Questions about Daniel 2:31-45

  1. What is the approximate time span of this prophecy?
    1. 490 years.
    2. 70 'weeks' of years.
    3. 40 times 40 years.
    4. Right Answer!2600 years.

     

  2. Is there a pattern to the progression of kingdoms?
    1. Right Answer!Yes, each kingdom becomes harder and less noble than the one before it.
    2. Yes, the first is from God, and is on top, near heaven, and then each becomes more and more like Satan, lower and lower, on to the Abyss.
    3. No, they just are what they are.
    4. No, there is no pattern, but we can still determine which kingdom is which by looking at history.

     

  3. We are not told specifically, but what gender is the statue?
    1. Right Answer!It is male.
    2. It is female.
    3. It is gender neutral.

     

  4. How many kingdoms are represented in the statue of this prophecy?
    1. Right Answer!Four, gold, silver, bronze, iron.
    2. Five, gold, silver, bronze, iron, iron/clay mixture.
    3. Six., gold, silver, bronze, iron, iron/clay mixture, rock.

     

  5. What is best represented by the head of gold?
    1. Satan.
    2. Jesus.
    3. King Nebuchadnezzar.
    4. Right Answer!The kingdom of Babylon.

     

  6. How many significant parts are there to this statue?
    1. Right Answer!Four, head, chest and arms, belly and thighs, legs.
    2. Five, head, chest and arms, belly and thighs, legs, feet and toes.
    3. Six, head, chest and arms, belly and thighs, legs, feet, and lastly ten toes.

     

  7. Which kingdoms would eventually fulfill the kingdoms of this prophecy?
    1. Right Answer!Babylon, Media and Persia, Greece, and the Roman.
    2. Babylon, Media and Persia, Greece, Roman, and the Ottoman.
    3. Babylon, Media and Persia, Greece, Roman, Ottoman, and the British.

     

  8. Who is the spiritual power behind these kingdoms?
    1. Man.
    2. Right Answer!Satan.
    3. The Lord God.
    4. The angels.

     

  9. Who is the rock that is cut out, but not by human hands?
    1. Right Answer!Jesus the Rock of Ages.
    2. The rock is symbolic of hard hearted Israel.
    3. Satan is the hard one that wants to destroy man's empires so that he can rule.
    4. The beast who gets his power from Satan.

     

  10. What is the significance of the rock hitting the statue in the feet and toes?
    1. A rolling stone would naturally hit the part on the ground.
    2. It is symbolic for the fact that none will get away, the feet are broken first so that the statue can't run away.
    3. Right Answer!This statue represents the kingdoms that would rule Jerusalem over time, the feet represent the time that the Lord will come and smash the kingdoms.
    4. It is significant because Mercury, the revered Roman false god of war, has wings on his feet.

     

  11. What does "In the time of those kings..." mean in verse 44?
    1. They are the "Kings of the East."
    2. It means that during the time that the four kingdoms are ruling God will be establishing his kingdom in the background, to be revealed at the appointed time.
    3. Right Answer!The kings are represented by the ten toes of the statue and will rule together at the very end of the statues, thus the kingdoms, existence.
    4. The means that during the time kings rule, that is, as long as people live on the earth, but at the end of that time, God will establish a heavenly rule and do away with the earthly.

     

  12. Which Coming of the Lord is shown in the "rock, cut out, but not by human hands", image?
    1. First.
    2. Right Answer!Second.
    3. Third.

     

  13. In the time of those kings, when the Lord comes to establish his kingdom, who will be its king?
    1. The prince of Israel.
    2. The leader of the newly unified Church.
    3. Right Answer!Jesus Christ.
    4. Satan, the god of this world.

     

  14. Now, since this prophecy says that there will be four kingdoms, is the iron mixed with clay image really part of the iron legs portion?
    1. Right Answer!Yes.
    2. No.

     

  15. Where was the power base of the fourth kingdom?
    1. Right Answer!Mostly Europe.
    2. Mostly Egypt.
    3. Mostly the middle east.
    4. The whole world.
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