I did read your link and I thought it was very informative. Though there was another thought to all of this:
Not much different than what I understood:
mb-soft.com/believe/txs/daniel.htm
Only that in both the commentaries, it notes: 7:1-8 The first of these two visions (chapter 7), when more closely viewed, resolves itself into four, with their interpretations, but we shall treat it singly. The lion (v.4) corresponds to the golden head of Nebuchadnezzar’s image, and stands for Babylon. The bear (v. 5) corresponds to the best and arms of silver, and stands for the MedoPersian empire. Being “raised up on one side,” means that one part of the empire was stronger than the other, which was Persia. The “three ribs in the mouth of it” are the three provinces conquered by it not long before, Susiana, Lydia and Asia Minor. The leopard (v. 6) is the Grecian empire, corresponding to the “belly and thighs of brass.”
Is there any differences in this scriptural point about the parable of the weeds and the wheat that Jesus mentioned in Matt 13:24-30; 36-43? when you read Daniel 2 & 7 and compare it to the parable of the weeds and the wheat -
"He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world;
and the good seed, these are the children of the kingdom (see Deuteronomy 32, as compared to Romans (Romans 11:17 ) - isn’t that the same as the replacement of the Canaanites, as the Israelites replaced the Canaanites, fortifying the city on the northern “horn” (Horns of Hittim - in Hebrew the name of the hill is “Karnei Khittin”, or the horns of the wheat, since in Hebrew these words mean Karnei = Horns, Hittin = wheat.) (
biblewalks.com/Sites/Hittim.html#SouthHorn) ;
and the darnel are the children of the evil one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels (Unetanneh Tokef)." - There’s an assumption to all of this because we could discuss which individuals or nations…as much as kingdoms will rise and fall.
Just a small note, Germany, and during WWII, was a small country but being small (as in the little horn - which is very similar) grew and encompassed Europe. The great evil, was the fact of how much of Europe that this small country encompassed -it was “only” by the grace God (and very much so…) we where able to stop it, but remember how much damages were done before it was stopped and compare that to what’s on its way.
Personally if we look at the list of mortal sin, tell me how many that we’ve encountered so far:
he Church also tells us that the sins of anger, blasphemy, envy, hatred, malice, murder, neglect of Sunday obligation, sins against faith (incredulity against God or heresy), sins against hope (obstinate despair in the hope for salvation and/or presumption that oneself can live without God or be saved by one’s own power) and sins against love (indifference towards charity, ingratitude, and/or hatred of God) also constitute grave matter. This list of grave sins, is based on Jesus Christ’s interpretation of the gravity of the Ten Commandments. Grave sins can be classed as sins against God, neighbor and self, and can further be divided into carnal and spiritual sins (CCC 1853).
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Four other sins are considered grave also. These sins not only offend God, but men as well. Thus these four sins are called "the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance" and are likewise mortal sins. These grave sins are:
The voluntary murder (Genesis 4:10)
The sin of impurity against nature –Sodomy and homosexual relations (Genesis 18:20)
Taking advantage of the poor (Exodus 2:23)
Defrauding the workingman of his wages (James 5:4)
Finally, the capital sins are also considered grave matter. These sins are vices and are defined as contrary to the Christian virtues of holiness. They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth (acedia).
saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html
