Daniel 7:7-8 - A careful study into the nature of Daniel's fourth beast requires we not overlook the phrase which is repeated, "....it was different from all the former beasts." While the prior three beasts are historical to us, the greater Scriptural context portrays this fourth one as future to our time, even "eschatological" in its greater nature. Efforts to associate this fourth beast with PAST Rome are more problematic than efforts to associate it with FUTURE Rome and the time just prior to Christ's Second Advent.