(1) Babylon (605BC-539BC)-Gold Nebuchadnezzar(a)Golden plate(b)Table(c) Altar. All within a golden Temple. Babylon is accurately depicted as the head of gold. The city of the river Euphrates (80km of modern Babylon, Iraq) which become the political and religious capital of Babylonia and of the Empire and Civilization based upon it. (2) Medo-Persia(539BC-331BC)-Breast and arms of Silver Belshazzar-Sit on the throne of Babylon. During a night of drunken feasting he is terrified by these was written on the wall by an unseen hand. In 539BC the Persian General Cyrus(စိုင္းရပ္စ္) conquered the city of Babylon and ushered in a Medo-Persian Empire. (Isiah 45:1) The Euphrates river ran through the center of the city of Babylon. Cyrus has his engineers divert the river so that the river its water level dropped dramatically. Cyrus sent some of his troops down the riverbed. They food the gates on either side of the river open and unguarded- that was the night Of drunken feasting. That’s how Cyrus’s forces captured the city. And Isaiah caught glimpse of it 150years before it happened!!!! (3)Greece (331BC-168BC)-thighs of Brass- Alexander the Great had become a dazzlingly successful general at the early age of 25.By the time he turned 33 he was master of all he surveyed;his armies had proven unstoppable. It is said that he wept because there were no more worlds to conquered. But his empire did not-last forever either. Alexander died suddenly and his kingdom was broken up among his feuding general. (4)Rome(168BC-about AD450)-Legs of Iron-(Daniel 2:40)-King Caesars-စီစာ-က်မ္းစာအေခၚ“ကဲႆာ” Edward Gibbon wrote” The image of gold, or silver, or brass, that might serve to represent the nations and their Kings were successively broken by the Iron monarchy of Rome” (The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 40,P-631) (5) A Divided Kingdom (Daniel 2:42-43)-the toes ot the Image Napoleon “ I wanted to find a Europe system….there would have been but one people throughout Europe. Europe would have become one nation” But then Napoleon ran into Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. When Hilter’s Panzer divisions swept across Europe at the beginning of World War II.
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