Fasting Day 15 and first 1/2 Part of Daniel 7

Good day all, First let me say that I am terribly sorry that I am so late, I had computer issues and had to wait till I got to work to hit the publish button.  So Thank You for bearing with me!

I pray that you all had a wonderful and blessed day yesterday.  I know that here in the Smith household we did.  We went to church in the morning, stopped at the grocery store on the way home, and then we came home and had a yummy dinner.

I made something with brown rice pasta.  And that was I heated to medium heat about 1/2 cup olive and 1/2 cup sunflower seed oils, then I put in one leek, chopped up and two zucchini, chopped up and two summer squash chopped up, oh and one big hunk of garlic in large pieces.  I just let that all sauté until it was cooked thru, mixed it up with the pasta and there was dinner.  We had cantaloupe and blueberries for desert...yummy!

Okay now lets talk a bit about the prophetic abilities of Daniel.

In Daniel 7: verse 2 Daniel speaks of the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea.  It is highly considered that the sea he is speaking of is the Mediterranean Sea.  Some feel that the winds stirring up the waters are from Heaven, or God and some feel that they are the satanic forces stirring things up, my inclination is to go with heaven since the verse says, “the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea."   Then the prophetic dream continues telling us of the four beasts.

The first is a lion representing the Babylonian Empire.  The second is a bear representing the Medo-Persian Empire that seceded the Babylonian Empire.  The next is a leopard, representing the Greek Empire.  The last beast to appear is a great beast that is extremely ferocious and nasty with ten horns, this beast is thought to represent the Roman Empire. 

Daniel continues on...saying that he watched until all the thrones were put into place.  Or perhaps it took a bit of time to have each throne accomplished.

(By this I mean that a figure head or King is established.) However Daniel does not describe who or what is seated on the thrones except to say that that Ancient of Days is seated and a goodly description is given of His throne.

Now it is clear that the Ancient of Days is God the Father, I know that is says in the commentary that I am using that there is some thought of God the Son, however in my reading of this I find that I go directly to God the Father.

In front of the Ancient of Days are several books, The Book of Remembrance, The Book of the Living, and the Book of the Life,  which is to say that these books are the books where all the names of the saints are written....is your name in the Lambs Book of Life?

Now the last beast to appear had ten horns and then another smaller horn appeared and somehow this horn had a mouth and it was speaking, the Bible says pompous words.  Now pompous is not a word that is generally a positive word, so just for clarification we are going to Merriam...

2: having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant <a pompous politician>

Do you notice that the rest of the beasts do not speak?  Anyway this last beast is slain and thrown into the fire...and the Daniel says that one like the Son of Man appears coming down from the clouds and He is taken to the Ancient of Days and The Son of Man is given dominion over all the earth, and His reign is permanent and has NO end.

Now we are going to stop here and pick this back up tomorrow to continue in the book of Daniel chapter 7, verse 15.  Please find someone to bless today, won't you?