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4.3.2.11 - #11 - Leopard Beast
"After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it" (Dan. [[7:6|bible.27.7.6]]). This beast appears to correspond to the belly and thighs of bronze in Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Dan. [[2:32|bible.27.2.32]], [[39|bible.27.2.39]]). "The third beast is commonly identified as the empire of Greece. . . . On the face of it, . . . the history of Greece under Alexander the Great corresponds precisely to what is here revealed. . . . It is a well-established fact of history that Alexander had four principle successors. . . . Lysimachus, who held Thrace and Bithynia; Cassander, who held Macedonia and Greece; Seleucus, who controlled Syria, Babylonia, and territories as far east as India; and Ptolemy, who controlled Egypt, Palestine, and Ariba Petrea."1 The kingdom represented by the leopard beast follows upon the overthrow of the bear beast: when Alexander overthrew Medo-Persia [#10-#11]. The leopard beast is the fifth of seven kingdoms which oppressed God's people through history.

Dominion is taken from this beast, but its life is prolonged "for a season and a time" (Dan. [[7:12|bible.27.7.12]]). This is reflected in the contribution of its attributes to the final Beast who is the eighth head [#10-#16] (Rev. [[13:2|bible.87.13.2]]+). See Symbols of Kingdoms.

Notes

1 John F. Walvoord, Daniel: The Key to Prophetic Revelation (Chicago, IL: Moody Bible Institute, 1971), Dan. 7:6.


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