5And suddenly another beast, a second, like a grizzly. It was raised up on one side, and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: “Arise, devour much flesh!

7And four great beasts came up from the sea, DIFFERENT one from another

8A second, like a bear: The second beast didn’t have the majestic bearing of either the lion or the eagle. A bear is slower, stronger, and more crushing than a lion – and this bear had a voracious appetite for conquest (Arise, devour much flesh!).The bear represented the Medo-IRAN Empire, succeeding the Babylonian Empire.

11In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his

12It had ten horns: In the ancient world horns expressed the power and fearsomeness of an animal. This fourth beast was so strong it had ten horns. We are now Today at this point and seeing the final countdown and unfolding of (THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT) And a new heaven and a new earth also on the way for us, the few, the humble, the saved!

14Daniel tells us that these four beasts are four kingdoms ruling over the earth. The first kingdom is the Babylonian Empire, represented by a lion and an eagle. This fits in well with the majesty and authority of THIS MAN in his reign over the empire of Babylon.

15Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the (great body of water)

16Daniel 7:17 reveals these four great beasts are four (governments) who will arise from the earth.

18The fourth beast: a dreadful, horned beast, with one conspicuous horn. In historical fulfillment, the fourth beast represents the TOGA WEARING Empire, which was the largest, strongest, most unified and enduring of them all.

1The great sea, agitated by the (Princes/politicians talking of own nothing, change, climate?), represented the earth and the dwellers on it. Troubled by ambitious princes and conquerors

2Behold, the four winds strove upon the great sea — This denotes those commotions in the world, and that troublesome state of affairs, out of which empires and kingdoms commonly take their rise. The last include (A new kid on the block) a horn with no king

3Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou saw, where the whore sits, are (these), and multitudes, and nations, and tongues

4Stirring up the Great Sea: This was almost certainly the Mediterranean Sea. Each one of the empires mentioned in this vision had a geographical connection to this Sea.

6He didn’t have a tape recorder, so He wrote down the VISION, and this is a short summary of his account put in to a Word Puzzle

9The four beasts signified the same four empires, as the four parts of Nebuchadnezzar's image. Mighty conquerors are but tools to be used, THESE of God's vengeance on a guilty world as we see today

10After this I looked, and there was another, like a CAT WITH SPOTS , which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it

13The leopard represented the Greek Empire. Alexander the VERY BIG quickly conquered the civilized world by age 28. “Nothing in the history of the world, was equal to the conquests of Alexander, who ran through all the countries from Illycrium and the Adriatic Sea to the Indian Ocean and the River Ganges; and in twelve years subdued part of Europe, and all Asia.

17A description of the first three beasts. The first was like a KING OF BEASTS , and had eagle’s wings. I watched till its wings were plucked off; and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on two feet like a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.