Feet of Clay – Born-Again-Christian.Org

Whose Feet are Clay?

Q: A colleague spoke of our boss having feet of clay, and when asked what he meant, I was told it was a Bible term used to describe someone unreliable. Is that correct?

A: Yes; I suggest you consider resigning to work for the Only Boss who doesn’t have feet of clay: The LORD Jesus Christ.

The phrase is used by the world to signify a flawed character in a position of responsibility.

The Gospel truth is, all men and women have feet of clay, and the sooner we come to realise this the better.

Head of Gold: Feet of Clay

The expression “feet of clay” originates from the Holy Bible, Daniel chapter two, where the prophet of God interprets a divine dream troubling Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, who held the Jews captive.

It is a majestic prophecy of direct application to us today, and well-worth absorbing.

The hot-headed pagan monarch refused to describe the dream, and insisted his advisors relate both the dream, and its meaning, or be executed.

Daniel sought the Lord, and God gave him the word. Dan. 2:32-49 KJV;

Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image.

This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

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.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Bingo!

Daniel was spot-on, and holding the ruler’s attention, he continued speaking to the cow-eyed king;

Tally Ho!

This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all.

Thou art this head of gold.

And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

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.

And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Bull’s-eye!

The response was dramatic: Daniel was promoted to rule the kingdom, an honour Daniel immediately delegated.

Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

The Interpretation’s Message

Prophecy experts down the years have made fools of themselves by stumbling through God’s word, misinterpreting minutiae.

Instead of getting caught up in imagined details of Daniel’s interpretation envisioned in the resurrected Holy Roman Empire – European Union, it is sufficient to simply absorb the point of His giving the dream and interpretation.

The message was not given merely for the benefit of King Nebuchadnezzar, or Daniel; this scripture is for all believers down the centuries.
Not so that we can see where we are in God’s timing, but that we perceive something far more important.
To reveal to us that God is Almighty: Sovereign. He has decreed what will be, how He glorifies Himself, and what the End will be.
In order that believers maintain perfect confidence in Almighty God who is in charge of all things, and all the details.

We don’t have to attend to demonic world news, or fuss over how many nations are in the EU, which are clay or iron etc.

All men have clay feet, every human foundation will be exposed and destroyed at Christ’s coming, only His Kingdom endures forever.

Our part is to rejoice, staying humble and busy getting the Good News out until He returns.

Praise God my feet of clay are shattered, my only strength is His.

That’s all I need to know about Daniel two, so it keeps me happy and occupied.

Many Christians have no idea What will we do in Heaven? And how wonderful the answer is.