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• Finally, the iron legs do not disappear, but are changed to become feet of iron and clay. The might of the Roman Empire would not be replaced suddenly and totally like the previous empires had, but would become the fragmented Holy Roman Empire and latter-day European Union, a disunited kingdom, partly strong but partly weak, yet still recognisably Roman in its character.
• These kingdoms must all stand again in the latter days, united, only to be destroyed by the stone cut out of the mountain without (human) hands, representing Jesus, the stone that the builders rejected, who will soon return to establish the kingdom promised by his Father.