Lessons for Bible Students.
(PROPHECY OF DANIEL, PP. 14-27.) 1. In communicating instruction to the children of men, what has it pleased God to give? 2. For what purpose has he given us waymarks along the stream of time? 3. In what year did Daniel have his vision of the four beasts? p. 16, near bottom. 4. What is denoted in that vision by the "four winds?" 5. What does the great sea denote? 6. What was the result of the four winds' striving upon the great sea? 7. What are these four beasts explained to be? 8. What are they called in verse 23? 10. What was the first beast seen by Daniel, like? 11. What was represented by this beast? 12. What did the eagles' wings represent? 13. To what may the plucking of these wings refer? 14. What was the second beast like? 15. What is signified by its raising itself up on one side? 16. To what kingdom does this symbol apply? 17. For what was the Medo-Persian kingdom noted? 18. What did the three ribs in its mouth symbolize? 19. Over how many provinces did the Persian king, Ahasuerus, or Artaxerxes, reign? 20. What was the third beast? 21. What kingdom was represented by this symbol? 22. What did the four wings denote? 23. What was denoted by the four heads? 24. What kind of a beast did Daniel next behold? 25. How many horns had this beast? 26. What change took place among his horns? 27. What event did the prophet behold next in order, as recorded in verses 9, 10? 28. Of what have we here a most vivid description? 29. What became of this fourth beast? 30. Is there anything said about the dominion of this beast being taken away? 31. What is said of the dominion of the other beasts? Verse 12. 32. How was this fulfilled in Babylon, Persia, and Greece? 33. What is said in verses 13, 14? 34. When does this prove that the kingdom of God is set up? 35. Is there any room for a temporal millennium before the kingdoms of this world are destroyed? 36. What kingdom was symbolized by the fourth beast? p. 21, first paragraph. 37. What was denoted by the ten horns? 38. What is the character of the little horn that arises after them? 39. Where else is the same character described? 41. Are Daniel's "little horn," Paul's "Man of Sin," and John's "blasphemous beast," identical? 43. What establishes the blasphemous character of that power? 44. Did Pope Innocent III claim that Christ had set one man over the world as his vicegerent, and that that man was the Pope? 45. Did Pope Gregory say that the Roman Pontiff was by right alone universal? 46. It is said that this horn should think to change times and laws; what laws are here referred to? 47. Why may not human laws be meant here? 48. What has the Roman power done in fulfillment of this part of the prophecy? 49. When did this little horn arise? 50. What three kingdoms were plucked up before it? 51. When was the last of these kingdoms, the Ostrogoths, plucked up? 52. When the Ostrogoths left Rome in the possession of the Greek emperor, March, 538, for what was the way open? p. 24, near bottom. 53. How long was this power to continue? 54. Was the dominion of the Papacy taken away at the end of that period? 55. By whom was it accomplished? 56. What became of the Pope? 57. Although a new Pope was chosen, and the Papacy restored, in a measure, has the Pope power now, as formerly, to depose kings, and put the saints to death? 58. Is the Papacy even obliged to tolerate Protestantism? 59. In ascertaining our whereabouts in the prophetic chain, we inquire, Have we passed the lion, or Babylon? 60. Have we passed the bear, with three ribs in his mouth? 61. Has the leopard, with his four wings and four heads, been passed? 62. Has the dreadful and terrible beast been seen? 63. Have we passed the little horn, having eyes, like the eyes of a man?