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

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

Daniel 7:1-3 In the first year of Belshaz'zar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, and told the sum of the matter. [2] Daniel said, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were ______________ up the great sea. [3] And four great beasts came up out of the sea, ________________ from one ____________.

Daniel 7:4 The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were ____________ off, and it was __________ up from the __________ and made to stand upon two feet like a man; and the mind of a man was given to it.

Daniel 7:5 And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side; it had three ribs in its mouth ____________ its teeth; and it was told, 'Arise, __________ much flesh.'

Daniel 7:6 After this I looked, and lo, another, like a ____________, with four wings of a bird on its back; and the beast had four heads; and ______________ was given to it.

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrible and dreadful and ___________________ strong; and it had great iron teeth; it ______________ and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was ________________ from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Daniel 7:8-10 I __________________ 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 a man, and a mouth ______________ great things. [9] As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ____________ of days took his seat; his ____________ was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, its wheels were ____________ fire. [10] A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; a thousand ________________ served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in ______________, and the books were opened.

Daniel 7:11-12 I looked then because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was slain, and its body ________________ and given over to be burned with fire. [12] As for the rest of the beasts, their ______________ was taken away, but their lives were ________________ for a season and a 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 saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was ________________ before him. [14] And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and ________________ should serve him; his dominion is an ___________________ dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be ________________.

Daniel 7:15-18 "As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious and the visions of my head alarmed me. [16] I __________________ one of those who stood there and asked him the truth __________________ all this. So he told me, and made known to me the _________________________ of the things. [17] 'These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. [18] But the saints of the Most High shall ____________ the kingdom, and ____________ the kingdom for ever, for ever and ever.'

Daniel 7:19-22 "Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was ________________ from all the rest, ___________________ ______________, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze; and which ______________ and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet; [20] and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up and before which three of them fell, the horn which had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and which seemed greater than its fellows. [21] As I looked, this horn made war with the saints, and ________________ over them, [22] until the Ancient of Days came, and ______________ was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints ______________ 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: 'As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the ______________, and it shall __________ the whole earth, and ____________ it down, and break it to __________. [24] As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and ____________ shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. [25] He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the __________ of the Most High, and shall think to __________ the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, two 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 shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and ________________ to the end. [27] And the kingdom and the dominion and the ________________ of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an ___________________ kingdom, and all ________________ shall serve and obey them.'

5. What Daniel Had Seen Alarmed Him.

Daniel 7:28 "Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my ______________ greatly alarmed me, and my color ____________; but I kept the matter in my mind."

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

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