Gaps of Time Seen in Scripture (That are Pertinent to the Study of End Times)

We are posting Scriptures here that we think might help and (and maybe you), with the help of the Lord, grasp the timing of end time events. We certainly do not have all of the answers, but we hope our blogs will help us to grow in our knowledge of end time events. If you see a passage that you don't think belongs here in this section, please let us know.

• Daniel 2:37-44: 37 You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold. 39 "After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. [This next kingdom, the fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, had its beginning long ago, before Jesus came to earth, fell apart hundreds of years later, but seems to be forming again as the European Union. So the gap that we are speaking about for the purpose of this study is the gap between the former Roman Empire and the one yet to come.] 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron — for iron breaks and smashes everything — and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. 44 "In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.