Seed of Satan: Part 2
By way of introduction, please read The Seed of Satan: Part 1 of Many.
In this blog I will shed more light on why I believe the antichrist will be or at least could be—a Nephilim—the seed of Satan mingled with a woman.
When it comes to end-time prophecy few would argue there are some very difficult and often misunderstood scriptures. Many of these difficult scriptures are contained in Daniel. If we look at the antichrist as a Nephilim—the seed of Satan and a woman—then it seems to bring some clarity to a few of these end-time scriptures. In this blog we will take a closer look at Daniel 2:42-45.
First dealing with Daniel 2:42-45 in the NASV, then on to the KJV. These scriptures must be looked at in order to first discuss them, then put them on their proper shelf. This was part of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream that Daniel revealed to him and then interpreted. The NASV reads:
“As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. 43 And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery. 44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
Clearly we are reading about end-times, though most would agree this was a two-fold prophecy: both a nearer to Daniel future prophecy and an end-time prophecy. It must be declaring the end-times due to verse 44, where God states both the establishment of His Kingdom and the end of ALL other kingdoms. Verse 44 coincides with Revelation 11:15, which is during the sounding of the 7th trumpet and nearing the 3rd woe:
Then the seventh angel sounded [its trumpet]; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.”
When teachers exegete Daniel 2:43 using their primary translation as either the KJV or the NKJV they usually interpret it in a way that lends towards another influx of Nephilim in the end-times. Both the KJV and the NKJV translations lead one to the conclusion that the “they” within are fallen angels. In the KJV Daniel 2:42 reads:
And whereas thou sawest 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.
I have heard prominent teachers exegete Daniel 2:43 as though it reads:
And whereas thou sawest iron [fallen angels] mixed with miry clay [mankind], they [fallen angels] shall mingle [have intercourse] with the seed of men [women] and have Nephilim babies by them: but they [the seed of women mixed with the seed of fallen angels] shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
It appears that Nephilim could not reproduce Nephilim. Instead, their offspring were giants (Numbers 13:33; also called Rephaim, sons of Anak, and Emim) able to reproduce with other humans and each other. Nephilim were on the earth both before and after the flood. There are only two references to them in the Bible. Some commentators divide these two references into two different group: the first being a union between fallen angels and the second being their subsequent generations.
Since there is tremendous reason to conclude that the “they” in Daniel 2:42 are not fallen angels and there is also tremendous reason to see how they could be, I’m going to leave it there—in tension. I'm persuaded that the "they" here are not fallen angels. But for the rest of this blog Daniel 2:43 isn’t a necessary scripture leading me to believe that the antichrist is, or at least is highly likely to be, a Nephilim.
To be continued.
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Since Scriptures are subject to a number of levels of interpretation, one could surely be that clay mingled with iron alludes to the hybrid nephilim. It could also mean that Roman Catholicism combines with Islam in some governmental fashion.
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