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, therefore, must he the character of His Word?
What is required besides a belief in the existence of God?
What special message was given to Jonah for Nineveh?
How should the youth he taught to regard the aged?
What was the result of this strife?
Why were the ancient Sunday laws demanded?
22. What did Augustine, the father of this theocratical or church-and-state theory, teach concerning it?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle