The vision of the four beasts
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Dan. 7:3
four great beasts... Beasts in symbolic passages represent kingdoms (Dan. 7:17, 7:23-24; 8:20-23; Rev. 17:8-11) and their rulers (Rev. 11:7; 13:18; 17:8).
These 4 beasts are the kingdoms of the image (in chapter 2 of Daniel). Those were the kingdoms of Babylon, Medes-Persia, Greeks and Romans. Notice, these 4 beasts came up out of the people (sea). Each one of them was very different.
As four has to do with the universe, this is universal then. These beasts are nations, or kingdoms. 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.
The second thing Daniel saw in the vision was four great beasts emerging from the agitated sea. As explained to Daniel later (Dan. 7:17) the four beasts represented four kingdoms.
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