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From: mib@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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Subject: Re: COMPARE BIBLE/NEWS ARTICLES
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Date: 3 Feb 91 03:18:06 GMT
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In article <Jan.29.03.11.00.1991.23251@athos.rutgers.edu> st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes:

   Barbara Wood makes a post about some prophecy with a lion, a bear, and a 
   leopard.  I assume she must be referring to Daniel 7.

   While some of the prophecies in Daniel are open to a lot of question, the 
   prophecies of Daniel 7 and 8 are interpreted within Daniel to signify
   the four world empires which *did* rule the whole world, namely Babylonia,
   Persia, Greece, and Rome in that order.  Thus these prophecies have already
   been fulfilled.  Implicit in these prophecies also is the idea that there 
   will be no other world governments that succeed between now and when Christ
   sets up His kingdom.

None of those four were world governments either.  Makes me suspect
that we need a less literal interpretation of the prophecy.

	-mib