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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
2. The life of the fourth beast is not

prolonged after its dominion is gone, as were

the lives of the preceding beasts. Their

dominion was taken away, but their lives were

prolonged for a season. The territory and

subjects of the Babylonian kingdom still

existed, though made subject to the Persians.

So of the Persian kingdom in respect to Grecia,

and of Grecia in respect to Rome. But what

succeeds the fourth kingdom? — No

government or state in which mortals have

any part. Its career ends in the lake of fire, and

it has no existence beyond. The lion was

merged into the bear; the bear into the

leopard; the leopard into the fourth beast; and

the fourth beast into what? — Not into

another beast; but it is cast into the lake of fire,

under which destruction it rests till men shall

suffer the second death. Then let no one talk