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.
What are the wages of sin?
What kind of faith avails with God?
Did Jesus ever make use of ordinary means in performing His miracles?
2. What attitude of rivalry was the Papacy, represented by the little horn, to assume toward the Most High?
How may we be freed from the guilt of our sins, or our transgressions of God's law?
From what statement do we learn that these ordinances related to the sacrificial system?
What promise is made to those that mourn?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle