“Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God” (2Thes.2:3-4)..  Daniel spoke about him as about the king, who will confirm the covenant for one week. He is a man, a leader. A leader represents some government, kingdom, a political structure. In Revelation the leader and the government given to us as the beasts. The studying of the Daniel’s image and 4 beasts will help us to answer the question: who is the last beast, that represents a government. Is he already exists or still hasn’t come yet?  11. The image and four beasts of Daniel's vision and beast of "Revelation" Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream a great image (ch.2), whose head was of gold, arms of silver; breast, belly and thighs of brass; legs of iron and feet partly of iron and partly of clay. That image was great and terrible. And a stone from the sky smote the image upon his feet, the image felt and was broken into pieces, and the wind carried all pieces away. The stone became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Nobody could explain the dream to the king, except Daniel. Daniel explained, that the image represents all world kingdoms, which will arise, beginning from Babylonia to the very end of the world. Then the stone (which is Jesus - 1Kor.10:4) will smote all earthly governments and nothing will be left of them, but the stone will fill up the whole earth. We can notice the image's 4 parts correspond to 4 beasts (ch. 7) and symbolize global super-powers given in the chronological order.  Thus, head of gold -  a lion with eagle's wings – Babylon 607 BC; chest and arms of silver - a bear with three ribs in the mouth – Medo-Persia 539-537BC; belly and thighs of brass - a leopard, with four little wings and four heads - Greece 331BC; legs of iron - dreadful and terrible beast with iron teeth and ten horns - Rome 30BC. Out of his ten horns a little horn came up -Vatican. “Horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them until the Ancient of days came” (Dan.7:21,22).                    As it was discussed above, the little horn –Vatican was in power until 1849. It is mistake to think that 10 horns of the terrible beast is another government and represented as toes of the image, the little horn represents the antichrist of the last days and thus after him it is a time of Jesus’ coming. No, when Vatican was in power Ancient of days came to judge him. It was not the Second coming of Jesus yet.        From Revelation we know that the last beast before Jesus coming will be the beast with 7 heads, 10 horns and 10 crowns on them.  “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever” (Dan.7:17-18). The four kingdoms are gone long time ago but Earth is not the kingdom of God yet, Satan still is owner of the Earth.  It is talking not about the earth but about the Kingdom of Heaven, that heavenly sanctuary was cleansed forever after the power of the fourth kingdom - fourth beast with all its horns - came to the end. Vatican was not a separate government, that is why it was not given as an another beast, Vatican was the horn on the fourth beast ,and Vatican's government was finished in 1849, as it was shown in previous chapter. So we have stopped on the iron legs of the image -Rome.   Now lets look what parts of the image are left.   The power of the fourth beast – Roman Empire - has proceeded in its Eastern part, were Byzantine Empire was formed. Then the papacy raised and in northwest part of the Roman Empire gradually British Empire had formed, which became the next superpower. In 1763 13 American colonies got its independence from Britain and became USA. Canada still is her colony. From the middle of  XIX century England, USA and Canada became  the most powerful world empire - Anglo-American world domination. That is what we have today. These are the image’s  “feet part of iron and part of clay”, which means: “the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay”.  Anglo-American power is iron of the feet, however it is not the only power what we see today. We see another countries which have a power also, but lesser power. They are the clay of the feet.   After the little horn was judged, Daniel said: “As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time” (7:12). Does that says about Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece empires? We know that they do not exist anymore and after the judgment was passed on the little horn (1849AD) nothing can remind us about those ancient empires. However Bible says the last beast with 7 heads and 10 horns, who according to Revelation will govern just before Jesus' coming, will absorb those  three beasts of Daniel’ vision: a lion with eagle wings, a bear with three ribs in his teeth, a leopard with four heads and four little wings. Here it  is obviously speaking not about the ancient empires but about some other modern empires.  A lion is a traditional symbol of England. Throughout most of its history, England has employed the lion as the official heraldry symbol of the royal families. The lion appears on almost every coat of arms in the British royal line and on flags of her colony -Canada.                                An eagle is the famous symbol of her colony - USA. The big wings is the long distance and independence. They are the iron of the feet -   Anglo-American world power.   The Bear - Russia.      The three ribs in the mouth of the bear are the first 3 countries which became the part of Russia –Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia.    In 1980 a bear became a symbol of Russia in Olympic games in Moscow.      A leopard with 4 heads is not a symbol of any particular country.         After the death of Alexander the Great, Greece was divided on 4 provinces governed by 4 Alexander's generals. So in antiquity the leopard symbolized 4 separate governments united in military alliance against a common enemy. That means that in our time the leopard has to symbolize a military alliance of independent countries as well. We will return to this symbol later.  These beasts/kingdoms are clay of the feet.  The awful beast symbolized the Roman Empire.                                                                   Today it is the European Union (EU) - the new Roman Empire, which has a common bank, common monetary system and common military power, just as Roman Empire was in ancient times. And as it was in Roman Empire, countries of  European Union in August, 2005 came to the agreement to have the one (unique) state language - euro-English.  This is iron of the feet.  The last beast from John's vision (Rev. ch.13) coming out of sea (sea is nations. It is earthly government), it has 7 heads and 10 horns, and 10 crowns on its horns . The crowns symbolize authority, government. It means, that the power will belong to these 10 horns. Therefore government of 10 toes of the image from Daniel's vision is same government of the beast with 10 horns from John's vision.                                                                 The beast  “..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” (Rev.13:2).   As we see, the last beast  includes into itself a lion, bear and leopard, and nothing was told about the awful beast, even it is said, that the beast has 7 heads, i.e. it consists of the heads of all the beasts. This is the Union.     The beast  “..was like unto a leopard" - means that he, as the leopard in ancient times, symbolizes a military union, or an alliance.                                                              As you noticed, from the time of Roman Empire - legs of iron- you see the iron until Jesus’ coming. It is not another kind of metal, but iron. Why? Because we still are living under Roman vs. Vatican power. This is a world catholic church. These are Jesuits who had organized French and Russian revolutions, I and II World Wars; who are raising and casting down presidents of the whole world; who invent communism in Russia and China; who are actually (together with illuminati) the secret world government.  The fact that the iron of Roman Empire continues till the very end means that this last beast  has to be not only a military alliance, but also be a new Roman Empire under  the control of Vatican.  This is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO (see http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/eastern-europe-from-socialist-bloc-and-non-alignment-to-u-s-military-colonies/ ). In antiquity the Roman Empire included all Christian countries. Today among 28 countries of NATO 27 are Christian.  If before the goal of NATO was the defense against countries of the Warsaw Pact, today there is another goal:  the defense against  radical Islam, therefore the NATO membership is growing by the means of Christian countries only.   The beast has 7 heads: «The seven heads are... seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a brief time» (Rev.17:9-10). The five  which  fallen, or became a part of Roman Empire again are 4 heads of the leopard  (not EU countries, but countries of NATO ) + 1 head of the lion (Britain, USA, Canada).  One is – it is the European Union.  He was in John's times as the Roman Empire. He is new Roman Empire in our time. Therefore he always "is".   The other is not yet come – this is one head of the bear (Russia). Just before the antichrist's time NATO  will include Russia as well.  Daniel saw that the eagle wings were plucked off the lion. Also and the leopard lost its wings.  That means that USA and all European countries will lose their independence.  In 2001 after 9/11 attack, NATO accepted Article 5, according to which every country of NATO is required to give military help to any member of NATO.