What happens to the metal image in Daniel 2:35?
In Daniel 2:35, the stone cut without hands strikes the image on its feet, shattering the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold together. The entire image becomes like chaff on a summer threshing floor, is ground to powder, and is blown away.
Les explains that Daniel 2 describes Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a huge human image made of metals: head of gold, chest of silver, belly of brass, legs of iron, and toes and feet of iron mixed with clay. These depict the great Gentile empires—Babylon, Medes and Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The stone cut without hands is the coming of Christ on His second event, who smites the image upon its feet, the revived Roman Empire in Western Europe, and breaks them to pieces. Then verse 35 says the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold are broken to pieces together; all the residues of those Gentile empires become like 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.