What will Christ do to the Revived Roman Empire at His coming?
At His coming, Christ will strike the Revived Roman Empire, depicted as the ten toes of iron mixed with clay. He will crush it like a stone cut out without hand, a great boulder rolling down on those feet, demolishing that final Gentile empire and all remaining vestiges of the preceding empires.
Les explains that after the Gentile empires that touched Israel, history moves from Rome’s original empire in 250–300 A.D. to the end time and the Revived Roman Empire. He identifies this as the Ten Toes of Iron mixed with Clay, which he has taught as the European Community, the Ten Nations of Western Europe. Though today the Ten have gone up to 12 and might go to 13, 14, or 15, he guarantees that when the Antichrist comes and the European Community becomes in totality the Revived Roman Empire, it will drop back to ten. It is on that last Revived Roman Empire, pretty much in place now, that Christ will strike at His coming, like a stone cut out without hand, just like a great boulder rolling down upon the feet of iron and clay. As it crushes up those legs, a picture of the Roman Empire, on up over the belly area, a picture of the Greek Empire, on up over the chest, the Median Persians, and on up over the head of gold, Babylon, all vestiges and remnants of those empires are dealt with. He notes that banking, interest, and usury originated in ancient Babylon, and much in our culture came out of the Median Persian Empire.
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.