What does the stone cut out without hands represent?
The stone cut out without hands represents the coming of Christ on His second event. In Daniel's dream image, it smites the image upon its feet, the revived Roman Empire then on the scene, and breaks the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold to pieces.
Les teaches that Daniel chapter 2 presents Nebuchadnezzar's dream image, a huge human likeness made of metals: head of gold, chest of silver, belly of brass, legs of iron, and toes and feet of iron mixed with clay. That image depicted the great Gentile empires beginning with Babylon, then the Medes and Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The word "until" marks a point in time when a stone cut out without hands appears. Les explains this is the coming of Christ on His second event, cut out without hands, which smote the image upon His feet—the empire on the scene at that time, the revived Roman Empire as seen coming on the scene in Western Europe even tonight. It broke them to pieces. Verse 35 shows the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold broken to pieces together, becoming like chaff of the summer threshing floors, ground to powder and blown away.
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.