Daniel's prophecy about the coming of the Messiah

The second prophecy for the Advent season is found in one of the last book of the Old Testament, that of Daniel.

Chapter 2 contains Nebuchadnezzar's dream, in which the king sees a stone shattering a great statue made of gold, silver, bronze, iron and clay. He is troubled until Daniel gives him the right interpretation: "After you will rise a kingdom inferior to you, and then a third kingdom of bronze … And there will be a fourth kingdom .... In the days of these kings, the God of Heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed or passed to another people. He will destroy all these kingdoms, and he himself will stand forever." (Dan 2:39-45)

Now, after Nebuchadnezzar came the Persians, then the Greeks, with Alexander, then the Romans who, using iron, reduced all their adversaries to dust, before Israel was divided in the 1st century between the iron of Rome and the clay of Herod.

The coming of the humble Virgin Mary ushers in the messianic reign, which "will never be destroyed and will endure forever." Blaise Pascal wrote, regarding the prophecy of the small stone that becomes a mountain: "It is foretold that Jesus Christ would be small in his beginning and that he would then grow."

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