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We now come to Daniel 2, where the Aramaic chapters begin, and to the event that brings a young exile named Daniel before the throne of Babylon. It is the first time the book shows us the shape of the kingdoms of men in the latter days, and it is written for the wise of the end-time generation (Daniel 12:4, 10).
1. A Dream No One Could Tell (Daniel 2:1–23)
“Now in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him.” Daniel 2:1
The dream so disturbed King Nebuchadnezzar that he called his magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to interpret the dream. His problem was, he could not remember the dream. The king demanded something no one has ever demanded before, his advisors must tell him the dream itself, and then its meaning. If they could not tell him the dream he would know they were imposters and not true priests of the gods. The punishment was to be cut in pieces. The wise men of Babylon answer honestly:
“There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter… It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” Daniel 2:10–11
Without intending to, they acknowledged what Daniel would state plainly later in the chapter, that only God can know the thoughts of a man. In a rage, King Nebuchadnezzar orders execution of all the wise men including Daniel and his friends.
Daniel answers “with counsel and wisdom” (2:14). He asks the king for time. In their distress, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret” (2:18). In Episode 4 we saw how Babylon gave these four young men new names. They were renamed for Babylon’s gods, yet here they call on the God of heaven, and it is His Name that will be made known before the king.
God answers in a night vision, and Daniel’s first response is worship:
“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.” Daniel 2:20–22
Before we ever hear about gold or iron, Daniel tells us how to read everything that follows. God “removes kings and raises up kings.” He “gives wisdom to the wise.” This is the same theme as the center of the chiasm, and it is the same promise given to the wise of Daniel 12.
2. “What Will Be in the Latter Days” (Daniel 2:24–30)
Brought before the king, Daniel will not take credit:
“The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days.” Daniel 2:27–28
“As for you, O king, thoughts came to your mind while on your bed, about what would come to pass after this; and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will be.” Daniel 2:29
The word translated “latter” is the Aramaic ʾaḥărît (Daniel 2:28 reads bəʾaḥărît yômayyāʾ, “in the latter days”). It is the same word as the Hebrew ʾaḥărît, “end, latter part,” used for “the latter days” elsewhere in the prophets. Translations render it in several ways:
- “in days to come” (NIV)
- “in the last days” (CSB)
- “in the times to come” (NET)
- “end of the days” (LSV)
The word does not point to a date on a calendar. It points to the culmination, the destination the whole matter is moving toward. Daniel tells the king that the dream is shaped by where history is going, and we should shape our understanding around that same destination: the end-times.
This is the voice of prophecy as God Himself defines it:
“I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done…” Isaiah 46:9–10
3. One Great Image (Daniel 2:31–35)
“You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome.” Daniel 2:31
A short word note helps here. In the Aramaic of 2:31, the word usually translated “a” in “a great image” is ḥad, the ordinary word for “one”. The word for image, ṣelem, is related to the Hebrew word used in Genesis 1:27, where man is made in the image of God. An image represents something beyond itself, the way a shadow represents the shape of what casts it.
So the king did not see a row of statues. He saw one colossal figure of a man, brilliant and terrifying, standing before him:
“This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.” Daniel 2:32–33
Then the stone came:
“You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” Daniel 2:34–35
Hold on to two words: one image, crushed together. The stone strikes the feet, and the whole figure falls at the same moment, gold included. In the dream, the metals stand together, and they fall together.
4. Kingdoms, Not a Chronology Chart
Daniel interprets the metals plainly: they are kingdoms.
“After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron…” Daniel 2:39–40
Interpreters through the centuries, Jewish and Christian alike, have understood the metals as kingdoms distinct from Babylon. The most common historical reading has been Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
In Episode 5 we looked at why this study does not follow either the second-century “Maccabean” reading or the reading that these prophecies were all fulfilled long ago. We will not repeat that here. One thing in chapter 2 does deserve attention, though. A sequence of vanished empires, laid end to end with only the feet left for the end, does not fit the picture the dream gives us. The stone does not chip the last piece off a finished timeline. It strikes a statue that is standing, and gold, silver, bronze, and iron are crushed together.
5. “In the Days of These Kings” (Daniel 2:44; 7:11–12)
“And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.” Daniel 2:44
Who are “these kings”? The text does not name them, so we must reason carefully from the book of Daniel itself. Many readers connect “these kings” with the toes of the feet, because verse 44 follows the description of the toes, and because the fourth beast of Daniel 7, which corresponds to the fourth kingdom of the statue, has ten horns that are ten kings.
Here at Revelation Rosetta Stone, we understand “these kings” as the kings of the four metal-kingdoms, existing at the same time in the latter days. We have three reasons.
First, the metals fall together. “Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together…” (2:35). They are not destroyed one after another. They are destroyed together by the stone, when God sets up His kingdom.
Second, the chapter pairs kings with kingdoms. The only king named in chapter 2 is Nebuchadnezzar, and he is joined to a kingdom: “You are this head of gold” (2:38). The kings in 2:44 follow naturally from that pattern as the kings of the metal-kingdoms. Chapter 2 itself does not speak of horns as kings. That comes in chapter 7.
Third, the mirror chapter shows the beasts alive at the same time. Daniel 7 closes the Aramaic chapters as the mirror of chapter 2:
“I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.” Daniel 7:11–12
When the fourth beast is judged, the other three are still there. If the four beasts mirror the four metals, then the four kingdoms of the image stand together in the latter days. We will open this fully in the study on Daniel 7.
6. The Metals: Reading the Body (Daniel 2:36–43)
Taken by itself, this vision does not lead to any identification of the nations each metal represents. What we can do is listen to what the text says about each part, so that the wise may recognize the body when it stands. In this futurist reading, these are kingdoms or nations of the latter days, some perhaps already present and some still to come.
Daniel’s own words fit here:
“He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.” Daniel 2:21
Gold: the head that names the body
“You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory… you are this head of gold.” Daniel 2:37–38
The gold is the only metal given a face. Three things stand out:
- It names the body. A head is first in rank, not only first in place. Take away the head and you no longer have “the image,” only separate powers. Babylon the Great is the name of the whole body, and the head is what gives it that name.
- It is given. “The God of heaven has given you…” Gold is a gift before it is an achievement. Jeremiah called Nebuchadnezzar God’s “servant” (Jeremiah 27:6), and yet Babylon was judged. Being raised up to build is not the same as being spared the stone.
- It carries prestige. The “king of kings” note, the glory and wealth that make the body worth joining, sit in the head. Nebuchadnezzar was a great builder. We may expect the head of the latter-day body to be marked by the same pride (compare Daniel 4:30).
Silver: the chest and arms
“After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours…” Daniel 2:39
Silver belongs to the same body but is a lower metal. In Nebuchadnezzar’s world, silver was the everyday measure of buying and selling. It sits beneath the gold, which suggests a kingdom that is prosperous yet dependent on the head. The text says little more, and we will not speculate past it.
Bronze: weapons of war
“…then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.” Daniel 2:39
This kingdom’s dominion reaches “over all the earth.”
Sidebar: Bronze or Copper? A Question to Test
This is an interesting dualism associated with the Aramaic word translated bronze in most Christian text. The Aramaic word for the third metal, neḥāš (Daniel 2:32, 39), can be translated “bronze” or “copper”. Bronze is a copper alloyed with tin. The question is, does the text require a choice of bronze or copper or can it mean both?
Each metal brings something different to mind. Bronze was hard, the metal of weapons and fittings, which suggests a military side. Copper and bronze (Hebrew nəḥōšet, a related word) was also the metal of the Tabernacle’s outer court, the altar of burnt offering and the laver (Exodus 27:2; 30:18). That suggests a worship side.
Gold, silver, copper, and iron are all pure elemental metals, while bronze is a man-made alloy. Read as copper, the image is pure metal from head to legs until the feet, where the text itself names the first mixture: iron with clay, which “will not adhere to one another” (Daniel 2:43). The one mixture in the image is the one Scripture marks as failing. That is a point to test, but it adds weight to the copper reading.
The context makes the second thought worth testing. The dream image is a ṣelem, an image. In chapter 3 Nebuchadnezzar sets up a ṣelem of gold and commands the nations to bow to it (Daniel 3:1–6). So the image of Daniel 2 may be more than a political map. It may also picture a counterfeit system of worship.
We need to be cautious here. Daniel 2:39 says only that the third kingdom “shall rule over all the earth.” Any military or worship trait is inferred from the choice of metal, it is not stated by the text.
We will test this in our study of chapter 7. The third beast of Daniel 7 is a leopard with four wings and four heads (Daniel 7:6). The wings may point to a spiritual side and the heads to a military one. If the two chapters agree, the question about the metal will have found its answer in Scripture.
Iron and clay: the legs and feet
“And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it… And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” Daniel 2:40–43
Most of the description is spent here. The text gives the fourth kingdom these marks:
- It breaks in pieces and shatters everything it touches.
- It is divided, yet it has the strength of iron.
- It is partly strong and partly fragile.
- Its parts mingle but do not hold together.
Daniel spends more words on the feet and toes than on any other part of the image. That alone tells us to slow down and listen. What follows are possible understandings to test, not conclusions.
“Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.” Daniel 2:41
Divided, yet strong. The kingdom “shall be divided,” but the strength of the iron “shall be in it.” This is not a kingdom that has lost its force. It may picture a final stage that is split within itself yet still able to crush, divided in its parts but forceful in its reach.
“And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.” Daniel 2:42
Strength and brittleness side by side. Iron and clay are not blended into something new. They sit next to each other. The same kingdom will be strong in one place and fragile in another. A body standing on such feet may look unshakable and still break at the joint.
“As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” Daniel 2:43
Mingling with the seed of men. The Aramaic reads bizraʿ ʾănāšāʾ, “with the seed of men.” One way to read this is as an attempt to bind peoples together by alliance, marriage, or agreement. Daniel 11 gives a pattern of exactly that kind of failed bond:
“…for the daughter of the king of the South shall go to the king of the North to make an agreement; but she shall not retain the power of her authority, and neither he nor his authority shall stand…” Daniel 11:6
The agreement is made, and it does not hold. So it is with the feet: they mingle, “but they will not adhere to one another.”
Some readers see more in “the seed of men” than human alliance. They point back to the days before the flood:
“…the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” Genesis 6:2
Some understand these “sons of God” as fallen angels. If that is so, “they will mingle with the seed of men” (Daniel 2:43) might suggest a non-human element joining itself to humanity in the last days, the “they” being something other than the seed of men. Some connect this with the moment Satan and his angels are thrown down:
“…he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” Revelation 12:9
Other readers understand the sons of God as the godly line of Seth. All of this is subjective speculation beyond the scope of this study, and we hold it loosely.
Clay in the potter’s hand. Scripture often uses clay for what is human and earthen, shaped by a hand greater than its own:
“But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.” Isaiah 64:8
“Look, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!” Jeremiah 18:6
Clay in God’s hand can be shaped into a vessel. Clay forced together with iron by the hand of man cannot hold. Here again is the echo of Babel: one people, one purpose, a unity built by men to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:4). The feet of the image are that same man-made unity, and it is exactly where the stone strikes.
Toes and kings. Daniel 2:44 begins, “And in the days of these kings…” Many readers connect the toes with the ten horns of the fourth beast in Daniel 7:
“…and it had ten horns.” Daniel 7:7
“The ten horns are ten kings Who shall arise from this kingdom.” Daniel 7:24
John was shown ten kings who “receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast” (Revelation 17:12). We do not settle that question here. It belongs to Episode 9, where Daniel 7 gives the fourth kingdom its face.
One more consideration. Gold, silver, and bronze or copper all served in God’s house, and iron was kept from His altar. Clay mixed with iron is a man-made blend that had no place in His worship at all. Perhaps this is why the Holy Spirit chose iron and clay for the feet: the mixture of this final kingdom marks it as having only a counterfeit association with God Almighty. The text does not say this outright, so we offer it only as a consideration.
The same strength that lets the body stand is also its weakness: iron that will not bond with clay.
A Reflection to Test: The Metals and the Worship of God
This is a reflection, not a doctrine. Daniel does not tell us why God chose these four metals. But they are not strangers to Scripture. Gold, silver, and bronze are the metals God Himself chose for the place where He would dwell among His people.
“And this is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, and bronze.” Exodus 25:3
- Gold was nearest to His presence: the ark and the mercy seat, the lampstand, the table, and the altar of incense (Exodus 25:10–40; 30:1–10).
- Silver formed the sockets that held up the boards of the Tabernacle (Exodus 26:19). It was made from the half-shekel ransom paid for every soul numbered in Israel (Exodus 30:11–16; 38:25–27).
- Bronze belonged to the outer court, where the sacrifice was offered and the priests washed: the altar of burnt offering and the laver (Exodus 27:2; 30:18).
And iron? Iron was kept away from the altar:
“And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.” Exodus 20:25
“And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.” Deuteronomy 27:5
“And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.” 1 Kings 6:7
So the metals of the statue come down in order: from the metal nearest God’s presence, to the metal of the ransom, to the metal of the altar and laver, and finally to the one metal that could not touch the altar at all.
This invites a question. Why would God choose a pagan king and a pagan empire for the head of gold at all?
Scripture is plain that God raised up Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylon for His own purpose. Judah had turned to idols and would not listen to the prophets, so God said:
“…behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land…” Jeremiah 25:9
“And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant…” Jeremiah 27:6
The book of Kings says the same. The raiding bands came against Judah “according to the word of the LORD,” because of the sins of Manasseh and the innocent blood he shed, “which the LORD would not pardon” (2 Kings 24:2–4).
Yet the servant was not innocent. When the seventy years were finished, God promised to “punish the king of Babylon and that nation… for their iniquity” (Jeremiah 25:12–14). Isaiah heard Babylon say in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else besides me” (Isaiah 47:8, 10). God had already shown this pattern with Assyria, “the rod of My anger” (Isaiah 10:5). When the rod boasted, God answered:
“Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it?” Isaiah 10:15
God uses the instrument, and then He judges the instrument for its own pride and idolatry (see also Jeremiah 50–51).
This troubled the prophet Habakkuk. God told him He was raising up the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 1:5–6), and Habakkuk asked the question many of us would ask:
“You are of purer eyes than to behold evil… Why do You… hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he?” Habakkuk 1:13
God’s answer was not to explain away the Chaldeans. He told Habakkuk to wait for the vision, because it was certain. “The just shall live by his faith” (Habakkuk 2:4). Then He pronounced five woes on the proud plunderer (Habakkuk 2:6–20). And He gave the end of the matter:
“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Habakkuk 2:14
Notice how close that is to the stone that became a mountain and “filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:35).
Here is what we offer as a reflection to test. If God raised up the first head of gold both to chastise His people and to expose Babylon’s own rebellion, perhaps the latter-day image works the same way. Perhaps each metal speaks to the position and value each kingdom is given in God’s purpose. That purpose has two parts.
The first part is to bring Israel to her Messiah. Zechariah saw a day when all nations gather against Jerusalem, and God says:
“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced.” Zechariah 12:10
He then describes a remnant refined by fire:
“I will bring the one-third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them.” Zechariah 13:9
Malachi uses the same picture: the Lord “will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver” (Malachi 3:3). Gold and silver are the metals of refining. Could the nations of the image, without knowing it, become the furnace in which God refines His people and turns them to the One they pierced?
The second part is to expose the rebellion that began at the first Babylon:
“Now the whole earth had one language… ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves…'” Genesis 11:1, 4
At Babel, men were one people with one purpose, building toward heaven to make a name for themselves, and God scattered them (Genesis 11:8–9). The image of Daniel 2 is that unity gathered again: many kingdoms standing as one body. God answered the first Babylon by scattering it. He will answer the last one with the stone. Jeremiah said, “Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven… Yet from Me plunderers would come to her” (Jeremiah 51:53). John saw her fall in one hour (Revelation 18:10, 17, 19).
Perhaps this is why the image comes down from gold to iron. Iron is the metal that was never allowed to touch God’s altar, and it is the kingdom that “breaks in pieces and shatters everything” (2:40). The descent of the metals may show how far the rebellion moves from the presence of God, until the stone strikes and the wind carries it all away.
We hold this loosely. The text calls the metals kingdoms. It never calls the statue a temple. We offer the comparison only as a question for the wise to weigh, and we will see whether the beasts of Daniel 7 confirm it or correct it.
7. The Stone and the Mountain (Daniel 2:44–45)
“…the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and… it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.” Daniel 2:45
The stone is “cut without hands.” No human power shapes it, and no coalition or empire of men produces it. It is God’s own work. It strikes, the image becomes chaff, and the stone becomes a mountain that fills the whole earth. The kingdom it brings “shall not be left to other people” (2:44). It will never be handed on to another, as every earthly kingdom has been.
Scripture uses the sign of a stone for the fall of Babylon more than once. Jeremiah was told:
“Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her.'” Jeremiah 51:63–64
John saw the same sign for Babylon the Great:
“Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, ‘Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.'” Revelation 18:21
The first Babylon was the pattern. The last Babylon falls by the same sign.
8. A King on His Face, and the Road to Daniel 7 (Daniel 2:46–49)
“Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel… The king answered Daniel, and said, ‘Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.'” Daniel 2:46–47
The most powerful man on earth falls on his face and confesses, in the language of his own empire, that Daniel’s God is “the Lord of kings.” This is evaluative steering at work. The pagan king himself tells us how to judge every kingdom of men. Daniel is promoted, and at his request his three friends are set over the affairs of the province. God has put His witnesses inside Babylon.
What does chapter 2 give the saints of the end-times? It is not a museum label for empires long gone. It shows how to recognize a body when it stands:
- a head that names the whole and carries its glory,
- a dependent chest and arms beneath it,
- a connecting kingdom with wide dominion,
- a base of iron that crushes everything and still will not hold together,
- and a stone, already cut without hands.
We Do Not Need to Fear That Image
“The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.” Daniel 2:45
An image this terrifying could easily fill the saints of the last days with dread. But notice what Daniel says first: the dream is certain. The image will stand, but so will the stone. The same God who showed the king the whole body also showed him its end. Nothing about that image will take God by surprise.
That does not mean the saints will be kept from trouble. In Episode 7 we saw, in chapters 3 and 6, that the image Babylon raised in chapter 3 was not left in a dream. A golden image was set up on the plain of Dura, and everyone who would not bow faced the furnace. Later, a decree made prayer to anyone but the king a crime, and Daniel faced the lions. The same pressure is described in Revelation 13, where the image of the beast is given breath and those who will not worship it are killed. Jesus did not soften this:
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” Matthew 24:9
“In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
The faithful were not exempted from the furnace or the den. They were accompanied through them. A fourth Man walked in the fire, and Nebuchadnezzar recognized Him as “like the Son of God” (Daniel 3:25). An angel shut the lions’ mouths (Daniel 6:22). God gives His saints His presence, not exemption. Peter tells us not to be surprised at the fiery trial, but to rejoice that we share in Christ’s sufferings (1 Peter 4:12–13). Jesus told us not to worry about what to say when we are delivered up, because the Spirit of our Father will speak through us (Matthew 10:19–20).
So we do not fear that image. It is real, and the trial it brings is real, but it is already judged. The stone is already cut. And He has said:
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” Hebrews 13:5–6
The God who reveals secrets also rules the kingdoms of men, and His kingdom will stand forever.
In Episode 9 we will turn to Daniel 7, the mirror of chapter 2. In the first year of Belshazzar, Daniel himself has a dream. The four kingdoms appear again, this time as four beasts rising from the sea. The beasts bring their own details, and Daniel’s request to understand the fourth beast opens the way to the Hebrew chapters of the book. What chapter 2 shows as metal, chapter 7 shows as beasts.
“…the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High.” Daniel 7:27
Revelation Rosetta Stone Staff