Expanding on Daniel 2
September 29, 2008
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Expanding on Daniel 2
…”iron is mixed with miry clay. They shall mingle themselves with the seed of men. But they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”
With regard to the feet of the image in Daniel 2:40-43 the interpretation is that pagan Rome will mix with the truth. In other words, they will mingle their erroneous pagan belies with religious doctrines. Yet in spite of this, they will not cleave one to another – truth and error can never stand together.
The components of the toes are identical to the components in the feet. Clay representing Christianity and pagan Rome being expressed by the iron. But in the toes, we have the idea that true and pure Christianity has been sacrificed for the sake of unity of church and state. This is known as apostate Christianity.
Verse 42 of Daniel 2 states that “the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken”, which means that part will be self-sufficient instead of realizing ones’ weakness and depending on Christ- and part will be recognizing the weakness of self, and turn to Christ for strength and healing. This concept applies to the world today in the sense that Christianity and the rest of the world are so different, yet they live side by side.
Vers’s 40-42 covers the topic of iron, which is very controlling and destructive- then the kingdom, partly strong and partly broken, which represents Papal Rome and also the feet of the image. The seed of men (verse 43) is singular and so it represents Jesus Christ (Gal 3:16).
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Diane |
September 29, 2008 at 11:18 pm
What does the feet represent?
What does the seed of men represent?
Elaborate more on how how the “they,” which is referring to the iron and clay mixture, mingles with the Seed. For some ideas, you could see my comment to Sharon’s question that is on my blog post.
In what way is the iron strong and the clay broken?