The Babylonian
king has pensioned off elderly Daniel but heaven hasn’t finished with him – he
is given a dream…
- Out of the sea came first a winged lion standing like a man…
- …next came a lop-sided bear chomping on 3 ribs…
- …followed by a magnificent leopard with 4 wings and even 4 heads!
Last of all came this dreadful beast with fearsome iron teeth and… not 1 but 10 horns!
No wonder Daniel was scared out of his wits – with its blasphemous spokesman it will devour the WHOLE EARTH!
Daniel knows from King Nebuchadnezzar's dream nearly 50 years ago (!) that 3 empires will follow Babylon but doesn’t yet know their identity like we do now:
- The Persian bear will chomp on Babylon, Media & Persia
- Alexander the Great will conquer as if his army had wings but the Greek Empire will split between 4 generals
- Words fail Daniel trying to describe this fearsome beast: the Roman Empire might fragment into ‘iron/clay’ but….we haven’t seen the end of it yet!
Heaven sees the empires that get to rule over the Jews as
mortal beasts…so universal dominion forever belongs to who?
The Son of Man!
Two years later Daniel gets the scoop!...
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/5-dan-gets-scoop.html
The Son of Man!
Two years later Daniel gets the scoop!...
http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/5-dan-gets-scoop.html
Daniel chapter 7
ReplyDeleteWe've looked at King Nebuchadnezzar's dream and now, nearly 50 years later, elderly Daniel has been given a peek at how heaven see it all. Next we find that Daniel is given some inside info on which empires are about to take over...
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