(Johnson). This must be a person (Lee). The obvious problem with this view, however, is that it does not do justice to the kingdom aspects of the beast. Since the fourth beast of Daniel 7 is a composite of the other three, this beast must be a panoramic representation of dominant world empires of all time, but in Rev. 13:1–10, John’s vision focuses on that series of empires as they come to their climactic end. First-century Rome was one of those empires, and the world empire of the end times will