Jesus’ application of Daniel 2 to His parable of the vineyard (Matthew 21) must have shocked the Jews of the first century. The good news was, the Kingdom of God that would never be destroyed would be established in their lifetime. The bad new was, those who had apposed gospel had become enemies of the Kingdom and were doomed for destruction in that generation. According to Jesus, the overthrow of the reign of darkness as prophesied in Daniel 2 was about to be accomplished through the overthrow of there reign of Judaism in AD70.