I have put this blog together to bring forth what I have learned in my years of study of Biblical endtime prophecy. So as I share Daniel with you I am not going through each chapter and verse but only with them that I believe pertain to end time prophecy. So here is Daniel Seven. I hope you enjoy the teaching .

Daniel 7
1.  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
 2.  Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.
 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 to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.

This is clearly the same beast as Nebuchadnezzar had seen. Jeremiah 4 : 6,7 says  6.  Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7. A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
                Nebuchadnezzar is the Lion, who was commissioned of God to punish the Jews. In Daniel chapter 2 Nebuchadnezzar is the head of gold, in this vision he is a lion. The eagle wings represent the power and speed that the Babylonians were able to conquer. When the wings are torn off this represents the lost of power in the Babylonian empire and the starting of their downfall and destruction under Belshazzar. The human heart is just stating that Babylon was no longer a great world power and able to be destroyed. This beast has nothing to do with the United States or England whatsoever.

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

Again as in chapter 2 the chest of silver, and the bear with three ribs in it’s mouth represent the same creature. Which was the Media-Persia empire. It is the next kingdom to come.

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

The third part of the vision in chapter 2 the bronze belly and thighs is the same as the leopard with the four wings of a bird. With four heads. It is the Greek empire of Alexander the great. The four wings and the four heads represent how his kingdom upon his death was divided up between his four generals. This is all proven in history, and the Macabees, and Josephus.
 
7. After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

This is the same as the iron legs, feet and toes of the image in chapter 2. It is the fourth and last kingdom; the Roman empire. The 10 horns are as the ten toes the 10 Roman kings who would rule that kingdom up to AD 70. The Roman empire absorbed many countries into it which became provinces, which explains it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet.  The 10 horns are – 1. Julius Caesar, 2. Augustus , 3. Tiberius , 4. Caligula , 5. Claudius , 6. Nero , 7. Gaba , 8. Otho , 9. Vitellius , 10. Vesparian .
 
8. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

The little horn mentioned here is Vesparian. It says that a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: the last 3 emperors all ruled in the year 69 BC. Vesparian  was different then the rest because he was not an emperor, but a general, who with his army had already had Jerusalem under siege for 3 years. Then his son Titus, while his father was back in Rome claiming his throne, destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD.

 9.  I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and the wheels thereof burning fire.
10. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

This and verse 8 are speaking of God, and the fact that he rules the universe not mere men. And the day would come during the Roman empire that God would judge not only the empires who had held the whole world in their grip but also the Jewish people. They rejected the Messiah and their punishment was the exile of the people and the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. And that is exactly what Titius did in 70 AD. Fulfilling this prophecy.

 11.  I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake; I beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
12. And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

Eventually the Roman empire ceased to be a world power and became a church which still till this day rules with iron teeth. The other kingdoms still kingdoms but not world powers. The beast in the Bible are always kingdoms or world powers, so this can not be the anti-christ, or a person, it has to be the destruction of an empire or kingdom.

13. I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14.  And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

This scripture was fulfilled when the Lord Jesus arose. The scriptures clearly state that His is a kingdom with out end. Also if you recall that the Lord Jesus clearly and repeatedly called himself the son of Man terminology the Jews should of understood from these scriptures.
 
 15.  As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
 16.  I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
 17.  These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
 18.  But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
 19.  Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was diverse from all of them, exceeding terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
 20.  and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
 21.  I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
 22.  until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
 23.  Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
 24.  And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.
 25.  And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
 26.  But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
 27.  And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28. Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

It is very clear here that the Roman empire is being spoken of. I might as well start here, if you are going to throw away my book, and call me a false teacher you will. But this is what my studies have taught me. The Bible clearly says here that there were to be 4 kingdoms with whom the Book of Daniel dealt with not a 5th one some day in the future. Many people make the little horn out to be the anti-christ during the great tribulation , this is not a correct interpretation of the Scriptures. It is very clearly stated in the Book of Daniel that these visions were for Daniel’s people, 9:24.  Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. The book of Daniel can be explained in detail without making unexplained gaps in time as some would have you believe. History itself proves Daniel. The visions of Daniel were never meant to be for the Church. The Book of Daniel was fulfilled by AD 70. As was the scriptures in chapter 7 the Roman empire is the fourth and final kingdom laid out in the book of Daniel this vision tells of the rise and fall of the 4 ancient kingdoms, of God judging and punishing those kingdoms for their sins and of the punishment of the Jewish people for their rejection of the Messiah. And the fact that the Messiah would establish an eternal spiritual kingdom, which He did on His resurrection.