It is of no small significance that even extremely Christian-hostile, anti-Zionist, Jews, consider the beasts of Daniel's prophecy described as lion, bear and leopard, to have been fulfilled in the successive kindgoms of Babylon, Persia and Greece.
Indeed so hostile to Christians they label their efforts as "Counter-Missionary Education"!
http://messiahtruth.yuku.com/reply/16113/Daniel-717#reply-16113This helps to dispel pop-preterists rewriting that suggests all of those figures were fulfilled within the rule of the Roman Empire.
