REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Eight - Contending With Two Ferocious Beasts - Continue

 What is this freakish beast? The Bible itself gives the answer.  Before the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C.E., the Jewish prophet Daniel saw visions involving ferocious beasts.  At Daniel 7:2-8 he describs four beasts coming  out of the sea, the first resembling a lion, the second a bear, the third a leopard, and "see there! a fourth beast, fearsome  and terrible and unusually strong . . . and it had ten  horns."  This is remarkably similar to the wild beast  seen by John about the year 96 C.E. That beast also has the characteristics of a lion, a bear, a leopard. and it has ten horns.  What is the identity of the huge beasts seen by Daniel?  He informs us: "These huges beasts . . . are four kings that will stand up from the earth." (Daniel 7:17) Yes, those beasts represent  "kings," or political powers of the earth.

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