Second Chapter of Daniel
In this line of prophecy the character of the kingdoms is represented under the symbols of different beasts.BHB 118.5
• Daniel 7:2. Striving winds and a turbulent sea.BHB 118.6
• Daniel 11:40; Zechariah 7:14. Winds denote war.BHB 118.7
• Revelation 17:15. Water denotes multitudes and nations.BHB 118.8
• Daniel 7:3. Beasts diverse one from another.BHB 118.9
• Daniel 7:4. Babylon represented by a lion.BHB 118.10
• Jeremiah 50:17. Same symbol used forty years before.BHB 118.11
• Habakkuk 1:6-8. Wings denote rapid conquest.BHB 118.12
• Jeremiah 17:9. Man’s heart denotes wickedness,-nation ready for destruction.BHB 118.13
• Isaiah 13:17, 18. More than 100 years before, Isaiah said Medes were cruel.BHB 118.14
• Daniel 7:5. When Daniel saw the bear arise, devouring flesh, he recognized it as the nation of which Isaiah had written.BHB 118.15
• Daniel 7:6. Leopard,-symbol of Greece. Habakkuk 1:6-8 gives wings as a signal of rapid conquest. Jeremiah used a leopard to represent evil. Jeremiah 13:23. The spots would seem to indicate a mixture of good and evil.BHB 119.1
• Daniel 7:7. The fourth a great and terrible beast.BHB 119.2
• Daniel 7:15, 16. Asks for the meaning.BHB 119.3
• Daniel 7:17, 18. Four kingdoms followed by God’s kingdom.BHB 119.4
• Daniel 9:2, 3. Daniel was a student of the prophecies and understood the first three symbols.BHB 119.5
• Daniel 7:19-23. He asks about the fourth.BHB 119.6
• Daniel 7:23. Fourth beast, fourth kingdom.BHB 119.7
• Luke 2:1. Rome, the fourth kingdom.BHB 119.8
• Daniel 7:24. Ten divisions; divided between 356 and 483 A.D.BHB 119.9
• Daniel 7:24. A different power arises after the division and subdues three kings. The papacy arose in 538; Heruli, Ostrogoths, and Vandals overthrown to make way for it.BHB 119.10
• Daniel 7:25. Character of the power and length of supremacy. The Great Controversy, 439.BHB 119.11
• Daniel 11:13, margin; Revelation 13:5; 12:6; Numbers 14:34. Explain the period of 1260 years. The Great Controversy, 54, 55.BHB 119.12