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While Daniel sleeps, he is shown by God a bizarre sequence of events. He has watched four beasts rise out of a stormy sea. A courtroom appears, with many thrones. On the judge's throne sits the Ancient of Days, God. His throne is surrounded by fire and shoots fire out from it. God kills the fourth beast, destroys its body, and throws it into the fire.
But then, a Son of Man comes among the clouds and presents Himself before God. God gives Him everlasting rulership over an everlasting kingdom. No other kingdoms will take its place. It will never be destroyed.
After witnessing these events, Daniel wants to understand them. He speaks with an angel, and the angel interprets what he has seen. The beasts represent earthly kingdoms.
But the fourth beast is specifically interesting to Daniel. He expresses his desire to know the exact meaning of it. The fourth beast was different from all the others. Daniel lists the ways it was different: it was exceedingly dreadful, it had powerful teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and it devoured, crushed, and trampled down its victims till nothing was left of them. Daniel wants to know the meaning of the ten horns on the fourth beast's head-there was a special horn which grew among the ten, pushing three of them out of the head so that they fell. This special horn grew larger in appearance than the other horns. It had eyes and a mouth. It shouted great boasts about how wonderful it was.
Daniel explains that he kept looking at the strange horn. He saw it wage war with the saints and that it was overpowering them. The boastful horn was winning against the holy people of God, threatening to destroy them. But the Ancient of Days (a name for the eternal God) intervened. He passed judgment in favor of the saints of the Highest One, meaning He found the saints to be in the right and innocent. Because of this judgment, the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.
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