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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
also. The symbols introduced are, the four

winds, the sea, four great beasts, ten horns,

and another horn which had eyes and a

mouth, and rose up in war against God and his

people. We have now to inquire what they

denote.

Winds, in symbolic language, denote strife,

political commotion, and war. Jeremiah 25:31,

32, 33: “Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold,

evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a

great whirlwind shall be raised up from the

coasts of the earth. And the slain of the Lord

shall be at that day from one end of the earth

even unto the other end of the earth.” Here the

prophet speaks of a controversy which the

Lord is to have with all nations, when the

wicked shall be given to the sword, and the

slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the