A Thought on Daniel 2.

Daniel 2
DANIEL is called into the presence of a Gentile. He sees him from head to foot. One power in the earth after another passes before him. From the day of the Chaldean to the day of the Little Horn, he follows the man of the earth. I ask, is there a single moment in the history which gives his soul relief? Is there one touch in the varied picture which detains his eye with desire? Observe him as he traces the image from head to foot, or as he inspects the four Beasts, or any of them, and you will not find a moment or a feature that gives him anything like satisfaction.
There is a long season of forbearance on God’s part, but there is no delight for the Spirit in Daniel. God does not smite the head of gold, or the breast of silver. There is a succession of powers, but throughout all long-suffering on God’s part, but no delight for the Spirit in Daniel. The Judge is silent. As the Psalmist speaks, the right hand is not plucked out of the bosom, neither is the heel lifted up to the perpetual desolations. (Psa. 74:33Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. (Psalm 74:3).) But the divine long-suffering works no change in the thoughts of the prophet of God, about the moral of the thing, from first to last.
Nothing does for the heart, or for the hope, of Daniel, but that judgment which removes the Gentile altogether, smiting the image from head to foot.