CHAPTER SEVEN

            An Attempt at an International Alliance of Nations

1. From the earliest days, people have built cities and looked to the leaders of the cities as their gods. This led to many _____________ religions. The trend began with _________.  Cain’s efforts were destroyed by the Noah flood.  The organized resistance to God was reinitiated by _____________, a great-grandson of ___________, at the Tower of ___________ (later known as Babylon).  It is with the spirit of ________________ that other false religions emerged.

2. Daniel records images of statues, animals and beasts that illustrate prophetic events that occur over a lengthy span of time.  Daniel gave an interpretation of Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a statue that illustrates a progression of successive _______________ and _____________________.

3. The prophet Daniel is given a vision of four beasts that also illustrate prophetic events concerning ________________.

 

4. The individual beasts, the _________, the ____________ and the ____________ represent specific nations that will be in power during the last days.  The fourth beast is different from the other three. This fourth beast represents _____________________________________________ and is much more ______________________ than the individual beasts.

5. In addition to Daniel, the apostle John was also given a prophetic vision of a beast recorded in Revelation 13:1-2.  This beast coming up out of the _________ represents the three individual ______________ that have consolidated into one confederation of nations represented by the fourth beast.  It is a combination of the other three beasts, the lion, the leopard and the bear.  This beast in Revelation 13 is the same as the _____________ beast in Daniel 7.

6. The narrative explains events based on Scripture that will exist during the last days which includes the formation of an International Alliance of Nations.  The International Alliance of Nations will have the characteristics of the _________ horse mentioned in the seven seals, the spirit of oppressive governments and a greed for power, authority and control through the dominance of the nations of the world.  The economic, business and commerce part of the government alliance will have the characteristics of the ________ horse, the spirit of greed for power, authority, control and money through industry, business and commerce.

7. For everything that was written in the past was written to ___________ us, so that through __________________ and the _________________ of the Scriptures we might have _____________.

Romans 15:4