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Daniel's dream is interpreted for him in chapter 7, rather than he interpreting the dreams of others. Here he sees the four successive Gentile world empires that will rule throughout the time that Israel is without a sovereign king. Their kingdom will not be restored until Messiah takes the throne of David for the Millennium.
These Gentile powers are symbolized by four beasts whose attributes represent qualities peculiar to each. Daniel, and eight hundred years after him, the prophet John saw the demon spirits that manifested in those kingdoms, united in Papal Rome at the end-time.
Daniel 7:2-8, "Daniel spoke saying, in my dream I saw four winds of the heavens strive upon the great sea".
As in Zechariah 6:5 and Revelation 7, the four winds represent God's servants of judgment, in war and strife, coming from the cardinal points to chastise Israel. Revelation 7 foretells the destruction of all life after the sixfold purpose of Gabriel's instructions is accomplished, and 144,000 elect Israelites reconciled to God (Daniel 9:24). John foresaw the destruction the Gentile world in the battle of Armageddon, as Ezekiel 9 foresaw the destruction of Jerusalem when Titus besieged and starved her defenders before burning the city and temple.
The "great sea" is the Mediterranean whence the last empire, Rome, arose (Revelation 13:1). The sea speaks of chaos and the symbolism reminds us of the Masonic motto, "out of chaos, order" for here it symbolizes ALL "peoples and nations and multitudes and tongues" over whom Papal Rome will rule under the coming New World Order (Revelation 17:1, 15).
"Four great beasts, diverse one from another, rise in succession from the Gentiles. The first (the Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar) was like a lion (Jeremiah 4:6-7), and had eagle's wings (Ezekiel 17:1-3):as I watched its wings were plucked so that it could no longer fly and it was left standing on the earth, on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it" (Daniel 2:37-38).
"And a second beast (the Medo-Persian Empire), was like a bear; it raised up on one side (or became powerful in one dominion) and it held three ribs between its teeth (Egypt, Lydia and Babylon): and a voice said, 'Become powerful, and devour many people!' After this I saw third (the Grecian empire of Alexander the Great) like a leopard but upon its back were four wings of a fowl and it had four heads (representing Alexander's successors between whom the empire was divided into the kingdoms of Egypt, Babylonia, Syria and Greece); and dominion was given to it" (Daniel 8:20-22).
"After this I saw in my dream a fourth beast (the Roman empire), dreadful to describe and incredibly strong. It had great iron teeth and devoured some of its victims by tearing them apart with its huge iron teeth. Others it crushed beneath its feet (of iron mixed with clay after Imperial Rome had become Papal Rome -- Daniel 2:40-45). It was different from all the beasts that were before it; more brutal and vicious. And it had ten horns", (the kingdoms into which the Roman Empire divided. Daniel 2:40-43; Revelation 12:3; 13:1; 17, 3, 12, 17).
In Revelation 13:3, John "saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." This wounded head was the pagan Roman Empire, that great political world power which revived as the Roman Catholic spiritual empire. Pagan Rome divided and conquered. Her iron teeth tore and devoured. Whom she tore and devoured could not rise again as when she destroyed Carthage and sowed her to salt. The same iron seed remained in her when she arose as the FALSE church, and her policy has remained the same -- divide and conquer. In the Spiritual, Jesus calls this Nicolaitanism. Hereby Rome established a priestly hierarchy between God and men. And Jesus hates it (Daniel 7:19-23; Revelation 2:6).
"I considered the horns (or kingdoms into which the Roman Empire was divided -- the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Seuvi, Alemanni, Anglo-Saxons, Heruli, Lombards and Burgundians), when suddenly another power, a little horn, appeared among them, before whom three of the first horns were uprooted (the Vandals, Heruli and Ostrogoths). This horn had a man's eyes (signifying mental and spiritual faculties) and a mouth speaking presumptuously".
This horn does not receive a crown like the ten political powers (Revelation 13:1) but seeks to intrude into the Divine realm, and will be given power for a period of forty-two months. This little horn is the Vatican religious power whose pope, once incarnate of the Devil, will rule the ten sovereign states of the old Holy Roman empire that have re-confederated under the Treaty of Rome to form the European Union (EU) (Revelation 17:8-14). In league with them, but ruling from Jerusalem, he will blaspheme; harass and martyr the 144,000 saints; establish a new order of religious dispensations and a new morality, and three and a half years after taking power, force the mark of the beast -- his religious dogma -- on pain of death (Daniel 7:25; Revelation 12:7-17; 13:1-5).
These Gentile powers are symbolized by four beasts whose attributes represent qualities peculiar to each. Daniel, and eight hundred years after him, the prophet John saw the demon spirits that manifested in those kingdoms, united in Papal Rome at the end-time.
Daniel 7:2-8, "Daniel spoke saying, in my dream I saw four winds of the heavens strive upon the great sea".
As in Zechariah 6:5 and Revelation 7, the four winds represent God's servants of judgment, in war and strife, coming from the cardinal points to chastise Israel. Revelation 7 foretells the destruction of all life after the sixfold purpose of Gabriel's instructions is accomplished, and 144,000 elect Israelites reconciled to God (Daniel 9:24). John foresaw the destruction the Gentile world in the battle of Armageddon, as Ezekiel 9 foresaw the destruction of Jerusalem when Titus besieged and starved her defenders before burning the city and temple.
The "great sea" is the Mediterranean whence the last empire, Rome, arose (Revelation 13:1). The sea speaks of chaos and the symbolism reminds us of the Masonic motto, "out of chaos, order" for here it symbolizes ALL "peoples and nations and multitudes and tongues" over whom Papal Rome will rule under the coming New World Order (Revelation 17:1, 15).
"Four great beasts, diverse one from another, rise in succession from the Gentiles. The first (the Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar) was like a lion (Jeremiah 4:6-7), and had eagle's wings (Ezekiel 17:1-3):as I watched its wings were plucked so that it could no longer fly and it was left standing on the earth, on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it" (Daniel 2:37-38).
"And a second beast (the Medo-Persian Empire), was like a bear; it raised up on one side (or became powerful in one dominion) and it held three ribs between its teeth (Egypt, Lydia and Babylon): and a voice said, 'Become powerful, and devour many people!' After this I saw third (the Grecian empire of Alexander the Great) like a leopard but upon its back were four wings of a fowl and it had four heads (representing Alexander's successors between whom the empire was divided into the kingdoms of Egypt, Babylonia, Syria and Greece); and dominion was given to it" (Daniel 8:20-22).
"After this I saw in my dream a fourth beast (the Roman empire), dreadful to describe and incredibly strong. It had great iron teeth and devoured some of its victims by tearing them apart with its huge iron teeth. Others it crushed beneath its feet (of iron mixed with clay after Imperial Rome had become Papal Rome -- Daniel 2:40-45). It was different from all the beasts that were before it; more brutal and vicious. And it had ten horns", (the kingdoms into which the Roman Empire divided. Daniel 2:40-43; Revelation 12:3; 13:1; 17, 3, 12, 17).
In Revelation 13:3, John "saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." This wounded head was the pagan Roman Empire, that great political world power which revived as the Roman Catholic spiritual empire. Pagan Rome divided and conquered. Her iron teeth tore and devoured. Whom she tore and devoured could not rise again as when she destroyed Carthage and sowed her to salt. The same iron seed remained in her when she arose as the FALSE church, and her policy has remained the same -- divide and conquer. In the Spiritual, Jesus calls this Nicolaitanism. Hereby Rome established a priestly hierarchy between God and men. And Jesus hates it (Daniel 7:19-23; Revelation 2:6).
"I considered the horns (or kingdoms into which the Roman Empire was divided -- the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Seuvi, Alemanni, Anglo-Saxons, Heruli, Lombards and Burgundians), when suddenly another power, a little horn, appeared among them, before whom three of the first horns were uprooted (the Vandals, Heruli and Ostrogoths). This horn had a man's eyes (signifying mental and spiritual faculties) and a mouth speaking presumptuously".
This horn does not receive a crown like the ten political powers (Revelation 13:1) but seeks to intrude into the Divine realm, and will be given power for a period of forty-two months. This little horn is the Vatican religious power whose pope, once incarnate of the Devil, will rule the ten sovereign states of the old Holy Roman empire that have re-confederated under the Treaty of Rome to form the European Union (EU) (Revelation 17:8-14). In league with them, but ruling from Jerusalem, he will blaspheme; harass and martyr the 144,000 saints; establish a new order of religious dispensations and a new morality, and three and a half years after taking power, force the mark of the beast -- his religious dogma -- on pain of death (Daniel 7:25; Revelation 12:7-17; 13:1-5).
