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In the image from the Book of Daniel, the part of the statue that is in place just before Christ grinds it to powder, is the part made of Iron and clay, which many understand to be Rome.
Dan_2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Dan_2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Dan_2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Dan_2:41 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.
Dan_2:42 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.
Dan_2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron 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.
Dan_2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the 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 thereof sure.
During the time of Christ's earthly ministry Rome controlled most of the known world through the leadership of the Caesars. Later after the reign of Constantine, Rome came to rule the world again through the Papacy.
Some have viewed this as a healing of a deadly head wound.
The Reformers identified the Papacy to be the antichrist system of scripture.
The pope was a man who sat in the Church and allowed Christians to bow down to him and claimed to speak for God.
A number of years ago author Dave Hunt wrote a book titled "A Woman Rides the Beast" in which he proposed the same idea.
At the Council of Trent the Papacy initiated the Counter Reformation in an attempt to take the focus away from the Papacy.
Two new systems of interpretation came out of the Council of Trent.
The Jesuit Riberra came up with a Futurist system that has evolved into modern Dispensational Futurism, which has overtaken the evangelical Church in America.
It claims there are Two Peoples of God with Two separate Plans.
Some even claim that Grace will end at a pretrib removal of the Church and propose that the Jews will go back to keeping the Law in a rebuilt temple with renewed animal sacrifices.
The Jesuit Alcazar came up the a Preterist system that has now evolved into Full-Preterism, which denies the future Second Coming of Christ and a future resurrection of the body. It is considered heretical by many Christians.
The current pope is attempting to heal the wound of the Reformation and reclaim the Papacy's lost daughters...
Many Americans have come to judge our faith based on what comes from television preachers like Kenneth Copeland.
In the image from the Book of Daniel, the part of the statue that is in place just before Christ grinds it to powder, is the part made of Iron and clay, which many understand to be Rome.
Dan_2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Dan_2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Dan_2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
Dan_2:41 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.
Dan_2:42 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.
Dan_2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron 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.
Dan_2:45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the 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 thereof sure.
During the time of Christ's earthly ministry Rome controlled most of the known world through the leadership of the Caesars. Later after the reign of Constantine, Rome came to rule the world again through the Papacy.
Some have viewed this as a healing of a deadly head wound.
The Reformers identified the Papacy to be the antichrist system of scripture.
The pope was a man who sat in the Church and allowed Christians to bow down to him and claimed to speak for God.
A number of years ago author Dave Hunt wrote a book titled "A Woman Rides the Beast" in which he proposed the same idea.
At the Council of Trent the Papacy initiated the Counter Reformation in an attempt to take the focus away from the Papacy.
Two new systems of interpretation came out of the Council of Trent.
The Jesuit Riberra came up with a Futurist system that has evolved into modern Dispensational Futurism, which has overtaken the evangelical Church in America.
It claims there are Two Peoples of God with Two separate Plans.
Some even claim that Grace will end at a pretrib removal of the Church and propose that the Jews will go back to keeping the Law in a rebuilt temple with renewed animal sacrifices.
The Jesuit Alcazar came up the a Preterist system that has now evolved into Full-Preterism, which denies the future Second Coming of Christ and a future resurrection of the body. It is considered heretical by many Christians.
The current pope is attempting to heal the wound of the Reformation and reclaim the Papacy's lost daughters...
Many Americans have come to judge our faith based on what comes from television preachers like Kenneth Copeland.
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