256    The Bible and the Future of the World 

{2:43} Yet, because you saw the iron mingled with pottery from the earth, 

they will indeed be combined together with the offspring of man, but they 

will not adhere to one another, just as iron cannot be mixed with 

earthenware. 

{2:44} But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will inspire a 

kingdom that will never be destroyed, and his kingdom will not be handed 

over to another people, and it will crush and will consume all these 

kingdoms, and this kingdom itself will stand in eternity. 

{2:45} In accordance with what you saw, because the stone was torn away 

from the mountain without hands, and it crushed the earthenware, and the 

iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God has shown 

the king what will happen after this. And the dream is true, and its 

interpretation is faithful.  

The kingdom of the Antichrist is divided in the sense that there will always 

be those who oppose him and his rule. Even though, in general, the 

Antichrist will rule over the whole world, specifically, there will always be 

areas of his kingdom where his unwilling subjects reject him and even rebel 

against him. 

The kingdom of the Antichrist operates in a different way than the kingdom 

of the ten kings and all previous kingdoms. The difference is represented by 

mixing iron and clay. This refers to technology in some way integrated with 

human biology. The mark of the beast and its number, 666 or  616, is 

mentioned in the Book of Revelation. People are marked on the hand or 

forehead and cannot buy or sell without this mark. The mark, as many have 

speculated, is some type of technology imbedded in the human body, like 

iron mixed with clay. But, since this will occur hundreds of years in the 

future (A.D. 2400 s), we cannot be certain what type of technology. 

The iron mixed with the clay also means that the Antichrist attempts to mix 

the worship of false gods (the iron) with human nature (the clay). That 

which is merely human, the Antichrist, presents himself as a false god, as if 

he were made of gold or silver or brass or iron or stone or wood, as the false 

idols of ancient times. 

{4:1} I, Nebuchadnezzar, was content in my house and prospering in my 

palace. 

{4:2} I saw a dream that terrified me, and my thoughts on my bed and the 

visions in my head disturbed me.