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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 7 – The Four Beasts
earth.” The field of the vision is thus

definitely opened before us.

VERSE 4. The first was like a lion, and had

eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof

were plucked, and it was lifted up from the

earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man,

and a man’s heart was given to it.

As these beasts denote four kings, or

kingdoms, we inquire, What four? Where shall

we commence to enumerate? These beasts do

not rise all at once, but consecutively, as they

are spoken of as first, second, etc.; and the last

one is in existence when all earthly scenes are

brought to an end by the final Judgment. Now,

from the time of Daniel to the end of this

world’s history, there were to be but four

universal kingdoms, as we learn from

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the great image in