ONE NIGHT WHILE DANIEL WAS ASLEEP
A TROUBLING VISION CAME IN VIEW
THE CHURNING SEAS LIKE NATIONS ROSE
FOUR BEASTS DISGUISED IN KINGDOM CLOTHES.
WHAT COULD THIS MEAN, THE PROPHET MUSED
WITH LIONS, BEARS AND LEOPARDS, TOO?
THE OUTWARD FORM THE KING ONCE DREAMT
SEEMED DIFFERENT THAN THIS VISION MEANT.
BUT SOON THE MYSTERY WAS REVEALED
EACH BEAST DESCRIBES A KINGDOM HERE
BEFORE ALL EARTHLY RULE IS DONE
AND CHRIST'S ETERNAL KINGDOM WON.
THE LION WITH FOUR EAGLE WINGS
IS EQUAL TO THE HEAD OF GOLD
WHERE BABYLON RULED WITH CRUEL STRENGTH
AND SWIFTLY TOOK THE WORLD AT LENGTH.
THEN FROM ITS HIBERNATING LAIR
A LUMBERING BEAR ROSE TO ITS FEET
AND WITH BRUTE FORCE IT CRUSHED ITS PREY
AS MEDES AND PERSIANS RULED THAT DAY.
A LEOPARD WITH FOUR HEADS APPEARED
LIKE LIGHTNING SPEED ON EAGLE WINGS
THIS GRECIAN KING SPREAD WIDE HIS REIGN
IN EIGHT SHORT YEARS GAINED WORLD-WIDE FAME.
BUT WHAT DISTURBED THE PROPHET MOST
WAS WHAT APPEARED ON EUROPE'S SHORE
A TERRIFYING BEAST WITH RAGE
FULFILLED ITS ROLE ON CENTER STAGE.
THIS BEAST FROM ROME WHO RULED THE WORLD
WAS NEVER CONQUERED BY A FOE
CORRUPTION TORE ITS HEART WITHIN
BECAUSE OF VILE AND TREACHEROUS SIN.
THE BEAST WITH TEN HORNS THAT APPEARED
WAS NEVER SEEN TO RISE AGAIN
BUT STIRRING SIGNS ARE FORMING NOW
UPON THE HEAD OF EUROPE'S BROW.
A LITTLE HORN WILL SOON ARISE
AND THROUGH DECEIT HIS CRAFTY PLAN
WILL CATCH ALL NATIONS IN ITS WEB
AS REVELATION THIRTEEN SAID.
THE WARNING THAT THIS VISION SHOWS
IS TO REMIND THE WORLD TODAY
THE POWER OF ANTICHRIST IS NEAR
FOR EVERY MAN ON EARTH TO FEAR.
--B. PENT
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