What did these four beasts represent?
Answer
"These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth." Verse 17.
NOTE - The word "kings" here, as in Dan. 2: 44, denotes kingdoms, as explained in verses 23 and
24 of the seventh chapter, the two words being used interchangeably in this prophecy.
Under the symbol of the great image of the second chapter of Daniel, is given the mere political
outline of the rise and fall of earthly kingdoms, preceding the setting up of God's everlasting kingdom. In
the seventh chapter, earthly governments are represented as viewed in the light of heaven-under the
symbols of wild and ferocious beasts-the last, in particular, oppressing and persecuting the saints of the
Most High. Hence the change in the symbols used to represent these kingdoms.
In what condition are all men?
What Christian ordinance has been given as a memorial of Christ's burial and resurrection?
Whose presence does the Holy Spirit bring to the believers?
How was the destruction of Jerusalem and the sanctuary by the Romans then foretold?
What was Messiah to do during the seventieth week?
What may be known with equal certainty when these signs have been seen?
15. What commands obeyed would bring about a peaceful solution to this wide-spread and growing conflict?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle