In the Bible, various kings were identified in the Book of Daniel that play a significant part in knowing how close we are to the end of times as we now know it.
Daniel 2:37- You, O king, the king of kings, you to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the might, and the strength and the dignity,
38 and into whose hand he has given, wherever the sons of mankind are dwelling, the beasts of the field and the winged creatures of the heavens, and whom he has made ruler over all of them, you yourself are the head of gold.
39 “And after you there will rise another kingdom inferior to you; and another kingdom, a third one, of copper, that will rule over the whole earth.
40 “And as for the fourth kingdom, it will prove to be strong like iron. Forasmuch as iron is crushing and grinding everything else, so, like iron that shatters, it will crush and shatter even all these.
41 “And whereas you beheld the feet and the toes to be partly of molded clay of a potter and partly of iron, the kingdom itself will prove to be divided, but somewhat of the hardness of iron will prove to be in it, forasmuch as you beheld the iron mixed with moist clay.
42 And as for the toes of the feet being partly of iron and partly of molded clay, the kingdom will partly prove to be strong and will partly prove to be fragile.
43 Whereas you beheld iron mixed with moist clay, they will come to be mixed with the offspring of mankind; but they will not prove to be sticking together, this one to that one, just as iron is not mixing with molded clay.
44 “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite;
45 forasmuch as you beheld that out of the mountain a stone was cut not by hands, and [that] it crushed the iron, the copper, the molded clay, the silver and the gold. The grand God himself has made known to the king what is to occur after this. And the dream is reliable, and the interpretation of it is trustworthy.”
46 At that time King Neb·u·chad·nez′zar himself fell down upon his face, and to Daniel he paid homage, and he said to offer even a present and incense to him.
47 The king was answering Daniel and saying: “Truly the God of YOU men is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a Revealer of secrets, because you were able to reveal this secret.”
48 Consequently the king made Daniel someone great, and many big gifts he gave to him, and he made him the ruler over all the jurisdictional district of Babylon and the chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.
49 And Daniel, for his part, made a request of the king, and he appointed over the administration of the jurisdictional district of Babylon Sha′drach, Me′shach and A·bed′ne·go, but Daniel was in the court of the king.
Revelation 17:9-11 says, “Here is where the intelligence that has wisdom comes in: The seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top. 10 And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does arrive he must remain a short while. 11 And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth [king], but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction.
In the bible, Mountains are identified as governments. Hills are identified as smaller governments such as cities, states etc.
These historical kings are not all of the kings of their empires that have ruled over the course of history, but they are the only kings described in the Book of Daniel that have significance to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It is critical to identify them in knowing where we stand in the understanding of this prophecy. So far all eight kings that have been identified are:
1st King - Egypt - 3150B.C.E. - 30B.C.E. (Others say it was about 2650 B.C.E. to 2150 B.C.E.)
2nd King - Assyria - 900 B.C.E. to 600 B.C.E.
3rd King - Babylon - 626 B.C.E. to 539 B.C.E. (only 87 years)
4th King - Medo Persia - Around 550 B.C.E. - Around 350 B,C,E,
5th King - Greece - Unknown 800 B,C.E.? (But since other world powers were in place according to world history, Greece must have only ruled from . . .) 350 B.C.E. to 146 B.C.E.
6th King - Rome - (The legendary starting of Rome was 753 B.C.E.) 212 B.C.E. to 565 C.E. (The Romans conquer Saguntum from the Carthaginians in 212 B.C.E.) (With the death of Justinian I after 38 years ruling the Roman Empire.)
7th King - Anglo-American dual world power. America & Great Britain - Britain came on the world scene in 1707 later joined by America around 1898. They (America & Great Britain) became a dual world power since then.
8th King - Initially, The League of Nations (began January 10, 1920) replaced by The United Nations (UN) on October 24, 1945.
The Kingdom that will crush all these kings is identified in Daniel 2:44. It is the same kingdom that Jesus prayed for in Matthew 6:9 to rule over earth as it does in the heavens.
These are the list of WORLD POWERS OF DANIEL’S PROPHECY
The immense image (Daniel 2:31-45)
1. EGYPT
2. ASSYRIA
3. BABYLONIA during 607 B.C.E. – 632 B.C.E.
4. MEDO-PERSIA during 525 B.C.E. - 539 B.C.E.
5. GREECE from 331 B.C.E.
6. ROME from 30 B.C.E.
7. ANGLO-AMERICAN DUAL WORLD POWER from 1763 C.E. (some say 1898) to present.
For a look into all the Dynasties of the world, see the next post entitled, "World Dynasty's in order of their appearance"
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