In 604BC Nebuchadnezzar ll, king of Babylon, had a dream of a great image. Daniel, a Hebrew captive in Nebuchadnezzar's court, provided the divine interpretation; a prophecy of future empires that would play a role in God's plan for his Church.

The Dream.

Below is a short outline of Nebuchadnezzar's dream and its divine interpretation; the full account can be found in the second chapter of Daniel.

The image's head was of fine gold, its breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of brass, its legs of iron and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

 

You saw that a stone, cut out without hands, struck the image on its feet of iron and clay and broke them to pieces.

 

Then the iron, clay, brass, silver and gold were broken to pieces and became like the chaff that the wind carried away.

 

And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. (Daniel 2:32-35)

The Divine Interpretation.

In Daniel’s interpretation of the dream, the head of gold represented Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian Empire. Four other kingdoms  would rise and fall until, finally, “the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed”.

The three kingdoms following the neo-Babylonian Empire (626 to 539BC) are usually understood to be the Persian Empire (550 to 336BC) which was followed by Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire (336 to 63BC) and then the Roman Empire (509BC – 390AD*).

Christianity, the Fifth Kingdom.

Opinions vary quite widely on the interpretation of the fifth kingdom, ‘the feet and toes partly of iron and partly of clay’.

On this website we will explain why Christianity, a conglomeration of human organisations dominated by a professional class of rulers, the clergy, is the Fifth Kingdom (390AD* to the present). We will also demonstrate why this fractured and divided kingdom cannot be the earthly representative of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We will demonstrate how this Fifth Kingdom came into being; how Christian bishops consolidated their power by capitalising on the apostles' mistakes and how, in 390AD, these power-hungry bishops eventually gained control of a disintegrating Roman Empire, the Bishop's Checkmate!

Most importantly we will demonstrate the significance of the ‘soft clay’ and how the mixture of iron and clay turned into a fragile  and brittle marriage, a marriage that is, today, crumbling to dust before our very eyes.

Christianity must collapse before God establishes his everlasting Kingdom on earth. Christianity has served God's purpose but it's time is over.

Jesus Christ will establish his Kingdom, the Stone "cut out without human hands".

For a second time, Jesus instructs his disciples to declare that "The kingdom of heaven is at hand!" (Matthew 10.7)

For those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

*390AD is the date we give for the actual demise of the Roman Empire, the 'Bishop's Checkmate', and the ascendency of the Christian Empire; all of Christianity, not only the Roman Catholic sect.