How does Daniel's vision of beasts relate to Nebuchadnezzar's dream of metals?

Daniel's vision of beasts relates to Nebuchadnezzar's dream of metals by portraying the same unfolding of human history in all the Gentile empires. Daniel sees them as a lion, a bear, a leopard, and an indescribable beast, which was the Roman Empire, while Nebuchadnezzar saw them as gold, silver, brass, and so forth.

Les teaches that Daniel's vision of beasts and Nebuchadnezzar's dream of metals are parallel revelations of the same unfolding of human history in all the Gentile empires. Daniel sees the empires in animal form—a lion, a bear, a leopard, and then a beast that could not be explained, which was the Roman Empire—while Nebuchadnezzar saw them in metals such as gold, silver, and brass. Les also points to Daniel chapter 7, verse 7, and the ten horns, noting the semicolon that follows the description of the beast as diverse or different from all the beasts before it. That semicolon, he explains, represents two thousand years of time as we reckon it, though in God's way of reckoning it is no longer than a semicolon.

Daniel 7:3

And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

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Daniel 2:31

Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

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What did the great image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream look like according to Daniel 2?

Daniel describes a great, humongous image whose brightness was excellent and whose form was terrible and frightening. Its head was fine gold, its chest and arms silver, its belly and abdomen brass, its two legs iron, and its feet a mixture of iron and clay.