Donna,

That was an amazing article!

It made a lot of clear connections to things.

He distinctly addressed the subject of 10 kings from both legs of the old Roman empire.

And he ties it all together with history, and modern geopolitics.

There is one question that still lingers in my mind, about this, though, and perhaps you may know the answer, already.

It is related to the identity of the first beast in Daniel 7.

I was taught a number of years back, also read in books and articles, as well as heard on podcasts, and in this article, the same thing.

And that is that the first beast is Babylon, corresponding to the head of gold on the image in chapter 2.

Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

  3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

  4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.

  16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

  17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Daniel was told that the four beasts, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

"Shall arise", implies that these four kings had not yet arisen at the time that Daniel had this vision.

Daniel had this vision when Belshazzar was king of Babylon, clearly Belshazzar had already risen to the throne.

However, Belshazzar was the last Babylonian king, as seen in chapter 5, and he died the night that kingdom was given to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel 5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

  30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

So, since Daniel was told that four kings "shall arise", then that first beast, or first king, wouldn't be Babylonian/Chaldean, but possibly of the Medes and Persians?

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