The first beast set out to be a theocratic nation and as Patriarch Jacob inspired by God refers to Israel as lion, Judah was foreknown as a lion's whelp, Jesus being qualified as the Lion of Judah. He was the Son of man with a man's heart given to him. In rejecting him the nation showed as Jesus rightly castigates the nation as children of the devil, the father of lies. In driving out does the unclean disappear ? Oh no. It is thus with other two beasts. The third beast signifies mercantile spirit and nations seeking wealth from faraway places."he beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it." Colonialism/ imperialism casts its net far and wide so north south west east alike come under its sway. Is world empire meant to raise the quality of life of natives? So have the nations in imposing as master became servants to sin. The beast "which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl" are the four ideologies created by socio-economic forces stirring up cultural and national divides.
The fourth beast is soul-less high tech. "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;" This shall give nations 'horns' which refer to the wherewithal to tread over the subjects with impunity. The little horn is a world leader who shall dazzle his subjects, "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed./And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,/And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles"(Re.11:13-14)
"The first was like a lion,"-v.4
The first beast set out to be a theocratic nation and as Patriarch Jacob inspired by God refers to Israel as lion, Judah was foreknown as a lion's whelp, Jesus being qualified as the Lion of Judah. He was the Son of man with a man's heart given to him. In rejecting him the nation showed as Jesus rightly castigates the nation as children of the devil, the father of lies. In driving out does the unclean disappear ? Oh no. It is thus with other two beasts. The third beast signifies mercantile spirit and nations seeking wealth from faraway places."he beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it." Colonialism/ imperialism casts its net far and wide so north south west east alike come under its sway. Is world empire meant to raise the quality of life of natives? So have the nations in imposing as master became servants to sin. The beast "which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl" are the four ideologies created by socio-economic forces stirring up cultural and national divides.
The fourth beast is soul-less high tech. "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;" This shall give nations 'horns' which refer to the wherewithal to tread over the subjects with impunity. The little horn is a world leader who shall dazzle his subjects, "And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed./And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,/And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles"(Re.11:13-14)
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