Hello and welcome to Z3 News.
I'm James Bailey and today is Tuesday, May 12, 2020.
And today is the second episode of a new series that I just started yesterday.
And I believe God put it in my heart to share news events.
And so that's what I'm endeavoring to do.
And in case you were wondering about the previous series I was doing called
Revealing Mystery Babylon, this is going to be that series.
And the only difference is because when I first started studying that topic,
this topic of Revealing Mystery Babylon, I didn't know where to start.
So I was seeking God about that and I believe he gave me the obvious answer is
you start at the beginning.
So I did and went back and studied a lot of the scriptures that I thought that I
already knew.
In fact, I wasn't really even that excited to go back and do that because I thought I
had a good handle on those things.
But I didn't.
I was amazed to discover some very, very important events that are revealed in
the book of Genesis and other scriptures at the beginning of the Bible that are
revealing what's going to happen in our generation.
Major events upcoming that we need to know about.
And I was also amazed to find that it's one of the most neglected topics in the
entire Bible.
And I'm looking forward to sharing a lot of the things that I learned in that
research.
But that's not what I'm talking about today.
But my point is that I went back to the beginning.
So all this time I've been thinking, well, I guess that's the way I'll present
it.
I'll just start at the beginning and go forward.
Unfortunately, though, I think that approach would probably take about a
thousand years longer than what we have time left before Jesus returns.
And so that's probably not a wise approach.
And so what I got a couple of days ago was, for you, you are going to go start
back at the beginning.
But for presenting it, we're going to focus on news events.
And that, I think, makes sense.
And so I will be getting into news events.
That's going to be the primary focus.
But I really think it would help a lot if I can show you in the Scriptures what I
have learned.
Because it's so much easier if you can see it there first.
And I think it will make a lot more sense by the end of this program and especially
after a few more programs.
Because when I first came across these things, I was just being presented with
historical facts.
And it was taking me quite some time to process this because it was completely
changing my perspective and what I understood about historical events.
And it wasn't until later that I began to go and connect the dots and find these
things in the Scriptures.
So I'm hoping that by giving it to you in the Scriptures first, it will be a lot
easier for you to process.
Because what I'm presenting is a major new way of thinking about current world
events.
So I know it's going to stretch people.
It's stretched me big time.
And I think it's going to be very helpful if you can see it in the Scriptures.
And there's way too many Scriptures to present today.
But I want to present a key passage today that I think spells it out very clear.
And it just leaves it up to us to connect the dots.
Because it's a very, very clear passage that says what it says.
And there's really no wiggle room around it that I can see.
It's pretty clear.
But yet, if you believe what the Scriptures are revealing, then everything
else that we've been told has to go.
Because it exposes the lies that we've been told.
And so this passage is found in Daniel chapter 2.
And this is the story of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
And this is during the time when the Israelites were in captivity in Babylon.
And Daniel was among them.
And King Nebuchadnezzar had had a dream.
And he wanted his wise men to not only interpret the dream, but tell him first
what was the dream.
And then interpret.
And of course they couldn't do that.
They couldn't believe he was even asking for such a thing.
And so it came to Daniel.
And he heard about it.
And he believed that God could and would reveal the dream and the interpretation.
And that's what happened.
God showed Daniel the dream and the interpretation.
Which the dream he explains in verses 31 through 35.
And basically the dream, the king saw a huge statue.
And the head of the statue was made of gold.
The chest and arms were made of silver.
The belly and the thighs were made of bronze.
And the legs were made of iron.
And then the iron continued into the feet.
But in the feet it was a mixture of iron and clay.
And so that's what the king saw.
And then he sees a stone that was cut without hands.
And the stone struck the image on its feet and broke them into pieces.
And as soon as it broke the feet, the whole statue was crushed and just blew
away in the wind.
And so that's what the king saw.
And then in verse 36, Daniel gives him the interpretation.
And tells him, I'm going to just read from verse 36.
Because some of you might not have your Bible right in front of you.
And I think these verses are really important.
But it says in verse 36, this is the dream.
Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.
You, O king, are a king of kings.
For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory.
And wherever the kingdom of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, and the birds
of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them
all.
You are this head of gold.
But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours than another,
a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over the earth.
And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, and as much as iron breaks in
pieces and shatters everything.
And like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the
others.
Whereas you saw the feet and toes partly of potter's clay and partly of iron,
the kingdom shall be divided.
Yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with
the clay.
And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom
shall be partly strong and partly fragile.
And verse 43, as you saw the iron mixed with the clay, they will mingle with the
seed of men, but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix
with clay.
And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom,
which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other
people, it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall
stand forever.
Inasmuch as you saw the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands,
and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver,
and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after
this.
The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.
So this is a pretty simple, straightforward picture of all the
kingdoms of the earth, starting with Babylon in about 600 B.C., and going
forward and continuing all the way to the end, until the time when this stone that
is not cut by human hands, which we know to be the Lord Jesus Christ, returns to
the earth and destroys the kingdom of Babylon, destroys the kingdoms of this
world system that have run throughout the course of history.
And so what we have here is a road map that shows all the events of history
that's still in progress.
It has not ended, it has not completed yet, because the Lord has not returned
yet.
And so we know that we are still on this road.
We're still completing this dream.
It's still unfolding after all these thousands of years.
And that is a very important point, because it makes it relevant for us today,
and it reveals what's really happening in our world today.
And the good news about this dream and interpretation, is there's pretty much
universal agreement as to the kingdoms that it's applying to.
So that you start with Babylon, the head of gold, and then you go down to
the chest and arms of silver, which is the kingdom of the Medes and Persians,
and the two arms representing the two parts to that empire.
And then you go on to the belly and thighs of bronze, and that is the Greek Empire,
which was eventually defeated by the Roman Empire in 148 BC.
And the Roman Empire then is the legs of iron that continues into the feet,
so that the feet are made of iron and a mixture of iron and clay.
Now this, I believe, is a very key passage, because it's revealing that this
Roman Empire, they defeated the Greek Empire way back, 148 BC.
Ever since then, they've been continuing, these legs of iron and feet of iron and
clay, have been continuing to reign in their empire, their kingdom.
But yet today, we don't think of it that way.
We don't typically think, where is this Roman Empire?
We don't see a Roman Empire today.
But yet, here it is in the scriptures, plainly telling us that this kingdom,
that all the Bible scholars universally agree, applies to the Roman Empire.
Here we have the scriptures telling us, this thing continues until the Lord Jesus
Christ comes back to establish His kingdom upon the earth.
He will destroy the feet first, the feet of this statue, and then the rest
of it comes tumbling down.
And so, all the way through to the end, in fact, in verses 41 and 42, it
specifically twice mentions the toes.
So this thing continues all the way down into the feet, and then all the way into
the ten toes.
And that's important because that's a reference to the ten kings that are
explained later in Daniel chapter 7.
But there are ten kings that arise in this kingdom at the very end of its reign.
And I want to take a minute to just interject something here that when it's
referring to these earthly kingdoms, I had recently written an article
explaining how from the scriptures, everything that happens in the visible
realm is merely a reflection of what originated in the invisible realm.
So there's two things going on here.
So when we're talking about these kingdoms on the earth, it's also talking about the
kingdoms in the invisible realm.
And that point is made clear in Daniel chapter 10, where Daniel had been praying
for help in trying to understand the visions that he received, and he was
perplexed.
And the angel Gabriel came to him, and he explains to him and says,
from the very first day that you set your heart to understand these things,
your words were heard, and I have come because of your words, but the prince of
the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days.
So Gabriel was delayed in his efforts to come help Daniel and come provide
understanding to Daniel because he was resisted, not by an earthly prince or an
earthly king, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood him 21 days.
He's referring to a spiritual, an angelic being.
And then he explains, and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes,
this is Daniel 10, 13, the angel Michael came to help Gabriel in this fight.
And he says, came to help me for I had been left alone there with the kings of
Persia.
Now he's not talking about human kings there.
So this theme runs throughout the scriptures, that there are angelic beings,
there's angelic warfare going on, there are angelic kings, just as we see
these kings and kingdoms on the earth.
So I just want to inject that point because we're not really going to get into
that so much today, but it becomes very, very important in upcoming programs to
help us understand a huge event that's coming at the end here before the Lord
returns.
But for today, let's consider this statue and this Roman Empire that makes up the
legs and the feet and the toes.
Now I already touched on a very important point that this Roman Empire continues
until the end, but another important point is that the dream reveals four kingdoms,
and these four kingdoms align with the four beasts that are described in Daniel
chapter 7.
And so there aren't any more than four, and we see that by the composition of four
different elements, gold, silver, bronze, and iron.
The only difference about the Roman kingdom is that at the end, the feet are a
mixture of iron and clay, but yet the presence of iron is still there.
And the visible display of iron represents the open display of the brute force of
this empire, which used weapons made of iron that were stronger than weapons made
of anything else.
And because of the iron, they were a superior kingdom, and as Daniel explains
in chapter 2, verse 40, he said, as iron breaks in pieces and shatters
everything, like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and
crush all the others.
So this display of iron shows the power and the strength of this kingdom.
And this iron continues right into the feet.
And so this Roman kingdom undergoes a transformation near the end, and Rome has
ruled far longer than any other kingdom.
They go back even before they conquered the Greeks in 148 B.C.
They go all the way back to 753 B.C.
So this kingdom has been reigning so far for a total of 2,773 years and counting.
And during that time, it underwent many changes.
It started out as a monarch's king's ruling for about 250 years.
It then became a republic with a senate elected by the people, and it operated
that way for nearly 500 years.
But then it morphed again, and it became an empire with all the power concentrated
in the hands of one man.
And it ruled that way for another 500 years.
And still it wasn't done.
The Roman Empire officially ended in 476 A .D., and it did undergo a transformation
phase there.
And for some time, it was not as strong as it had been, but it did not go away
because the same people that we see operating this kingdom today were still
functioning, just their influence was diminished for some time.
But in the year 800, they morphed again and formed the Holy Roman Empire where the
Pope would crown rulers of Europe as emperors over their part of the Holy Roman
Empire.
And that kingdom went on for a little over a thousand years until 1806.
And so, it looks like when you study history, it looks like that was the end of
it.
But, according to the Bible, that was not the end of it.
This kingdom continues, the only difference is it morphed again and became
the feet made of clay and iron.
Now, whereas before, when it was the legs, the iron was openly displayed for everyone
to see.
But when it morphed, it became hidden so that when you look at it, you don't see
the iron as much.
It's mixed in so that you see this mixture of clay.
So, the power of the iron, the power that the iron represented that had once been on
display for all those years, in this final phase that we're in today, that power is
still there, but it's not visibly on display.
It is hidden inside the clay.
So, the iron's still there, it's just intermingled throughout the feet and the
toes.
But even though it's intermingled, it is still iron.
It's still just as powerful, just as destructive as it ever was.
Now, at first, when you consider that it's mixed in with a weaker substance,
clay, you might conclude that this kingdom is weaker at the end.
And the scriptures even tell us that it will be divided by the mixture.
But, the other scriptures in the book of Daniel, chapter 7, reveal that this
kingdom will by no means be weakened.
In fact, this kingdom will be more dreadful, Daniel describes it as more
dreadful and more terrifying than any kingdom that preceded it.
And the angel Gabriel confirmed it, he said,
This prophecy has not yet been fulfilled.
This kingdom is not yet done, and is not yet finished fulfilling the prophecies.
And if it was weakened, and no threat, no danger to us at this point,
then why would the Lord Jesus have to be the one who destroys it at the end?
Why would that be even necessary, this pathetic, weak kingdom that has no
power in it anymore?
That is another confirmation that this kingdom is going to continue to be
extremely dangerous, terrifying, dreadful, right up until the end.
And we see that also in Revelation 13, where we have a description of a kingdom
that arises with power over the whole earth.
All the people of the earth are brought into submission, subjection to this
kingdom.
So, we need to look at this mixture of iron and clay in the context of all those
other scriptures to understand what's happening here.
And so, I'm going to tell you what I believe it means.
I've spent some time studying, and here's what I believe it means.
When it's talking about this kingdom will be divided, because these two elements
don't mix, iron and clay.
I believe what that's saying is you have a kingdom divided.
You have the people of the iron, who are loyal to the cause of Rome.
And then you have the people who are the clay, who have their own loyalty,
their own allegiance to their own nation.
And so, you have a divergence of loyalties, and that's the reason,
that's the primary reason why Rome, at this phase, is no longer operating
under the banner of Rome.
Whereas before, for all those thousands of years, Rome operated openly, where Roman
soldiers were dressed in the garments of Rome, and they carried the symbols of
Rome, which was the Roman eagle.
But when you enter this last phase, Rome takes a different tactic,
and instead of operating openly on display as Rome, they morph into the nation that
they've infiltrated.
So that they become what appears to be one nation, but yet they're really not merged
together because the allegiances are different, and they're kept secret,
secret allegiances to Rome within the other nations that they occupy.
Now, if we consider iron and clay, and just consider the properties of each
of those, we see that iron is very strong and firm, and when it's put together with
clay, the iron doesn't yield.
The iron doesn't give ground to clay, but clay does give ground to the iron.
Iron's very strong.
It's not easily molded or manipulated into different shapes.
And that is showing, I believe, what Rome has demonstrated all throughout
their history.
They are relentless in their pursuit of conquest.
It never ends.
And this is what we see in Revelation chapter 6 verses 1 and 2, the rider on the
white horse who is going forth conquering and to conquer.
There is no end to their pursuit.
They are unyielding.
And that's the way Rome has always been, and I believe what this is showing is this
conquest, this pursuit.
They will never repent.
They will never back down.
But clay, on the other hand, is easily manipulated and reshaped and reformed.
Especially wet clay, which in Daniel 2.41 it describes it as miry clay, which is wet
clay.
And it's also described as potter's clay, which is the clay of a potter.
The potter can form and make something else into it.
So you have one substance that's unyielding, the other that is known to be
easily manipulated.
That is a formula for disaster, because that's telling us that even though
it is a mixture, and even though it is divided, the iron will have its way,
not the clay.
And the iron has another advantage over the clay in that it is solid.
It is unified.
And so this kingdom, the kingdom of Rome that's represented by the iron,
is unified in its centralized power and control.
From a single control point, they are on the same page.
They are working together as one.
Whereas the clay is not cohesive.
Clay, I looked up the definition, it's finely grained natural rock or soil
material.
It consists of a bunch of little fine grains, a lot of small pieces that are
held together just by nothing more than some moisture.
And so clay easily falls apart to break up into smaller pieces.
It does not have that strength of central control, that unity that iron has.
It's not firm like that.
Clay would be more of a decentralized, the power of the people who are bound
together by some common bond, their constitution, their beliefs.
But they are easily molded and constantly shifting and changing.
And in some cases, even falling apart easily.
And so what we see in the feet is a picture of this Roman Empire continuing
relentlessly to advance its agenda.
And in this case, it has to operate undercover, stealth operations to bring
the clay into submission to its will without the clay even understanding what's
going on.
So there's deception.
There's deception in this process.
Because the clay has to be remolded to the will of Rome without understanding that
they're losing.
They have to manipulate public opinion, in other words, to get the people to
willingly yield to Rome without understanding that they're even doing
that.
They have to willingly give up their national sovereignty, their liberties,
and conform, give more power and control to Rome.
So the masses, the public, are manipulated through deception and tactics we would
call today mind control, lies through the mainstream media, through movies,
television, that convince people to believe lies.
And it reminds me of what the CIA director William Casey told President Reagan in
1981 in their first cabinet meeting.
William Casey said, when everything the American people believe is a lie,
we will have accomplished our objective.
And I shared in my book all sorts of evidence of the CIA.
For decades, going back to the beginning of the CIA in 1947, they have a huge
operation within their organization that is just for the purpose of manipulating
the news media, movies, television shows.
It's called mind control of the American public.
That's been happening for decades.
And all I'm trying to do is show the scriptures that explain why that's
happening and who's behind it.
Now, in this environment, in the foot, the iron cannot resort to its historic
practice of just brute force at every turn because they need the people, they need
the clay to remain compliant, to give their consent.
They need the people to remain deceived so that they'll be willing to go along with
the program and just keep nudging them along.
So they can't just always come out and hit people over the head with the iron.
And they have to resort to more stealth tactics.
And one of the main ones that we see them using is bribery and blackmail,
where they try to convert the people of the nation they occupy, they try to
convert them to their side, saying, you know, if you do this, we'll make you
wealthy.
If you don't do this, you know, we're going to kill your kids and we're
going to kill you.
So they are using their brute force, but they're using it in isolated,
secret cases where they can keep people silent.
And if the people don't keep silent, they'll find ways to keep them silent.
And we've seen so many examples of that, where quote-unquote suicides.
One of my favorite ones was the guy Gary Webb, who wrote the book called Dark
Alliances, exposing the CIA drug trafficking business.
And it turns out everything he wrote in that book proved to be very accurate.
But he had some visitors show up at his house, and it wasn't presented that way.
It was presented that he committed suicide.
The problem was he had two bullet holes in his head.
Whoever heard of shooting themselves twice in the head?
But yet, it was ruled a suicide.
And so they can even get a coroner to say, yep, that looks like a suicide to me.
Two bullet holes in the head, and that's a suicide.
I mean, it's beyond ridiculous.
And that's the kind of things that are happening and that they're routinely
getting away with.
Leaving a trail of bodies that nobody's ever charged with a crime.
And it's just called a suicide.
Now, I've given you a lot to think about today.
And I know for me personally, when I started learning these things,
it took me some time to process it.
It takes some time, because you start understanding and seeing through the veil.
And it's, you know, it's a lot to process.
And so I'm going to stop there for today.
And I will pick it back up again tomorrow.
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Until then, so long.