After this I kept on beholding in the visions of the night, and, see there! a fourth beast, fearsome and terrible and unusually strong.

Daniel 7:2-18.

Daniel’s long-range prophecy foretold Medo-Persia’s fall before Greece (the leopard), which in turn would be replaced by “a fourth beast,” the Roman Empire and its outgrowth, the Anglo-American World Power.b