Christmas and Prophecy #2: Jesus Was Born During The Kingdom Of Iron Mixed With Clay

There is a statue in Daniel 2 symbolizing four kingdoms.

Three of the kingdoms are named in Daniel and throughout the Hebrew Bible.

These kingdoms are:

- Babylonian Kingdom

- Medo-Persian Kingdom

- Grecian Kingdom

One of the kingdoms is unnamed.

It's the kingdom of Iron mixed with Clay.

What is this kingdom?

This is the kingdom of Rome (Iron) mixed with Christ-rejecting Israel (Clay).

Historically, Rome is known as Iron.

Biblically, Israel is known as Clay.

Together, they became the Kingdom of Iron mixed with Clay.

Jesus was born DURING this kingdom (Luke 2).

When Jesus was born, the leaders of Rome (iron) and the leaders of Israel (clay) were closely aligned.

There were Roman appointed kings throughout the land of Israel and the Roman Empire.

They were called Client-Kings.

One of these Client-Kings was Herod who tried to kill Jesus at his birth (Matthew 2).

In Daniel 2, a stone would come from heaven and crush the statue on the feet of clay during the time of the Kingdom of Iron mixed with Clay and during the time of the kings (the client-kings of the Roman Empire).

This stone was Jesus.

Jesus told the leaders of Israel that he was the stone of Daniel 2 and he would crush them (Matthew 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19).

This statement by Jesus identifies the fourth kingdom of the statue as the Kingdom of Rome mixed with Israel.

Jesus the stone would crush this kingdom during the time of the leaders of first-century Israel.

This crushing occurred when Jesus guided the Iron (Rome and the nations of the Roman Empire - Revelation 19:11-15) to crush the Clay (Christ-rejecting Israel) in AD 70 when Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the temple.

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