Kingdoms of Culture

Let's face it. The empires represented in the statue of Daniel 2 will have their cultural legacy replaced by God's culture because God sees the cultures conceived by human nature as unacceptable. Although losing one's cultural heritage has terrible consequences, living by the wrong cultural heritage is just as bad, if not worse...

When the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD, there have been many attempts to revive the Roman Empire, as well as the rise of kingdoms that claim to be the successor of the Roman Empire. One kingdom, however, is doing both of these tasks, and it's called the Holy Roman Empire. It warred against pretenders that claim to be the Roman Empire's successor, with the most notable ones being Czarist Russia, Ottoman Turkey, and the British Empire. The Holy Roman Empire also had a great culture, but it was not peaceful. For example, we all like to listen to classical music (Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc.), but to be tone deaf to the screams of prisoners being tortured is not good. This was what exactly happened in the Holy Roman Empire. The same can be said about Japan during the first 20 years of the Showa Era, which saw many of the worst atrocities committed in human history, with the proposed eradication of Korean culture being one of them. That is why peace and culture rarely go hand in hand, until God decides to replace human nature with God's culture, which is what the huge boulder that smashed the statue of Daniel 2 represents. Only then will the kingdoms of Earth stop fighting over who the successor of the Roman Empire is, because God's Kingdom does not believe in being the Roman Empire's true successor. The empires that the statue of Daniel 2 represent, including the Roman Empire, will have their cultural legacies swept away after being replaced by God's Kingdom and God's culture.

Now one must wonder what God's culture will be like, other than peace and culture going hand in hand at long last after years of blood, sweat and tears...