What are the six main kingdoms depicted in the chapter?
Think about what God has given us in Daniel 2. Babylon came and went, as predicted. Media-Persia came and went, as predicted. Greece came and went, as predicted. Pagan Rome came and went, as predicted. Next there’s the divided and unequal nations of modern Europe, coming out of Rome, as predicted. Finally there’s the last kingdom, the one God establishes after the Second Coming: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever” (Dan. 2:44). Daniel, writing more than five centuries before Christ, was right on the first five kingdoms. His perfect record on those gives us plenty of reasons to trust him on the last kingdom, the only one, from our vantage point in time, that hasn’t come yet. And that’s the kingdom that Christ will establish at His return. Considering what is written in the text an
