What empire is on the scene when the stone strikes the image in Daniel 2?
The empire on the scene when the stone strikes the image is the revived Roman Empire. The stone cut out without hands smites the image upon its feet, and those feet represent that final empire, which the context places in Western Europe.
Les teaches that Daniel 2's image depicts the great Gentile empires beginning with Babylon, then the Medes and Persians, then the Greeks, and then the Romans. The stone cut out without hands represents the coming of Christ in His second event. It smites the image upon His feet, meaning it strikes the empire on the scene at that time, which Les identifies as the revived Roman Empire coming on the scene in Western Europe. Then the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold are broken to pieces together and become like chaff, 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.
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What do the feet of the statue represent in Daniel 2?
The feet of the image, which the stone strikes, represent the revived Roman Empire that is coming on the scene in Western Europe at the time of Christ's return.