What do the ten toes and feet of iron and clay represent in Daniel 2?
In Daniel 2, the ten toes and the feet of iron mixed with clay represent the revived Roman Empire. This final segment of the image depicts Western Europe coming to the fore, continuing the sequence of Gentile empires that had proximity with Israel.
The dream image had a head of gold, chest of silver, belly of brass, legs of iron, and feet and toes of iron mixed with clay. That image pictured the great Gentile empires in proximity with Israel: Babylonian, Medes and Persians, Greek, and Roman. Les explains that the ten toes and feet of iron and clay are the revived Roman Empire, which he identifies as Western Europe as it comes to the fore.
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.
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What Gentile empires are pictured in the Daniel 2 image, and in what order did they come?
The empires pictured in the dream came in succession: first the Babylonian, then the Medes and Persians, then the Greek, then the Roman, and all of them were in the area of Jerusalem and had to do with the nation of Israel.
Why does the destruction of the statue in Daniel 2 start at the feet instead of the head?
Christ's Second Coming destroys the image beginning with the feet rather than the head, because a stone that smashes a standing image starts at the bottom, so He destroys first the empire contemporary with that day, the revived Roman Empire.