AC, I always thought that Rev. 12:14 meant the US, as our symbol is the eagle, and this is the strongest or greatest “eagle” ever known. Almost sounds like we would use our airlift capacity at that time to move the “woman”, Israel, to a place of safety.
I never associated Dan. 7:4 with the Great Britain/USA connection—I always thought that this referred to empires that would rise and fall from Daniel’s time.
But what if the images in Daniel 7 are not meant to span time( such as the image of the statue Daniel saw in another dream in Chapter 2), but to reflect contemporary global entities in a short time span of a period to come? We would not know who was being described until the time for them to be revealed—then Daniel’s words would provide important clues to their identity, and allow understanding of the chapter.
For instance, the wings plucked from the lion could mean Babylon, as the lion was a symbol of Babylon, if Chapter 7 was a mirror to Chapter 2, as is commonly assumed.
But the lion is also a symbol of Great Britain. And the wings being plucked from the lion, indicates a seperation out from the lion, and the USA is represented by a symbol with wings, and we came out of Great Britain.
Perhaps these other descriptions in Chapter 7 mean similar contemporary enitites or powers. The bear-could this be Russia( in it’s newest reincarnation and insertion in MiddleEast politics? The leopard—China? The last vision is of the AntiChrist’s powerbase, a ten nation confederacy that is yet to be.
Food for thought...................
Food for derision and mirth.
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