Daniel 2:36-39. Daniel is interpreting one of Nebuchadnezzar's dreams. He begins here by saying "You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the god of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might and the glory," and has given power over all the sons of men and creatures of the earth, "you are the head of gold." After Nebuchadnezzar will come another power, another kingdom, inferior to his.

The dream that Daniel is interpreting was of a powerful god-like image with a head of gold, breast of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of iron mixed with clay. In the dream, a stone strikes the image and a piece is cut out and then the whole thing breaks apart into pieces and disappears like chaff on the wind, but the stone which cut the piece out becomes a great mountain that feels the whole earth. Daniel goes on to tell Nebuchadnezzar that, while he is the head of gold, lesser kingdoms will follow his until God finally establishes a kingdom that will never be destroyed nor is sovereignty given to another people.

It is striking that David uses the words that we use to describe and praise Christ when speaking to Nebuchadnezzar. I think that it is pretty clear that Daniel was flattering the king when he called Nebuchadnezzar the king of kings to whom God had given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory. But Nebuchadnezzar wouldn't have heard it that way, he wouldn't have thought that Daniel was alluding to a greater King, he would have thought he deserved those words - they are technically true after all! In reality, though, for all the might of Babylon, it was a passing kingdom and Nebuchadnezzar a passing king. He would never have anywhere near the true kingdom, power, might, and glory. All of that is being reserved for the true King - the King of the universe, the King of the never-ending Kingdom to come, the stone that strikes the dream image of power and crumbles it into nothing.