Brakelite
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The first beast of Revelation12 is a composite of those 4 beasts. A power that is independent from them, but inherited their attributes, character, and this explains why the prophecy says that despite being defeated,Yes the re was still another to come but the beast of revelation is different from the fourth beast in Daniel. There is an OT beast and a NT beast
KJV Daniel 7:12
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
Their lives were prolonged through the horns that grew from them. Powers that inherited their nature... Which clearly must be spiritual. One characteristic of those beasts, and certainly one which the Revelation sea beast inherited, was a unity of church and state...a pagan characteristic typical of Babylon, Greece, Persia, and Rome.