After the Southern Kingdom was exiled to Babylon they were set under the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel was one of the people sent into exile. He also had the gift of interpreting dreams. So when the Nebuchadnezzar had a dream about a statue with a gold head, silver upper body, bronze lower body, and iron and clay feet he called on Daniel to interpret the dream. The golden head represented Nebuchadnezzar, the silver body was an inferior kingdom that would come after him, and after that kingdom would come another kingdom inferior to the second represented by the bronze, and then would come a kingdom that would be more powerful than the first three represented by the iron. However in the dream the statue was destroyed by a rock. The rock destroyed the iron kingdom as well.
What I find really interesting is that the four kingdoms actually existed. They all took over Judah at one after the other. First the Assyrians represented by gold, then the Persians represented by silver, then the Greeks represented by bronze, and finally the Romans represented by the iron and clay feet. The Romans are the most interesting because they were in controlled during Jesus' time. They were the most powerful like iron. But the rock, aka Jesus, was stronger still and ended up using the Roman's already established empire to His advantage in spreading the message of the new kingdom that wouldn't be reign by any earthly power. but would be found in heaven.
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