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And in fact the Book of Revelation is largely a Christian interpretation of the Book of Daniel.
In Daniel's interpretation, however, these refer to the succession of kingdoms after the Babylonians, the very kingdoms that are in charge of the Jews, ending with the Seleucids, who are the feet of clay, whom the forces of God crumble, cause the statue to collapse and this gives rise to a new kingdom of Israel.
And Daniel was, as a book, really responding to the political crisis of Antiochus Epiphanes and the political forces of war that are all about.