For years, we hear well-known preachers direct us to world events and interpret that as precursor of end-times. Time and time again, they were proven wrong. A friend of mine believed that “1975 in Prophecy” and quit medical school because he contended,why finish when the world was ending?; can’t blame him. Can humans really know ?

Sequence of human governments, who and why set this sequence?

What really is the timetable for the world’s human governments ? And who has control of that timetable-sequence of events to replace “human” governments? And, why replace “human” governments, at all?

Biblically, if one goes through history, the first powerful human government was that of Nimrod’s, represented by the “tower of Babel” in Genesis 11:1-9. But, this human government was only local (a city) and did not expand worldwide. Egypt, as a country, was very powerful and the one that enslaved Israel; still, though, not a global power.

On the other hand, the Babylonian Empire could be considered as the 1st one with global reach; also recognized by God as a global government through the dream of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2. This appears convincingly, the start of recognized global governments worth recognition and the timetable from which to draw and follow subsequent events have to be based and predicated from that “human world government”, and not from any other world developments.

The sequence of global human governments from the Babylonian empire to the “government/kingdom of God”, on earth, is compelling. And, it was the sovereign Almighty God, who set this sequence as revealed to Daniel. Indeed, we are just incapable of knowing the future; no human would know unless revealed by God.

Let us now read the narrative in Daniel 2:

“2 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

² Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

³ And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

⁴ Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

⁶ But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

⁷ They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

⁸ The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

⁹ But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

¹¹ And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

¹² For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

¹³ And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

¹⁴ Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

¹⁵ He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

¹⁶ Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.

¹⁷ Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

¹⁸ That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

¹⁹ Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

²⁰ Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

²¹ And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

²² He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

²³ I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.

²⁴ Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.

²⁵ Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.

²⁶ The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?

²⁷ Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;

²⁸ But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

²⁹ As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.

³⁰ But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

³¹ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

³² This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

³³ His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

³⁴ Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

³⁵ Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

³⁶ This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

³⁷ Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

³⁸ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

³⁹ And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

⁴¹ And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

⁴² And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

⁴³ And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

⁴⁴ And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

⁴⁵ Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

⁴⁶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

⁴⁷ The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

⁴⁸ Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

⁴⁹ Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

NOTICE;, that without any doubt, the sequence of human governments was revealed and acknowledged by God to have started from the Babylonian Empire of Nebuchadnezzar via his dream of an image; him being the head of gold. And, historically, what followed was the Medo-Persian Empire of Cyrus (breast and his arms of silver) , then subsequently , the Greco-Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great (belly and his thighs of brass), followed by the Roman Empire, which divided into Western & Eastern divisions (fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron).

All these kingdoms were of the _past but the feet and toes that came out from these 2 divisions of the Roman Empire (toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken), are still of the future.

These feet/toes kingdom of 10 conglomerate-countries will still be future,

(not the past ten kings, as others interpreted, viz,, Augustus, Tiberius, Caludius, Caligula, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian and Titus.)

and will come in the future as an early indicator/ precursor of Jesus’ 2nd coming, 1st resurrection of the dead and change, of those who are alive from mortal to spiritual bodies, setting the stage for the coming “kingdom of God” to be established in Jerusalem, and, in time to worldwide.

Moreover, when (in the future) these 10 conglomerates of nations (10 heads/horns) are formed from the 4th kingdom(Roman Empire), then the “little horn” will arise to topple 3/10, to be the 8th head of the Beast of Revelations.

Also, these 10-conglomerates and little horn will have a “mark of the Beast” which is a currency like Denarius (Mark 12:15-17) of the previous Roman empire, that without it, “no one can buy nor sell”.

In summary, and in my humble opinion learned from the Bible, the sequence of events already prophesied commenced from Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian/Chaldean empire. And we have to watch world events, with that successive human governments, to see the subsequent creation of 10-nations conglomerate, coming out of the eastern and western divisions of the Roman Empire, and the world sovereign currency used for trading that will emerge, as well as the entry into future world events of the “little horn” that will displace 3/10 nations to be the 8th head of the resurrected Beast of Revelations

Composition of this post started 9/9/2023..recomposed 6/23/25; 6/29/25; and finished 7/1/2025

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God bless. 🙏👍🌈🫶