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Daniel is that His Kingdom, the House of Jacob, or stone of Nebuchanezzar's dream, SHALL EN-
DURE FOREVER! Isaiah could therefore readily say --

No weapon that is forged against you will be effective. This is the heritage of the LORD's
servants, and their righteousness from me, says the LORD (Isaiah 54:17, DSSB).

In light of this statement by Isaiah, Daniel's declaration regarding the Kingdom -- that it "shall
never be destroyed" -- takes on new meaning and we need not fear, even in this era of Islamic terrorism
and atomic bombs. Furthermore, Daniel clearly states that this Kingdom will not be left to any other
people.

Growing Into a Great Mountain

The prophet Micah had a vision of the day when the Stone Kingdom -- the House of Jacob --
would become a UNIVERSAL kingdom. Notice --

But in the latter days the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established on the top of
the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it. And
many nations shall go and say, "Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and
to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in
his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusa-
lem (Micah 4:1-2, DSSB).

With the mountain phase of kingdom growth an accomplished fact, and with Yeshua the Mes-
siah ruling from the Throne of his father David over the House of Jacob, and with YEHOVAH God the
Father ruling the world from the Holy Temple, the result will be --

And he [YEHOVAH God] will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning
strong nations, no matter how far away. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor
shall they learn war anymore (Micah 4:3, DSSB).

But before this can take place Israel, as YEHOVAH's battle ax and weapons of war, must per-
form the task of completing the total destruction of the entire Babylonian image. Summarizing the ele-
ments of the image, Daniel significantly reversed their order of appearance when he climaxed his
description of Nebuchadnezzar's dream:

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold all together were broken in
pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor; and the wind carried
them away, so that no trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue
became a great mountain and filled the whole earth (Daniel 2:35, DSSB).

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