Page 6 - 08 PROPHECY OF DANIEL SEVEN

THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

sea.” Winds are, in prophecy, a symbol of war

and strife. The after-scenes of war and

revolution, by which kingdoms come into

power, are represented in Daniel seven by

the four winds of heaven which strove upon

the great sea. Sea or waters denote “peoples,

and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

The beasts referred to represent kings or

kingdoms.

Four great beasts came up from the sea; that

is, they arose into prominence from the midst

of the multitudes of earth. Babylon, the first of

these kingdoms, was represented to

Nebuchadnezzar as the golden head of the

great image. To Daniel the same power

appeared as a lion, having eagle’s wings. The

strength of the monarch of the forest, to which