How is China like a leopard, Russia like a bear, and USA like a lion?
(Revelation 13)
China is like Ancient Macedonia in its extremely fast progressing power. Alexander the Great took only a few years go from novice to world conqueror, taking over most of the world in a few years, even though another nation, Persia, had the world as its empire. China likewise grew from being a developing country to suddenly being home of largest cities, largest ports, and eventually, all within a decade, almost the largest globally impactful economy, despite USA being the owner of world empire. During the early 2020s it took over the lead in building hospitals and globalising the pandemic response. It can extremely quickly set up factories to make almost anything and distribute it worldwide. Its Belt and Road infrastructure could enable such a spread very fast. That could in future apply to armaments and troop deployments too. So China is like a leopard in speed of advancement, like Greece/Macedonia was in Alexander’s time. Russia is like the Ancient Persian bear empire, in that it has established a diplomatic system of lawful tolerance of a wide range of ethnic groups, cultures and religions. The Daniel prophecies likened this strength to that of a bear. It is large and a little slow to get moving but it has immense stability and strength, coping with all kinds of terrain and situation, and deadly in its power. Then we have the lion. The Babylonian Empire was the lion empire in Daniel’s time. Extremely fierce, aggressively intolerant of any kind of rivalry, utterly skilful in waging war, compelling in spreading its message of dominance and hegemony. So much like USA today, and the backdrop of power against which the other empires have to struggle to assert their own power.
