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• And in Daniel’s prophetic vision of the four beasts, or world empires, rising up out of the sea (the Mediterranean), the Greek Empire corresponds to the leopard, with four wings of a fowl, and four heads. We read in Daniel chapter 7:
• 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
• But we find more detail about the rise of the Greek Empire, the sudden death of its king (Alexander the Great) and the dramatic events after Alexander’s death, in the next chapter of Daniel. We see God’s guiding hand in world events, setting up kings, and making kings fall before Him, as He guides events leading up to His Son, Jesus, in the coming centuries.