Many teach that Daniel 2 presents a 1,2,3,4a/4b sequence world empires, which has absolute NO foundation in Scripture or History. Take 2:45 for example, where the following sequence is given: Iron, Bronze, Clay, Silver, Gold = 4,3,5,2,1 = FIVE. And where this FIFTH empire of Clay/Feet is further defined as having Ten Toes, it is called a "divided kingdom". And as History supports, today we find an empire era which is subsequent to the Roman "legs of iron", in which there indeed are Three Superpowers and a United Nations. And given the December 1993. UN Chronicle [1] article, we find that a proposal that the Security Council Permanent Membership be expanded from FIVE (U.S., England, France, Russia, China) to TEN (Germany, Japan, Brazil, Nigeria, India). Thus the "divided" Feet, and the subsequent "ten" toes. Secondly, Daniel 7 substantiates the participants of the "divided kingdom" by presenting the Lion/Eagle (U.K./U.S.), the Bear (Russia), the Leopard (actually a "Tiger" -- China), and the "dreadful beast" (United Nations). Of course it helps to consider this premise given that the Roman Empire was never conquered, so we inherited the Roman Republic model in our respective governments: a Senate for the powerful; and a Centuriate Assembly for the commoners. But we neither send our taxes to Italy (the occupier of that ancient geography) nor do we find any consolidation of Ten Nations in the EU. [1] “The Road To Reform: Towards A New Clarity,” U.N. Chronicle , UMI, Vol. 30, Issue 4, December 1993, pp. 45-46
