[Daniel 7:1-8]In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, and told the sum of the matters. Daniel said, "I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, different from one another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground, and made to stand upon two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth ; and it was told, 'Arise, devour much flesh.' After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads; and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, terrible and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great iron teeth ; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet : and it was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 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 man, and a mouth speaking great things .... " |
What characterizes a lion ?
What characterizes a bear ?
What characterizes a leopard ?
What characterizes an unknown beast with iron teeth ?
Beasts are those that will prey on the weak, (whereas LORD teaches us to help the poor, the needy, orphan and widow, and never oppress them), and the majority of them uphold "code of silence".
Observe the society we live in, and try to figure out who they are.
Wu Siu Yan
11th October, 2001