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• Thus, the king’s dream relates to the important Biblical empires that would follow the Babylonian Empire.
• The head of gold represented Babylon, with Nebuchadnezzar as its king.
• Next came the arms of silver, the two arms representing the two halves of the Medo-Persian empires. We shall look at that Empire in a later lesson.
• Then came the belly and thighs of brass, representing the Greeks. From classic Greek history such as Homer’s famous Iliad, the Greeks were known as the brazen-coated Greeks.
• Then came the legs of iron, the two legs representing the next empire - the Roman Empire, with (down through time) its two historical legs, in Rome and Constantinople. Again, the might and strength of iron is associated with Rome.