“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.”
Daniel said: I saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. The vision begins with cosmic imagery: the four winds (representing all divine forces and energies) agitate the great sea. In biblical symbolism, the sea often represents chaos, the nations, or forces hostile to God's order. The stirring of the sea by heavenly forces suggests that the coming political upheavals are initiated by God, not by human ambition or accident. All that follows—the rise and fall of empires—occurs within God's sovereign control, not through autonomous human agency.
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