How does Daniel 2:39 connect with prophecies in Revelation about future kingdoms?

The Verse in Focus

“After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours, and then a third kingdom of bronze, which will rule the whole earth.” (Daniel 2:39)

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What Daniel 2:39 Foretells

• Gold head (v. 38) – Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar

• Silver chest and arms (v. 32, 39) – Medo-Persia, “inferior” in splendor but larger in scope

• Bronze belly and thighs (v. 32, 39) – Greece, destined to “rule the whole earth” through Alexander and his successors

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From Daniel’s Statue to John’s Beast

• Revelation 13:1-2 pictures “a beast… like a leopard, but with feet like a bear and a mouth like a lion.”

– Leopard = Greece (swift conquest, cf. Daniel 7:6)

– Bear = Medo-Persia (Daniel 7:5)

– Lion = Babylon (Daniel 7:4)

• John’s single composite beast gathers the distinct empires Daniel saw separately. Daniel 2:39 supplies two of those empires (Medo-Persia and Greece); Babylon is already assumed; Rome (iron, Daniel 2:40) follows.

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Progression Toward the End-Time Kingdom

• Daniel’s metals end with iron and iron-clay (Daniel 2:40-43) → Revelation’s beast culminates in a ten-horned phase (Revelation 17:12-14).

• Revelation 17:10 links the sequence: “five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come.” Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome make up four of the fallen; a future revived Roman-iron phase completes the picture, matching Daniel’s feet and toes.

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Key Parallels

• Both books trace a single prophetic line of Gentile world dominion.

• Daniel 2:39 marks the middle of that line; Revelation picks it up at the end.

• Daniel gives metals (value decreases, strength increases); Revelation gives beasts (ferocity increases).

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Why the Connection Matters

• Shows Scripture’s unified timeline: past empires recorded in history (exactly as Daniel said) guarantee the literal arrival of the final empire Revelation describes.

• Confirms that the Kingdom “not cut by human hands” (Daniel 2:34-35, 44) will shatter every Gentile kingdom—precisely what Revelation 11:15 announces: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.”