Beast/Animal

Beast/Animal = King/Kingdom

The word typically translated “beast” means “animal.” The Bible equates kings or kingdoms with animals/beasts.

Four Beasts

Daniel equates four beasts with four kingdoms.

Dan. 7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
Dan. 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Ram and Goat

Daniel equates a:
1) Ram with two horns as the kings of Media and Persia,
2) Goat with the king of Greece.

Dan. 8:20-21 The ram which thou sawest, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

Pharaoh

Ezekiel equates Pharaoh King of Egypt with a lion and a dragon.

Ezek. 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a dragon in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

King of Babylon

Ezekiel and Jeremiah equate the king of Babylon with an eagle and a dragon.

Ezek. 17:3 and say, Thus saith the Lrd Gd: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Ezek. 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Jer. 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a dragon, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.

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Beasts = Gentiles

Ex. 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lrd doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

Mic. 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

Matt. 15:26 And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

Mark 7:27 And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.