See the Hegemon Parade series here
For the very first time, in Daniel chapter 2, Jesus, The Lord God Almighty (pre-incarnate), revealed His multi-millennial plan for a succession of Gentile world powers -- hegemon nations that would predominate the growing, global, populations during the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th ages of our history.
Here are some totally shocking things about this revelation:
1. The Lord gave the first clues of it in a dream to a pagan king, not to a prophet like Moses!
2. He gave the interpretation thereof to a young, Jewish slave in Babylon, sometime after its fearsome army had thrice invaded Jerusalem, then spread across Judea, and captured the best of the 2 tribes of Judah (people and things), for service to the King of Babylon -- echoes of Hebrew slavery in ancient Egypt!!
3. He 'connected the dots' between the dream, and its interpretation in an ASTOUNDINGLY EPIC manner!!!
4. To date, THIS succession of global hegemony, has formed the SPINE of the history of nations!!!!
5. Today, as we near the close of this 3rd age of history, age-wise, we are at the mid-point of this lengthy progression of global hegemony, BUT we might be at the point at which only the last two, hinted hegemons remain in this multi-millennial parade!!!!!
My deep, abiding hope is that this summary will inspire and spark your interest to do just as I did---to read, study, meditate and pray in earnest about what this means in context of (a) how the past few centuries of history have unfolded, and (b) how history daily continues to unfold ...at the speed of time.
Selah...