Iron Mixed With Clay

 When Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, we are told the last kingdom on earth will be destroyed by a stone “not made by human hands”, and this will be Jesus coming on Revelation 19.  We are also told in chapter 2 that the whole statue represents all of human history and it stands on feet made of iron mixed with clay.  Jesus smashes that last kingdom at His return.  For years we have believed that the iron and clay is going to be the Antichrist’s kingdom mixed with some type of fallen angel/“aliens”/demons.  This would line up with Jesus saying “as it was in the days of Noah”.

Now today I see that I’m not alone in piecing this together because Terry James wrote a very good explanation of why he sees this as a possibility too.

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Days of Noah-level Corruption

Many questions have come to me over the years about topics such as the biblical reporting on strange things that have happened from the beginning of humankind.

One such line of inquiry by some has been about the fallen angels (those who followed Lucifer in the rebellion against God) and their sexual insinuation into humanity.

Some theologians and others see this Genesis chapter 6 account as the sons of Cain, Adam and Eve’s son, as having sexual relations with Seth’s daughters, Seth being another son of the couple. This is in error, in my view and that of others. Many, including yours truly, believe the Bible says these fallen angels saw human women and found them sexually attractive, so they mated with them. These unions produced the Nephilim–the giants from which many believe the legendary demigods such as Zeus, Thor, Hercules, et cetera, came.

The questions sometime involve how beings such as Heaven’s powerful angels can have such relations with human women of mere flesh and blood. Or, how angels can reproduce, since Jesus Himself said human beings are like the angels in that they neither marry nor are given in marriage once they’re in Heaven.

However, in the case of the first question, we have stories of angels taking on the form of men, such as in the account of their visit to Abraham before they went to Sodom to deal with that city and remove righteous Lot. These angels/men were attractive to the homosexuals, who demanded to “know” them sexually.

In the case of the second question, we must recognize the term “in Heaven.” They have no marriage-type relationships while in the heavenly realm. But outside of Heaven, there is no such restriction or encumbrance—at least none found in Scripture.

The Bible doesn’t say that angels are sexless–without the ability to procreate—only that they don’t have such relationships in Heaven.

Upon giving King Nebuchadnezzar the interpretation of the metallic man dream-vision, Daniel implies that the wicked angelic forces possess sexual “seed”:

“Whereas thou safest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay” (Daniel 2:43).

Here the prophet was giving a picture of how the world system of rebellion against God will come down to a ten-kingdom configuration, which Jesus Christ will destroy when He returns at Armageddon. Apparently, the agglomeration of evil leaders, “kings,” and their “kingdoms” will be influenced by and probably intermingled biologically with demonic forces (fallen angels).

This is seen as being the case even now through Paul’s warning about the powers and principalities we struggle against today (Ephesians 6:12).

And this brings me to the point I would like us to look at regarding days-of-Noah-level corruption.

Jesus said the time of His return would be like it was “in the days of Noah.” The specific thing for us to examine is found in Christ’s Words in Genesis. (And, yes, Genesis is the “word of Christ”; Jesus is “the Word,” as we are told in John 1:1.)

We find in Genesis the following description of those days of Noah:

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth” (Genesis 6:11-12). 

The word to consider for our purposes here is “corrupted.” All flesh had corrupted itself; all was, in God’s holy eyes, changed from the genetic configuration He had created. Therefore, the following verses tell us that He would destroy the world, and He told Noah to prepare the ark for their physical as well as spiritual salvation.

Satan and his fallen horde of angels had been instrumental in this “corrupting” of all flesh. The genetic contamination was so great that God no longer recognized humanity as worth saving, except through the one family that hadn’t corrupted themselves by being part of the world of rebels.

My point is that if we are again in a time like Noah’s days, we must be in a time of corruption at least in some regard, like it was then.

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