THE TWO LEGS AND THE TEN TOES - Out of the DUAL PLAN

Out of the DUAL PLAN - THE TWO LEGS AND THE TEN TOES

In this fourth state, the two legs and the ten toes of the image

appeared. There developed in that kingdom two rival cities—the cities

of Rome and Constantinople. Through their influences the kingdom split

in two —the eastern and western empires.

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4. "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron. And whereas, thou

sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the

kingdom shall be divided."

Now came the fourth and last universal mould. Rome war, here the main

actor. That kingdom was founded by Romulus about 763 B. C., and from a

small colony it finally became the fourth universal monarchy of the

world: i. e., it brought under its wings the descendants of both Ham

and Shem. About 161 B. C., it had conquered the nations around it, and

at the birth of the Messiah it ruled also over the land of Palestine.

In this fourth state, the two legs and the ten toes of the image

appeared. There developed in that kingdom two rival cities—the cities

of Rome and Constantinople. Through their influences the kingdom split

in two —the eastern and western empires. The great depression the

hu­man works inflicted on the people, while the rulers continually

rivalled to enlarge their dominions, made the people rebellions, and

they finally revolted against their depressive rulers and chose their

own kings. Between the years 356 and 4£i3 A. D., ten such divi­sions

sprang up. They were the Huns, Ostroroths, Westrogoths, Francs,

Wandals, Sueves, Bergundians, Herulians, Anglo Saxons and the

Lombards; thus the formation of the ten toes. followed the development

of the two legs.

5. These ten toes or divisions of the universal rule consisted of a

mixture of iron and clay. No other figure could express so cleverly

this situation in the fourth divided universal kingdom. These

divisions exist to-day in Europe, and the general laws gov­erning

those states, are enacted with an object of keeping together iron and

clay. The Cain-nature now for ages, has had free exer­cise in building

cities, and in inventing new methods to increase their greatness and

value so as to enslave under its power so much more of the class that

is doomed to bear all of it on its shoulders. The laboring class has

been lowered so far beneath these objects, that they depend wholly

upon them for their existence. But there seems to be danger ahead, for

iron and clay cannot mix. A ter­rible crash seems inevitable.

"And whereas, thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle

themselves with the seed of man; but they shall not cleave one to

another, even as iron is not mixed with clay."

The two nations—the descendants of Shem and Ham, except the Jews—have

been intermingled through marriage and thereby have lost their

original identity. Still there is a chasm between them that increases

with time. The class above the human inventions (the Nimrodians) and

the class beneath those inventions, stand today almost like two giants

ready for a bloody conflict with each other. Yes, even blood has begun

to flow. They- can hang together no longer. In spite of kings' and

princes' intermarrying for the pur­pose of uniting states, the kingdom

remains divided.

6. The stone cut loose from the mountain without hands. This is a

wonderful process. The mountain turns out a stone that has constituted

a solid part of it for the last 2,600 years: the hand of man put it

there in the first place and then continued to fasten it more solidly

from time to time, so that it never should separate from the great

mountain. And now at last, all at once, without any apparent force, it

is cut out from the mountain.

7. The seventh point in this prophetic chain denotes that a change

takes place in the mountain. The king saw the stone en­tirely

separated from the mountain. Then began a most terrible scene. The

stone commenced to smite the great image upon its feet—the kingdoms in

the divided state—and as a consequence, it broke them to pieces. But

was that all Oh, no! The brass, the silver and the gold were

simultaneously broken to pieces, "to­gether" with the clay and iron

feet.

Daniel explains the wonderful process in the following words: that all

the different metals, representing the development of Nim­rod's

kingdom, "became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; 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." The case is plainly this: that as a result of the

stone's hammering on the ten kingdoms, the whole mountain heaped up by

Nimrod and those that have continued after him, is entirely removed

from Elohim's creation, and the class represented by the stone, which

during thousands of years has served the builders of said mountain, by

the power of God is established instead into an everlasting kingdom

upon the face of the earth. It is a most wonderful act and above

everything else is worthy of admiration. The 44th verse gives further

explanation.