A HEAD OF GOLD
Daniel explained his vision to his patron—the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. He told him…

So, according to Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar and his empire Babylon, famous for its extreme wealth and luxury, were this head of gold! Babylon was also called "the golden city" and featured magnificent hanging gardens. Daniel:(2:39)
The Babylonian Empire lasted only from 606 BC until 538 B:C, yet it ruled the entire "known World" of the time.

ARMS AND CHEST OF SILVER

In 538 BC Babylon was conquered by Darius the Mede, king of Medes and Persians. A dual empire, God pictured Medo-Persia as 2 silver arms and chest. As the right arm is stronger than the left so the Persians were stronger than the Medes! Silver arms symbolised its famous craftsmen who mainly used silver. Daniel continued:

BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRASS
"…and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth."

In 333 BC, the Greeks under their Macedonian king Alexander the Great, defeated and conquered the Persian empire and the rest of "all the earth"—the then known world—all the way from the Balkans to Northern India! The Greek empire, known for its use of bronze in its weaponry and art, was pictured by God as a bronze belly and thighs, almost 300 years before it came into existence! Very remarkable indeed! Why the belly down to the thighs? For one thing, thus it had to include the male sexual parts, for besides gourmetry, the ancient Greeks were famous…and infamous… for quite "liberal" sexual attitudes, mixed with spirituality and philosophy! Besides being used for food and sex, the belly is also the seat of the spirit. God sure knows how to symbolise things!Daniel:

LEGS OF IRON
Around 44 B.C., the Roman Empire was well under way, and conquered eventually most of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East! Why iron legs? God knew already before time began, that Roman weaponry would be made of iron.
He Himself also designed Italy—the central root of the empire—shaped as a leg or fancy boot, stumbling over a rock, Sicicly! This last detail is very impressive indeed, as the image in the vision was destroyed by a rock, that struck it at the toes!

The legions of Rome were famous for their legwork, marching everywhere and making roads for it all over Europe! Why two legs? Was the Roman Empire ever split in two? Oh yes it was! The Orthodox Byzantine half under Constantinopel split off from the Western half, headed by Rome. This division is still perpetrated religiously, even today, in the Orthodox religion and the Roman Catholic Church, which also had 1500 years of political implications.
The Western Roman Empire, after its fall, was taken over by the "Holy" Roman Empire! (while just recently, the Orthodox Eastern half went Communist for 50-70 years!) But over the centuries European nations broke away from it’s power! Europe crumbled more and more into smaller pieces, even though some, like the other AC’s, Napoleon and Hitler, tried to revive the glory of the old Roman Empire, but they never quite succeeded, until…the time of the FEET…which has now begun!

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