over the entire globe, but rather over the fourth kingdom that will be on the earth at that time. We have seen that there will be four main kingdoms on the earth during his time and that his reign will not extend to the other three kingdoms. Someone will say, but then why does scripture teach us that he will rule over all the earth (Revelation 13:7)? To explain this apparent contradiction, let us look at the statement made by the Holy Spirit through the prophet Daniel in the above quoted passage of scripture. In this passage Daniel gave Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of a dream that he had received from the Lord.
Michael E.B. Maher
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