Who is the stone that smote the image in Daniel 2?
The stone that smote the image is the returning Christ. At His Second Coming, He crushes the residue of the Gentile empires, and the stone becomes a great mountain that fills the whole earth, depicting the establishment of His Kingdom.
Les teaches that the stone that smote the image in Daniel 2 is the returning Christ. After the residue of the Gentile empires is broken to pieces and blown away like the chaff of the summer threshing floor at the Second Coming, the stone that smote the image becomes a great mountain and fills the whole earth, meaning He sets up His Kingdom. Les further explains that before the Jewish resurrected believers enter, the 75 days will be used to cleanse the earth of all the residue and get everything ready for the Kingdom economy, fulfilling Israel's Old Testament promises.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
What happens to the stone in Daniel after it destroys the image?
In Daniel's prophecy, the stone that smites the image becomes a great mountain or a great kingdom that fills the whole earth. This is not a kingdom in heaven but an earthly kingdom, for the stone is the returning Christ, whose kingdom fills the earth.
What is Daniel doing in Daniel 2?
In Daniel 2, Daniel is interpreting King Nebuchadnezzar's dream, which included a great image with a head of gold, chest of silver, belly of brass, legs of iron, and feet and toes of iron mixed with clay. The dream pictured the great Gentile empires in proximity with Israel.