Bible Handbook

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