“Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.”
The stone cut out not by human hands descends on the statue's feet and breaks them, continuing the metallurgical decline into complete destruction. The stone represents God's kingdom, established through divine action (not by human hands) rather than through natural historical development or human conquest. Its origin outside human agency emphasizes that this kingdom differs fundamentally from all preceding empires, which arose through human ambition, conquest, and engineering. The stone strikes specifically the iron-clay feet, the weakest point of the statue, suggesting that God's kingdom overthrows human rule at its point of greatest instability. The deliberate targeting underscores God's judgment on human empire: the final kingdom falls not through military defeat but through God's direct intervention.
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