BIBLE, Book of Daniel 7..19-26 (Theoretical explanation)

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19 I wanted to be sure about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and was exceedingly terrible: it had iron teeth, bronze claws, it devoured and crushed and trampled the rest with its feet,
23 He said this: “The fourth beast - there will be a fourth kingdom on earth, it will be different from all kingdoms; he will devour the whole earth, tread it down, and crush it.
(New world order)
24 And ten horns - ten kings will arise from that kingdom.
(Ten equally powerful countries will want to form a one world government)
After them another will arise, he will be different from the previous ones and he will depose the three kings.
(Globalists/antichrist, will destroy three kings out of ten .. weakening and destroying USA, Russia and China)
25 He will speak against the Most High and destroy the saints of the Most High.
(Denying the Bible and Jesus Christ, banning Christianity)
He will seek to change the times and the law. The saints shall be delivered into his hand until time and times and half a time,
(Creation of one new super tolerant religion....persecuting Christians and those who will not want the "mark of the beast", duration of NWO for "42 months")
26 but the judgment will sit and the rulership will be taken away from him, and he will be completely destroyed and destroyed.
(The destruction of the NWO, a global storm after which the small remnant of humanity will start over)
 
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nicolagreen4 said:
19 I wanted to be sure about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and was exceedingly terrible: it had iron teeth, bronze claws, it devoured and crushed and trampled the rest with its feet,
23 He said this: “The fourth beast - there will be a fourth kingdom on earth, it will be different from all kingdoms; he will devour the whole earth, tread it down, and crush it.
(New world order)
24 And ten horns - ten kings will arise from that kingdom.
(Ten equally powerful countries will want to form a one world government)
After them another will arise, he will be different from the previous ones and he will depose the three kings.
(Globalists/antichrist, will destroy three kings out of ten .. weakening and destroying USA, Russia and China)
25 He will speak against the Most High and destroy the saints of the Most High.
(Denying the Bible and Jesus Christ, banning Christianity)
He will seek to change the times and the law. The saints shall be delivered into his hand until time and times and half a time,
(Creation of one new super tolerant religion....persecuting Christians and those who will not want the "mark of the beast", duration of NWO for "42 months")
26 but the judgment will sit and the rulership will be taken away from him, and he will be completely destroyed and destroyed.
(The destruction of the NWO, a global storm after which the small remnant of humanity will start over)
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Well, you seem to be going out on a limb by identifying the USA, Russia, and China. It's okay to guess, but I don't see any biblical reason for identifying them as the 3 kings to be defeated by the Little Horn?

Personally, I think the 4th Beast began with ancient Rome, and to this day it remains Europe, both East and West. This would include Russia, and perhaps the US can be called an extension of European Civilization? But China is out of the question, in terms of its being part of Europe.

It is often assumed that since the Antichristian Empire seems unstoppable and has worshipers across the world that it will literally have as its domain the *entire world!* But I don't think that's true. It will simply be an unchallenged superpower for awhile--at least until Armageddon.

I can see the more proud and historically dominant powers in Europe like the UK, France, and Germany as being resistant to the Little Horn, and perhaps as the 3 kings who will have to be overthrown. But in all honesty, I don't know. It's pure speculation for me at this point.
 
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What I take from Daniel 7 is that in the endtimes there will be four powers on Earth:
1. The Anglo-Americans
2. Russians
3. Chinese
4. Kingdom of the anti-Christ.
America will be destroyed, the British will form their own policy instead of always following the USA. (verse 4)
Russia will be aggresive. She will conquer three other countries (verse 5)
The fourth kingdom will actually be a federation of 10 countries and will be more powerful than the other three.
It will be destroyed at the Second Coming.
 
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BobRyan said:
The fourth Empire is Pagan Rome. The first three in Dan 7 are Babylon, Persia, Greece.

Pagan Rome divided in to Ten kingdoms.
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Hmmm... the chapter continues and says that the first three beasts continue to live after the fourth is destroyed.
Daniel 7 is speaking of the endtimes. The Persian and Greek empires are long gone and there certainly is no Babylonia now.
 
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John G. said:
Hmmm... the chapter continues and says that the first three beasts continue to live after the fourth is destroyed.
Daniel 7 is speaking of the endtimes. The Persian and Greek empires are long gone and there certainly is no Babylonia now.
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Dan 2, 7 and 8 go together

Dan 2 - four empires - then ten toes then the second coming -- and Babylon is stated as the first of the four. It i a dream given to the king of Babylon -- so then since it says Babylon is first - it means that next would come Medes and Persians, then Greece then Rome.

Dan 7 - four empires - ten ten horn division - persecuted saints , judgment and second coming.
- it is the same four as in Dan 2 - and Babylon is still the first. The vision is given at the time of Babylon.
Dan 7:1 "In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon"

Dan 8 - Medes and Persians, then Greece (as stated in the text. then Greece divides .
The vision actually names the first two kingdoms (Ram and Goat) as Medes and Persians, then Greece.

Dan 2, Dan 7, Dan 8 all extend beyond the time of Babylon and Medo-Persia by the time each vision/dream ends.

Dan 8 says it extends down to the point of the Time of the End
Dan 7 - extends to the time of the coming of Christ
Dan 2 - extend to the time of the coming of Christ
 
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nicolagreen4 said:
23 He said this: “The fourth beast - there will be a fourth kingdom on earth, it will be different from all kingdoms; he will devour the whole earth, tread it down, and crush it.
(New world order)
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One deep rabbit hole is about what it means to be "different." Here, I think different means demonic. Demons will be running the show. Demons will be the iron and humans will be the clay in the feet of Nebuchadnezzar's statue.
 
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John G. said:
I think verses 9 through 12 make that perfectly clear.
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Is this in address to what I said? Because I don't know how you can say it's "perfectly clear".

Further: King Jesus reigns, having taken His Seat at the right hand of the Father when He ascended. The powers of this world are already fallen; Jesus Christ is Lord.

I am intrigued by verse 12,

"As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time."

Compare with Matthew 28:18 and John 16:33.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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One deep rabbit hole is about what it means to be "different." Here, I think different means demonic. Demons will be running the show. Demons will be the iron and humans will be the clay in the feet of Nebuchadnezzar's statue.
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Personally, I think it will be different as it is not a nation-state but a confederation of 10 countries (the toes) some being strong (iron) and some being weak (clay).
 
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nicolagreen4 said:
25 He will speak against the Most High and destroy the saints of the Most High.
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Persecution of the saints for the 1260 years (times time 1/2 time) of Dan 7 and all through the time that that the Dan 7:9-10 judgment is going on in heaven.
nicolagreen4 said:
He will seek to change the times and the law. The saints shall be delivered into his hand until time and times and half a time,
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yep
nicolagreen4 said:
26 but the judgment will sit and the rulership will be taken away from him, and he will be completely destroyed and destroyed.
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that is the end times, end of the world, coming of Christ, all wicked destroyed - all saints rescued.
 
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