Daniel is full of info about empires, beasts, heads, wings, horns, etc.  It's important to understand that his visions were different depending on the perspective that the Lord wanted to emphasize.  So trying to line up one beast with another beast may or may not work. As the visions progress, we get more and more details about various beasts and kingdoms.  I'm not going to go into the whole book in detail, it would take too long.

 

King Neb's dream gives us a partial foundation of empires...

 

1.  Gold head- Babylon (1 head/nation only)

2.  Silver breast and arms- Medo-Persia (was made up of 3 ribs/nations)

3.  Bronze belly and thighs- Greece (made up of Alexander belly then Selucid thighs)

4.  Iron legs- Rome (had distinctive East and West rules)

5.  Iron + clay feet and iron + clay toes - Islam

6.  Stone that became a great mountain-God's Kingdom which is the final kingdom

 

Notice that Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Assyria are left out.  In the offshoot Empire that started with Selucid, we had divisions in this empire with those kings of the north and kings of the south constantly at battle with defeats and victories making that empire as having had rulings from each at various times.  Daniel later gives us even more detail about this but I'm not going to go into that.

 

The 5th Empire is the one that interests us now, Islam.  Dan 2:4-43 describes this empire somewhat in sections, the feet sections and the toes section...

 

"And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.  And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.  And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not adhere one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."

 

Islam has been divided into (2 feet) two major groups nearly since it's inception, the Shi-ites and the Sunnis.  It's a divided kingdom which made it weaker than it would have been had they been united.  They were often busy fighting one another which kept the rest of the world safer than it would have been otherwise.  Still Islam has been a killing machine from day one until today, especially fond of beheading.   At the end time of the kingdom of Islam, there will be ten toes.  What are toes and how do we know it's at the time of the end?

 

Daniel 2:44/45 tells us exactly

 

"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 forever.  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, and 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 of it sure."

 

"these kings" have to be the 10 toes, there isn't anything anywhere else in this dream that comes close to being anything else but.  10 toes are 10 kings.  Since this dream used a human statue to describe the kingdoms, it did not use "horns" to describe aspects of this last kingdom, because it came at the bottom of the body of the statue.  Therefore, "toes" are more appropriate to use because horns coming out of feet would be ridiculous.  But they are one in the same.

 

It is during the time of the 10 toes//kings that God will destroy that kingdom and establish His own on earth.  Thus, it HAS to be the end time, thus Islam, and specifically during it's 10 toes/king rule period of time, is the kingdom that is destroyed by God at the end.

 

Can we verify this in Revelation?  Yes...  Rev 17:12-14

 

"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful."

 

We have at the very end of the Islamic Empire (which is explained previously in Rev as being the 7th, then 8th kingdom of the beast, 10 kings who will be destroyed by Jesus (the (corner)stone that becomes a mountain) who establishes God's kingdom on earth.  This can't be a coincidence.

 

The 10 kings have no kingdom or crowns, they just have authority that they turn over to the beast, who is the 8th kingdom described in both Rev 13:11 and Rev 17:10.

 

What is a king without a kingdom or a crown?  He is a person with great authority in a kingdom.  I submit that these 10 people are to be the council of 10 that has already been announced to be formed for the 12th Imam al Mahdi who is soon to be "revealed" according to fundamentalist Islamic leaders.  al Mahdi would be the beast of Rev. 13:11 with two horns.  More on that later.

 

One more vision in Daniel needs to be addressed, that of Daniel 7.  Once again, we are given visions of a limited number of kingdoms, only 5.  We know there were more, but God's purpose is specific here so he zooms in...

 

1.  Lion of Babylon with no horns, but has wings.

2.  Bear of Medo-Persia with no horns, but 3 ribs.

3.  Leopard of Greece with no horns, but 4 heads.

4.  Diverse Iron beast with 10 horns.  A composite beast, same area of the world.

     3 horns are "plucked up by the roots" by yet another (little) horn

5.  The 4th beast is destroyed and the kingdom is given to Jesus.

 

The beast with 10 horns is Islam, the first Lion/Bear/Leopard beast in Rev 13.  These 10 horns are different than the 10 toes/kings in Dan 2. More later

 

The little horn is destroyed after he plucks up 3 out of 10 horns, by Jesus who establishes God's kingdom on earth.

 

The little horn is the 8th kingdom of Rev 17:10 and Rev 13:11, and it will have 10 horns/toes/kings of it's very own.

 

God reveals the same thing to us in different ways.  More details are needed to understand that Islam is the two beasts of Rev 13, and it's "10 toes/horns" are about the end time of the rule of the kingdom of Islam.

 

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