What is the pictured stone that rolls under the ancient empires?
That pictured stone is Christ at His Second Coming. At that event, the remains of ancient empires—such as the Greek and Roman Empires—are suddenly rolled under Him and blown away. The image parallels a threshing floor where wind separates grain from chaff, showing these empires removed like chaff.
Les explains that the remains of the ancient empires—including Greek contributions to architecture and classical philosophy and Roman contributions to courts, judges, law, and republican government—will suddenly be rolled under this pictured stone, which is Christ at His Second Coming. Christ will literally blow it all away. Les illustrates this with the threshing floor: as grain is separated from chaff, wind blows the chaff away, just as a combine blows chaff out the rear while grain goes into the bin. In the same way, the nations and great empires and all that remains of them will blow away like the chaff of a threshing floor. He connects this to Daniel’s closing verses and a 75-day period that will cleanse the planet of everything that has remained, then turns to Luke chapter 21.