1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

4-4 LECTURE I11
like iron and clay. Thia kingdom haa been divided between
Pagan Rome, the head wounded to death, and
Papal Rome, the dead1 wound healed, both "mixing
themselves with the aeelofmen,. that is, uniting church
and state, ecclesiaetical and civil, in the government
The stone denotes Christ, the God of heaven ; and the
mountain the kingdom of God. His breaking the image
to pieces, shows that all the kingdoms of this world are
to be utterly destroyed and carried away, so that no
place can be found for them. And the kingdom of God
fillin the whole earth teaches us that the beloved city,
the &ew Jerusalem, will fill the world, and God will
dwell with his people on the earth. Read Dan. ii. 37-
45. This dream was in the second year of Nebuchadnezaar's
reign, GO3 B. C. Forty-eight yeaw afterxvarda,
in the first year of Belshazzar's reign and 555 B. C.,
Daniel had another dream, yet the same in substance.
Daniel spake arid eaid, I saw in mp vision by night, and
behold, the four winds of heaven strove upon the ,mat
sea, and four rreat beasts came up from the sea, diverse
one from anotker. The first was like a lion, and had eagles'
wings ; I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked,
and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand
upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was gircn to
it. And behold, another beast, a second, like unto a
bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three
ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it ; and the
said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After tliisf
beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, which hnd upon
the back of it four wings of a fowl ; the beast had also
four heads, and doniinion was givcn to it After this I
saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth bcaqt,
dreadful, and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had
groat iron tcetli ; it devoured and brake in pieces, and
ntsmped the residue with Uie feet of it; and it was diverse
from all the beast4 U~at acre before it, and it hnd
ten horns. I considered the horns, and behold, there
came up among them another little horn, beforc whnm
them were tlirce of tlle first honls plucked 11p by the
roots ; and behold, in Uiig horn wero eyes likr the eve
of man, and a mouUl spenking great things. I beheld