What does Daniel 7:7 say about the fourth beast or empire?
Daniel 7:7 describes the fourth beast, or fourth empire, as dreadful, terrible, exceedingly strong, with iron teeth. It was diverse from all the beasts before it and had ten horns. This empire is the ancient Roman empire, which faded from the scene but reappears as a revived Roman empire.
Les teaches that Daniel 7:7 presents the fourth beast as the fourth empire, the ancient Roman empire. That empire had faded off the scene and fell in on itself, but verse 7 shows it coming back on the scene. It is dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong, with iron teeth, diverse from the beasts before it, and it has ten horns. Les connects this to Revelation 13, where John does not list the Roman beast but begins with the Greek leopard because he speaks from the time when the Roman empire is already back on the scene. Within this revived Roman empire, all the residue of the previous three great world empires will be seen. Those four empires are the ones the Bible concerns itself with as the times of the Gentiles.
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.
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How is the fourth beast described in Daniel 7:7?
In Daniel 7:7 the fourth beast is a fourth empire—dreadful, terrible, very strong, with iron teeth—and it was different from every earlier empire and had ten horns.
What does Daniel 7:7 show about the Roman empire coming back?
Daniel 7:7 shows the reappearance of the ancient Roman empire that had faded off the scene and fallen in on itself, now coming back onto the scene.
What is the fourth beast in Daniel 7?
The fourth beast in Daniel's vision is the Roman empire, which rises after the Grecian empire falls.