In the book of Daniel, Daniel said, “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. Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea”, and in chapter seven and verse three of his book Daniel began to tell about his dream and said, “four great beasts came up from the sea” where we read,
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
The verse reads, “And four great beasts came up from the sea, …” Daniel began with the words, “and four great beasts” or “and four massive and domineering animals” “came up from the seas” which means “ascended and arose separate and apart from the large body of water”. Daniel shared how the “four domineering animals” arose from the large body of water.
The verse continues, “… diverse one from another.” Daniel added the word, “diverse” or “different, altered and unalike” “one from another” which means “each to the other”. Daniel said the massive animals were all different from each other.
When we think through Daniel’s words in this verse, we learn about his “dream and vision” as he observed “four” giant animals which arose from the large body of water, and they all differed from each other. We shall see what these “four large beasts” meant in our next few verses, but for now let us consider that God was revealing His plan through a mental imageries to Daniel. This plan will lead to the redemption of mankind through God’s Son Jesus who died on the cross for the sins of all mankind and was resurrected from the grave after three days, and when we yield our lives to Him as our personal “Savior and Lord”, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and put His Holy Spirit within us so we will exist as willing vessels for Him to reveal whatever He desires to show us.
Next time Daniel shares how, “the first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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