If this prophecy was about church and state not cleaving together then it would have ended as a false prophecy due to the Papacy’s 1260 year rule. Furthermore the prophecy’s point to actual empires and nations, and Europe has never joined together in one unified empire for a significant period of time since Rome’s fall.

“We have come to a time when God’s sacred work is represented by the feet of the image in which the iron was mixed with the miry clay.” Written later than the formation of the seven remaining kingdoms of Rome and much earlier than the European Union.