Happy Sunday everyone, I will like to show us something quickly
I find it as an aberration.
I recently came across the phrase “Feet of clay”
The white people made it up and they bungled it’s meaning based on scriptural terms
According to the rule of communications and meaning
They got it awfully wrong.
They interpreted “Feet of clay” to mean a fundamental flaw in a person, especially one that is reverred.
For example, a man of God who was expected to live at a certain high standard and didn’t due to human flaws or character flaws
When they did this,
They displayed a lack of practical wisdom and understanding of the word of God
The term actually came from the vision of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2 and Daniel 7
Many believers or Christian teachers wrote articles about in which can be found online
They are all wrong!
I say this
boldly
Feet of clay according to the scriptures refer to a time, season or dispensation
We must be weary of ascribing to the word of Hod a@meaning of our own making rather than the meaning the scripture gave it from the source
Nebuchadnezzer had a dream and in this dream he saw
A statue with head of pure gold, chest and arm of silver, belly and thigh of bronze, legs of iron and the feet made of partly iron and partly baked clay!
According to Daniel in Daniel 2 from verse 36, The rule of Nebuchadnezzar was the head of gold, and other kingdoms that would
Arise after him were the inferior ones described as silver, bronze, iron and clay
This has nothing to do with character but it has everything to do with dispensation!
The image represented how the world will look and be governed at those times and had nothing to do with the
Character of the bronze and the feet of clay as it’s weak link!
We are currently in the dispensation of this feet of clay, what this means is that the world is now governed by ideologies and has rejected absolute truth!
Infact many refer to these days as “Post Truth” or post
Church” meaning authority and leadership is no longer with the ideal of truth or the church
Like clay, there is no strength of conviction, everyone is doing what they believe is right by themselves
During Nebuchadnezzar’s rule, the world had one supreme leader and this was him!
He had control over half the expanse of the planet earth and his rule was absolute
After him (I mean Babylonian rule as a whole) came the kingdom of the Medes and Persia and then the ruler ship from Alexander the Great before Rome!
Rome was the iron! And after Rome came the
British empire and subsequently the domination of Russia and USA which later led us to this times in which ideologies began to rule the world
There is no absolute world leader at the moment
The idea of a symbol of authority has been torn down from the family to religion and
government!
The spirit of this dispensation is self and the god of self is self!
So we hear of self-made, self-determination, self-control, self-government and self-placement.
This new ideology based on self led to LGBTQ, feminism, etc
Nobody allows anybody to tell them how to
live an do things anymore#you would have heard the term “do you” several times
This is what the feet of clay stands for.
It is not a flaw, it is the description of an age, dispensation, time and season.
Saying the feet of clay is a weakness is akin to saying the head of gold
Is strength!
Both comparisons would be unwise
It is again like saying “1600 is better than the year 2000” or that 1500 is strength while 1990s is weakness and flawed!
This analogy is wrong and should no longer be used if we are talking about scriptures and the meaning ascribed
to visions as explained by Daniel.
A character weakness is not feet of clay and a character strength is not head of gold!
To all Bible scholars out there, I ask that the explanation of scriptures be divided in context and not out of context that we may keep the meaning of the
revealed truth through the word of God sacred and sacrosanct.
If however you insist you will continue to use the feet of clay to describe character flaw, know that you have a feet of clay in your ideology and meaning and you have deviated from the scripture and it’s true meaning!

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