One Step At A Time

                There are books and videos galore out there on the seventh chapter of Daniel. This is the chapter on the four beasts that come out of the sea. We all feel fairly confident that we at least know a little about the fourth beast....the one with the ten horns....and the little horn....for that is the world power or world system that is coming. It's the first three beasts on which we can only offer speculation. Now a lot of people think that they can more than speculate here....but I don't think that they can....and I know that I can't. Daniel was told that much of what he saw was sealed...."till" the end. That implies that at that "end"....we will see things more clearly....because at that time we would need to see things more clearly....and that...."end"....brothers and sisters in Christ...is right now!
                At the beginning of the chapter....Daniel saw four winds stirring the great sea. To me that is saying that war and some kind of chaos is coming....and then in short order we read about the first three beasts....the one like a lion with eagle's wings....and the one like a bear with three ribs in its mouth....and the one like a leopard....with four heads and four wings on its back.
                Later in Daniel....when the fourth beast is judged and destroyed....the first three beasts last for a little while longer. It is tough to steer away from the bear....with the three ribs between its teeth....being Russia....for Russia has often been called a bear....and the three ribs may not be Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania....the Baltic states....but with all that is going on with Putin and his ultimate goals....that is a definite and reasonable possibility!
                So who or what might the lion and the leopard be? So far we have one beast that is most likely the New World Order....and one that was...and was not....and apparently is again....communism. You would think that somewhere in there would be the Third Reich....or the terror reign of the Nazis? Who or what would be left but us....or Western Civilization in general?
                Folks....I don't know these answers. Let others who think that they do write wherever they write....whatever they want. I think that it is more important for us as individuals to meditate upon and pray about these things than to just take the short cut and pick the theories that are more amenable to our lives today.
                 What we see in the news today....whether it is Russia/Ukraine....or China/Taiwan....or Israel/Iran....or Maga or the European Union....these are part and parcel of Daniel seven. Understanding that is a good beginning.