3276.— In the Days of These Kings
In Dan. 2:44 it reads, "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed." It did not say a thousand years after, but in their days a kingdom shall be set up which shall consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. All this is very simple when we will take into consideration the fact that the prophet is not speaking of his days, but of days to come. That dream of Nebuchadnezzar, shown to Daniel in vision, had to do not simply with Babylon, which existed in the days of the prophet, but with Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome in its entire career, down to the very last divisions of that empire, represented by the division into iron and clay. That is what we have at the present time. "And in the days of these kings,"—this divided condition of the great Roman Empire,—God will set up His kingdom.