Daniel chapter 7 tells of a prophetic dream about Persia rising as an empire "“Then look!—a second animal resembling a bear followed it. It was raised up on one side, with three ribs held between the teeth in its mouth. Therefore people kept telling it, ‘Get up and devour lots of meat!’ " Today Persia manifests as Iran and Revelation 13 warns it will return as an empire along with the return of the ancient Greeco-Macedonian and Neo-Babylonian Empire all combined into one empire. Things will doubtless get far worse. "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."
