[34] Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Who is the stone?
a. Christ: Zech. 4:7; Zech. 3:9; Eph. 2:20; Acts. 4:10-12; 1 Pet. 2:4,6-8.
b. Church: Ps. 144:12; Isa. 54:11,12; Zech. 9:16; 1 Pet. 2: 5.
What is cut out without hands?
a. Christ miraculous birth: Matt. 1:18-20; Lk. 1:30-33; Jn. 1:13.
b. The church’s new birth: Jn. 18:36; Jn. 3:3,5-8; Col. 1: 13,14; Rom. 14:17; Rom. 5:1; Rom. 4:5; Acts. 13:38, 39.
c. Christ and the church are one: Eph. 5:30-32.
What is smite the image on its feet?
a. Preaching the final gospel: Matt. 24:14; Rev. 14:6-20; Rev. 18:1-8.
[44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
What is set up a kingdom?
a. Making up the subjects of God’s kingdom: Dan. 7:9,10,13,14; 2 Cor. 5:9,10; Jam. 2:8-13; Heb. 9:27,28; Rev. 11:15,18,19; Rev. 19:7-9; (Gal. 5:5,6; 1 Cor. 4:1-5; Rom. 2:13,16); Matt. 25:34.
b. We have the kingdom: Matt. 6:33; Matt. 13:38; Lk. 16:16; Jn. 3:3,5; Rom. 14:17; Col. 1:13; 2 Thess. 2:12.
c. We will have it: Matt. 7:21; Acts. 14:22; Col. 4:11; 2 Thess. 1:4,5; 2 Tim. 4:1,18; Heb. 12:28; 2 Pet. 1:10,11.
d. We are heirs of the kingdom: Jam. 2:5.
e. Therefore we are yet to inherit the kingdom: 1 Cor. 6: 9-11; 1 Cor. 15:24,50; Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:5; 1 Pet. 3:9; Matt. 25:34.
f. Other things we will inherit as we are yet heirs of them: Tit. 3:5-7; Heb. 1:14; Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:7.
g. Also see The Great Controversy, pg. 424, 428-430.
[34] Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
What is break the image to pieces?
a. The destruction of the world at the Second Coming of Christ: Jer. 4:20-28; Isa. 2:12-21; Isa. 13:4-13; Isa. 24: 1-6; Rev. 6:14-17; Rev. 16:17-21; Rev. 17:16; Rev. 19: 11-21; Ps. 35:1-5.
[35] 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. [44] And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
What is God’s kingdom stands forever?
The everlasting new earth or Theodewelsoistic state: Rev. 21:1-5; Rev. 21:21-27; Rev. 22:1-5; Isa. 66:22,23.
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