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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 ten 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 and of extraordinary splendor, was
standing in front of you and its appearance was awesome.” He
saw a great image. It was extraordinarily large. How tall was
it? We get a hint in his second dream.
Daniel 4:10-11, “Now, these were the visions in my mind
as I lay on my bed; I was looking and behold, there was a tree
in the midst of earth, and its height was great. And its height
reached to the sky and it was visible to the ends of the whole
earth. The tree grew large and became strong.” He has a picture
of a tree that reached to heaven and the branches reached to the
ends of the earth. That’s a big tree!
He said that the head of the image was made of gold. He
used the word “great image”; it was a great tree that reached to
the heavens and to the ends of the earth. How great was this