DANIEL 2:34

You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. [NKJV]

While you were looking at it, a great stone broke loose from a cliff without anyone touching it, struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, and shattered them. [GNT]


THE STONE: THE WEAK AND STRONG

You saw a stone was cut or detached without hands, and the same stone struck the statue by its feet of iron and clay, and shattered them all. The stone did not strike the head or other body parts of the statue, but to strike its feet once and for all; and that impact pieced the entire statue. The head is usually the most important part of the human’s body, but in this statue the feet was because the feet represented all that were ahead of them in the last days or end-times. Again, the feet is prophetically connected with the end of days allegorically.

But understand that which you may not have seen from what you have seen. Both the feet of the statue and the stone had weakness and strength each, and had position to drag. It was a battle between the feet of the statue and the stone in the vision; and both parties displayed both their weakness and strength, but one was wiser and therefore stronger than the other. In that battle, strength alone will fail, and weakness alone will come to naught. It was not a battle where one is supposed to hide his weaknesses before his opponents, and show just his strengths: rather it was a battle wherein both strength and weakness were very important for exhibition and victory. The weaker vessels are as important or more than the stronger vessels. Excuse me let me quote this bible reference, and then continue:

But much rather the members of the body seeming to be weaker are necessary. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety. -- [1 Corinthians 12:22-23 MKJV]

The statue’s feet was showing both strength and weakness because it was built with both iron (strength) and clay (weakness): But they did not mix. The strength and the weakness did not mix well, though they be present in the same feet.

On the other hand, Stone was perfectly a mystery and mixture of both weakness and strength, which was hard for the iron and clay to comprehend:

The Weakness of the Stone was seen manifest when Stone was cut without hands. It was so light or weak that nothing needed to touch it to detach it or cut it. That was what Moses failed to reveal to the people watching, when he should have just spoken to the Rock and the Rock will give Its water without hand or strike; but Moses was too mechanical in his approach to show how light and easy the Rock could be broken open with just a word. Speaking of word, mind you Nebuchadnezzar heard no word in that dream or vision, just as Joseph’s era when dreams came without audio or speech in Genesis.

The Strength of the Stone was seen manifest when Stone struck the Feet of iron and clay, and broke them into pieces without getting broken by them. Is iron not supposed to be stronger than stone? Not this Stone and not the Living Stones in Kingdom of God.

Therefore, the Stone that was light and weak that it was easily cut or detached even without hands/contacts, was stronger than that the greatest strength and greatest weakness in man-made dominion and kingdom statue. As it is written,

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- [1 Corinthians 1:25 KJV].

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