What happens to the Gentile empires in Daniel 2:35?
In Daniel 2:35, the Gentile empires—represented by iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold—are broken to pieces together. They become like the chaff of summer threshing floors, ground to powder and blown away. This depicts their complete destruction when the stone strikes the image.
Les explains that the image in Daniel chapter 2 depicted all the great Gentile empires beginning with Babylon, then the Medes and Persians, then the Greeks, then the Romans. The stone cut out without hands is the coming of Christ at His second event, and it smites the image upon its feet—the empire on the scene at that time, the revived Roman Empire. In verse 35, the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold are broken to pieces together; all the residues of those great Gentile empires become like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, ground to powder and blown away.
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.
More Questions
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.