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Originally Posted by weasel

I was watching a Kent Hovind (Dr. Dino) video last night, number 5 of a series of 7. Awesome stuff!!!!
Anyway, he quoted this passage out of Daniel 2:

31 "You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. 32 This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and *thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of *clay. 34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth."'

Gold = Babylonian Empire
Silver = Medo-Persian Empire
Bronze = Grecian Empire
Iron = (holy) Roman Empire
Iron and clay = a coming kingdom, which will have the strengths and weaknesses of iron and clay.

In the interpretation, Daniel said "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. "

10 toes. That has to mean 10 rulers, right?

Great question, but no, it is actually 10 Kingdoms (geo-political regions), not 10 rulers. Great perspective, though, on the 10 toes, I never thought of that before!