Daniel 7 - Daniel Has A Vision Of Four Creatures - NAS

1. Daniel Had This Vision During Belshazzar's First Year as King.

Daniel 7:1-3 In the first year of __________________ king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the ________________ summary of it. [2] Daniel said, "I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were ______________ up the great sea. [3] "And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, ________________ from one another.

Daniel 7:4 "The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I kept ____________ until its wings were ____________, and it was lifted up from the __________ and made to stand on two feet like a man; a human mind also was given to it.

Daniel 7:5 "And behold, another beast, a second one, __________________ a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth ____________ its teeth; and thus they said to it, 'Arise, devour much meat!'

Daniel 7:6 "After this I kept looking, and behold, another one, like a ____________, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the beast also had four heads, and ______________ was given to it.

Daniel 7:7 "After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and __________________ and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the ________________ with its feet; and it was ________________ from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

Daniel 7:8-10 "While I was _______________________ the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold, this horn ________________ eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth ______________ great boasts. [9] "I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a ____________ fire. [10] "A river of fire was ____________ And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were ________________ Him, And myriads upon myriads were ______________ before Him; The court sat, And the books were opened.

Daniel 7:11-12 "Then I kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words which the horn was speaking; I kept looking until the beast was slain, and its body was ________________ and given to the burning fire. [12] "As for the rest of the beasts, their ______________ was taken away, but an ________________ of life was granted to them for an ________________ period of time.

1) Name the four creatures that Daniel saw: __________________, __________________, __________________, __________________________________.

2) What impressed you about the fourth creature? _____________________________________

3) What impressed you about its little horn? _____________________________________________________

2. An Explanation of the Fourth Creature.

Daniel 7:13-14 "I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was ________________ before Him. [14] "And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, ____________ and men of every ______________ Might serve Him. His dominion is an ___________________ dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be ________________.

Daniel 7:15-18 "As for me, Daniel, my spirit was __________________ within me, and the visions in my mind kept alarming me. [16] "I __________________ one of those who were ______________ by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things: [17] 'These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth. [18] 'But the saints of the Highest One will ____________ the kingdom and ____________ the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.'

Daniel 7:19-22 "Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, which was ________________ from all the others, ___________________ dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed and trampled down the ________________ with its feet, [20] and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in __________________ than its __________________. [21] "I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and _____________________ them [22] until the Ancient of Days came and ______________ was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took __________________ of the kingdom.

1) Name the four creatures that Daniel saw:

____________________

What impressed you about the fourth creature? ___________________________________________

What was notable about the little horn? ___________________________________________

3. An Explanation of the Fourth Creature.

Daniel 7:23-25 "Thus he said: 'The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other ______________ and will devour the whole earth and tread it down and crush it. [24] 'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise; and ____________ will arise after them, and he will be different from the ______________ ones and will __________ three kings. [25] 'He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the __________ of the ____________ One, and he will intend to make ___________________ in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

1) If the ten horns are ten kings, what is the little horn and why is it referred to as little? __________________________________________________

2) This little horn does three things:

A) Speaks against the __________ _________

B) Wears out the _______________ of the Most High

C) Tries to make __________________ to times and laws.

3) A time is a year. A time and times and a half time is three and one half years.

4. An Everlasting Kingdom Will Eventually Replace All Earthly Kingdoms.

Daniel 7:26-27 'But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. [27] 'Then the ___________________, the dominion and the ________________ of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an ___________________ kingdom, and all the ________________ will serve and obey Him.'

5. What Daniel Had Seen Alarmed Him.

Daniel 7:28 "At this point the __________________ ended. As for me, Daniel, my ______________ were greatly alarming me and my face grew pale, but I kept the matter to myself."

What was in the dream that might have alarmed Daniel? ____________________________________________________

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