31 “You looked, O king, and there before
you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in
appearance.

32 The head of the statue was
made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs
of bronze,

33 its legs of iron, its feet
partly of iron and partly of baked clay.

34 While you were watching, a
rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its
feet of iron and clay and smashed them.

35 Then the iron, the clay , the bronze , the silver  and the gold  were broken to pieces at the same time
and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind
swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the
statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

36 “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king.

37 You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you
dominion and power and might and glory;

38 in your hands he has placed mankind and the beasts of the field and
the birds of the air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over
them all. You are that head of gold.

39 “After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.
40 Finally, there
will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron
breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so
it will crush and break all the others.

41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and
partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron 
in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay.

42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will
be partly strong and partly brittle.

43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people
will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes
with clay.

44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an
end, but it will itself endure forever.

45 This is the meaning of the vision of the
rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke
the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

Who is the antichrist?

Who is the antichrist?
There is much speculation about the identity of the Antichrist. Some of the more popular targets are Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Pope Benedict XVI. In the United States, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and current President Barack Obama, are the most frequent candidates. So, who is the Antichrist, and how will we recognize him?
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The "Little Horn" of Daniel's Sea-beast : ChristianCourier.com

About a half century later, in the first year of Belshazzar (a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar), Daniel himself had a dream (visions) that, to a significant degree, had a thrust similar to the prophetic dream entertained by Nebuchadnezzar. From the turbulent “great sea” he saw four differing beasts successively rise. Without question, these four beasts correspond to the four metallic components of the image portrayed in chapter two.

The "Little Horn" of Daniel's Sea-beast : ChristianCourier.com

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