Gentiles was instituted and no dominating power in the line of Gentile

dominion could be revealed which would cover this period.  Indeed, such would

conflict with the fact that, while Israel are not reckoned as God's people,

the prophetic calendar is in abeyance, and the prophetic voice is silent.

(See Lo -Ammi2).

Nebuchadnezzar's vision, however, spans the whole period from his own

accession until the Coming of the Lord, and Rome, by its manifest sovereignty

over Jerusalem, falls into line with the other powers.  Rome's dominion over

Jerusalem, however, has not lasted throughout this long period.  We therefore

ask what power succeeded Rome in its hold upon Jerusalem?  We know that at

the time of the Crusades, in which one of our own kings, Richard the First

took part, the city of Jerusalem was held by the Mohammedan power, and so,

though unnamed, that power succeeded Rome in the line of Gentile dominion.

It has been objected that the Mohammedan power was never a 'kingdom' in

the same sense as were Babylon, Persia or Greece.  This is so, but instead of

that fact being against its inclusion, it is rather in favour of it, because

from the time of Israel's rejection, and the revelation of the dispensation

of the Mystery, the image of Daniel enters a protracted period of indefinite

length and character, and not until the time of the end does the image emerge

with any precision.  The same feature characterizes Gentile dominion at the

present moment.  The next development will be tragic in its reality.

Does the Mohammedan power still dominate Jerusalem?  No, another change

has taken place in our own days.  When General Allenby received the keys of

Jerusalem on 9th December, 1917, the dominion passed from the Mohammedan

power to the present divided condition of Jerusalem.  Let us now see what

these events mean, and how far they coincide with the prophetic

interpretation of the course of Gentile dominion given by Daniel:

(1) Head of gold

Babylon (Dan. 2)

(2) Breast of silver

Medo-Persia (Dan. 5:31)

(3) Belly and thighs

Greece (Dan. 8:21)

of brass

(4) Legs of iron

Rome (Luke 2:2)

(5) Feet of iron

Turkey (a.d. 636 -- 1917)

and clay

(6) Toes of clay

The decision of UNO in 1949

to place Jerusalem under

international control and its

'One is'

inherent 'indecision' which

has become more and more

evident will lead to the final

phase, the Ten Kings.

The Stone cut out without hands.

Here we have the whole Gentile dominion represented as being sixfold,

stamped with the number of man and of the beast.  We stand today at the

junction of the feet and the ten toes, which are ten kings, and which,

presumably, will arise out of the national turmoil that is growing in the

East.  When John wrote the book of the Revelation he was 'in spirit' writing

from the, then future, Day of the Lord; consequently he could say, 'five are

fallen', namely, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and Turkey, and 'one is',

viz., the dominion of the ten kings.  The true seventh is the kingdom of the