35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
no trace was found – all these kingdoms will disappear, “they will reign as for one hour” (Rev 17:12).
the stone became a great mountain – Christ is the foundation, the “mountain” of the true Church of the end days. See Isa 2:2, Mic 4:1; Rev 8:8; Rev 21:10. Symbolic of Mount Zion, the mountain of the temple.
The establishment of the Church of God in the last days is our first hint that the Church of God was destroyed by the work of the Antichrist. Daniel will explain this in Dan 8:11. The Apostle John warned in 1 John 2:18: “Children it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.”