In Daniel 2 we see that the corporate Christ – Christ with His overcoming bride – will come as a stone to crush the aggregate of human government to bring God’s kingdom; we want to be part of His overcoming bride, His corporate warrior-overcomer, so we pray-read the Word to experience the sword of God to kill the adversary within and the enemy without.
Lord Jesus, we aspire to be Your overcoming saints today. We come to You in Your word to enjoy Your rich nourishment through our pray-reading the Word. Amen, Lord, we say Amen to Your word and we take Your word by means of all prayer and petition. Supply us in Your word. May we take Your word by much prayer into us so that the word becomes the sword of the Spirit to deal with the enemy without and the adversary within. Amen, Lord, make us Your corporate warrior-overcomer as we pray-read Your word! Amen!
How wonderful it is to see that Christ is the stone for God’s building, and how experiential it is for us to come to Him daily to become living stones suitable for the building up of the church as God’s spiritual house today!
We love coming to the Lord day by day, both in His word and throughout the day to contact Him, check with Him, call on His name, and breathe Him in. He is our life and our life supply.
We learn to open to Him and we allow Him to speak to us, lead us, and adjust us. As He moves in us, leads us, and adjusts us, He also infuses Himself into us.
He infuses what He is into our being; He is the living stone, and He makes us living stones. We come to Him, a living stone, and we are living stones suitable for God’s building.
In particular, Christ is the stone with seven eyes; these seven eyes are the seven Spirits of God who search us, enlighten us, burn us, judge us, and purify us, and at the same time, they infuse Christ into us.
Today Christ is not only the life-giving Spirit to impart His life into us; He is the sevenfold intensified Spirit to carry out God’s administration and produce the overcomers to consummate the age and bring in the age of the kingdom.
We as believers in Christ come to Him, look at Him, and behold Him; He looks at us, He looks into us, He searches us, and He infuses us with what He is.
On the negative side, He eliminates anything negative in us by His shining and enlightening, and on the positive side, He adds His stone element into us to make us living stones for God’s building. Praise the Lord! Amen!
Christ with His Overcoming Bride will come as a Stone to Crush the Aggregate of Human Government to Bring in God’s Kingdom
One particular aspect of Christ as the stone is seen in Daniel 2:34-35.
Daniel watched until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the great human image at its feet of iron and clay and crushed them, and they became like chaff, and the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found.
And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth (Dan. 2:34-35; Joel 3:11; Rev. 19:11-21; cf. Gen. 1:26).
What is this stone cut out without hands? It is Christ, first the individual Christ and then the corporate Christ, Christ with His overcoming bride.
Christ was cut by God through His crucifixion and resurrection; through His crucifixion He was cut by being put to death (Acts 2:23), and in His resurrection He was cut to be the cornerstone for God’s building and the crushing stone to destroy the totality of human government (v. 24; Matt. 21:42, 44).
He was cut without human hands, and He became both the cornerstone and the crushing stone. Then, when Christ will appear as the stone cut out not by human hands, He will crush the great image from the toes to the head.
There will be war when Christ returns; Revelation 19 speaks of the war between Christ and Antichrist.
Christ will not fight alone; with Him there will be His newly married bride, composed of the overcoming saints, and with Antichrist there will be the ten kings with their armies. Man will fight against God, and the earth will fight against the heavens.
Christ with His overcoming bride will defeat and destroy Antichrist and the ten kings. As we see in Daniel 2:34-35, Christ will come as a crushing stone to completely destroy all the human government, from Nimrod to Antichrist.
Today God still tolerates human government, and we all suffer under the injustice, corruption, and evil of the human government.
But one day, at the time of the Lord’s second coming, human government will be terminated by Christ who will come as the God-cut stone.
We want to be the overcoming saints who will return with Christ to be the corporate crushing stone that will smite the great human image at its toes so that the whole of human government will topple!
Today, no matter where we are, human government is the same in terms of their rebellion against God, exalting men, and worshipping idols.
Human government has been going on these last six thousand years; one day human government will be toppled by Christ as the smiting stone. And this stone will become a great mountain to fill the whole earth!
Christ with His overcoming believers, will become that great mountain, the kingdom of God, to fill the whole earth! Praise the Lord!
We can say that in the Bible Christ is a stone in three aspects: to the believers He’s the foundation stone in whom they trust, to the unbelieving Jews He is the stumbling stone, and to the nations Christ is the smiting stone.
In Isaiah 28:16 we see that Christ is the foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone as a foundation firmly established.
To us believers in Christ, He is the foundation stone for us to trust in and rely on; on Him we are firmly established and built up. To the unbelieving Jews, Christ is the stumbling stone (8:14; Rom. 9:33).
As the Lord said in Matthew 21:33, he who falls on this stone shall be broken to pieces.
And to the nations, Christ will be the smiting stone, for He will come as a great corporate smiting stone to crush the great human image and cause it to become like chaff carried away by the wind. Oh, what a wonderful Christ we have! Praise the Lord for such a Christ! Amen!
Lord Jesus, we love You and we trust in You as our foundation stone. Praise the Lord, God laid a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone as a foundation firmly established, which is Christ! Amen, Lord, we stand on You as our foundation stone and we’re built up in You! We give ourselves to You today to be one with You in all things. We want to live one spirit with You. We aspire to be Your overcoming believers who are constituted with You and cooperate with You in this age to be part of Your overcoming bride! Amen, Lord, we are looking forward to the day that You will return with Your overcoming bride as a smiting stone to crush the entirety of human government to bring the kingdom! Come, Lord Jesus! Come soon and bring in Your kingdom! Come and destroy the human government to bring in the kingdom of God that will fill the whole earth! We give You more ground in our being. Make us Your overcoming saints today. Make us one with You in every possible way. Amen, come, Lord Jesus!
For us to be Constituted and Mingled with Christ to become the Corporate Smiting Stone, His Corporate Warrior-Overcomer, we need to Pray-read the Word for the Killing of the Adversary Within and the Enemy Without
How can we practically become part of the corporate smiting stone, Christ with His overcoming bride, His corporate warrior-overcomer?
We may think that this is something we may not be able to achieve in our lifetime, for we fail so much, we do not pray the whole day, and many times we even forget about the Lord as we do this and that during the day. The key is not what we are or can do; it is coming to the word of God to pray-read the word.
Out of the mouth of Christ proceeds a sharp sword that with it He might smite the nations (Rev. 19:15a; cf. 1:16; 2:12, 16).
He fights by His speaking. On the one hand, as we pray-read the word of God, His word is food to us, nourishing us, feeding us, and richly supplying us, for His words are spirit and are life (John 6:63).
We love to read and pray the word of God, for this is how we eat and are richly fed; we allow the word of Christ to dwell in us richly (Col. 3:16). On the other hand, however, the word of God needs to become a sword, the sword of the Spirit, to kill the enemy without and the adversary within.
In order for us to be constituted and mingled with Christ to become the corporate smiting stone, His corporate warrior-overcomer, we need the killing word that deals with the enemy (Eph. 6:17-18).
We need to pray-read the word of God to experience the sword as the killing instrument. Before we can return with Christ as His corporate warrior-overcomer to deal with Antichrist and his armies, we need to first deal with God’s enemy without and even more, with His adversary within.
The attacks from the enemy without are not as serious as those from the adversary within. We all can testify that there are all kinds of things in our being that rise up against the Lord, His desire, and His work in us.
We cannot deal with these things by ourselves by self-control or anything of the self; we need to pray-read the Word so that the sword of the Spirit would kill the adversary within.
Before the coming crushing stone can smite the nations and destroy human government, Christ needs to speak to us His sharp two-edged sword, the word of His mouth, and pierce even to the dividing of soul and spirit (Heb. 4:12).
We need to be constituted and mingled with Christ through His word by allowing the killing word of God to operate in us.
May we all learn to read and pray, pray and read, the word of God.
As we pray-read the word of God, we are not only nourished and enlightened, for there’s life and light in God’s word, but we are also dealt with, for the word becomes the sword to kill the adversary of God within us.
We need to take the word of God and pray it. Starting from the morning, in our time with the Lord, we need to take a few verses and let them become our prayer, our prayerful consideration, and our inward musing.
If we today allow the killing sword of the Word of God to operate in us, we will be ready when the time comes to join with Christ and smite the human government.
On the positive side, we come to the Lord as a living stone, and we become living stones; we read and pray God’s word and are constituted with His stone element to become stones, living stones, even precious living stones for God’s building.
We are richly supplied and nourished, and something solid of Christ is constituted into our being.
On the negative side, as we pray-read the Word of God, this word becomes the killing sword of the Spirit to kill the adversary within us. Satan has injected himself into us, and he has so much ground in us, for we have the flesh and the self.
We do not even realise how much our natural being is an enemy of God, and how the self is the most difficult foe to God. Many times we’re tempted not by an objective enemy but by the self, our own inner being.
The way to deal with the self is not to suppress it or try to meditate; it is to come to the word of God and pray-read the word. Satan is not only the objective enemy outside of us; he is also the subjective adversary within us.
He attacks us not only from without but even more, from within, from our natural being, our flesh, and our self.
Before the word of God can kill the enemy outside of us, the adversary within us needs to be put to death by the living and operating word of God, by the word of God as the sword.
We can testify that this happens in us many times; we pray-read the word, and the adversary within is exposed, our self is cut to pieces, and the flesh is dealt with, for the ground of the enemy is exposed and crushed by the living word of God as the sword of the Spirit.
May we cooperate with the Lord in this way today so that we may become His overcoming saints, part of His corporate warrior-overcomer, to return with Him and crush the human government to bring in the kingdom of God to fill the whole earth!
May we give the Lord the full ground in our being as we read and pray the word of God, allowing Him to shine, deal with, cut, and crush anything of the adversary within us until we are fully one with Him to deal with the enemy without! Amen!
Lord Jesus, we aspire to be part of Your corporate warrior-overcomer, returning with You to smite the great human image and bring in the kingdom of God! Amen, Lord, we want to be constituted and mingled with Christ to become the corporate smiting stone! We come to You in Your word and we pray-read Your word. May You speak to us in Your word day by day, even all throughout the day. May there be a sharp sword proceeding out of Your mouth so that You may smite and crush the adversary within us. Shine on us through Your word. We say Amen to Your word. May our pray-reading of the word of God cause the word to become the sword of the Spirit as the killing instrument to deal with the adversary within and the enemy without! Amen, Lord, operate in us through Your word to put Your adversary to death, remove his ground in our being, and deliver us from his usurpation! We love You, Lord, and we love Your word. We open to You and we open to Your word. We are one with You today. Come, Lord, and destroy Your adversary in us by means of Your living and smiting word! Amen!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Daniel, msgs. 3-4, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Believers (1) (2026 July Semi-Annual Training), week 5, “Living Stones and Sheep” – day 3.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Going to receive the Kingdom / From His God, the Ancient of Days, / Now He cometh with the Kingdom / And its glorious, ruling rays. / He’s “the Stone” which breaks the nations / Into pieces lowliest, / Which “a mountain great” becometh / As the Kingdom manifest. (Hymns #946 stanza 2)
– O may I love Thy precious Word, / May I explore the mine, / May I its glorious riches take, / May light upon me shine. / O may I find my armor there, / Thy Word my trusty sword; / I’ll learn to fight with every foe / The battle of the Lord. (Hymns #804 stanza 3)
– By the cross discern the spirit, / Through the living Word of God, / Separating soul from spirit, / That the right path may be trod. / By the cross discern the spirit, / With the mind by light renewed, / All emotion consecrated, / And the will in love subdued. (Hymns #748 stanzas 2-3)
