One might ask the question.
Why did God present four beasts in Daniel 7 and four Beasts in the Revelation? Why terrible looking beasts with horns and ribs?
You see Kaoticprofi, man wouldn’t see himself as a beast, he is too proud, do you Kaoticprofit see yourself as an animal? As a wild beast?
If not, you should follow the lead of those more righteous than you, who have gone before you as examples from which you could learn a great deal in this regard.
David saw himself as a "dead dog," a "flea," or a hunted bird!
Jesus Calls himself a worm Or maggot , and No Man ,
I am yet to see any such humility, which demonstrates your animal position, before your maker.
However, pride and arrogance will blind you from such disposition. Maybe one day you will identify with Nebuchadnezzar who was shown and statue of a powerful image of a man in fleshly glory, standing tall upon the face of the earth.
In other words he viewed the Kingdom through his eyes!
God revealed to him exactly what he looked like through His eyes?
"You (Nebuchadnezzar) will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven...Daniel 4:25
If you are a true disciple of Jesus Christ this will rest on you gently. (2 Corinthians 13:5)
The Persian Bear
The judgement bought upon Belshazzar caused his downfall for both his family and Kingdom. If you see Daniel accused him "the Deity in whose power his breath was, and whose were all his ways, he had not glorified". So God pronounced a sentence upon him. “God hath numbered thy reign, and finished it. God “weighed him in the balances and found wanting” Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians".
The speed of this sentence was very fast for "on that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius the Median took the kingdom".
History states this transfer of the government occurred around B.C. 54. The purpose was primarily to restore Judah (Israel) and to extend the Kingdom of Men in the Earth. Hence the term "Arise, devour much flesh",
This Persian Bear government dominated an area from India to Ethiopia, which they say covered over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces. Therefore Kaoticprofit, you are correct in saying the reign of the Bear began under a Mede, and in two years passed the inheritance to Cyrus, a Persian. I believe this is provided for in that the bear revealed “it raised itself on one side", so one side was "higher than the other". Interesting that it “raised” itself? So before it is “raised” up, the higher side was no higher than the other!!! (Very important). The higher side acquired its position last or after the event, as appears in recorded history. You cannot escape the two (divided) arms and the Bear being “raised” up on one side, answerable to the Medes and Persians. To assume the Babylonian Kingdom was overthrown by two successive empires within a two year period, as to allow you to remove the Roman Terrible Beast, lacks any real historical evidence, not to mention the Bear interprets the arms of Mede and Persian.
What else is interesting about the Bear is "it had three ribs in the mouth of it between its teeth". What could these three ribs represent? We are told in the record of a threefold division to its conquests. "It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, who should be over the whole kingdom; and over these, three presidents, of whom Daniel was chief: that the princes might give account to them, and the king (the Bear-Mouth) should have no damage".
These three presidencies, spoken of during this empire of silver dominion are the ribs in the mouth of the Bear. Lastly and more of a more general note it is interesting that in latter times the Bear became a symbol of the Persians.
I appreciate your motives for not including the Roman Terrible Beast in the image, however the weight of evidence in regards to history, metals and beasts, provide sufficient evidence of Roman Legs and Mixed Roman & Clay feet.
Therfore
Babylon – Medo-Persian – Grecian – Roman ------------------------------------Christ return as a stone cut without hands and a mountain to fill the whole earth.
He will discipline the Apostate Church and all those who dissociated themselves from the true Jesus Christ. The one spoken of who had nowhere to lay his head. A man of sorrows and of no reputation. Not “one” full of church dogma’s and false theologies, which shackle men and women with chains of fear and servitude, like the Pharisee of old who removed the key of salvation by taking away the priesthood. They also prayed in dresses, using repetitions and kissing Bibles etc. If you have seen “statues” of Mary unloaded from trucks, where toes are missing having been kissed by millions of misguided believers?
You say it Greece upon which the Image stands and I say it’s Rome.
Time will tell.
Alethos
