The Doom of World Governments

In The Doom of World Governments, W.B. Riley interprets the biblical prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar’s image from the Book of Daniel as a literal roadmap for the collapse of modern secular states. He argues that the world has transitioned from the “foot period” into the “toe period” of the great image, where the “iron” of strong monarchies is being fatally weakened by a mixture with “miry clay”—which he defines as democracy, mobocracy, and specifically communism. Riley surveys a globe in “political maelstrom,” citing the decline of the British Empire, civil war in Spain, and the rise of “atheistic Jews” in Russia as evidence that no stable government remains on earth. His tone is urgent and apocalyptic, asserting that human science and statesmanship are powerless to prevent this “doom,” and that the only remaining hope is the return of the “King of Glory” to establish a divine kingdom after the brief, inevitable reign of the antichrist.