The Beasts

We need Christ to receive the kingdom from God and come to crush all the beasts and then to become a great mountain that comprises us and that fills the whole earth to be the kingdom of God. By terminating and terminating us and by crushing all the beasts in us, Christ is wrought into our being to become our centrality and universality.  

Life-Study of Daniel Message 12

The vision in Daniel concerning the beasts are the human governments of different ages and different nature but essentially the same in essence. The aggregate of all those beasts is the present system of government, inclusive of all human culture, social, economic and politic. These beasts will be crushed and terminated at the second coming of Christ. In fact, the process of this crushing is beginning to take place.

The outward crushing by a stone cut without hands would take place soon, and meanwhile the crushing of the beasts in us, the believers, must also take place as a part of our growth and transformation in life. Within our beings there are many hidden beasts. Any matter, person or things whose source is not Christ, whose means is not Christ and whose goal is not the glory of God is a beast. As a man with flesh and blood and fallen in sin, there are many yet to be terminated beasts. And daily we must open to the Lord to deal with all these beasts within our being, that gradually we may be replaced with Christ until Christ has the first place and be the preeminent one in our personal life, church life, family life and service life.

I personally was touched by this message and looked to the Lord for mercy that the Lord may, in His mercy, kill all the beasts within me. And my prayer is, "Lord, have the first place in me, make Your home in my heart."