Cb – Dani’el’s Visions 7: 1-14

Dani’el’s Visions
7: 1-14 

Dani’el 2 gives us the perspective of the times of the Gentiles from a human viewpoint as something majestic, but Dani’el 7 gives us the perspective from God’s viewpoint as something dreadful.

The first fourteen verses of Chapter 7 describe a dream that was given to Dani’el in 553 BC. Technically, all of what Dani’el saw may have been part of a single dream. However, as verse 1 will show, Dani’el himself spoke of a dream and visions, indicating that the dream consisted of multiple components. To reflect Dani’el’s attempt at organizing what he saw in his dream, he speaks of visions at night. There were at least four such dream-visions. First, the vision of the four beasts (see Cc – The Kingdoms of This World). The second vision in his dream relates to the fourth beast and the little horn (see Cd – The Kingdom of Satan). The third vision deals with the Ancient of Days (see Ce – A Vision of the Heavenly Court). And the fourth vision concerns the Second Coming of Messiah and the establishment of His Kingdom (see Cf – The Kingdom of Messiah).¹⁸⁹