Daniel 7:12 Meaning and Explanation
“As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.”
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Read Full Chapter →The remaining beasts lose their dominion, though their lives are extended for an appointed season.
What Does Daniel 7:12 Mean?
Daniel turns briefly to the other beasts. Unlike the fourth, they are not destroyed outright; their dominion is stripped from them, yet their lives are prolonged for a set season and time. Their power passes even as a remnant of them lingers for a while under God's appointed limits.
Kingdoms do not all end the same way or in the same hour, but every one of them answers to a measured season and time that God alone fixes. Earthly dominion is always on loan, always temporary, given and then taken away. The faithful need not be discouraged when a fallen power seems to outlive its sentence; its clock is set, and the everlasting kingdom is the only one whose time will never run out.
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What does Daniel 7:12 mean?
The remaining beasts lose their dominion, though their lives are extended for an appointed season.