Unleashing the Beast

I DENTIFYING THE B EAST / 51

Babylonians and the Media-Persians ruled from Babylon during the time of the prophet Daniel. After much time, the Media-Persian Empire fell into the hands of Alexander the Great, the leader of the Grecian Empire! The Grecian Empire was represented by the symbol of ram, or male goat: And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king (Daniel 8:21). Daniel predicted that the Grecian Empire would fall and be divided into four parts. He saw the horn (kingdom) of the goat divide into four regions: Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven (Daniel 8:8). The leader of the Grecian Empire, Alexander the Great, died drunk in Babylon. His kingdom was divided among his four main generals, or as Daniel saw it, among the "four winds" (the four points of the compass: north, south, east and west). Here are the names of Alexander's four generals who took possession of the four divisions of the Grecian Empire: 1. Ptolemy took Egypt and the southern part of the empire. 2. Cassander took Greece, Macedon, and the western