Nebuchadnezzar’s dream

 Daniel 2: 31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue,awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold (Babylon), its chest and arms of silver(Media/Persia), its belly and thighs of bronze (Greece), 33 its legs of iron (Rome), its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. (Revived Rome- The kingdom of anti-christ)

Feet of iron and clay. It’s strength is deceptive; it’s unity is an illusion. Iron and clay can never hold together. Yet this kingdom, for a time, will unify the nations, holding a decisive and destructive power over all who belong to this world….Why? Precisely because they love the things of this world and seek after the treasure of it…Revelation 13:16 It (the false prophet) also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark,which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. 

To refuse this mark is to be heavily persecuted, and at the very least, deprived of even our most basic needs. If we do not learn to make Jesus Christ our source, and seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness …if we do not begin to store up for ourselves things of Heaven instead of this earth…and set our desires on the same…we too will be ensnared by the power of the prince of this world.

Read Matthew 25:1-13;Genesis 19:12-26

We must set our affections on Christ NOW, not considering anything of this world but awaiting expectantly for His return. 

Because…

34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands.It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. (Revelation 19:11-21)

Matthew 6:19-21, 31-33; Colossians 3:2-5