At that time the iron, the molded clay, the copper, the silver and the gold were, all together, crushed and became like the chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away so that no trace at all was found of them. And as for the stone that struck the image, it became a large mountain and filled the whole earth.”​—Daniel 2:34, 35.

12. What does the mountain’s filling the earth signify?

¹² What does that signify? Nothing less than that God’s Messianic kingdom as symbolized by the “stone” will fill the whole earth, wherever the sons of men dwell.

As the Messianic Kingdom “stone” enters, as it were, the atmosphere of our earth on its God-given mission, it will not explode like some meteorite from outer space. With the full force of all the momentum that it has picked up since 1914, this indestructible “stone” of diamondlike hardness will reach its objective with a smashing impact. Where?

 9. What crash will this post-Gentile Times generation witness?

⁹ On the “feet” of the symbolic “image,” the “feet” of iron and moist clay that are still standing today. We, this generation of mankind, are living “in the days of those kings,” in the days of these partly iron, partly clay “feet.” We, this generation of post-Gentile Times, are about to witness the crashing of the Kingdom “stone” against the Seventh World Power and all the other political governments inside or outside the United Nations organization. Thus, in a final clash over the supreme issue of universal sovereignty, the Kingdom “stone” will put an end forever to “all these kingdoms.” What will that mean to us who are of this generation that will be caught right in the middle of this crash? Have we ever thought about that?