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Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were
crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer
threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace
of them was found. But the stone that struck them was found. But
the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled
the whole earth. This was the dream; now we shall tell its
interpretation before the king.”

It was a dream of a giant man. He had a head made out of gold and
he had shoulders that were made out of silver and his middle were
made out of bronze and his legs were made out of iron and his feet
were made out of clay and iron that were mixed together, and as God
interpreted that, He said, “That’s the kingdoms of the world.” The
head is a picture of Babylon. The silver is a picture of the Medes
and the Persians. The bronze is a picture of Greece. Rome is the
legs. Then sometime in the future the head and toes are ten
kingdoms or something like that. What I want you to see is that it
was the image of a man; an awesome image of a man.

There was a second part to the dream and it had to do with the little
stone coming out of heaven. The stone hit the foot of the image and
you know the rest of the story. I’m suggesting what we read in
Colossians is in Daniel 2. I think there were two kingdoms. You
might say, “I thought there were four kingdoms, and maybe more if
you have the confederations of ten nations.” There were two
kingdoms; the kingdom of man and the kingdom of God. That’s
why it’s an image of a man. It’s one image with many parts but only
one image; the kingdom of man.

I want victory over me. I want victory over the kingdom of man. I
want victory over the flesh. The New Testament calls it “the old
man”, the “old nature”, “the old Adam”, “the carnal man”, “the
flesh”, “Esau”, “Ishmael” and “Agag”. It’s all the same thing. It’s
the kingdom of the flesh. Let me give you what I think is the
spiritual message. Daniel 2:31, “You, O king, were looking and
behold there was a single great statue; that statue which was large