WEBVTT 00:06.880 --> 00:09.600 Hello and welcome to Z3 News. 00:09.720 --> 00:13.540 I'm James Bailey and today is Tuesday, May 12, 2020. 00:14.260 --> 00:18.660 And today is the second episode of a new series that I just started yesterday. 00:19.420 --> 00:23.840 And I believe God put it in my heart to share news events. 00:24.400 --> 00:26.280 And so that's what I'm endeavoring to do. 00:26.980 --> 00:31.040 And in case you were wondering about the previous series I was doing called 00:31.040 --> 00:36.200 Revealing Mystery Babylon, this is going to be that series. 00:36.200 --> 00:42.700 And the only difference is because when I first started studying that topic, 00:42.820 --> 00:48.540 this topic of Revealing Mystery Babylon, I didn't know where to start. 00:48.720 --> 00:53.220 So I was seeking God about that and I believe he gave me the obvious answer is 00:53.220 --> 00:54.180 you start at the beginning. 00:55.340 --> 01:02.420 So I did and went back and studied a lot of the scriptures that I thought that I 01:02.420 --> 01:03.200 already knew. 01:03.200 --> 01:07.640 In fact, I wasn't really even that excited to go back and do that because I thought I 01:07.640 --> 01:10.480 had a good handle on those things. 01:11.560 --> 01:12.760 But I didn't. 01:12.960 --> 01:20.940 I was amazed to discover some very, very important events that are revealed in 01:20.940 --> 01:27.520 the book of Genesis and other scriptures at the beginning of the Bible that are 01:27.520 --> 01:30.880 revealing what's going to happen in our generation. 01:31.720 --> 01:35.660 Major events upcoming that we need to know about. 01:36.260 --> 01:40.760 And I was also amazed to find that it's one of the most neglected topics in the 01:40.760 --> 01:42.080 entire Bible. 01:42.680 --> 01:47.980 And I'm looking forward to sharing a lot of the things that I learned in that 01:47.980 --> 01:49.260 research. 01:49.720 --> 01:52.040 But that's not what I'm talking about today. 01:52.720 --> 01:55.040 But my point is that I went back to the beginning. 01:55.200 --> 01:58.740 So all this time I've been thinking, well, I guess that's the way I'll present 01:58.740 --> 01:58.880 it. 01:58.880 --> 02:00.940 I'll just start at the beginning and go forward. 02:01.620 --> 02:05.720 Unfortunately, though, I think that approach would probably take about a 02:05.720 --> 02:09.960 thousand years longer than what we have time left before Jesus returns. 02:10.840 --> 02:13.760 And so that's probably not a wise approach. 02:14.320 --> 02:19.320 And so what I got a couple of days ago was, for you, you are going to go start 02:19.320 --> 02:20.280 back at the beginning. 02:20.400 --> 02:25.680 But for presenting it, we're going to focus on news events. 02:25.760 --> 02:27.780 And that, I think, makes sense. 02:28.300 --> 02:30.780 And so I will be getting into news events. 02:30.920 --> 02:32.580 That's going to be the primary focus. 02:33.320 --> 02:40.220 But I really think it would help a lot if I can show you in the Scriptures what I 02:40.220 --> 02:40.820 have learned. 02:40.920 --> 02:44.640 Because it's so much easier if you can see it there first. 02:45.080 --> 02:49.700 And I think it will make a lot more sense by the end of this program and especially 02:49.700 --> 02:52.200 after a few more programs. 02:52.870 --> 03:01.180 Because when I first came across these things, I was just being presented with 03:01.180 --> 03:02.440 historical facts. 03:03.300 --> 03:10.640 And it was taking me quite some time to process this because it was completely 03:10.640 --> 03:16.900 changing my perspective and what I understood about historical events. 03:17.680 --> 03:24.400 And it wasn't until later that I began to go and connect the dots and find these 03:24.400 --> 03:26.000 things in the Scriptures. 03:26.260 --> 03:34.820 So I'm hoping that by giving it to you in the Scriptures first, it will be a lot 03:34.820 --> 03:36.380 easier for you to process. 03:36.380 --> 03:46.920 Because what I'm presenting is a major new way of thinking about current world 03:46.920 --> 03:47.540 events. 03:48.540 --> 03:50.600 So I know it's going to stretch people. 03:50.740 --> 03:52.760 It's stretched me big time. 03:53.860 --> 03:57.780 And I think it's going to be very helpful if you can see it in the Scriptures. 03:57.780 --> 04:02.280 And there's way too many Scriptures to present today. 04:02.580 --> 04:10.600 But I want to present a key passage today that I think spells it out very clear. 04:10.940 --> 04:14.900 And it just leaves it up to us to connect the dots. 04:15.360 --> 04:20.740 Because it's a very, very clear passage that says what it says. 04:21.220 --> 04:26.420 And there's really no wiggle room around it that I can see. 04:26.420 --> 04:27.400 It's pretty clear. 04:28.420 --> 04:36.320 But yet, if you believe what the Scriptures are revealing, then everything 04:36.320 --> 04:40.620 else that we've been told has to go. 04:40.980 --> 04:45.380 Because it exposes the lies that we've been told. 04:46.060 --> 04:49.920 And so this passage is found in Daniel chapter 2. 04:50.360 --> 04:55.020 And this is the story of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. 04:55.020 --> 05:01.260 And this is during the time when the Israelites were in captivity in Babylon. 05:02.020 --> 05:03.840 And Daniel was among them. 05:04.620 --> 05:06.940 And King Nebuchadnezzar had had a dream. 05:07.320 --> 05:15.180 And he wanted his wise men to not only interpret the dream, but tell him first 05:15.180 --> 05:16.540 what was the dream. 05:16.820 --> 05:17.840 And then interpret. 05:18.540 --> 05:20.640 And of course they couldn't do that. 05:20.980 --> 05:24.680 They couldn't believe he was even asking for such a thing. 05:24.680 --> 05:29.800 And so it came to Daniel. 05:30.240 --> 05:31.680 And he heard about it. 05:31.840 --> 05:37.680 And he believed that God could and would reveal the dream and the interpretation. 05:38.560 --> 05:40.140 And that's what happened. 05:40.540 --> 05:43.020 God showed Daniel the dream and the interpretation. 05:43.780 --> 05:51.480 Which the dream he explains in verses 31 through 35. 05:51.480 --> 05:56.600 And basically the dream, the king saw a huge statue. 05:57.940 --> 06:00.600 And the head of the statue was made of gold. 06:01.160 --> 06:03.900 The chest and arms were made of silver. 06:04.560 --> 06:07.480 The belly and the thighs were made of bronze. 06:08.040 --> 06:10.220 And the legs were made of iron. 06:11.100 --> 06:13.820 And then the iron continued into the feet. 06:14.020 --> 06:17.240 But in the feet it was a mixture of iron and clay. 06:18.520 --> 06:20.080 And so that's what the king saw. 06:20.080 --> 06:24.420 And then he sees a stone that was cut without hands. 06:25.520 --> 06:30.520 And the stone struck the image on its feet and broke them into pieces. 06:31.280 --> 06:38.860 And as soon as it broke the feet, the whole statue was crushed and just blew 06:38.860 --> 06:39.900 away in the wind. 06:40.920 --> 06:43.020 And so that's what the king saw. 06:43.180 --> 06:46.880 And then in verse 36, Daniel gives him the interpretation. 06:49.720 --> 06:52.400 And tells him, I'm going to just read from verse 36. 06:52.720 --> 06:56.920 Because some of you might not have your Bible right in front of you. 06:57.500 --> 06:59.620 And I think these verses are really important. 06:59.780 --> 07:02.620 But it says in verse 36, this is the dream. 07:03.140 --> 07:05.960 Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 07:06.640 --> 07:08.720 You, O king, are a king of kings. 07:09.160 --> 07:13.300 For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory. 07:13.300 --> 07:18.300 And wherever the kingdom of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, and the birds 07:18.300 --> 07:23.940 of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them 07:23.940 --> 07:24.280 all. 07:24.720 --> 07:26.720 You are this head of gold. 07:27.540 --> 07:31.440 But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours than another, 07:31.800 --> 07:35.160 a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over the earth. 07:35.400 --> 07:40.240 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, and as much as iron breaks in 07:40.240 --> 07:42.040 pieces and shatters everything. 07:42.040 --> 07:47.880 And like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the 07:47.880 --> 07:48.240 others. 07:49.320 --> 07:54.520 Whereas you saw the feet and toes partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, 07:54.840 --> 07:56.940 the kingdom shall be divided. 07:57.560 --> 08:02.660 Yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with 08:02.660 --> 08:03.200 the clay. 08:03.640 --> 08:09.700 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom 08:09.700 --> 08:13.100 shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 08:14.540 --> 08:20.620 And verse 43, as you saw the iron mixed with the clay, they will mingle with the 08:20.620 --> 08:26.480 seed of men, but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix 08:26.480 --> 08:27.160 with clay. 08:27.980 --> 08:32.120 And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom, 08:32.300 --> 08:36.980 which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other 08:36.980 --> 08:41.860 people, it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall 08:41.860 --> 08:42.660 stand forever. 08:43.560 --> 08:47.820 Inasmuch as you saw the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, 08:48.240 --> 08:51.760 and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, 08:51.780 --> 08:57.320 and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after 08:57.320 --> 08:57.720 this. 08:58.160 --> 09:01.900 The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure. 09:01.900 --> 09:06.880 So this is a pretty simple, straightforward picture of all the 09:06.880 --> 09:12.560 kingdoms of the earth, starting with Babylon in about 600 B.C., and going 09:12.560 --> 09:19.120 forward and continuing all the way to the end, until the time when this stone that 09:19.120 --> 09:25.580 is not cut by human hands, which we know to be the Lord Jesus Christ, returns to 09:25.580 --> 09:31.740 the earth and destroys the kingdom of Babylon, destroys the kingdoms of this 09:31.740 --> 09:35.700 world system that have run throughout the course of history. 09:36.260 --> 09:42.480 And so what we have here is a road map that shows all the events of history 09:42.480 --> 09:44.940 that's still in progress. 09:45.340 --> 09:50.020 It has not ended, it has not completed yet, because the Lord has not returned 09:50.020 --> 09:50.400 yet. 09:50.880 --> 09:55.900 And so we know that we are still on this road. 09:55.900 --> 09:58.800 We're still completing this dream. 09:58.960 --> 10:02.560 It's still unfolding after all these thousands of years. 10:03.860 --> 10:10.440 And that is a very important point, because it makes it relevant for us today, 10:10.440 --> 10:15.320 and it reveals what's really happening in our world today. 10:15.320 --> 10:21.580 And the good news about this dream and interpretation, is there's pretty much 10:21.580 --> 10:28.360 universal agreement as to the kingdoms that it's applying to. 10:28.580 --> 10:33.140 So that you start with Babylon, the head of gold, and then you go down to 10:33.140 --> 10:38.260 the chest and arms of silver, which is the kingdom of the Medes and Persians, 10:39.100 --> 10:43.620 and the two arms representing the two parts to that empire. 10:43.620 --> 10:51.140 And then you go on to the belly and thighs of bronze, and that is the Greek Empire, 10:51.460 --> 10:57.260 which was eventually defeated by the Roman Empire in 148 BC. 10:58.100 --> 11:04.540 And the Roman Empire then is the legs of iron that continues into the feet, 11:04.640 --> 11:08.540 so that the feet are made of iron and a mixture of iron and clay. 11:09.540 --> 11:17.180 Now this, I believe, is a very key passage, because it's revealing that this 11:17.180 --> 11:23.200 Roman Empire, they defeated the Greek Empire way back, 148 BC. 11:24.500 --> 11:30.560 Ever since then, they've been continuing, these legs of iron and feet of iron and 11:30.560 --> 11:36.100 clay, have been continuing to reign in their empire, their kingdom. 11:36.100 --> 11:39.660 But yet today, we don't think of it that way. 11:40.300 --> 11:42.740 We don't typically think, where is this Roman Empire? 11:43.420 --> 11:45.540 We don't see a Roman Empire today. 11:46.340 --> 11:52.040 But yet, here it is in the scriptures, plainly telling us that this kingdom, 11:52.840 --> 11:58.280 that all the Bible scholars universally agree, applies to the Roman Empire. 11:59.000 --> 12:05.800 Here we have the scriptures telling us, this thing continues until the Lord Jesus 12:05.800 --> 12:09.540 Christ comes back to establish His kingdom upon the earth. 12:10.420 --> 12:15.900 He will destroy the feet first, the feet of this statue, and then the rest 12:15.900 --> 12:17.260 of it comes tumbling down. 12:18.300 --> 12:25.000 And so, all the way through to the end, in fact, in verses 41 and 42, it 12:25.000 --> 12:28.060 specifically twice mentions the toes. 12:28.060 --> 12:33.940 So this thing continues all the way down into the feet, and then all the way into 12:33.940 --> 12:34.920 the ten toes. 12:35.240 --> 12:40.620 And that's important because that's a reference to the ten kings that are 12:40.620 --> 12:43.540 explained later in Daniel chapter 7. 12:44.160 --> 12:49.780 But there are ten kings that arise in this kingdom at the very end of its reign. 12:50.520 --> 12:55.160 And I want to take a minute to just interject something here that when it's 12:55.160 --> 12:58.660 referring to these earthly kingdoms, I had recently written an article 12:58.660 --> 13:03.960 explaining how from the scriptures, everything that happens in the visible 13:03.960 --> 13:09.560 realm is merely a reflection of what originated in the invisible realm. 13:09.900 --> 13:12.300 So there's two things going on here. 13:13.300 --> 13:19.500 So when we're talking about these kingdoms on the earth, it's also talking about the 13:19.500 --> 13:22.220 kingdoms in the invisible realm. 13:22.220 --> 13:30.000 And that point is made clear in Daniel chapter 10, where Daniel had been praying 13:30.000 --> 13:35.700 for help in trying to understand the visions that he received, and he was 13:35.700 --> 13:36.560 perplexed. 13:37.060 --> 13:41.800 And the angel Gabriel came to him, and he explains to him and says, 13:41.920 --> 13:46.100 from the very first day that you set your heart to understand these things, 13:46.880 --> 13:53.900 your words were heard, and I have come because of your words, but the prince of 13:53.900 --> 13:57.120 the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days. 13:57.500 --> 14:04.300 So Gabriel was delayed in his efforts to come help Daniel and come provide 14:04.300 --> 14:10.920 understanding to Daniel because he was resisted, not by an earthly prince or an 14:10.920 --> 14:15.400 earthly king, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood him 21 days. 14:15.400 --> 14:21.180 He's referring to a spiritual, an angelic being. 14:22.140 --> 14:25.520 And then he explains, and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, 14:25.780 --> 14:33.320 this is Daniel 10, 13, the angel Michael came to help Gabriel in this fight. 14:33.680 --> 14:39.520 And he says, came to help me for I had been left alone there with the kings of 14:39.520 --> 14:40.200 Persia. 14:41.080 --> 14:43.520 Now he's not talking about human kings there. 14:43.520 --> 14:50.400 So this theme runs throughout the scriptures, that there are angelic beings, 14:51.580 --> 14:58.080 there's angelic warfare going on, there are angelic kings, just as we see 14:58.080 --> 15:00.440 these kings and kingdoms on the earth. 15:01.120 --> 15:05.800 So I just want to inject that point because we're not really going to get into 15:05.800 --> 15:12.160 that so much today, but it becomes very, very important in upcoming programs to 15:12.160 --> 15:18.580 help us understand a huge event that's coming at the end here before the Lord 15:18.580 --> 15:19.160 returns. 15:19.780 --> 15:26.520 But for today, let's consider this statue and this Roman Empire that makes up the 15:26.520 --> 15:29.080 legs and the feet and the toes. 15:29.680 --> 15:35.440 Now I already touched on a very important point that this Roman Empire continues 15:35.440 --> 15:43.880 until the end, but another important point is that the dream reveals four kingdoms, 15:44.280 --> 15:49.820 and these four kingdoms align with the four beasts that are described in Daniel 15:49.820 --> 15:50.740 chapter 7. 15:51.340 --> 15:58.900 And so there aren't any more than four, and we see that by the composition of four 15:58.900 --> 16:02.940 different elements, gold, silver, bronze, and iron. 16:03.220 --> 16:10.200 The only difference about the Roman kingdom is that at the end, the feet are a 16:10.200 --> 16:16.440 mixture of iron and clay, but yet the presence of iron is still there. 16:17.240 --> 16:26.100 And the visible display of iron represents the open display of the brute force of 16:26.100 --> 16:33.720 this empire, which used weapons made of iron that were stronger than weapons made 16:33.720 --> 16:34.740 of anything else. 16:34.740 --> 16:41.880 And because of the iron, they were a superior kingdom, and as Daniel explains 16:41.880 --> 16:47.180 in chapter 2, verse 40, he said, as iron breaks in pieces and shatters 16:47.180 --> 16:53.000 everything, like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and 16:53.000 --> 16:54.740 crush all the others. 16:54.900 --> 17:00.520 So this display of iron shows the power and the strength of this kingdom. 17:00.520 --> 17:04.620 And this iron continues right into the feet. 17:05.520 --> 17:13.820 And so this Roman kingdom undergoes a transformation near the end, and Rome has 17:13.820 --> 17:17.760 ruled far longer than any other kingdom. 17:18.440 --> 17:23.760 They go back even before they conquered the Greeks in 148 B.C. 17:23.760 --> 17:27.460 They go all the way back to 753 B.C. 17:27.460 --> 17:37.680 So this kingdom has been reigning so far for a total of 2,773 years and counting. 17:38.820 --> 17:42.780 And during that time, it underwent many changes. 17:43.200 --> 17:49.540 It started out as a monarch's king's ruling for about 250 years. 17:50.020 --> 17:57.080 It then became a republic with a senate elected by the people, and it operated 17:57.080 --> 17:59.980 that way for nearly 500 years. 18:00.440 --> 18:06.220 But then it morphed again, and it became an empire with all the power concentrated 18:06.220 --> 18:07.740 in the hands of one man. 18:08.200 --> 18:12.740 And it ruled that way for another 500 years. 18:13.380 --> 18:14.780 And still it wasn't done. 18:15.020 --> 18:23.540 The Roman Empire officially ended in 476 A .D., and it did undergo a transformation 18:23.540 --> 18:24.820 phase there. 18:24.820 --> 18:31.840 And for some time, it was not as strong as it had been, but it did not go away 18:31.840 --> 18:39.760 because the same people that we see operating this kingdom today were still 18:39.760 --> 18:43.660 functioning, just their influence was diminished for some time. 18:43.960 --> 18:50.820 But in the year 800, they morphed again and formed the Holy Roman Empire where the 18:50.820 --> 19:02.760 Pope would crown rulers of Europe as emperors over their part of the Holy Roman 19:02.760 --> 19:03.280 Empire. 19:03.800 --> 19:09.940 And that kingdom went on for a little over a thousand years until 1806. 19:10.700 --> 19:17.460 And so, it looks like when you study history, it looks like that was the end of 19:17.460 --> 19:17.660 it. 19:17.660 --> 19:22.220 But, according to the Bible, that was not the end of it. 19:22.680 --> 19:28.240 This kingdom continues, the only difference is it morphed again and became 19:28.240 --> 19:32.060 the feet made of clay and iron. 19:33.060 --> 19:39.300 Now, whereas before, when it was the legs, the iron was openly displayed for everyone 19:39.300 --> 19:39.900 to see. 19:39.900 --> 19:47.300 But when it morphed, it became hidden so that when you look at it, you don't see 19:47.300 --> 19:49.840 the iron as much. 19:49.940 --> 19:53.960 It's mixed in so that you see this mixture of clay. 19:54.700 --> 20:01.000 So, the power of the iron, the power that the iron represented that had once been on 20:01.000 --> 20:08.580 display for all those years, in this final phase that we're in today, that power is 20:08.580 --> 20:12.680 still there, but it's not visibly on display. 20:13.400 --> 20:16.480 It is hidden inside the clay. 20:17.220 --> 20:23.360 So, the iron's still there, it's just intermingled throughout the feet and the 20:23.360 --> 20:23.800 toes. 20:23.800 --> 20:28.200 But even though it's intermingled, it is still iron. 20:28.340 --> 20:32.780 It's still just as powerful, just as destructive as it ever was. 20:33.540 --> 20:38.360 Now, at first, when you consider that it's mixed in with a weaker substance, 20:38.540 --> 20:43.740 clay, you might conclude that this kingdom is weaker at the end. 20:44.180 --> 20:48.580 And the scriptures even tell us that it will be divided by the mixture. 20:49.180 --> 20:56.020 But, the other scriptures in the book of Daniel, chapter 7, reveal that this 20:56.020 --> 20:58.660 kingdom will by no means be weakened. 20:59.240 --> 21:05.240 In fact, this kingdom will be more dreadful, Daniel describes it as more 21:05.240 --> 21:10.480 dreadful and more terrifying than any kingdom that preceded it. 21:10.480 --> 21:14.320 And the angel Gabriel confirmed it, he said, 21:22.820 --> 21:25.860 This prophecy has not yet been fulfilled. 21:26.160 --> 21:31.520 This kingdom is not yet done, and is not yet finished fulfilling the prophecies. 21:32.040 --> 21:38.740 And if it was weakened, and no threat, no danger to us at this point, 21:38.740 --> 21:44.380 then why would the Lord Jesus have to be the one who destroys it at the end? 21:45.140 --> 21:50.540 Why would that be even necessary, this pathetic, weak kingdom that has no 21:50.540 --> 21:51.640 power in it anymore? 21:51.960 --> 21:57.600 That is another confirmation that this kingdom is going to continue to be 21:57.600 --> 22:02.600 extremely dangerous, terrifying, dreadful, right up until the end. 22:02.600 --> 22:08.680 And we see that also in Revelation 13, where we have a description of a kingdom 22:08.680 --> 22:14.020 that arises with power over the whole earth. 22:14.600 --> 22:18.340 All the people of the earth are brought into submission, subjection to this 22:18.340 --> 22:18.700 kingdom. 22:19.340 --> 22:26.880 So, we need to look at this mixture of iron and clay in the context of all those 22:26.880 --> 22:31.360 other scriptures to understand what's happening here. 22:31.360 --> 22:34.940 And so, I'm going to tell you what I believe it means. 22:35.060 --> 22:38.960 I've spent some time studying, and here's what I believe it means. 22:39.700 --> 22:45.560 When it's talking about this kingdom will be divided, because these two elements 22:45.560 --> 22:47.320 don't mix, iron and clay. 22:48.180 --> 22:52.360 I believe what that's saying is you have a kingdom divided. 22:52.880 --> 22:58.400 You have the people of the iron, who are loyal to the cause of Rome. 22:58.400 --> 23:04.500 And then you have the people who are the clay, who have their own loyalty, 23:04.800 --> 23:07.400 their own allegiance to their own nation. 23:08.240 --> 23:13.080 And so, you have a divergence of loyalties, and that's the reason, 23:13.160 --> 23:19.840 that's the primary reason why Rome, at this phase, is no longer operating 23:19.840 --> 23:22.820 under the banner of Rome. 23:22.820 --> 23:30.820 Whereas before, for all those thousands of years, Rome operated openly, where Roman 23:30.820 --> 23:35.900 soldiers were dressed in the garments of Rome, and they carried the symbols of 23:35.900 --> 23:38.220 Rome, which was the Roman eagle. 23:39.220 --> 23:44.820 But when you enter this last phase, Rome takes a different tactic, 23:45.760 --> 23:55.480 and instead of operating openly on display as Rome, they morph into the nation that 23:55.480 --> 23:56.600 they've infiltrated. 23:57.360 --> 24:05.480 So that they become what appears to be one nation, but yet they're really not merged 24:05.480 --> 24:10.220 together because the allegiances are different, and they're kept secret, 24:10.320 --> 24:15.780 secret allegiances to Rome within the other nations that they occupy. 24:16.480 --> 24:23.080 Now, if we consider iron and clay, and just consider the properties of each 24:23.080 --> 24:30.840 of those, we see that iron is very strong and firm, and when it's put together with 24:30.840 --> 24:32.580 clay, the iron doesn't yield. 24:33.120 --> 24:37.700 The iron doesn't give ground to clay, but clay does give ground to the iron. 24:37.700 --> 24:39.940 Iron's very strong. 24:40.080 --> 24:45.120 It's not easily molded or manipulated into different shapes. 24:45.980 --> 24:50.320 And that is showing, I believe, what Rome has demonstrated all throughout 24:50.320 --> 24:50.920 their history. 24:51.060 --> 24:56.140 They are relentless in their pursuit of conquest. 24:56.500 --> 24:57.920 It never ends. 24:57.920 --> 25:03.460 And this is what we see in Revelation chapter 6 verses 1 and 2, the rider on the 25:03.460 --> 25:07.500 white horse who is going forth conquering and to conquer. 25:07.740 --> 25:09.840 There is no end to their pursuit. 25:09.960 --> 25:11.480 They are unyielding. 25:12.340 --> 25:18.000 And that's the way Rome has always been, and I believe what this is showing is this 25:18.000 --> 25:21.040 conquest, this pursuit. 25:21.420 --> 25:22.780 They will never repent. 25:23.220 --> 25:24.780 They will never back down. 25:24.780 --> 25:31.780 But clay, on the other hand, is easily manipulated and reshaped and reformed. 25:32.800 --> 25:41.160 Especially wet clay, which in Daniel 2.41 it describes it as miry clay, which is wet 25:41.160 --> 25:41.620 clay. 25:42.140 --> 25:46.580 And it's also described as potter's clay, which is the clay of a potter. 25:46.660 --> 25:50.700 The potter can form and make something else into it. 25:50.700 --> 25:56.040 So you have one substance that's unyielding, the other that is known to be 25:56.040 --> 25:57.560 easily manipulated. 25:57.960 --> 26:03.860 That is a formula for disaster, because that's telling us that even though 26:03.860 --> 26:10.380 it is a mixture, and even though it is divided, the iron will have its way, 26:11.180 --> 26:11.940 not the clay. 26:12.840 --> 26:19.580 And the iron has another advantage over the clay in that it is solid. 26:20.300 --> 26:22.020 It is unified. 26:22.720 --> 26:27.080 And so this kingdom, the kingdom of Rome that's represented by the iron, 26:27.720 --> 26:31.940 is unified in its centralized power and control. 26:32.240 --> 26:36.420 From a single control point, they are on the same page. 26:36.520 --> 26:39.120 They are working together as one. 26:39.120 --> 26:42.600 Whereas the clay is not cohesive. 26:43.220 --> 26:48.860 Clay, I looked up the definition, it's finely grained natural rock or soil 26:48.860 --> 26:49.320 material. 26:49.600 --> 26:55.500 It consists of a bunch of little fine grains, a lot of small pieces that are 26:55.500 --> 26:59.100 held together just by nothing more than some moisture. 26:59.100 --> 27:06.140 And so clay easily falls apart to break up into smaller pieces. 27:06.580 --> 27:13.440 It does not have that strength of central control, that unity that iron has. 27:13.680 --> 27:15.400 It's not firm like that. 27:15.880 --> 27:22.320 Clay would be more of a decentralized, the power of the people who are bound 27:22.320 --> 27:27.500 together by some common bond, their constitution, their beliefs. 27:27.500 --> 27:34.040 But they are easily molded and constantly shifting and changing. 27:35.420 --> 27:38.360 And in some cases, even falling apart easily. 27:39.240 --> 27:47.140 And so what we see in the feet is a picture of this Roman Empire continuing 27:47.140 --> 27:49.740 relentlessly to advance its agenda. 27:49.740 --> 27:59.560 And in this case, it has to operate undercover, stealth operations to bring 27:59.560 --> 28:06.180 the clay into submission to its will without the clay even understanding what's 28:06.180 --> 28:06.780 going on. 28:06.780 --> 28:08.140 So there's deception. 28:08.700 --> 28:10.600 There's deception in this process. 28:10.820 --> 28:18.480 Because the clay has to be remolded to the will of Rome without understanding that 28:18.480 --> 28:19.920 they're losing. 28:20.300 --> 28:26.300 They have to manipulate public opinion, in other words, to get the people to 28:26.300 --> 28:31.320 willingly yield to Rome without understanding that they're even doing 28:31.320 --> 28:31.660 that. 28:31.660 --> 28:35.520 They have to willingly give up their national sovereignty, their liberties, 28:36.440 --> 28:42.080 and conform, give more power and control to Rome. 28:42.080 --> 28:51.300 So the masses, the public, are manipulated through deception and tactics we would 28:51.300 --> 28:58.020 call today mind control, lies through the mainstream media, through movies, 28:58.220 --> 29:01.920 television, that convince people to believe lies. 29:01.920 --> 29:10.280 And it reminds me of what the CIA director William Casey told President Reagan in 29:10.280 --> 29:14.760 1981 in their first cabinet meeting. 29:15.780 --> 29:21.580 William Casey said, when everything the American people believe is a lie, 29:22.160 --> 29:24.880 we will have accomplished our objective. 29:25.740 --> 29:31.140 And I shared in my book all sorts of evidence of the CIA. 29:31.760 --> 29:40.260 For decades, going back to the beginning of the CIA in 1947, they have a huge 29:40.260 --> 29:46.100 operation within their organization that is just for the purpose of manipulating 29:46.100 --> 29:50.340 the news media, movies, television shows. 29:50.340 --> 29:53.480 It's called mind control of the American public. 29:53.660 --> 29:56.800 That's been happening for decades. 29:58.220 --> 30:04.600 And all I'm trying to do is show the scriptures that explain why that's 30:04.600 --> 30:06.520 happening and who's behind it. 30:07.500 --> 30:14.840 Now, in this environment, in the foot, the iron cannot resort to its historic 30:14.840 --> 30:22.820 practice of just brute force at every turn because they need the people, they need 30:22.820 --> 30:28.500 the clay to remain compliant, to give their consent. 30:28.500 --> 30:34.540 They need the people to remain deceived so that they'll be willing to go along with 30:34.540 --> 30:37.860 the program and just keep nudging them along. 30:38.020 --> 30:43.540 So they can't just always come out and hit people over the head with the iron. 30:44.020 --> 30:48.800 And they have to resort to more stealth tactics. 30:48.800 --> 30:55.980 And one of the main ones that we see them using is bribery and blackmail, 30:56.580 --> 31:02.600 where they try to convert the people of the nation they occupy, they try to 31:02.600 --> 31:10.320 convert them to their side, saying, you know, if you do this, we'll make you 31:10.320 --> 31:10.700 wealthy. 31:11.000 --> 31:15.120 If you don't do this, you know, we're going to kill your kids and we're 31:15.120 --> 31:15.920 going to kill you. 31:15.920 --> 31:22.020 So they are using their brute force, but they're using it in isolated, 31:22.440 --> 31:27.240 secret cases where they can keep people silent. 31:27.400 --> 31:31.280 And if the people don't keep silent, they'll find ways to keep them silent. 31:31.280 --> 31:36.400 And we've seen so many examples of that, where quote-unquote suicides. 31:37.260 --> 31:42.040 One of my favorite ones was the guy Gary Webb, who wrote the book called Dark 31:42.040 --> 31:46.440 Alliances, exposing the CIA drug trafficking business. 31:47.400 --> 31:52.160 And it turns out everything he wrote in that book proved to be very accurate. 31:52.920 --> 31:58.980 But he had some visitors show up at his house, and it wasn't presented that way. 31:59.060 --> 32:01.880 It was presented that he committed suicide. 32:02.520 --> 32:05.200 The problem was he had two bullet holes in his head. 32:05.620 --> 32:08.520 Whoever heard of shooting themselves twice in the head? 32:09.120 --> 32:11.900 But yet, it was ruled a suicide. 32:12.820 --> 32:18.540 And so they can even get a coroner to say, yep, that looks like a suicide to me. 32:18.540 --> 32:22.380 Two bullet holes in the head, and that's a suicide. 32:23.140 --> 32:24.760 I mean, it's beyond ridiculous. 32:25.400 --> 32:30.000 And that's the kind of things that are happening and that they're routinely 32:30.000 --> 32:31.060 getting away with. 32:31.300 --> 32:35.060 Leaving a trail of bodies that nobody's ever charged with a crime. 32:35.500 --> 32:36.880 And it's just called a suicide. 32:38.420 --> 32:42.020 Now, I've given you a lot to think about today. 32:42.020 --> 32:47.880 And I know for me personally, when I started learning these things, 32:48.080 --> 32:50.960 it took me some time to process it. 32:51.380 --> 32:57.580 It takes some time, because you start understanding and seeing through the veil. 32:58.220 --> 33:01.480 And it's, you know, it's a lot to process. 33:02.220 --> 33:04.340 And so I'm going to stop there for today. 33:04.680 --> 33:07.120 And I will pick it back up again tomorrow. 33:07.120 --> 33:11.660 Now, I did want to mention briefly that I'm posting these things on YouTube. 33:12.200 --> 33:17.380 And YouTube has really been cracking down lately on any 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