We must remember that the Roman Empire is the terrible fourth beast that Daniel saw, which the little stone (the Lamb who was slain) struck in its feet and toppled (Dan. 2:24-45 and Dan. 7). (The Sixth Seal: 313-325 AD, pg. 37).
Daniel’s interpretation and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a colossal statue is found in Dan 2.
Daniel’s vision of the four beasts is found in Dan 7:
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.Dan 7:7-8, Jewish Publication Society Bible, 1917.
“The world power in its totality appears as a colossal human form: Babylon the head of gold, Medo-Persia the breast and two arms of silver, Græco-Macedonia the belly and two thighs of brass, and Rome, with its Germano-Slavonic offshoots, the legs of iron and feet of iron and clay, the fourth still existing.”
Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown’s Commentary on Daniel 2:31.
“Whereas the three former kingdoms were designated respectively, as a lion, bear, and leopard, no particular beast is specified as the image of the fourth; for Rome is so terrible as to be not describable by any one, but combines in itself all that we can imagine inexpressibly fierce in all beasts. Hence thrice (Da 7:7, 19, 23) it is repeated, that the fourth was ‘diverse from all’ the others.”
Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown’s Commentary on Daniel 7:7.
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