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I used to be a Pre-millennialist who taught that the beasts in the Book of Daniel were described specifically as Medes, Persia, and Greece, etc. until God corrected my belief.
See, it is because the "Old Testament concealed is the New Testament revealed." Yes, God uses the figures of 4 "diverse" beasts in Daniel, representing nations that fight against Old Testament nation of Israel. But those nations prefigured Satan's kingdom just as Israel prefigured the kingdom of God. This does not mean that Satan's kingdom is literal nations, nor that the one beast in Revelation 13 represents some physical or literal nations in the future. We cannot go back to the Old Testament earthly "types" to understand New Testament realities in the same way. For example, Look at literal Egypt. She literally is a type of bondage of Satan's kingdom from where Christ set them free. Same with the literal nation of Babylon, it was a "type" of Satan's kingdom that held the children of Israel captive. Because God used these old testament nations as types, doesn't mean that the types continue into the New Testament as literal nations like you would use the map to determine the end-time beast. In fact, I think if we consider the issue carefully we can see this representation right in the very context of Daniel chapter 7:
Daniel 7:17-18
And I understand these things are not so cut and dried as they may first appear to many people like I used to. For Christ came not to the children of Zion to restore unto them a literal nation Israel, delivering them from the Romans, but to restore "spiritually" the nation Israel. A nation "not" a geographical plot of dirt, but a Promised Land, and a kingdom of Israel which they shall have eternally (as per Daniel 7, forever).
Joel 2:23-26
See, it is because the "Old Testament concealed is the New Testament revealed." Yes, God uses the figures of 4 "diverse" beasts in Daniel, representing nations that fight against Old Testament nation of Israel. But those nations prefigured Satan's kingdom just as Israel prefigured the kingdom of God. This does not mean that Satan's kingdom is literal nations, nor that the one beast in Revelation 13 represents some physical or literal nations in the future. We cannot go back to the Old Testament earthly "types" to understand New Testament realities in the same way. For example, Look at literal Egypt. She literally is a type of bondage of Satan's kingdom from where Christ set them free. Same with the literal nation of Babylon, it was a "type" of Satan's kingdom that held the children of Israel captive. Because God used these old testament nations as types, doesn't mean that the types continue into the New Testament as literal nations like you would use the map to determine the end-time beast. In fact, I think if we consider the issue carefully we can see this representation right in the very context of Daniel chapter 7:
Daniel 7:17-18
- "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
- But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever."
And I understand these things are not so cut and dried as they may first appear to many people like I used to. For Christ came not to the children of Zion to restore unto them a literal nation Israel, delivering them from the Romans, but to restore "spiritually" the nation Israel. A nation "not" a geographical plot of dirt, but a Promised Land, and a kingdom of Israel which they shall have eternally (as per Daniel 7, forever).
Joel 2:23-26
- "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
- And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
- And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
- And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed."
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