"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms [not numerous future kingdoms over thousands of years, but the four kingdoms] and [from that moment on] it shall stand for ever" (Daniel 2:44).
As someone commented: "Which kings? The only ones just mentioned in the context."
Notice the explanation didn't mention any long growth phase overcoming numerous future kingdoms after the fourth.
The growth-phase of the stone into a mountain could just as well have represented the short time that it would take to have quickly dismantle the fourth and final kingdom, so that from that point on the Kingdom would then stand.
In fact, the God of heaven was said to set up a kingdom in the days of the four kings.
Post-Millennialism inserts numerous kingdoms on top of the fourth, and drags out the dismantling phase over thousands of years. But the explanation merely stated that God was to set up a kingdom in the days of the four kings and that it would dismantle all four of them and then stand.
I'm not advocating full-preterism, btw.
Just saying the vision likely had a simpler, broader message than what we have to give it in order to make it a basis for either of the popular eschatological models including the post-Millennial model.
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