"In The Days Of Those Kings"
When King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon could not recall a dream which troubled him, he arranged for one of the young Jews who had been brought to Babylon as a captive to provide God’s interpretation. Daniel told the king, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days – Daniel 2:28.
Daniel continued:
You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces...But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth – Daniel 2:31-35.
At the end of his interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, Daniel said to the king: And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure – Daniel 2:44-45.
The image represented the domination of the earth by a succession of four Gentile empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. The influence of the Roman Empire would continue; but its form at the end, represented by the feet, would change. They were a mixture of iron and clay. At a certain point in time, a special stone will strike the image and bring it down, to be replaced by a new world order – the Kingdom of God.
What relevance does the interpretation of the dream that Daniel was given by God have for us today?
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