The Heart Of The Earth And The Three Days And Three Nights, Matthew 12:40.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the wale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew 12:40 (RV).

Many an unbeliever ridicule the account of Jonah and the whale, as they do Noah and his ark, and no doubt there are many who would claim to be Christian that don't literally believe the accounts of Noah and Jonah. They have a problem - for the Lord Jesus obviously believed and taught that these accounts were literal truth (Matthew 24:37-39, Jonah 12:39-41), likewise they mock the account of Daniel and the lions den, again the Lord verifies the book of Daniel (Matthew 24:15).

It is said that Jonah was "cast into the depth, in the heart of the seas" Jonah 2:3, and so the "depth" is very deep, not a shallow grave. Likewise the Saviour went down, very deep, but into "the heart of the earth." After the burial of His body in the tomb, the Lord's soul descended down into Hades, into the subterranean places. Referring to the text in Ephesians - "now in that He ascended, what is it that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?" Eph.4:9. I have myself, visited the garden tomb, if indeed that was His burial place, for I noted that it is level with the earth as borne out by the Scripture in Luke 24:2; is it not then a stretch to believe all that is meant by "the heart of the earth" is a ground level burial chamber? Dr Gill thinks so, for he reasoned that because His tomb was "dug out of a rock" this then answers to "the heart of the earth".

B.W. Newton writes (Remarks on Mosaic Cosmogony and Genesis 2 verse 5 (1882)) from the sub-heading; Note on the locality of Hades.

"In the New Testament, Phil.2:10, we find a remarkable expression strongly corroborative of all that has been said, "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth". This is a very important passage. It evidently speaks not of things inanimate or unintelligent, but of beings capable of bowing the knee intelligently; and it expressly teaches not only that all intelligent beings on the earth, but that all intelligent beings in subterranean places, shall finally be made to bow; the latter indeed, not bowing the knee of allegiance, or of worship, but of forced unwilling acknowledgment.
I scarcely see how we could refuse to admit on the evidence of this passage alone , that the interior parts of the earth are at present the prison of certain souls - souls of the lost. Bishop Ellicott commenting on this passage says, "The three classes here mentioned are not to be understood with any ethical reference ...... but simply and plainly, angels and archangels in Heaven - men upon earth - and the departed under the earth."

He continues...

"Another strong evidence of the connexion of Hades with the earth is this, that when the Adamic earth is destroyed at the close of the millennium, when the new heavens and earth are created, then Hades is destroyed likewise. It is cast into the lake of fire. See Rev. xx.

As then the grave is regarded in Scripture as the prison-house of the body, so Hades is regarded as the prison - house of the dis-embodied soul; evidencing, consequently, the power of death. In order, therefore, to prove the completeness of His submission to the real power of death, and in fulfillment of His own words respecting being three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, the soul of our blessed Lord was in Hades during the time that His body was in the grave. The text from the Psalms quoted by Peter in the Acts, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, Unquestionably proves this. The same truth is likewise taught in His words just quoted respecting His being "in the heart of the earth," - for, "heart of the earth" is not an expression that the Lord would apply only to the sepulchre in which His body was laid. If He had intended to refer only to the grave, He would no doubt have made especial reference to His body, saying, "the body of the Son of Man shall be three days in the earth;" whereas, His words are not so limited. "As Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matt.12:40) - words which cannot be understood so as to exclude reference to His soul, with which consciousness and feeling remained.
Whilst then the Scripture plainly declares that the soul of our Lord was in Hades during the time that His body was in the grave, it is equally evident that that part of Hades was not a place of torment, or of suffering. On the contrary, though it was a place of confinement bearing witness to the power of death, even as the grave is a place of confinement bearing witness to the power of death, yet to the soul of Jesus it was a place of rest, and peace, and communion with God. All the penal suffering that had to be borne for us by our great Substitute terminated at the cross when He bowed His head and said "It is finished." Then the cup of suffering that He had to drink for His people was drained to the dregs; and all after it was peace, rest and triumph. He soon proved that the gates of Hades had no strength to resist the mighty power of Him, whose soul, for a season, was enclosed within its bars.
Nor is the fact of the soul of our blessed Lord having been three days in Hades the only reason that we have for affirming that there was one part of Hades separated off from the rest, and allotted to the righteous.
In the parable of our Lord concerning the rich man and Lazarus, it is very evident that Abraham and Lazarus were in a state of blessedness, for it is expressly said that Lazarus was "comforted;" but Abraham and Lazarus are not spoken of as being in Heaven. On the contrary, they are spoken of as being separated by a vast and impassable chasm from the place in which the rich man was; and he is expressly said to have been in Hades in torment. Would the Lord have spoken this parable if there had not been (I do not say now is) in Hades a place of blessedness as well as a place of torment? That the expectation of the Old Testament saints was to go to Hades (Sh'ohl) is manifest from the words of Jacob when he mourned for the supposed death of Joseph. "All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and said, For I will go down to Sh'ohl unto my son mourning." (Gen.xxxvii. 35) And again, "then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sh'ohl." (Gen. xlii. 38). Yet in expecting to go into Hades they must have regarded it as a place (not to them of sorrow and torment) but of rest and blessedness: otherwise they could not have died, as they did, in peace. They regarded it too, as a temporary state in which their souls were to wait only for a season, for "they looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." I do not see, therefore, how we can avoid accepting the conclusion, that there was in Hades a division prepared for the souls of the blessed, and another division called "the lowest Hades" (Deut. xxxii. 22) assigned to the souls of the lost; and that the souls of those who died in the faith of a promised Saviour did, until the resurrection and ascension of that Saviour, remain in that division of Hades that was allotted to the souls of the blessed, being there sustained and comforted by the power of God, and proving the words of the Psalmist, "if I make my bed in Sh'ohl, behold thou [Jehovah] art there." (Ps.cxxxix. 8.)
Since, however, the ascension of our Lord into His glory, it is very evident that the souls of all believers at death depart to be with Him in Paradise: and that Paradise is not Hades (as some of the Fathers thought) is evident from this, that St. Paul speaks of Paradise as the third heavens. Compare second and fourth verses of 2 Cor. xii. Nor did St.Paul speak of Hades, when he said, "to depart and be with Christ is far better;" nor when He spoke of absence from the body being presence with the Lord. (2 Cor. v.8.) These texts put it beyond a question that the souls of believers do not now go to Hades, but are with their Lord in heaven, awaiting the resurrection hour.
Nor can there be any doubt that the souls of of the saints of the Old Testament are also in heaven. The Apostle in speaking of the one family of faith, speaks of it as divided into two parts only; namely, those still militant on earth, and those who are in the Heavens. "For this cause I bow my knees to unto the Father our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named." Eph.3.14. He would not thus have written if that family had still been in Hades.
Nor is there any reason to doubt that when the Apostle, speaking of the ascension of the Lord, says, "When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive," he did by these words refer to the Lord taking with Him into Heaven, as an evidence of His triumph over Hades, the souls of all His saints who had till that time been there detained; thus proving that He had the keys of Hades. Soon He will equally prove by raising their bodies from the grave, that He has the keys of death likewise-death being more especially connected with the grave, seeing that there its power is peculiarly shown in the dissolution and corruption of the body."

There are those who take the "three days and three nights" in the verse under discussion to mean a literal 72 hours, and certainly this would seem to be exactly what the Lord means from our present perspective, but is it necessarily so? Would we not be guilty of imposing our 21st century mindset, as it were, back on to the the Lord's meaning? The 24 hour clock as we now know it, was not used by the ancients back in the apostolic era; left to the Scripture alone, we could know absolutely nothing of a 24 hour day. The Bible only speaks of 12 hours in a day; there are some 365 days (plus an extra day for a 'leap year') in the solar (heliocentric) calendar, yet only 360 days in the biblical geocentric calendar. Both cannot be correct-do we believe what God says, or the invention of man? If we are to use the modern day clock as the basis of calculating the exact time that the Lord spent in Hades and the grave, assuming three full nights and full days as we know them to be; the resultant figure (72 hours) cannot therefore be correct-it is impossible.
John 11:9 unequivocally declares that there are only "twelve hours in a day"; are we to assume that within the day is the night also? In our present day, when we talk of the day, do we not also mean the night as well? For example, if I were to say to you, "I will see you in three days time" (God willing!) would you not assume that I meant the nights were also included within those days? I think you would! (you would not think that I meant a literal 72 hours, or would you?) It is interesting that a few verses prior to John 11:9, it is said that "He abode at that time two days in the place where He was." John 11:6 (RV). Is it not then incredulous therefore to suggest that nights were not included in those "two days"? The plain reading of the context fully supports this. It would seem to me, at any rate, that hours back in the NT era must have been approximately twice as long as they are computed today, but was the eleventh hour one hour (or more) before mid-day or mid-night, or both? Obviously the answer is neither, for the "eleventh hour" (Matt. 20:6-9) would have been within the last hour or so, of daylight before the sun went down.This then, is a variable point in any given day throughout the year-advancing toward the summer, and declining toward the winter months. If then, time wasn't regulated back in the apostolic age exactly as it is in our day, then is it not obvious that we cannot impose onto it our modern day manufactured (man-made) time constraints? In the apostolic age, the new day was reckoned from the time the sun went down, not from 12 o'clock mid-night; often many hours beforehand! To this very day observant and orthodox Jews observe the onset of the Saturday Seventh Day Sabbath in as they did in OT and NT times.

It is of considerable note that it was "upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread" Acts 20:7. Why didn't these Jewish believers do this on the Jewish Sabbath, instead of on our Sunday - the Lord's day; that is, why didn't they "break bread" on the Seventh day - as many so-called Messianic believers do in our day? They well knew its venerated significance. It is because God in Christ didn't rise on the Seventh day, He rose on "the first day of the week" Mark 16:9, as the Scripture of Truth testifies. The Old Testament, or Jewish Sabbath was never changed; unbelieving Jews regard this day to the present hour; but what of the first day when He was resurrected, do they believe on this - the Christian Sabbath (the Lord's day)? In the Lord's own words "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath." Mark 2:27, and this from the Man whom the Pharisees accused of desecrating the seventh day that He had made! (Matt. 12:2, 10, Luke 13:14 etc.)

The ancient, (and present day) observant Jews reckoned a part of one day (no matter how small, or large the part thereof) as a whole day.

On Matt. 12:40, Jamieson Fausset & Brown write; "The period during which He was to lie in the grave is here expressed in round numbers, according to the Jewish way of speaking, which was to regard any part of a day, however small, included within a period of days, as a full day. (See 1 Sam. 30:12, 13; Esther 4:16; 5:1; ch. 27:63, 64, etc.).

Dr. Gill writes regarding the time the Lord was entombed;
"It was on the sixth day of the week, we commonly call "Friday", towards the close, on the day of the preparation of the sabbath, and when the sabbath drew on, that the body of Christ was laid in the sepulchre; where it lay all the next day, which was the sabbath of the Jews, and what we commonly call "Saturday"; and early on the first day of the week, usually called "Sunday", or the Lord's day, He rose from the dead; so that He was but one whole day, and part of two, in the grave. To solve this difficulty, and set the matter in a clear light, let it be observed, that the three days and three nights, mean three natural days, consisting of day and night, or 24 hours, and are what the Greeks call "night days"; but the Jews have no other ways of expressing them, but as here; and with them it is a well known rule, and used on all occasions, as in the computations of their feasts and times of mourning, in the observance of the Passover, circumcision, and diverse purification's that "a part of a day is as the whole" and so, whatever was done before sun setting, or after, it was reckoned as the whole preceding, or following day; and whether this was in the night part, or day part of the night day, or natural day, it mattered not, it was accounted as the whole night day: by this rule, the case here is easily adjusted; Christ was laid in the grave towards the close of the sixth day, a little before sun setting, and this being a part of the night day preceding, is reckoned as the whole; He continued there the whole night day following, being the seventh day; and rose again early on the first day, which being after sun setting, though it might be even before sun rising, yet being a part of the night day following, is to be esteemed as the whole; and thus the Son of man was to be, and was three days and three nights in the grave; and which was very easy to be understood by the Jews; and it is a question whether Jonas was longer in the belly of the fish."
(Regarding 24 hours-Dr Gill was influenced heavily by the false RCC inspired heliocentric theory).

Matthew Poole, another reformed Bible expositor, is in full agreement with the above; regarding a part of the day being reckoned as a whole, also adding that "It appears by Gen. 1:5, that the evening and morning made up a day."

On the verse in question, it should be obvious that to insist upon a literal 24 hour night and day (not that the Bible knows of a 24 hour day), or for that matter, to insist upon three complete full days, would create insurmountable problems, denying plainly what is written in Mark 16:9, and the strong inference that the Lord rose early on the first day of the week as stated in Luke 24:1-3, John 20:1. Scripture doesn't reveal; but it may have been only a matter of minutes, or less than an hour or so between the Lord rising from the tomb and when the women "found not the body of the Lord Jesus."

As the apostle Paul said; "He rose the third  day according to the Scriptures." 1 Cor. 15:4 (my emphasis).

Good Advice From A Bygone Saint.

Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing that you would not like God to hear. Write nothing that you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "show it to Me."
Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?"*

Bishop J.C. Ryle (1816-1900).

* The above confirms the timeless advice of this long departed saint, does it not? for in our present age the masses (professing Christians among them?) ever seem to be on their lap-tops, hand-held devices, touch-phones etc. I wonder; how much of what is transmitted and received on all this 'modern' technology today is truly God honouring? As for me, I think very little.

The Total Depravity Of Man

From BBC News 10th November 2019:

Russian professor admits murder after woman's arms found in bag.

A well known Russian historian has confessed to murdering his lover - a former student - his lawyer says, after he was found in a river with a backpack containing a woman's arms.

Oleg Sokolov, 63, was drunk and fell into the river as he tried to dispose of body parts, local media said.

Police then found the decapitated body of Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24, at his home.

Prof Sokolov is a Napoleon expert who has received France's Legion d'Honneur."

The article goes on to say:

"The historian has written several books on Napoleon and also acted as a historical consultant on several films. He and Ms Yeshchenko had co-authored several works.

Both he and Ms Yeshchenko studied French history and enjoyed wearing period costumes, with Prof Sokolov dressing up as Napoleon.

Students described him as both a talented lecturer who spoke French and did impressions of Napoleon and as a "freak" who called his lover"Josephine" and asked to be addressed as "Sire" AFP reported.

He was also a member of France's Institute of Social Science, Economics and Politics (Issep), which on Saturday said it had removed him from his position on its scientific committee.

"We learn with horror...the atrocious crime of which Oleg Sokolov is guilty," it said in a statement.

"We could never imagine that he could commit such an odious act," the statement added.

I have emphasised the last couple of sentences because this is the way the worldling reasons. They say "We could never imagine..." this is because the Russian professor had awards and accreditation's heaped upon him by secular institutions, he was revered in his field of expertise. However, the true Christian knows full and well, that given the right circumstances, every unregenerate man and woman despite their learning, is capable of "such an odious act", and indeed far worse!

Prof. Sokolov practically worshipped the despotic Napoleon, imitating him in any way he knew how-he was practically possessed as it were by Napoleon's spirit! he knew well the barbarities, atrocities, call them what you will, that Napoleon committed, and was capable of committing, is it any wonder that an intelligent man of the world who worshipped such a 'hero', would go on to commit such a wicked act? he was to all intents and purposes, living out Napoleon's life in the present day.

Eschatological students have long viewed Napoleon as a prototype of the coming "man of sin" 2 Thessalonians 2:3, the "Antichrist" 1 John 2:18; little wonder that a man immersing himself into the character of  Napoleon went on to commit such an evil act,  isn't it? and this to one who shared his passion.

The Bible is clear on the fact of man's totally depraved nature, left to himself, without the restraining hand of God, who knows what he is capable of?

Now, if Prof Sokolov had imitated Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1) instead of a type of the coming Antichrist....

Vote For None Of The Above!

Can the true Christian put the X to any name in the ballot box in our day?

Further to my last couple of postings on the Brexit saga and politics in general, many professing Christians who lack a correct theological understanding of where they are in regard to the millennium, will err in their views on politics in this democratic age. The next age will be theocratic, the elect saints will be allocated their various positions of authority in the nations, ruling under the headship of Christ. The elect will know what is required of them to rule in righteousness and truth for they will have learned His laws and precepts in this age, having written His "laws into their hearts, and in their minds." Hebrews 8:10, 10:16, and this will apply likewise to unconverted Israel upon His return.
In my various discussions (in person) with Christians upon the topic of the millennium, I often get the reply "leave that to the theologians-let us just get on with doing good!" They have a zeal, but not according to knowledge, they carry on with their social gospel (which is no gospel at all) believing that somehow they will convert the world to Christ with their feverish activities-ignorant to the fact it is possible to do the wrong thing-such it was with the Pharisees! They think by their good works, people will see the love of Christ in them, and will want what they have-such futile thinking! the Lord of glory said to His disciples; "ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake" even "brother shall deliver up the brother to death..." Matthew 10:22 & 21. For crying out loud-they crucified our Lord! and "He went about doing good" Acts 10:38!!! I don't say we shouldn't do good works, for the Lord's brother said "faith without works is dead" James 2:20*. If we are Christians (both true and false professors alike) it will manifest itself to the unbelieving world by the way we interact with it; through our speech, and general behaviour. But what are good  works exactly? is it not primarily to preach the true Gospel? i.e. to tell whomever to "repent and believe" Mark 1:15? But, how much of this is done today-don't we all fail miserably here? the whole world seems (to me, at any rate), glued to their mobile devices, walking, sitting and driving-such busy lives they lead!
The works that the Christian should do are basically wrapped up in the two great commandments (Matthew 22:38-40 the Decalogue) and being obedient to the law of the land (Romans 13:1-4) apart from when it conflicts with God's commandments, and have we not now entered the age where civil laws are increasingly at variance with God's?

We are not at present in the millennium, for Christ is little thought of in our day! ungodliness is ever in the ascendancy, Antichrist must needs come first in order for Christ to "destroy him with the brightness of His Coming." 2 Thessalonians 2:8. The Lord's Day is yet to come when "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 11:9. These verses alone should dispel the post-millennial myth and confirm Christ's pre-millennial return to the earth, also rendering the amillennial theory false as well! For every word in the prophetical Scriptures shall be minutely fulfilled to the last jot and tittle.



*In James's letter, the reference to orphans and widows (James 1:27) were certainly singled out for especial help, but this was an age before big government, social welfare programmes, NHS, and so on. Everyone in our day is provided for from cradle to the grave (in the western nations at least!).
The welfare state has taken away personal responsibility from the people-such was the aim of the Marxist socialist Anuerin Bevan who was the mastermind behind the NHS!

Should Christians Vote? A Very Brief Synopsis.

Many a professing Christian hasn't the least problem with voting in a general election, the reasoning goes something like this; "we can at least be an influence for the good". And indeed, there is some truth in this, for throughout history God has used, and is still using Christian influence to restrain the full torrent of godlessness which will at some future point be the hallmark of the last days coming upon the present age. After the long period known as the "Dark Ages" when the mighty Reformation took hold and brought great light upon the western nations, unshackling them from popery making the Bible freely available to the masses, it enabled  true Christian influence to underpin the institutions of  society wherever God permitted it to reach. John Calvin the great reformer put Christian teaching to the fore in his efforts in Geneva. His was a most admirable effort considering the great darkness that he hitherto emerged from (he was a Roman Catholic Priest!). However, the Bible teaches in no uncertain terms that it is God in Christ alone who will set up the kingdom on earth; man despite his best efforts has failed, and will ever fail miserably in his endeavours to rule righteously, such was Calvin's misunderstanding on this. We only have to listen to the vain and empty promises of our present day political leaders in the run up to the next general election! (how many do we need?) Haven't we heard it all before? Are Johnson, Corbyn, Swinson and Sturgeon any better than all who went before them? No! No! not only are they no better, they are a lot, lot worse! Lawlessness is increasing in these last days; the morality of the aforementioned leaders having been shaped by the ungodliness of those who went before them! they are only building upon their predecessors foundations, yet they see it not.

To any with the least modicum of biblical understanding, is it not clear that the Bible teaches true Christians are but "sheep"; how utterly absurd then is the notion that sheep can rule over baying wolves ready to eat us up alive? - what madness! If the world is full of wolves (and it is!) how can they submit to Christ's written word? Christians who would be politicians will only ever compromise with the world, and who knows what their last state will be? they are doomed to failure, instead of learning politics such so-called Christians would be better advised to study God's Book! The wolves will only submit to Him as defeated foes (Philippians 3:10) when He returns as conquering King to destroy the world system (Daniel 2:34-35).  It is said of the writings of the Old Testament that "whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.." Romans 15:4; this is the truth; is it then wrong to apply this verse to the mistakes of the last 500 years since the Reformation began? The Bible says that we are "one blood" Acts 17:26 (Genesis 3:20) so the Christian should learn to be in "the world" but not "of the world" John 17:15-18. We learn that only by trying to "live godly in Christ Jesus shall we suffer persecution." 2 Timothy 3:12! "Can two walk together except they be agreed?" Amos 3:3, the Christian cannot enter the political realm. It is evident that we who profess faith in Christ as Lord cannot walk without His guidance, is it not? Calvin,and all who would erect a Christian government on the earth cannot do so! 

God's elect will be instrumental in the soon coming millennial reign (Luke 19:15). He alone it is who will tell his saints "have authority over ten cities" Luke 19:17! "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." Psalm 24:1, O! how little believed is this verse!

Let us take a brief recourse through the book of James at this juncture; if "pure" and "undefiled" and "unspotted" James 1:27 mean anything to the Christian in our day, can we have intercourse with the worlds pleasures, politics, and peoples without becoming defiled?  Because of our new birth we have been taken out of the world, and according to other Scriptures, we are preserved from it by God. How then can we vote for people that support ungodliness, i.e. same sex marriage, sodomy, abortion, and the rest? I haven't voted in any election, of any kind in the last 15 years or more, for I could see the issues back then, I care not one whit about the expansion of airport runways, motorways, rail infrastructure improvements, housing, and the rest of it when the "first principles" Hebrews 5:12, that underpin society are cast aside as "filthy rags" Isaiah 64:6.

Brexit From A Biblical Standpoint

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave!

The United Kingdom through a democratic process called a referendum in 2016 voted to leave the European Union, yet the will of the people has not prevailed - is this not the death of democracy? Sir Robert Anderson (1841-1918) Scotland Yard commissioner and Brethren scholar said "the full and final development of democracy will be despotism". And so it will be! it has to be, for Christ will destroy the "god of this world" and his puppet - "the man of sin" the Antichrist, by "the brightness of His coming" 2 Thess.2:8. Antichrist  must needs come first in order for Christ to come and destroy him; ungodliness, therefore, in all its manifest forms (as we are witnessing today!) must increasingly abound.

How incredulous-the nation which hosts the so-called "mother of  all parliaments" cannot carry out a simple mandate-to leave the EU! Great political pressure has been brought to bear from all sides to make sure that if  we do leave, we must leave with a deal! How one-sided is this-imagine you go to buy a car, or whatever, and you are told that you can't walk away from it without doing a deal! the very essence of entering into a deal in the first place is to be able to walk away from it if the terms don't suit you. But such is the case-we have been pressured to believe that we cannot leave without a deal! For the UK to be a truly independent and sovereign union, she must leave without a deal, for is it not now obvious to all and sundry that the differences on both sides are truly irreconcilable - especially with regard to the backstop?

The Bible teaches the revived Roman empire (the fourth beast) is represented by the ten toes of Nebuchadnezzar's "great image" Dan.2:31, this image will be destroyed by Christ represented as "the stone cut out of the mountain without hands" Dan.2:45, we know that this happens at Christ's return in glory for the Scripture says "in the days of these kings (the ten toes) shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed." Dan.2:44. The demands of the resurgent beast are that all must bend to it, as England, Wales, the Scottish lowlands were occupied by the first Roman Empire which constitute the "ten toes" so it will be with the revived Roman empire, that will be in existence, in the height of its strength at the time of Christ's Second Coming in glory to destroy it. Of the final confederation of the revived Roman Empire; the"ten toes" it is said of it that it constitutes "part of iron and part of clay" Dan.2:33. Do we not presently see this in Brexit? is not the "clay" the reticent, and reluctant UK? I believe that once the dust has settled on the Brexit saga, the UK will be a major player in the reemerging Roman Empire: for it was once said of her "the sun never set on the British Empire". The emerging Roman Empire has "ten toes" not twenty seven! at some future time these "ten toes" will be clearly manifested, at least to those whom God has given the eyes to see.

Brexit didn't happen on October 31st, despite prime minister Boris Johnson saying he would "rather die in a ditch" than not leave on that date. An extension to the ongoing saga has been granted by our 'masters' in Brussels until 31st January 2020.
I believe that political chicanery will rule the eventual outcome of Brexit - a 'deal' will happen, and it will no doubt be sold as "win-win"! The nay sayers will be silenced, and the masses will be glad that the debacle has finally been 'settled', that is their unrealized and feared "worst case scenarios" of price rises, food scarcity, and whatever else is now behind them. Such is their great distrust of the Creator God of the whole earth of the Holy Bible! He alone is the Provider! "Jehovah Jireh" Gen.22:14, that is the Lord will provide.

"Can He provide flesh for His people?" Psalm 78:20.