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The metals stood for five different nations. Gold represented the empire of Babylon. Silver represented the Medo-Perisan empire. Bronze represented the empire of Greece. Iron was the Roman empire, and iron and clay is a future version of the old Roman empire. The stone represented God’s eternal kingdom as described in Daniel 2:37-45.
Jan 4, 2022 · The Roman Empire was the human political entity that God used to prepare the world for the birth of the Messiah and for the spread of the gospel. At the end of the Old Testament, Israel had returned from exile, Jerusalem had been rebuilt, and the temple had been reconstructed and was functioning again. The world power was the Median (or Medo ...
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Mar 5, 2024 · As Fr. Lawrence Lew of Aleteia puts it, “Some sources claim that before Christianity, the symbol may have been used by scribes to abbreviate the word ‘chrēstos,’ which means ‘good’ or ‘useful.’” This symbol became known throughout the Eastern Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine the Great, but more on that later.
Daniel 2:36-43 describes four major kingdoms, empires, or governmental systems that have ruled over the greater part of the civilized world: 1. The Chaldean-Babylonian Empire (625 to 538 BC) 2. The Medo-Persian Empire (538 to 330 BC) 3. The Greco-Macedonian Empire (333 to 31 BC) 4. The Roman Empire (Established 31 BC.
In some New Testament letters, readers are instructed to pray for and submit to rulers and to honor the emperor ( 1Tim 2:1-2; Titus 3:1-2; 1Pet 2:13-17 ). Rom 13:1-7 has often been understood in a similar way. Yet a careful reading indicates that these verses do not advocate submission to and acceptance of the empire always and in every way.
This is part one of a two-part Bible timeline that discusses prophetic world empires. This part covers the Babylonian Empire, which was extant at the time of Daniel the prophet, to the Roman Empire's partial restoration under Emperor Justinian in 527 A.D. God has revealed, in the books of Daniel and Revelation, the world-ruling Gentile (non ...
The Roman Empire stretched from Britain in the northwest, through present-day France and Spain in the west, across Europe to Turkey and Syria in the east, and along north Africa and Egypt to the south. The Romans ruled some 60 or so million people of diverse ethnicities and cultures, and of varying social levels—the enslaved, slaves who had ...
