The Son of Man Arrives on Persian Clouds
The Import Log — Part 4 of 5 eFireTemple.com Daniel chapter 7 is the most influential prophetic vision in Western civilization. It creates a template that shapes Jewish messianism, defines Christian eschatology, and provides Islam with its framework for the end of days. Its imagery — beasts rising from the sea, thrones set in heaven, a divine figure descending on clouds — has been painted, preached, and feared for over two thousand years. And every major element in it has a Zoroastrian source.
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The Import Log — Part 4 of 5 eFireTemple.com Daniel chapter 7 is the most influential prophetic vision in Western civilization. It creates a template that shapes Jewish messianism, defines Christian eschatology, and provides Islam with its framework for the end of days. Its imagery — beasts rising from the sea, thrones set in heaven, a divine figure descending on clouds — has been painted, preached, and feared for over two thousand years. And every major element in it has a Zoroastrian source. The vision Daniel sees four great beasts rising from the sea. They are monstrous — a lion with eagle's wings, a bear with ribs in its mouth, a leopard with four wings and four heads, and a fourth beast terrible beyond description, with iron teeth and ten horns. They represent four successive world empires. Then the scene shifts to heaven. Thrones are set up.
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Hebrew Bible · Bundahishn