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Daniel's vision loudly declares, for those with the eyes to see, that "history looks like a statue."
And history must be proportionate to the statue or it will not look like a statue! Visualize with me, for a
moment, the statue, and see the correspondence. Ask yourself, WHY did YEHOVAH God use the fig-
ure of a statue? Should there be some correspondence as to time? In other words -- should not the
statue be proportionate to what it predicts? Absolutely -- and so it does!

For the head was barely 69 years (unless you date it from Nebuchadnezzar's first taking of
Babylon, which would add a few more years) before the portion of chest and shoulders allotted to the
Medo-Persians came and went, consuming some 204 years, from Cyrus to Alexander the Great. If we
date the beginning of the Roman Empire at the Battle of Actium, as many do, then the Greek period of
the loins stretches 290 years. From that point the legs, and feet, representing the Roman Empire, are
507 years long. That would make the upper torso and head be 573 years long and the rest of the body
507 years long. If you will use those proportions you will find that not only did Daniel predict the coming
four empires but gave an accurate prediction of their PROPORTIONATE RULES.

If you use this proportion allowing seven inches for the head, twenty-one for the chest, twenty-
nine from diaphragm to hips, and fifty-one from hip joints to feet, you will find that history indeed does
match the proportions of the statue. And the House of Jacob (Kingdom of YEHOVAH) fits the vision
exactly by the little stone striking the image, chronologically as well as physically in the spot, at or to-
ward the latter times of the Roman Empire -- but before it was divided into ten kingdoms.

But what if the image hasn't been hit in the toes yet, as some claim? Since there were 507 years
from Actium to the fall of Rome, and the fall of Rome should be the time of the appearance of the ten
toes, that would make the toes over 1500 years long and still going!! There is obviously something very
wrong with that interpretation!

The position of the Futurist has to be wrong simply because the figures and symbols that are
given in the prophecy are so grotesquely destroyed by this scenario. The figures in the prophecies fit
naturally and proportionately when the House of Jacob (Israel) is seen as the Kingdom of YEHOVAH
and the growth of that Kingdom is seen in conjunction with the progression of the prophetic symbols.
The symbol in Daniel 2 is one of a statue predicting future history -- NOT a statue with deformed toes!

The ten toes on Daniel's statue correspond to the "ten horns" of the fourth beast that Daniel saw.
This beast was "dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured
and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts
that were before it; and IT HAD TEN HORNS" (Daniel 7:7). The fourth world kingdom -- also repre-
sented by the legs and feet of the statue in Daniel 2 -- was the Roman Empire. The meaning of the ten
horns or ten toes is explained in verse 24 of Daniel 7: These ten horns out of this kingdom are TEN
KINGS [OR KINGDOMS] that shall arise." Macchiavelli, the Roman historian, clearly described the
Roman Empire as being divided among the various Gothic tribes -- their number being TEN: Heruli,
Suevi, Burgundians, Huns, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, Lombards, Franks and Anglo-Saxons.
These have ever since been spoken of as the TEN KINGDOMS that rose out of the Roman Empire.
For more details see our article, Just Who or What Is the "Antichrist"? in the May-June 2001
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