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Four beasts come up out of the sea one after another: a lion, a bear, a leopard, and a fourth with ten horns. Which book tells this scene?

The answer

Daniel 7. There "four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another" (Daniel 7:3). Revelation 13 has a single beast from the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, "like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth" (Revelation 13:2).

Why it’s interesting

In Daniel, a heavenly attendant explains them: "four kings shall arise out of the earth" (Daniel 7:17). So the creatures Revelation builds its beast from already stood for rulers.

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