Let's open our Bibles this afternoon, please, to Daniel chapter 2. Daniel chapter 2. I have a message for today on what appears to be the crumbling world order. Crumbling world order. With the biblical commentary on global events taking place around the world that appear to be major roadblocks being placed and standing squarely in the way of the globalist efforts for should I say their father the devil's efforts to complete their plans for a unipolar, globally united New World Order, as they've called it for centuries and as it's called on the back of every US $1 bill. One of the huge roadblocks standing in the way of that New World Order was the way Russia has completely revamped its own military industrial capability. and is producing much better, more technologically advanced, and therefore more deadly hypersonic missiles than the US is, along with far more conventional weaponry than all NATO nations combined can produce. That being done while China, with whom of course Russia is now partnered, is building the largest naval fleet in the world and has shipbuilding capabilities that dwarf that of the United States. which appears to have decimated its once vastly superior industrial power. Then also, perhaps one of the biggest, perhaps the biggest and most formidable roadblocks to the American Empire's plans for a new world order happens to be the BRICS economic alliance being built primarily by Russia and China, along with Brazil and India, etc. Through which those two major powers, Russia and China, hope to stop the forward progress of the American empire in its tracks and end the global hegemony of the U.S. dollar as an international currency. And it appears that they are getting much closer to achieving that goal, which effort will be greatly enhanced by the BRICS summit to take place this October 22-24 in Kazan, Russia. Russia, holding the presidency this year of that organization, with senior executive representatives from 158 nations so far committed to be in attendance at that summit. That's a rather huge commitment of attendance, I would say. And one of the most significant of those commitments actually came from President Erdogan of Turkey. leader of the most powerful Muslim nation on earth and one of the most powerful of NATO nations beside the US, Erdogan has understandably been highly critical, as all right-thinking people should be, of Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip. And the majority of Turkey's populace is clamoring for him to turn Turkey's back on the West and to join BRICS and to go to war with Israel. And so his commitment to now attend the BRIC summit in Kazan this October is another highly significant blow to NATO, I would say, to the EU and to the American empire, where summit, therefore, I believe, that summit is setting the world up for a major war, I believe, between the US, Russia, and China. Because the US is not going to just surrender its status it's had in the world, the hegemony it has maintained. And I believe this major war that clearly is coming from what America has done in Ukraine and what America has done in Gaza through its proxy state of Israel, with its goal also of attacking and working a regime change in Iran, remains as the major foreign policy objective and goal of the globalists that run the American empire, which may well be the reason that there is still talk of sending long-range missiles to Zelensky to spark such a war. I believe. Even while the empire appears to be, on the surface that is, extremely weakened militarily. However, based on the revelation given to Daniel, here in Daniel chapter 2, I do still believe that the empire will accomplish its objectives and its new world order for a time. From a prophetic perspective, or as far as gaining an understanding of Bible prophecy as it relates to world history, from the prophet Daniel's time right up to today. This chapter in Daniel chapter 2, and taken together also with Daniel chapter 7, which I will also be citing to you today, is one of the most important chapters in the Bible. The highly favored, beloved prophet Daniel as one of the exiles of Judah taken in captivity to Babylon, was unique among all Old Testament prophets. First of all, because he's the only Old Testament prophet whose writings the Lord Jesus advised his disciples to carefully study and understand, as he advised them in his Olivet Discourse, Matthew 24, 15, and Mark 13, 14. The reason Jesus advised his disciples to study Daniel and understand it is because Daniel is also unique in having been given revelation that none of the others received. None of the other Old Testament prophets received this revelation concerning the progression of four major world empires that would continue in power in one form or another from the time that Daniel lived, continuing through the first advent and crucifixion of Messiah, the Prince Lord Jesus, and then continuing right up until Christ's second advent. at the end of the present age to establish his millennial kingdom. That's all right here in Daniel chapter 2. And again in Daniel chapter 7. Daniel was given this revelation of the progression of those kingdoms throughout a series of five separate visions or revelations that came to him at different times. With each of those visions relating back to the first one here in chapter 2. And each providing additional detail then to what had already been revealed. And also Christ's apostle John, as we know, has given an additional revelation about that fourth kingdom that Daniel presents. John using the same prophetic imagery or symbolism in Revelation 13 and Revelation 17, previously seen in Daniel chapter 7. We've covered those chapters, Daniel 7, Revelation 13 and 17, in some depth in prior messages. All of which, however, ties back to and begins with the first of Daniel's five revelations here in Daniel chapter two, which is where I want to focus this message today. Where King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, is given a dream, or a nightmare actually, for him. He was deeply troubled by the dream. He probably knew there was a message in the dream that he needed to understand. The problem was that when he awakened out of sleep, He could not, hard as he tried, remember what the dream was. So he summoned all of his wise men, including Daniel, along with his magicians, his astrologers, his prognosticators, and he told them, unless they told him both what the dream was and also what it meant, he was going to put them all to death. Only one man, though, we know, was given both the dream and the interpretation, being the Hebrew prophet Daniel, because God wanted Nebuchadnezzar to know that Daniel's God is the only true God who reveals such secrets. Amen. Who knows and foretells the end from the beginning, and who also oversees and controls the events of world history to bring his word to pass, watching over his word to perform it, as he says. When Nebuchadnezzar's rash decree was revealed to Daniel by Ariok, who was captain of the king's guard, Daniel went in under the king, because he had access to the king, to ask the king for some time. And so he would show the king the interpretation of the dream. Daniel and his three friends fasted and prayed. And then God did give Daniel a revelation of both the dream and the interpretation. in the night vision. We read there in verse 19 of this chapter. And so then we read beginning in verse 24 of the chapter. Therefore Daniel went in unto Ariok, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus unto him, Destroy not the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation. Then Ariok brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. The king answered and said unto Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, that's what they called him, art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen and the interpretation thereof? Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, the secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers show unto the king, but there is a God in heaven. that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these." Verse 29. As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter. And he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. I want to underline that, what shall come to pass. Thus, for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have, more than any living. But for their sakes, thou shalt make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. Verse 31, Thou, O King, saw'st, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrifying. This image of his head was of fine gold, his breast as arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou saw'st so that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon the feet that were of iron and clay, and break them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and 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. So that's the dream. And then Daniel goes on to explain that this image represented a progression of world empires or kingdoms that would exist over the course of mankind's existence from Daniel's day right to the present time and until Christ establishes his earthly kingdom, which is where the vision ended. Daniel says in verse 36, this is the dream, and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings, for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand. hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And, of course, that head of gold also representing the Babylonian empire that Nebuchadnezzar ruled over. Verse 39, After thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the earth. It says, And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, is iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise." We need to make note here before going on that these are the same four world empires that were signified in Daniel's second major revelation in Daniel 7. where those four empires are represented by four beasts. We looked at that before. The first, there in Daniel 7, appearing as a lion with the wings of an eagle, man's heart being given to it, also representing the Babylonian Empire. The second empire, represented here by the breast and arms of silver, and in chapter 7, as a bear with three ribs of its conquered victims in its jaws. representing the Medo-Persian Empire that conquered Babylon. The third empire, then, represented here by the belly and thighs of brass, and in chapter 7 there's a leopard with four wings of a fowl, being the Greco-Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, that was later then, upon Alexander's death, divided among his four generals, that those four wings of a fowl represent. And that's revealed here to Daniel that the fourth kingdom, Represented by both by the legs of iron and the feet part of iron part of clay. That's the fourth kingdom breaks in pieces and bruises and subdues all things and This of course represents the Roman Empire Also described in Daniel 7 and verse 7 by similar words where we read after this Daniel says I saw the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and They had great iron teeth that devoured and break in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it. And it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns." Go back to that. Then in verse 41, back here in chapter 2, Daniel describes the final form of the fourth empire. as it goes through some changes. Verse 41, Whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom, as still this fourth kingdom, shall be divided. But there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken, there in this latter end. And whereas thou sawst iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. As a side note here, this lack of cohesiveness and weakness explains what is meant by the vain imaginations. of the conspirators that we read about in Psalm 2, where David says, Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Kings of the earth set themselves and rulers take counsel together against the Lord, to conspire against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, Let us break their bands of thunder and cast away their cords from us. The vain imaginations mentioned there in Psalm 2 refer to the futility of their utopian dream. wherein they vainly imagine that they can build a global empire to unite all the peoples of the earth into a global melting pot. It's not going to work. The prophecy we see here, however, continued through the Book of Daniel and on into John's Revelation also. We know that as a result of the warfare the devil has fomented, he will pull off a loose-knit and fragile world order for a time, held together only by brute totalitarian force. That will happen. But we also know it will only last for three and a half years before the great utopian dream ends in complete failure and it's crushed by what we read here with the coming kingdom of our Lord. And that's in complete failure because there's too much division and difference in language, culture, religion, and ideology. Along with defiant resistance from God's people who refuse to bow down to the beast. We read of some of that resistance in Daniel 11, verse 32 to 34. where we read, "...and such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries," referring there to the wicked who side with the devil and his antichrist to fight against God. Then Daniel says, "...but the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits." They'll take action. "...and they that understand among the people shall instruct many, that they shall fall by the sword, by flame, by captivity, and by spoil many days." And so, as Daniel says in chapter 2, here, "...they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." Only the Lord Jesus, King of kings, Creator and Redeemer of mankind, can bring true peace and unity to this planet. And I believe He will do that in the not too distant future. Precisely as Daniel reveals to the king, here beginning in verse 44, And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. For as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. And the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof, sure. I love that statement. The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof, sure. We'll come back to that verse. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, worshipped Daniel, and commanded they should offer an oblation of sweet orders to him. And the king answered Daniel and said, I have a truth. It is that your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, and the Lord of kings, and the revealer of secrets. Seeing that, Christ revealed this secret. And then the king made Daniel a great man, gave many gifts, etc., etc. In this chapter, we are given a brief summary of the latter half of Satan's long war against God and his attempt to rule the world from the time of Daniel in antiquity up to the present time until Christ comes. Satan, though, has always attempted to gain control over the masses of humanity through the usurpation of earthly kingdoms. And that's why we read in Christ's temptation there by the devil in Luke chapter 4 that the devil, taking him up onto a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. I don't know how he did that, but that's what he did. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give unto thee in the glory of them. He said, For that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will give it. And then he said, If thou wilt worship me, all shall be thine. Jesus did not correct the devil on that point. He said, those don't belong to you. Instead, he just replied, get thee behind me, Satan. For it's written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God. Him only shalt thou serve. Satan's attempt at empire building, of attempting to unite the people of the world under one ruler, actually began with Nimrod back in Genesis chapter 10, who I believe was, in fact, the type of the coming antichrist, as Nimrod, even back then, tried to unite the then-known world at the Tower of Babel. As stated a moment ago, I love that statement here in the last half of verse 45, that the great God hath made known to the king which shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Just as the hope of salvation that we have in Christ is not wishful thinking, but is instead a blessed assurance of a sure promise that we enjoy in part right now, But that will one day be fulfilled beyond anything that we can imagine in future glory. This verse also gives us the blessed assurance that our eschatology is correct, that the Praetorists and the Amillennialists are dead wrong, because earlier in the chapter at the end of verse 35, the text says, The stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. That too is certain, and the interpretation there I'm sure. Lord Jesus Christ has not surrendered this planet to the devil, this earth to the devil, and his millennial kingdom will come to pass on this earth. We see that promise repeated throughout the Bible, Old and New Testaments. Jesus instructed us to pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Just as we read in Revelation 5.10 that we shall reign on the earth, And just as we read in Revelation 11, 15 at the sounding of that seventh trump, the last trump, the seventh angel sounded and there was great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever. Jesus knew that day when He stood on top of that mountain, being tempted of the devil, that He had no need to bow down to the devil because one day those kingdoms will be His anyway. Psalm 2 says they're His inheritance. and that because he has redeemed them by shedding his blood on the cross of Calvary. But then by the way there is another very important fact of history that we know for sure from this great statement of Daniel that the dream is certain and the interpretation there of sure. Which is that this fourth kingdom, very important point here, this fourth kingdom, this fourth empire, which can be none other than that of Rome. which at Christ's first advent, working then as it still does today in concert with the Talmudic Jews, put Jesus to death then, that empire, this prophecy says, must continue in power in one form or another from that day, Daniel's prophecy, right up until the time that Jesus returns in power and glory to put down all other earthly rule and to establish His glorious earthly kingdom. That kingdom has to exist in one form or another until Jesus comes. That's what this prophecy says. It says that in Daniel 7 as well. The dream is certain. The dream is certain and the interpretation thereof is sure. So turning over to chapter 7, let's go ahead and do that. We see that same promise repeated here with more details added in. Where what we're shown in chapter 2 is ten toes and those feet of iron and clay. or instead depicted in chapter 7 as ten horns on this beast, which imagery then we know John repeats in Revelation 13 and 17. Here in Daniel 7 we see another little horn, which is the devil's final antichrist, comes to power through this fourth world empire and is enabled by the power of the devil, we read in Daniel 8.24, enabled to reign over the whole earth for a time. As we read here, beginning in verse 19, chapter 7, Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, diverse, different from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass, which devoured brick in pieces and sampled residue with his feet, and of the ten horns that were in his head, of the other which came up, before whom three fell. even of that horn that had eyes, called the little horn, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows, speaking there of the Antichrist. And beheld, in that same horn, the Antichrist made war with the saints, prevailed against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High. And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. That's when Jesus comes. Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be a diverse, small kingdom, shall devour the whole earth, shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. The ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise. Revelation says they'll arise for one hour with the beast. Which shall be a diverse, small kingdom, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall arise after them. He shall be diverse in the first, and shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws. But they, times and laws, shall be given into his hand, until a time, and times, and the dividing of time. We see in Revelation that that refers to three and a half years. But the judgment shall set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy, and to the end. That's when Jesus takes his authority in his kingdom. Verse 27, And the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom unto the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominion shall serve and obey Him. So here in chapter 7, just as we saw that promise in chapter 2, the fourth kingdom here continues in power. basically the time it conquers Alexander the Great's empire, first and second century B.C., right up to the glorious day that Jesus establishes his earthly millennial kingdom. And that's why I say it up front, that I do believe this chapter, together with chapter 7, chapter 2 and chapter 7, of Daniel's prophecy to be the most important prophetic chapters of the Bible. Because these chapters enable us to understand what we see taking place in our world today with the Empire's agenda in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. When all of the YouTube intelligence analysts that Judge Napolitano, for instance, has on his daily weekday YouTube show, Judging Freedom, men like Scott Ritter, Douglas McGregor, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Alastair Crook, Max Blumenthal and others, all of whom have very good intel, they are very well informed and are for the present able to inform us until they are taken off the air, are still able to inform us through alternative media what is actually taking place, they have good intel. They are also all completely unable to understand why the empire does what it does or to make any sense of it all. They can't do that. And the reason for that is because they don't see things through discerning spiritual eyes and they don't observe these things through the lens of Bible prophecy. I think Scott Ritter is without question one of the best of all those analysts. But just this past Friday, Scott Ritter went on an explosive rampage on Napolitano's show about the stupidity of the cabal's agenda in Ukraine, of course, still talking about giving long-range missiles to strike deeper into Russia. Scott Ritter rampaging about how they're going to blow up the world and end all human life on the planet and how we're all only 72 minutes away from the end of the world. The only reason Scott Ritter would say that is because he doesn't know the Bible. Sadly, Scott Ritter is a confessed unbeliever, and so he's at a complete loss to understand where these things are actually headed, or to have any peace or joy in his heart because of knowing what the Bible says, like we do. Because as Daniel told the king, the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. I love that line. Because of which promise, we know where these things are headed. It's a great dream, is it not? It's a great chapter. It tells us where these things are headed. So then back to Daniel chapter 2. This prophecy teaches that the fourth empire remains in power or existence in one form or another after devolving through some changes right up to the time the Lord Jesus returns in power and glory to raise His saints and to establish His earthly reign. And so therefore, it is still in existence today. Still there. Hasn't fallen yet, but it's fall is coming. Back to Daniel chapter 2. We see Satan's final attempt to rule the world depicted in this fourth kingdom. And in particular, in those feet of iron and clay. Notice the transition that takes place in this fourth kingdom, or this fourth empire. Verse 33, Daniel 2, tells us how the fourth kingdom is depicted in the dream. His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. That's the fourth kingdom. Notice that both the legs and the feet, and the knees down to ten toes, all depict this fourth kingdom. A transition in composition takes place, basically at the ankles, I guess. takes place within the empire and become defeat, at which point the kingdom becomes more divided and partly weakened. In his interpretation, Daniel 1 says in verse 40, And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, as iron that breaketh all these shall it break in pieces and bruise. But that's the first phase of this final empire. From the knees down to the ankles, as it were. But then something happens to cause the empire to lose some of its strength. So we read in verse 41, And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of powder's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes and the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken. What was it that caused this transition? Or that caused the fourth empire to lose its strength? Actually it was a combination of several things. First of all, as explained in prior messages, we do have to see the first iteration of this empire as being that of the Roman Empire of the Caesars. The third empire here is clearly identified elsewhere in chapter 7 to 8 of Daniel as the Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, which was divided, we know, among his top four generals after his death. all four divisions of which were then subjugated by the Roman Empire which at the time united most of the then known world from Britain to India and also including North Africa. It was Rome that controlled Judea in the first century AD and that working in concert with the Talmudic Jewry crucified our Lord And it has been Rome ever since that day that has continued to be the greatest enemy of the Christian faith. Daniel 7.19 says the fourth beast is diverse from all others because while it began as a military political empire under the Caesars, it became a religious empire, the Holy Roman Empire, which has in fact pretended to be Christian, Christian empire from the fourth century onward. from the days that Roman Emperors Constantine and Theodosius issued their Edict of Milan and Thessalonica, their declaring in the fourth century establishing the universal Catholic state church. But despite its claim to be Christian, it is just as anti-Christ as it can be. And just to quickly review a few facts from history, when Rome was sacked in 476 AD, Emperor Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the conquering Germanic king, Odasser. Rome itself was not at all destroyed. The city continued to exist and to flourish, and continued to be the capital and the seat of government of the Roman Catholic Church, as ruled by the popes, to whom Odasser and the other kings of Europe continued to pay homage. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, where the capital of the empire had moved to by then, after Constantinople fell to the Turks and the Muslims, the popes assumed the official title of Pontifex Maximus that had previously been held by the Roman emperors from Caesar Augustus forward, Pontifex Maximus. Prior to that time and under the early Roman Republic, the title of Pontifex Maximus, Latin for Supreme Pontiff, was a distinctly religious office in ancient Roman polytheistic religion. But after the fall of Constantinople to the Turkish Ottoman Empire, and then after the death of the final Roman emperor Constantine XI in 1453, Pontifex Maximus became part of the papacy's official title as the Bishop of Rome and ecclesiastical head of the so-called Holy Roman Empire. So what was once a political military empire became a religious empire headed by the popes. The papacy then continued to acquire and to accrue more and more political power over the kings of Europe, which is why John refers to that woman, the harlot that rides that very same beast in Revelation 17, 18, as that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. The Roman Catholic papacy has thirsted for and obtained political power ever since the 4th century when the Bishop of Rome, Bishop Ambrose, 340-397 AD, threatened to withhold the sacraments, withhold salvation, from Emperor Theodosius unless he submitted to the bishop's ecclesiastical authority. Theodosius bowed to the papal throne and he performed the penance the bishop commanded him. And that, by the way, is the first recorded instance of the Pope's use of the threat of interdict, they called it interdict, to control the kings of Europe. Threaten them with excommunication to hell, basically, and they fell for it. And that was used throughout the Middle Ages again and again. But with the onset of the Protestant Reformation and the printing of the Bible and the opening of the Bible to the people in the 16th century, the papacy did then lose the temporal power it once held over the kings of Europe. And that may well be symbolized here in Daniel 2 as a transformation that did take place from the temporal power it once held, from the legs into the feet of the image in the king's dream. But thanks to its vast army of Jesuit agents and infiltrators that began the same 16th century, that do in fact we know today control Washington, D.C., we see that the papacy has regained the power, political power it once held through its control of the American empire. We've been all over that ground, having used its loyal agent Jesuit Joe Biden for the past three and a half years to share the ship of state. while Biden has been implementing the Vatican's Marxist agenda of flooding America with illegal immigrants from South and Central America, many of whom are criminals and terrorists, and most of whom are loyal to the Pope of Rome, and are highly likely to foment extreme social upheaval here in the United States, also contributing to the weakness we see through this image. Again, we see the fourth kingdom, also in the fourth beast of Daniel 7. They're called dreadful and terrible. And then we also see that very same beast in Revelation 13 and 17. Except that in chapter 17, as stated earlier before, we see further developments in the form of the beast, because in chapter 17 there's now a woman signifying a harlotrous religious system riding that beast, holding its reins and dictating its direction, its steps. John says in Revelation 17.3, So it carried me away into the spirit and the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns, just as we read in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, just like the bishops and prophets do today, decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand. that Eucharist golden cup, full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. Upon her forehead was the name written, Mystery Babylon the Great, mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Rome has always been, for a century onward, the chief enemy of the Christian faith. Here we see the final form of the Roman Empire in the days just before our Lord's return. those ten horns, those ten kings, who give their power to the beast for a short time, also signified by those ten toes in Nebuchadnezzar's image in Daniel 2. And as we did show in our video series, America the Babylon, Daughter of the Heart, especially in part two of that video, the woman signified here most definitely signifies the Roman Catholic papacy, who holds the reins and is in control of the final form of this Roman Empire. and the final form of the Roman Empire is Rome's vassal state, the American Empire. And so then, the Roman Empire did not cease to exist, either in 476 A.D. or 1453, when the Turks sacked Constantinople. It's very much alive and continues to subdue all things, to break in pieces and bruise, while it makes warfare against the saints of the Most High and against every foreign nation that it deems to work a regime change in. makes war among the nations of the earth to produce regime change at will. The average Christian refuses to open his eyes to see that the now all-powerful American empire is an empire of lies. Some members of my own family refuse to see it. So-called pastors in the so-called Christian churches in this land are far too cowardly and far too ignorant to see it, let alone to preach it. And so they have surrendered their churches to this very same beast. They prominently display the beast's flag in their so-called sanctuaries, having their school children pledge allegiance to that flag. They will not accept the truth that America itself and the empire it has built is, in fact, the revived Roman Empire seen in Daniel 2, 7, and Revelation 13 and 17. And I won't repeat to say this again, the ignorant fools that call themselves patriots are still riding that Donald Trump train. But see these as fighting words, and every person hearing my voice today needs to see, as present form and function, the American federal government in Washington, D.C. is, first of all, the largest and most powerful organized crime syndicate on the planet, on the face of the earth. It's also, without doubt, the greatest force of evil in the world today, bar none. and is even now quite dreadfully and terribly, as the Prophet Daniel said, working night and day to exacerbate, to escalate the situation in Eastern Europe to foment nuclear war via its proxy war with Russia and Ukraine and also via its proxy war against the Muslim world through its proxy Israel. Back once more to Daniel 2 and I'll close. Daniel chapter 2. The conclusions and the takeaways from this message Daniel chapter 2. That should not only comfort us, I believe, but give us cause for hope in this presently very dark world. The rest follows. One conclusion is that the fourth kingdom seen here and Daniel 7 symbolize the Roman Empire that began with the Caesars in the first century B.C. must remain in power or existence in one form or another after going through some changes and devolution right up to the time the Lord Jesus returns in power and glory to raise his saints and establish his earthly reign. We don't just believe that or suggest it. We, in fact, know that because, as Daniel told the king, the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof is sure. We know that as a fact. And the facts of history I just laid out are the only way that I see to properly interpret and apply these passages to see the continuous nature of this fourth empire from Christ's first advent to his glorious return. We walk by faith, not by sight, and therefore we believe the Bible over and above what we think circumstances are telling us. We walk by faith, not by sight, and therefore we believe the Bible over and above what we think circumstances are telling us. So whatever warfare rages between East and West, and it will rage, it's coming. Whatever it is that we are being told, and more specifically, what we are not being told about America's current military capability, and there's much that we're not being told, by the way, about America's base-based weaponry, and off-budget military spending into the multiplied trillions of what it calls black ops. I have no idea what they have in store. This prophecy tells me that the American empire will come out on top for a time. More specifically for a time, times and half a time, not three and a half years until Jesus comes. And that's not because America is good or America is great. It's because America is the greatest force of evil on the earth today. and is in a far better position to be used as a devil to fulfill these and other prophecies that we did not get to today. Second conclusion for today. The Masonic New World Order that the Vatican and its cabal of globalists is pushing for will never work the way they want it to. It will always be fraught with failure, setback, and open resistance from those who refuse to submit to it or bow down to the beast. as Daniel said here in verse 43. 3. Thirdly, and related to the second conclusion, Satan's world empire, to whatever form the devil is able to build it, will ultimately be destroyed and replaced by the kingdom of our Lord. And that's glorious truth. As we read here in verse 44 to 45, And the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms. And it shall stand forever. We're not 72 hours from the extinction of this planet. Because Jesus is going to come and establish His kingdom on this planet. For as much as I saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, that brick and pieces, the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Just as the hope of salvation that we have in Christ is not wishful thinking. It is instead a blessed assurance, a sure promise that we enjoy in part right now, that will one day be fulfilled beyond our wildest imagination. Because the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof is sure. We walk by faith, not by sight. And as John says in 1 John 5, verse 4, this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. And I'll end on that note. Let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, we thank you for your word. Thank you for the assurance it gives us. We thank you that the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof is sure. Thank you that we can know these things from your word. that You've laid out the end from the beginning, revealed them to Your prophet Daniel, to Nebuchadnezzar, and to us. We thank You for the peace of mind and joy this gives us of knowing the end from the beginning. We love You and praise You, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.