Thus, the hitpaal verb of Daniel 2:43 conveys that same meaning. The basic usage is reflexive which means that the subject is also the object, for example: “I dress myself” is where “I”, the subject, do the action (dress) and “I” also receive the action of the verb (being dressed). The hitpaal is virtually identical to the Hebrew hitpael. The word “mingle” is a third person plural hitpaal (as confirmed by the Westminster Hebrew Morphology Codes). This portion of Daniel (Daniel 2:4b-7:28) was written in Aramaic because of the direct communication to Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar and their visions (with the vision of chapter seven happening during Belshazzar’s reign). They Are Mingling ThemselvesĪn important clue to understanding this phrase is to understand what is being mixed. And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever, (Daniel 2:43-44). However we are told that “they” will mingle with the “seed of men” in “these days”.Īs you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. When it does it will be partly strong like iron and partly weak like clay. The Roman Empire (or some expression of it) has not yet become ten toes and therefore this is a future fulfillment waiting to happen. “And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile,” (Daniel 2:42). The ten toes are equal to the ten kings found in Daniel 7:24 and Revelation 17:12 and they are partly strong and partly weak. The Roman Empire was not divided into two parts, Eastern and Western, until AD 285 by Diocletian – over 700 years later! However, the kingdom will be governed by a group of ten kings represented by the ten toes.
The Roman Empire is described in amazing precision by noting that it would become two legs. Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay, (Daniel 2:38b-41). And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth you are this head of gold, (Daniel 2:32-35).ĭaniel explained to King Nebuchadnezzar that he was the head of gold and after him would come another three kingdoms which are identified as the Medo-Persian Empire, the Grecian Empire and then the Roman empire.īut after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. God used Daniel to interpret King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, which was in fact a vision of the future kingdoms of the world. One night King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream about a massive statue of a man made of different materials. Among those taken (during the first wave) was a young Jewish man named Daniel. The King carried the Jewish people away in three waves of deportation to Babylon, beginning in 606, then 597 and finally 586 BC, when he also destroyed the city of Jerusalem. God used King Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire to chastise His people for not following Him. One of the keys to understanding how the image of God will be corrupted in the last days is found in Daniel 2 where we read of the kingdoms that ruled over Israel beginning with the kingdom of Babylon all the way to the “ten toes”. Daniel 2:43 predicts that demonic entities will crossbreed with humans in order to destroy the Image of God in the last days.
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