How many chapters in the book of daniel
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We know that there is to be a great battle, when these 4 forces (Russia, Persia (Iran), Ethiopia, and Libya), shall come against Israel. The ribs are referring to vanquished nations.Įzekiel 38:5 “Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them all of them with shield and helmet:” In the image, this would be the Media Persian Empire with the greater side being Persia. Persia then is Iran now, is the very same place. I would tend to set these 4 beast’s operation at the end of the Gentile age. Babylon then is Iraq now, the same country.ĭaniel 7:5 “And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.” Daniel’s own protection from the lions could have helped change their heart to the heart of a man. I would believe the heart of a man would mean that it was possible to reach it. Some of the kings even recognized God for His mighty feats. They became more like a man, when their viciousness was gone. “Stand upon the feet as a man”: represents the humanitarian character of Nebuchadnezzar in his later years. This could be the meaning of the wings being plucked. They had settled down, and become a more civilized nation.
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The Babylonians had been very fierce in their conquests. The eagle’s wings, many times, symbolize aggressiveness. This first beast like a lion with eagle wings is speaking of Babylon and its most famous king, Nebuchadnezzar. My personal belief of this writer is that these are speaking of these same nations that were in the image, but at a much later time, perhaps nearer our own time.ĭaniel 7:4 “The first like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I 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.” Each one of them was very different.Īs four has to do with the universe, this is universal then. Notice, these 4 beasts came up out of the people (sea). Those were the kingdoms of Babylon, Medes-Persia, Greeks and Romans. These 4 beasts are possibly, the kingdoms of the image (in chapter 2 of Daniel). This just means there was a great turmoil going on upon the earth.ĭaniel 7:3 “And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.” This is has to do with the entire human race. Here the great sea is speaking nations and the people of the earth. This would create a tornado, or something very similar to that. In this dream, or vision, of Daniel’s, he saw the wind coming from 4 directions at once. The dream of Daniel 7 moves far beyond Daniel’s day to the coming of Israel’s king to end all Gentile kingdoms and to establish His eternal kingdom.ĭaniel 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.” (Chapters 7 and 8 occur after chapter 4, but before chapter 5). This first year represents a flashback (to 533 B.C.), 14 years before the feast (of 5:1-3). We see this is dated at the beginning of the reign of Belshazzar, but it is not the dream of Belshazzar. 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, told the sum of the matters.”