Daniel Chapter 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. 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. Remember that when the Bible uses the word “Sea,” figuratively it is speaking of peoples, nations, multitudes and tongues as is shown in {Revelation 17:15} 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. Remember also that when the Bible uses the word “Beast,” or “Beasts,” figuratively it is referring to nations. Daniel Chapter 7 speaks a lot about Beasts, as a matter of fact it speaks about 4 Beasts. If you scroll down to {Daniel 7:17} and {Daniel 7:23} it says that the fourth beast is a fourth nation. Therefore all the beasts spoken of in this chapter are one of these four beasts/kingdom combinations. This also reinforces the fact that the “Sea” referred to people, because a nation must come up out of a sea of people. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, … Continued