What is the meaning of Daniel 7:11? Then I kept watching - Daniel does not turn away when the vision grows disturbing; he remains attentive (Daniel 7:2, 15). - Persistent watching reflects the posture Jesus later urged on His disciples—“Keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come” (Matthew 24:42). - Faith keeps its eyes open until God’s purposes are fully revealed (Habakkuk 2:1). Because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking - The “little horn” first appears in Daniel 7:8, characterized by boasting that challenges heaven itself. - This horn parallels the final Antichrist who “speaks arrogant and blasphemous words” (Revelation 13:5-6; 2 Thessalonians 2:4). - Scripture underscores that defiant speech against God is a precursor to certain judgment (Psalm 12:3-4; Jude 1:14-15). As I continued to watch - Daniel’s repeated phrase signals that God lets evil run its course only to a divinely appointed limit (Psalm 37:35-36). - The prophet is shown that history is not random; events unfold under God’s watchful timing (Acts 17:26). The beast was slain - Without a drawn-out battle scene, the fourth beast—representing the final godless world empire—is abruptly killed. - This mirrors the stone that pulverizes the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Daniel 2:34-35, 44-45). - Revelation 19:19-20 describes the same swift end for the beast and false prophet when Christ returns. Its body was destroyed - Total destruction means the empire will never rise again; there is no reincarnation of evil powers once God decrees their end (Psalm 104:35). - Unlike the prior beasts whose dominion was taken yet their lives prolonged (Daniel 7:12), this one is finished permanently. And thrown into the blazing fire - The blazing fire anticipates the “lake of fire” prepared for the devil and his allies (Revelation 20:10). - Isaiah 66:15-16 pictures the Lord coming “with fire” to execute judgment, linking Old and New Testament imagery. - God’s justice is not symbolic only; it culminates in real, irrevocable punishment for unrepentant rebellion. summary Daniel 7:11 reveals the certainty and completeness of God’s judgment on the final blasphemous world power. Daniel keeps watching, hears the horn’s arrogant boasts, and then witnesses the beast’s sudden, irreversible destruction in blazing fire. The verse underscores that defiant rulers may rant for a season, but the Sovereign God ends their reign in an instant, vindicating His holiness and encouraging His people to watch faithfully until He acts. |
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