Image of Gold

by Joel Ramshaw (2013)

How we see God’s word and which version of Bible we use makes a very big difference in our lives because not much is more central to us than the Word of God. The Image of Gold in Daniel symbolically represents the Bible, and the two images Daniel mentions are actually connected. 


The image here is sixty cubits high and six cubits wide. 60 + 6 = 66. This represents the 66 books of the Bible.

The fact that the image is made of “gold” represents the extreme value and purity of what is in the Bible. Nonetheless it is just an “image,” The Bible itself is just an image of the WORD, The WORD is Jesus Christ himself! (John 1) Whoever did not bow down and worship this image was cast into a furnace and burned. This represents the opposition to finding the revelation outside the 66 books of the Bible. There are other sources of revelation such as prophecy and visions. Also, the people in the Bible used other works such as the book of Enoch and book of Jasher. There is wisdom and revelation hidden in the apocrypha, although it was never intended as a foundation for major doctrines. These books are not “written by the devil” as some may say. Let the 66 books of the Bible be your foundation, but not your limitation.




The head of gold represents the King James translation of “the image” the Bible. The purity and beauty of God’s word in the King James stands alone and is unmatched by other translations. It takes effort at first to learn the King James Bible but then quickly gets easier as you get used to it. No translation is perfect, but King James is gold.

As we go down the image, the next element is silver.

Silver, brass, and iron, they all become more common and less glorious. This represents the new translations. Scholars unsatisfied with God’s gold, perverting and changing the word into THEIR OWN IMAGE rather than the image of the Word Himself. Corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts are used for almost all translation except KJV and NKJV, these delete countless verses from scripture. The feet of iron and clay at the very bottom of the image represent the paraphrase bibles.



The Stone cut without hands represents Christ and his Kingdom Age. The Word Himself! Christ Jesus! 

1 Corinthians 13:10

“When that which is perfect (Christ; The Kingdom Age)  is come….”“Then that which is in part (The Bible canon; the Church Age)  will pass away”


Although the King James Bible is gold, it is still like seeing through as glass darkly compared to the future reign of Christ on earth. It is still knowledge “in part.” The Bible itself is simply the path to what is perfect, knowing the Word Himself!

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