Daniel 2

Daniel 2:24-49

Wiersbe comments on Ps 2:9 noting that "Before going to battle, ancient eastern kings participated in a ritual of breaking clay jars that symbolized the enemy army, and thus guaranteed the help of the gods to defeat them. Jesus needs no such folly; He smashes His enemies completely (Rev 19:11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; Da 2:42, 43, 44). Jesus is God, Jesus is King, and Jesus is Conqueror. In the Gospel of Luke Jesus alludes to His "crushing" return "Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust. (Lk 20:18) W A Criswell comments that "In Isa 8:14-15, God is the Stone over which both Israel and Judah would stumble, fall and be broken. The phraseology is also used in Da 2:34-45. Men will stumble over Jesus to their own destruction." Not a trace of them - The Stone represents the return of Christ to completely and totally defeat His enemies and establish a new divine kingdom which is devoid of even a trace of the influences of any of the 4 previous Gentile kingdoms - Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Hellenistic, Roman.