This new beast is different...that's the best that can be said for it. In Daniel chapter 7, we go from seeing animals that we recognize, even if a bit fanciful: a lion with eagle's wings, a bear, a leopard with four heads and four wings, to a beast that can't even be given a label of something recognizable. It had iron teeth, and was terrible and strong, and had 10 horns. This brings to mind something very violent, and make no bones about it, Rome was a violent nation, with g

Alexander the Great of Macedonia was the son of King Philip of Macedonia, a small country in northern Greece. King Philip wanted Alexander to have the best education possible, so he made sure he received training from the greatest minds of the age, which included Aristotle. By the age of 18, Alexander became the general of the Macedonian army, and at the age of 20, his father was killed and he became king. It was the deepest desire of both he and his father to defeat the Pers

Reminder: In Bible prophecy, beasts are used to represent kingdoms and ruling powers. The seven-headed beast of Revelation is not as much a terrifying monster as it is used to represent a timeline of events, as one kingdom takes over another, particularly with the first four heads of the beast. The parts of the beast in Revelation being similar to the single beasts depicted in Daniel chapter 7 tie these two books and these two prophecies together, and show they are talking ab

Babylon was the first major world power that turned its back on God. King Nebuchadnezzar actually called himself the Sun God and required people to worship a golden statue of him, although he did return to God in time (Daniel 4:31-34). His son was also blasphemous, taking sacred goblets that had been removed from the temple of God in Jerusalem and filling them with wine and drinking from them, mixing the sacred with the profane. That same night, Belshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar's s