"Stone Was Cut Out of the Mountain Without Hands"

     In the book of Daniel found within the Old Testament of the Bible, there's a prophecy concerning our day.  The prophesy was given to an ancient king and interpreted by Daniel.  Here are some thoughts on this prophecy.
     The king of ancient Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a "great image" which was made up of differing metals and clay.  This great image, was a representation of the great empires that will arise through the history of the world beginning with the king of Babylon himself.  Eventually, these empires morphed into the ten smaller nations represented by the "great images" ten toes.  During the days when these smaller nations will exercise power in the world, another kingdom will roll forth like a stone cut from a mountain that will roll down and consume the remaining powers that existed.
     "Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter:  and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."
Daniel 2:45
     President Spencer W. Kimball taught, "Nebuchadnezzar represented the king of kings, a world power, representing the head of gold.  Another kingdom would arise and take over world dominion.  The interpretation included the domination of other kingdoms. Cyrus the great, with his Medes and Persians, would be replaced by the Greek or Macedonian kingdom under Philip and Alexander; and that world power would be replaced by the Roman Empire; and Rome would be replaced by a group of nations of Europe represented by the toes of the image. 

     With the history of the world delineated in brief, now came the real revelation. Daniel said:  “And in the days of these kings [that is, the group of European nations] 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.
     This is a revelation concerning the history of the world, when one world power would supersede another until there would be numerous smaller kingdoms to share the control of the earth.
     And it was in the days of these kings that power would not be given to men, but the God of heaven would set up a kingdom—the kingdom of God upon the earth, which should never be destroyed nor left to other people. 
     The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was restored in 1830 after numerous revelations from the divine source; and this is the kingdom, set up by the God of heaven, that would never be destroyed nor superseded, and the stone cut out of the mountain without hands that would become a great mountain and would fill the whole earth.
     The Church was organized. Small it was, with only six members, compared to the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which would break in pieces other nations and which would roll forth and fill the whole earth.
     I know it is true. I know it is divine. I know it is the little stone that was cut out of a mountain without hands. I know it will fill the earth as prophesied and commanded by the Savior Jesus Christ when, in his last moments on earth, he said to his eleven apostles, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”—to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. (See Mark 16:15.)"

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