The last three chapters of Daniel form one final prophecy/vision. They contain the fourth vision that God gave to Daniel. He dates it to the third year of Cyrus, locates it as happening on the bank of the River Tigris, and describes it as the revelation of a great conflict.

Daniel is just one man, yet he carries the sins of his nation to God and pleads with the Almighty to forgive and rescue His people. Their collective failures to live up to the covenant they made with God has scattered the chosen people to the four corners of the earth and have brought ruin […]

In these verses of Daniel 7 he has a dream of four beasts arising from the Mediterranean Sea. A beast like a lion with eagle’s wings; A beast like a bear, raised up on one side, with three ribs in its teeth; A beast like a leopard with four wings and four heads; A fourth […]