In Daniel 2, a huge statue made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron appears, which prophesied of the nations to be built after Babylon. The country that overthrew Babylon in world history was Persia. And the country that defeated Persia was Greece. However, the Greek Empire was destroyed by the Romans. However, Rome, which was a powerful country, was divided into 10 countries around AD 476 as its national power weakened. Therefore, the idols of gold, silver, bronze, and iron in Daniel 2 prophesied Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. 

But after Rome was divided into ten kingdoms, a stone flew down from the mountain and struck a great idol made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron and smashed it. Daniel wrote about this, saying : 

[Daniel 2:44~45] "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. "Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy."

So how was this prophecy fulfilled? Based on physical history alone, this prophecy would have been fulfilled in AD 476 when Rome was divided into 10 kingdoms. However, this event never happened. So is the prophecy in Daniel 2 wrong? The Bible is divided into physical and spiritual history. The history of physical Israel, beginning with David, reveals the history of spiritual Israel, beginning with Jesus. So once you know the spiritual history unfolding through the history of physical Israel, you will know the reality of the golden and brass statues and the stone that broke them. The following is a comparison of the history of physical and spiritual Israel.

1) Just as David built the temple site, Yehoshua, who sat on the throne of David, laid the temple site called the 12 apostles. 

2) Just as Solomon, the son of David, completed the temple, Yehoshua gave the Holy Spirit to the disciples and made the body of the saints the temple. And through them, the early church was established. 

3) At the end of Solomon, the kingdom was divided into two kingdoms due to Solomon's idolatry. Likewise, when heresy was introduced at the end of the Early Church, it was divided into the Eastern Church, which was built around Jerusalem, and the Western Church, which was built around Rome. 

4) Northern Israel continued to worship idols after division and kept God's feasts differently, and eventually they were destroyed by Assyria. Likewise, at the end of the early church, the divided Western church colluded with the Roman emperor and absorbed various pagan doctrines, and it was severely corrupted. 

5) After division, Judah in the south practiced idolatry, but sometimes obeyed God's will and was protected from foreign invasion. But they were destroyed by Babylon because of the corruption of the priests and leaders. Likewise, the Eastern Church, which was divided at the end of the Early Church, sometimes obeyed the Word of God and kept its purity, but eventually it was merged with the Western Church and deteriorated greatly. 

6) Northern Israel and Southern Judah were captured by Babylon and spent 70 years in captivity, and many became slaves. Likewise, after the Eastern and Western churches became one, they became pagans and started anew as a religious organization called Catholicism. As a result, many saints were killed by Catholic witch hunts and the Inquisition. 

7) With the help of the Medes and Persians, Israel was liberated from the Babylonian captivity and returned to the mainland to build a temple. However, this prophesied the destruction of Catholicism represented by Babylon. For over a thousand years, Catholicism has killed and harassed tens of millions of people through the Inquisition and witch hunts. As such, the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians showed that the evil deeds of Catholicism would be put to an end by Reformers such as Luther and Calvin. The Reformation freed many believers from Catholicism and allowed them to join Protestantism in search of freedom of faith. However, this fulfilled the prophecy that Israel was not independent but was under Persian rule. 

8) Israel was ruled by the Persian Empire for 200 years before being ruled by Alexander the Great, who destroyed Persia in 333 BC. However, this shows that believers absorbed into Protestantism after the Reformation will be disappointed and leave Protestantism. Many Protestants zealously followed the Adventist ideas of William Miller, which emerged in 1834. During the decade, he had gathered numerous followers across Europe and America, but his proposed date for the Second Coming of Joshua failed. This event resulted in the wastage of many people's fortune and was a fulfillment of prophecy that Alexander would rule Israel after Persia. 

9) When Alexander the Great died at a young age, Greece was divided into four kingdoms, and Israel was ruled by that kingdom. But this represents a prophecy that will happen after William Miller. Those who were disappointed with Miller were absorbed by the Adventist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Legalist Church. Those churches were the ones that followed Miller's ideas. However, this was the fulfillment of a prophecy that after the death of Alexander the Great, natural Israel would be ruled by the four divided nations of Greece. 

10) Although the four divided kingdoms of Greece continued to dominate Israel, Israel was eventually slaughtered by the religious oppression of Antiochus IV, king of Syria, who appeared in 170 BC. However, this prophesied the church that would appear after the Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the legalistic church of the Old Testament. Like Antiochus IV, this church will oppress God's people and set up idols so that the saints will serve them. 

11) The Maccabees of the tribe of Judah, outraged by the religious oppression of Antiochus IV, stirred up a popular uprising among the people and fought the Syrians. However, this prophesied about the two witnesses who received the Holy Spirit of Yehoshua who came as a messenger from the tribe of Judah. The two witnesses will fulfill the prophecy of Antiochus IV and fight the appearing church. Just as Maccabees recaptured the Jerusalem Temple in 3 years and 6 months, the two witnesses will build the Temple of Heaven in 3 years and 6 months. 

12) With the popular uprising of Judah Maccabi, Israel drove out the Syrian army and established an independent Hasmonia dynasty. But this prophesied that the kingdom of God would come after the two witnesses. 

​The Bible reveals spiritual history through physical history. Therefore, just as there are idols of gold, silver, bronze, and iron in physical history, gold, silver, bronze, and iron images appear in spiritual history. The prophecies of gold, silver, bronze, and iron refer to religious organizations established starting with Catholicism, which fulfilled the prophecies of Babylon. Catholicism was attacked by Protestants, and Protestantism stopped growing because of William Miller's Adventist ideology. After William Miller came the Seventh-day Sabbath Church and Jehovah's Witnesses. And churches that followed the legalism of the Old Testament were established, including the Pentecostal churches. Therefore, all churches established after Catholicism become idols of spiritual gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, symbolized by physical gold, silver, bronze, and iron idols, were ruled by archangels represented by Satan. Likewise, Catholicism, Protestantism, William Miller, Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostal Churches, and the Church of God—all churches symbolized by spiritual gold, silver, bronze, and iron idols are subject to Satan's control. 

[Isaiah 14:4~12] That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ...(12) How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

[Daniel 10:20~21] Then the angel said: Now do you understand why I have come? Soon I must leave to fight against the guardian angel of Persia. Then after I have defeated him, the guardian angel of Greece will attack me. I will tell you what is written in The Book of Truth. But first, you must realize that no one except Michael, the guardian angel of Israel, is on my side. 

Therefore, today's churches represented by idols of gold, silver, bronze, and iron are all under the control of Satan. God broke the gold, silver, bronze, and iron idols with stones. However, this is not a real stone, but the parable of the two witnesses who received the Holy Spirit of Yehoshua. The two witnesses who received the Holy Spirit were killed while fighting the antichrist churches represented by idols of gold, silver, bronze and iron. But like Yehoshua, he was resurrected and ascended into heaven. 

[Revelation 11:10~13] The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on. At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. 

Therefore, the stone that destroys idols made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron is a metaphor for the two witnesses who will ascend to heaven through the resurrection. When the two witnesses are taken up to heaven, all the churches of this world will disappear like idols.