The Four Beasts

Daniel 7:1-28

THE VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS

Daniel 7:1: “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.”

Daniel 7:2: “Daniel spake 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" [Different] "one from another.”

Daniel 7:4: “The first" [Beast] "was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I" [Daniel] "beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.”

Daniel 7:5: “And behold another beast, 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.”

Daniel 7:6: “After this I" [Daniel] "beheld, and lo another," [The third beast] "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.”

Daniel 7:7: “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth BEAST, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse" [Different] "from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.”

Daniel 7:8: “I considered the horns," [The ten horns] "and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,” [The False Prophet/the beast with two horns like a lamb, see Revelation 13:11] “before whom there were three of the first" [Ten] "horns plucked up by the roots:” [See verse 24] “and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” See verse 25 and Daniel 11:37.

JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS FROM GOD

Daniel 7:9: “I" [Daniel] "beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose" [The Most High's] "garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”

Daniel 7:10: “A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand” [Angels] “stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”

Daniel 7:11: “I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake:” [See verse 25, and Daniel 11:36] “I beheld even till the beast" [The fourth BEAST / BEAST whose deadly wound was healed, see verse 7] "was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.” See Revelation 19:20.

Daniel 7:12: “As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.”

Daniel 7:13: “I" [Daniel] "saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days," [The Most High, see verse 9] "and they" [The angels] "brought him" [Christ] "near before him.”

Daniel 7:14: “And there was given him" [Christ] "dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”
See Matthew 25:31, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 20:4 and Revelation 21:1-5.

THE ANGEL EXPLAINS DANIEL'S VISION

Daniel 7:15: “I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.”

Daniel 7:16: “I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him" [The angel] "the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.”

Daniel 7:17: “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.” The four beasts are; the Eagle’s three heads and the seventh Contrary Feather/BEAST whose deadly wound was healed, review 2 Esdras 12:11-13, 22-30.

Daniel 7:18: “But the saints of the most High” [The 144,000/Servants of God] “shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.” See verse 27 and Psalm 149:5-9.

Daniel 7:19: “Then I would know the truth of the fourth BEAST, which was diverse" [Different] "from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;” See verse 7.

Daniel 7:20: “And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up,” [The Little Horn/Eighth Contrary Feather/False Prophet spoken of in Revelation] “and before whom three" [Of the ten horns/kings] "fell; even of that horn" [The Little Horn/Eighth Contrary Feather/False Prophet] "that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.” See Daniel 11:36-37.

Daniel 7:21: “I beheld, and the same horn" [The Eighth Contrary Feather/False Prophet] "made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;” See Matthew 24:15-21 and Daniel 8:23-25.

Daniel 7:22: “Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High;" [See Joel 3:16 and Matthew 24:29-30] "and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.” See verse 26 and Revelation 20:4.

Daniel 7:23: “Thus he" [The angel] "said, The fourth BEAST" [The Seventh Contrary Feather] "shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse" [Different] "from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.”

Daniel 7:24: “And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:” [See Revelation 17:12-13] “and another” [The Little Horn/Eighth Contrary Feather/False Prophet] “shall rise after them;” [The ten horns/kings] “and he" [The Little Horn/Eighth Contrary Feather] "shall be diverse" [Different] "from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.” See verse 8.

Daniel 7:25: “And he" [The Little Horn/Eighth Contrary Feather] "shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:" [See Revelation 13:11-17] "and they" [The Saints/144,000/Servants of God] "shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”
See Daniel 12:1, 11-12.

Daniel 7:26: “But the judgment shall sit, and they" [Christ and the Saints/144,000] "shall take away his" [The fourth BEAST and The Little Horn’s] "dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.” See Revelation 19:11, 14-15, 20.

Daniel 7:27: “And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High," [See Matthew 25:31-34 and Revelation 7:13-17] "whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.” Christ, see verses 13-14.

Daniel 7:28: “Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.”