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now Thou hast made known to me what we requested of Thee, for
Thou hast made know to us the king’s matter.”

Remember that Nebuchadnezzar said, “Tell me the dream and the
interpretation.” Daniel’s only hope was to call on the Lord and he
called on the Lord. Here is the dream. Daniel 2:31-36, “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. The head of that
statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its
belly and its thighs off bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron
and partly of clay. You continued looking until a stone was cut out
without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay,
and crushed them. 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