Phoneman777
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Of course the mountain doesn't obliterate anything...the STONE does. It destroys all existing kingdoms and itself grows into a great mountain and fills the whole earth.The mountain does not obliterate the world. It removes Adam's dead corruptible flesh from having rule over the earth.
"A Stone cut from no man's hands..." is Jesus, Who comes and sets up His kingdom after He destroys the others - if you were right, the prophecy would fail because these other kingdoms are still around.Besides the kingdom is found all over the world. The church has already spread over the whole world. The church is the mountain that fills the earth. Not a kingdom of control. A point where the church is every where and governments are obsolete.
According to Scripture, "...that ROCK was Christ" and also "...and whosoever shall fall upon this Stone shall be broken, but to whom the Stone shall fall upon, it will grind him to powder" and also "...He only is my Rock".
The prophecy is a broad overview of what's to come, with added details in subsequent prophecies which build one upon the other, just as a teacher's curriculum builds upon what the student has already learned."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."
A kingdom that stands forever does not sound like the earth exploding and empty.
The last kingdom of the ten toes ended with the Reformation. The church again spread out to all the earth.
So, the Stone which comes and destroys the kingdoms does not necessarily have to set up His kingdom immediately, which we see is the case - because when taken together, all the prophecies point to a 1,000 year millennium between both resurrections. Of course, after the fire falls down from God out of heaven and sets the entire world ablaze in one giant cleansing fire, at that time Jesus makes the new heaven and earth.