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Studies of Daniel and prophetic

1. THE FOUR BEASTS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL 7-A

2. Head of Gold -- Babylon 605- 539 BC Chest of Silver -- Medo - 539- 331 BC Persia Body & thighs – Greece 331-168 BC of Bronze Legs of Iron -- Rome 168- 476BC Feet with 10 Toes the division of Europe some are strong & weak God’s Eternal Kingdom DANIEL 2 AND PROPHECY

3. Water Populations Rev. 17:15 1 Winds war, strife Jer 49: 36-37 Beasts Kingdoms Dan.7:17 Daniel 7 Bible Prophecy Symbols Heads kingdoms, kings Rev. 17:9,10 Horns Kings, Authority Dan. 7:24 Wings swiftness of movement Hab.1:6,7 Days Years Eze . 4:6, Num.14:33 Eye of man symbol of intelligence TIMES, TIME. Year or years Dan. 4:23 Dan. 7:25

4. Daniel 7:2 KJV “Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. Daniel 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another . DANIEL SEVEN IS THE PROPHETIC DREAM

5. Daniel 7:5 A second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

6. Daniel7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

7. Daniel 7:7KJV “ And behold a fourth beast , dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns ”. THE FOURTH BEAST A DREADFUL OR TERRIBLE BEAST

8. Four Great Beast in prophecy

9. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE FOUR BEASTS

10. The Lion is a king of the beasts ; The eagle is lord of the air. Ancient Babylon was a mighty empire. (History reveals to us that a Winged Lion was evidently the official symbol of the Babylonian Kingdom)

11. Dan. 7:5 Medo -Persia

12. How were the Persians able to enter the heavily fortified Babylon so easily? Herodotus, "the father of history", Greek writer and traveller of the fifth century BC, states that the armies of Cyrus the Great diverted the waters of the Euphrates, causing the river level to drop in its flow beneath the city wall. At the right moment, when the palace revelry was at its height, the Persians entered via the river bed and stormed the citadel. Belshazzar was slain. The end had suddenly come for the Babylonian Empire (538BC).

13. In 539 BC, Medo -Persia, prophetically represented here as a bear with three ribs in its mouth, supersedes Babylon. The three ribs , no doubt, stand for the three great conquests that brought the Medo -Persians to power - Egypt, Lydia and Babylon were crushed and destroyed.

14. THE NEW AMERICAN BIBLE THE BOOK OF EZRA The following list of the kings of Persia, with the dates of their reigns, will be useful for dating the events mentioned in Ezra-Nehemiah Cyrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538-529 B. C. Cambyses . . . . . . . . . . 529-521 B. C. Darius I . . . . . . . . . . . . 521-485 B. C. Xerxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485-464 B. C. Artaxerxes I . . . . . . . . 464-423 B. C. Darius II . . . . . . . . . . . 423-404 B. C.

15. Greece Empire Daniel 7:6 KJV After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

16. 331 BC. When Alexander the Great defeated the Persian Army in the battle of Arbela, the Persia became part of Alexander’s Empire World Book Encyclopedia vol.15

17. “Alexander was one of the greatest generals of all time, noted for his brilliance as a tactician and troop leader and for the rapidity with which he could traverse great expanses of territory .”

18. Alexander's men only more than 8,0000 and had marched over 11,000 miles (18,000km) in eight years, and killed at least 750,000 Asians.

19. 1 2 3 4 “June 13, 323 BC Alexander died with out appointing his successor, his generals were fighting each other for supremacy for 22 years until 301 BC, the Empire was divided into Four territories.” Combridge Ancient History p.461

20. Alexander the Great died of consumption, caused by drunkenness, at age 33. His kingdom was divided up between his 4 generals ( Cassander , Lysimachus, Ptolemy, and Seleccus ).

21. 3rd - Leopard - Greece - 331-168 BC Greece was the Belly and Thighs of Bronze - Does the Leopard symbol fit Greece? How many wings and heads did the Leopard have? - Four When Alexander the Great died - 323 BC - Drunk - Near Babylon. Having conquered the known world in seven years - Incredible speed

22. 3rd - Leopard - Greece - 331-168 BC - Daniel 8:20-21 (866) - Clearly states that Medo -Persia would be conquered by Greece How many divisions did Greece divide into? Answer: Four - Under four prominent generals “ Map “ West — Macedonia and Greece - under Cassander “ East — Thrace and Asia Minor - under Lysimachus “ North — Syria - Babylonia - Mesopotamia - under Seleucus I “ South — Egypt - under Ptolemy II

23. King Perseus The last king of Greece ended in Pydna

24. Daniel 7:7KJV “ and behold a fourth beast , dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns ”.

25. Rome ruled the world for five centuries beginning in 168 BC. the kingdom of the Ceasars is symbolized by iron that “ subdueth all things.” Notice that this beast in Daniel 7 has iron teeth representing Rome, and bronze claws (V. 19) representing the culture and language of Greece, which Rome adopted.

26. The Four beasts are the four Kingdoms Bab y lon Me d o -Persia Greece Rom e

27. The last Emperor of Rome was Romolus Agustolus reigned at the age of 8 and after that the Empire was divided into ten nations in the year 476 AD.

28. THE TEN TOES IN DANIEL 2 ARE THE TEN HORNS IN CHAPTER 7 REPRESENTING THE DIVIDED ROMAN EMPIRE INTO TEN KINGDOMS FROM THE YEAR 476 AD

29. AD 351 Alemania Germany AD 351 Franks France AD 406 Burgundians Switzerlands AD 406 Suevi Portugal AD 406 Vandals Africa AD 408 Visigoths Spain AD 449 Saxons Britian AD 453 Ostrogoths Italy AD 453 Lombards Italy AD 476 Heruli Italy The Ten divided kingdoms of Western Roman Empire

30. hands COMPARISON OF DANIEL 2 AND DANIEL 7 DANIEL 2 Metallic image DANIEL 7 Four Beasts Symbol Kingdom Symbol Kingdom gold Babylon lion Babylon silver Medo Persia Medo Persia Bear Bronze Greece Leopard Greece Iron Iron & Clay Fourth Beast Ten Horns Rome Rome 10 Kingdoms 10 Kingdoms