Lord, but Antichrist, active, true to character, will present himself as the

seventh -- 'the other is not yet come'; 'he is of the seven, and goeth into

Much that is mysterious in these verses is to be understood only in the

light of the fact that at the time of the end the human merges into the

superhuman and the Satanic.  Although we have already occupied considerable

space in this article, the solemnity of the subject and need for clearness

forbids undue brevity, and we shall therefore continue for a little to

consider more closely:

The word 'broken' in Daniel 2:42 should be 'brittle' ('to shive,

shatter', Young's Analytical Concordance), and shows that the 'clay' is

pottery.  Pottery of sufficient thickness would stand the weight of the

image, but would shiver to pieces at a blow.  It is impossible to fuse iron

and pottery together in the same way that two metals may be fused, yet when

we reach the feet of the Gentile image, metal gives place to pottery.  Some

radical change is here indicated.  The feet are composed of both iron and

'But they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed

with clay' (Dan. 2:43).

This does not mean that the communist will not mingle with the

monarchist or the democrat with the autocrat, as some schools of

interpretation suggest, for this same verse in Daniel 2 contains a deeper

'They shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not

cleave one to another'.

'The seed of men'.  Are not communists and kings the seed of men?  Are

democrats only the seed of men and the ruling classes not?  To ask the

question is to answer it.  Gold is a metal superior to silver, but of like

nature.  So also silver is superior to brass, brass to iron, yet all are

metals.  But at the feet of the image the altogether different material used

indicates that the 'they' of 2:43 and the 'seed of men' are beings of two

different orders.

Now the Lord revealed that at the time of the end it should be as it

was in the days of Noah.  Genesis 6 contains enough to enable us to see in

the clay feet of the image the revival of the seed of the wicked one.  There

are two seeds in view, and the book of Revelation makes it clear that at the

end demon -possessed rulers under the Satanic Beast and Antichrist will have

full, though brief, sway.

In Daniel 2:44 the prophet says: 'In the days of these kings shall the

God of heaven set up a kingdom'.  In the days of what kings?  Are they

Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, or Alexander?  Any one of the three is historically

impossible.  What kings reign when the kingdom of the Lord is set up?  We

find from Daniel 7:24 that ten kings shall arise at the time of the end.  We

read in Revelation 17:12:

'The ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no

kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast'.