The date of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem is still debated but is commonly accepted to be between 6 and 4 BC.That was the temple where many of the New Testament stories took place.ĭid the legs of iron rise during the time of Jesus?.It was during the reign of Herod the Great that the refurbishing of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem began.But it was several years later when Caesar Augustus became the first Roman Emperor.Herod the Great, an important biblical character, was appointed king of Judea in 37 BC.On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated by Brutus and Cassius.In the year 63 BC, the Roman General Pompey conquered Jerusalem.The Bible does not identify this kingdom as Rome, so perhaps there is more to it. But, there is a short-sighted aspect to that interpretation.Most biblical scholars agree that the fourth kingdom in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is the Roman empire.The Historical and Biblical Background of the legs of iron kingdom
So the legs of the iron empire of the last days should be centered in the Middle East. The biblical focus is the Middle East, not Europe. Notice that in this Roman Empire snap-shot, the kingdom was predominantly in Europe, not the Middle East. The one that followed and conquered the Medo-Persian kingdom was Alexander the Great’s Grecian Empire. The first mentioned was the Medo-Persian Kingdom. The other kingdoms Daniel mentioned in verse thirty-nine were inferior to Babylon. Babylon and its rise and fall is a common topic of discussion among the prophets.ģ9“After you, there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth. I discussed that in a previous article as well as several others. You are the head of gold.īabylon was the first kingdom. 37“You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory 38and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. The Interpretation-Babylon the First Kingdomģ6“This was the dream now we will tell its interpretation before the king. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. “You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. Its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, 33 “You, O king, were looking and behold, there was a single great statue that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome. And they will also match the terrible fourth beast seen by Daniel. Those ten nations will match the mixed iron and clay imagery of the dream. That last day’s empire will consist of ten nations. The complete realization of the dream and visions will find fulfillment in another end-of-days empire.
It is my opinion that the prophecy included Rome but continues unfilled to this day. I think that idea is wrong, short-sighted, or incomplete. There is a controversy over the identity of the fourth kingdom. Later, Daniel had his own vision in which he saw four beasts that coincided with the four kingdoms. The king saw a statue that represented four great empires. What were the legs of iron and feet of clay? The prophet Daniel interpreted King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in chapter two of the Book of Daniel.
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