We consider Nebuchadnezzar's Image the symbol of Gog's dominion when he, the King of the North (Dan. 11:40-45), and of Assyria (Isa. 30:30-33), encamps with his army, drafted from all subject-nations (Hab. 2:5), on the mountains of Israel (Dan. 11:45; Ezek. 38:8) on all sides of Jerusalem, and is in actual possession of the Holy City (Zech. 14:2) in the latter days (Ezek 38:16; Dan 2:28).He is not the last Beast, however. Till Gog is broken, the lamb-horned and dragon-speaking Beast (Apoc. 13:11) is an Iron Leg of the Image: a co-partner with Gog, yet inferior to him in the majesty of the Greco-Roman-Dragonic dominion of "The End."But when the Clay is sundered from the Iron by the stroke of the Stone-Power, this is, when Gog is broken, the Western Leg and Toes, or "Beast and the Kings of the Earth" (Apoc. 19:19) have still to be subdued. These are of the Fourth Beast of Daniel (7:11, 19-26), which has to be slain, and his body destroyed in the burning flame by the Lord Jesus, his Saints, and Israel.The Image never existed as a whole elsewhere than in the dream. In the Latter Days, however, the thing signified by the Image will appear as complete in all its parts as the statue itself before it was smitten by the symbolic Stone.
(By Dr. John Thomas)