Chapter 25 The Lion with Eagle’s wings
Dan 7:4 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.
Adventists believe that Dan 7 is a recapitulation of Dan 2 and that the head of gold of the image in Dan 2 and the lion in Dan 7 both symbolise Babylon. That is a fair concept, but as shown in chapter 23 there are problems with that understanding, and that Dan 7 is open for reinterpretation.
I would like to suggest a contemporary meaning to the four beasts of Dan 7. The lion is Great Britain, and the Eagle’s wings is the United States of America. The national emblem of Great Britain is a lion, and that of the USA is an eagle. Britain dominated the oceans and colonised territory all over the world. After the Second World War when the United Nations was organised, Britain was one of the dominating super powers on Earth, and was given membership in the security council of the UN.
Since World War II, Britain has given many of her colonies independence. Her power has been on the decline. The president of Zambia, one of her ex-colonies, Kenneth Kaunda once said that the old lion has lost its teeth, referring to the declining power of Great Britain. We see her submission to globalists in that she is supporting the war in the Ukraine, against the promise made to Russia in 1991 that NATO would not expand eastwards toward Russia. There was a time when Britannia ruled the waves, these days Britannia waives the rules.
Now that the Ukraine, for all practical purposes, has lost the war against Russia and the USA under Trump is withdrawing its financing of the war, Britain with Europe is left to support Ukraine, but their militaries combined cannot help Ukraine to turn the tide of the war. The British military has become too insignificant to make a difference. She has become weak.
With the Ukrainian war and Trump’s withdrawal of support, we literally see the fulfilment of the prophecy of Dan 7:4. The eagle’s wings are being plucked out of the lion, and instead of the lion having a lion’s heart, it has a weak vacillating human heart. It is walking on its hind legs like a human.
A contemporary interpretation of the prophetic dream in Dan 7 certainly makes more sense than it being a recapitulation of the image of Dan 2. God designed this dream to seem like a recapitulation, but He also put within the dream aspects that would not make sense, encouraging the modern student of prophecy to dig deeper, and to match the beasts with the characterising emblems of modern nations. God has done this so many times in prophecy.
God bless you as you see His hand in the development of world events in this the end of time.
Dan 7:4 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.
Adventists believe that Dan 7 is a recapitulation of Dan 2 and that the head of gold of the image in Dan 2 and the lion in Dan 7 both symbolise Babylon. That is a fair concept, but as shown in chapter 23 there are problems with that understanding, and that Dan 7 is open for reinterpretation.
I would like to suggest a contemporary meaning to the four beasts of Dan 7. The lion is Great Britain, and the Eagle’s wings is the United States of America. The national emblem of Great Britain is a lion, and that of the USA is an eagle. Britain dominated the oceans and colonised territory all over the world. After the Second World War when the United Nations was organised, Britain was one of the dominating super powers on Earth, and was given membership in the security council of the UN.
Since World War II, Britain has given many of her colonies independence. Her power has been on the decline. The president of Zambia, one of her ex-colonies, Kenneth Kaunda once said that the old lion has lost its teeth, referring to the declining power of Great Britain. We see her submission to globalists in that she is supporting the war in the Ukraine, against the promise made to Russia in 1991 that NATO would not expand eastwards toward Russia. There was a time when Britannia ruled the waves, these days Britannia waives the rules.
Now that the Ukraine, for all practical purposes, has lost the war against Russia and the USA under Trump is withdrawing its financing of the war, Britain with Europe is left to support Ukraine, but their militaries combined cannot help Ukraine to turn the tide of the war. The British military has become too insignificant to make a difference. She has become weak.
With the Ukrainian war and Trump’s withdrawal of support, we literally see the fulfilment of the prophecy of Dan 7:4. The eagle’s wings are being plucked out of the lion, and instead of the lion having a lion’s heart, it has a weak vacillating human heart. It is walking on its hind legs like a human.
A contemporary interpretation of the prophetic dream in Dan 7 certainly makes more sense than it being a recapitulation of the image of Dan 2. God designed this dream to seem like a recapitulation, but He also put within the dream aspects that would not make sense, encouraging the modern student of prophecy to dig deeper, and to match the beasts with the characterising emblems of modern nations. God has done this so many times in prophecy.
God bless you as you see His hand in the development of world events in this the end of time.
Chapter 25 The Lion with Eagle’s wings
Dan 7:4 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.
Adventists believe that Dan 7 is a recapitulation of Dan 2 and that the head of gold of the image in Dan 2 and the lion in Dan 7 both symbolise Babylon. That is a fair concept, but as shown in chapter 23 there are problems with that understanding, and that Dan 7 is open for reinterpretation.
I would like to suggest a contemporary meaning to the four beasts of Dan 7. The lion is Great Britain, and the Eagle’s wings is the United States of America. The national emblem of Great Britain is a lion, and that of the USA is an eagle. Britain dominated the oceans and colonised territory all over the world. After the Second World War when the United Nations was organised, Britain was one of the dominating super powers on Earth, and was given membership in the security council of the UN.
Since World War II, Britain has given many of her colonies independence. Her power has been on the decline. The president of Zambia, one of her ex-colonies, Kenneth Kaunda once said that the old lion has lost its teeth, referring to the declining power of Great Britain. We see her submission to globalists in that she is supporting the war in the Ukraine, against the promise made to Russia in 1991 that NATO would not expand eastwards toward Russia. There was a time when Britannia ruled the waves, these days Britannia waives the rules.
Now that the Ukraine, for all practical purposes, has lost the war against Russia and the USA under Trump is withdrawing its financing of the war, Britain with Europe is left to support Ukraine, but their militaries combined cannot help Ukraine to turn the tide of the war. The British military has become too insignificant to make a difference. She has become weak.
With the Ukrainian war and Trump’s withdrawal of support, we literally see the fulfilment of the prophecy of Dan 7:4. The eagle’s wings are being plucked out of the lion, and instead of the lion having a lion’s heart, it has a weak vacillating human heart. It is walking on its hind legs like a human.
A contemporary interpretation of the prophetic dream in Dan 7 certainly makes more sense than it being a recapitulation of the image of Dan 2. God designed this dream to seem like a recapitulation, but He also put within the dream aspects that would not make sense, encouraging the modern student of prophecy to dig deeper, and to match the beasts with the characterising emblems of modern nations. God has done this so many times in prophecy.
God bless you as you see His hand in the development of world events in this the end of time.
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