Gino (12 Jan 2025)
"Can there possibly be a modern aspect to this, as well?"


(Could the lion, leopard, bear, and the wild beast mentioned in Hosea 13:7-8:)

Hosea 13:7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

  8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.


(Possibly have any prophetic significance in light of the lion, bear, leopard, and the dreadful and terrible beast, mentioned in Daniel 7:3-7?)

Daniel 7:3 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.

  5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

  6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

  7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.


(I realize that there was historic significance in previous kingdoms in the past.
But could there yet be any future significance of these four beasts?
Because, for the historic ones, the first three lost their dominion a long time ago.
But Daniel's vision also involves some things at the time of the second advent.
And in context, it says of three of the beasts:)

Daniel 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

  13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.


(So, can there possibly be, current in our time, or yet even still future, three modern kingdoms represented by these other three beasts?
But somehow similar to the ancient, historic kingdoms represented by the same beasts?)


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