The prophecy from the book of Daniel and Revelations
Here I am going to mention this in detailed form (with external important and vital source of information with bible verse relating to this topic) as I am going to briefly explain the similarities of beast in the book of Daniel and Revelations; one by the prophet Daniel in the old testament of the Bible and John of Patmos. Despite the difference in the great length of era of time between the time of Daniel till the time of John of Patmos, the time of Daniel was sometime dated around 7th-6th century BC to the time of John of Patmos at around 95AD, the signs as mentioned in both Daniel 7 and Revelations 13 are striking similar especially the four beast, which is understood as the four kingdoms that ruled over the known world of the ancient world, and notably they were the Babylonians as the Lion with the heart of a human, and with the eagle wings at its back; the Persians as the bear with its teeth holding three ribs (three great kingdom which has fallen to the Persians at their time); Macedonian Greek empire as the leopard with four wings on its back (representing the dividing of the empire into four kingdom, shortly after the death of Alexander the Great)) and lastly, the most terrifying beast, with its iron teeth (representing as Rome), with ten horns at its back (representing the ten kingdoms after the fall of the western Roman empire), with the three of the ten horns being pulled out, but there is one little horn, among the ten horns, despite three horns are being pulled out. Strange isn’t it?
Well, it isn’t strange after all, but this turns out to be that shortly after the fall of Rome in 476AD, there were ten barbaric kingdoms ruled over once called the western Roman empire, which includes:
- Anglo-Saxons
- Franks
- Allemans
- Burgundians
- Visigoths
- Suevi
- Vandals
- Heruli
- Bavarians
- Ostrogoths
But out of these 10 barbaric kingdoms that ruled over once known as the western Roman Empire, only three of them were eliminated.
- Anglo-Saxons
- Franks
- Allemans
- Burgundians
- Visigoths
- Suevi
- 7. Vandals Eliminated
- 8. Heruli Eliminated
- Bavarians
- OstrogothsEliminated
About the fourth beast with one little horn along with ten horns
Basically, I was skeptic at first, due to the reason of the Eastern Roman Empire that didn’t fell after 476AD till 1453AD, the year when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, but later, as I soon understand from Pastor Doug Batchelor, about the dragon in Revelations 13, giving its authority to the to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed [Revelations 13:15], I began to see the picture of who is the actual antichrist. Understanding the term Roman Catholics come from, being aware of the worship of saints and Mary the mother of Jesus as the co-mediator of Jesus, aren’t from the bible at all, though the biblical character of Peter, Paul, Mary, and many more in the new testament, but what’s contradicting is idolatry. The only thing which I find it obvious is the Catholics they also worship the idols of saints alongside with the doctrines of Jesus Christ, but how does it come from, and where did it originate from?
One possible reason of how the worshipping of saints of the Roman Catholic church originates date further back to the time of Emperor Constantine the Great, after his conversion to Christianity in 312AD, but during his reign, most Roman citizens were of pagan beliefs, though there are few who are Christians being persecuted before the edit of Milan in 313AD, but thinking back, how is it possible that after Constantine conversion to Christianity in 312AD, then came suddenly in 325AD, the council of Nicaea? What is the missing link between these years? Well, in my own opinion, one possible might be based on that era, majority of Romans have pagan beliefs of Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, etc… despite Christianity was later became official religion of the Roman empire at that time, and during these years, Constantine has been building churches that was once pagan Roman temples, replacing pagan statues into something else, and quite astoundingly, they were to become of under a Christianized name of individuals in the bible, such as Peter, Paul, Mary and John, notably saint peter basilica statue, which I suspect to be Roman pagan god Jupiter, which I read from a source on the net stating that there are people who ‘kissed the feet of the statue of Peter’ which unknowingly to them, turns out to be the Roman pagan god Jupiter.
The protestant reformation: what makes this movement?
Revelations: The end time prophecy from the bible
The prophecy from the book of Daniel and Revelations
Here I am going to mention this in detailed form (with external important and vital source of information with bible verse relating to this topic) as I am going to briefly explain the similarities of beast in the book of Daniel and Revelations; one by the prophet Daniel in the old testament of the Bible and John of Patmos. Despite the difference in the great length of era of time between the time of Daniel till the time of John of Patmos, the time of Daniel was sometime dated around 7th-6th century BC to the time of John of Patmos at around 95AD, the signs as mentioned in both Daniel 7 and Revelations 13 are striking similar especially the four beast, which is understood as the four kingdoms that ruled over the known world of the ancient world, and notably they were the Babylonians as the Lion with the heart of a human, and with the eagle wings at its back; the Persians as the bear with its teeth holding three ribs (three great kingdom which has fallen to the Persians at their time); Macedonian Greek empire as the leopard with four wings on its back (representing the dividing of the empire into four kingdom, shortly after the death of Alexander the Great)) and lastly, the most terrifying beast, with its iron teeth (representing as Rome), with ten horns at its back (representing the ten kingdoms after the fall of the western Roman empire), with the three of the ten horns being pulled out, but there is one little horn, among the ten horns, despite three horns are being pulled out. Strange isn’t it?
Well, it isn’t strange after all, but this turns out to be that shortly after the fall of Rome in 476AD, there were ten barbaric kingdoms ruled over once called the western Roman empire, which includes:
- Anglo-Saxons
- Franks
- Allemans
- Burgundians
- Visigoths
- Suevi
- Vandals
- Heruli
- Bavarians
- Ostrogoths
But out of these 10 barbaric kingdoms that ruled over once known as the western Roman Empire, only three of them were eliminated.
- Anglo-Saxons
- Franks
- Allemans
- Burgundians
- Visigoths
- Suevi
- 17. Vandals Eliminated
- 18. Heruli Eliminated
- Bavarians
- OstrogothsEliminated
About the fourth beast with one little horn along with ten horns
Basically, I was skeptic at first, due to the reason of the Eastern Roman Empire that didn’t fell after 476AD till 1453AD, the year when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, but later, as I soon understand from Pastor Doug Batchelor, about the dragon in Revelations 13, giving its authority to the to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed [Revelations 13:15], I began to see the picture of who is the actual antichrist. Understanding the term Roman Catholics come from, being aware of the worship of saints and Mary the mother of Jesus as the co-mediator of Jesus, aren’t from the bible at all, though the biblical character of Peter, Paul, Mary, and many more in the new testament, but what’s contradicting is idolatry. The only thing which I find it obvious is the Catholics they also worship the idols of saints alongside with the doctrines of Jesus Christ, but how does it come from, and where did it originate from?
One possible reason of how the worshipping of saints of the Roman Catholic church originates date further back to the time of Emperor Constantine the Great, after his conversion to Christianity in 312AD, but during his reign, most Roman citizens were of pagan beliefs, though there are few who are Christians being persecuted before the edit of Milan in 313AD, but thinking back, how is it possible that after Constantine conversion to Christianity in 312AD, then came suddenly in 325AD, the council of Nicaea? What is the missing link between these years? Well, in my own opinion, one possible might be based on that era, majority of Romans have pagan beliefs of Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, etc… despite Christianity was later became official religion of the Roman empire at that time, and during these years, Constantine has been building churches that was once pagan Roman temples, replacing pagan statues into something else, and quite astoundingly, they were to become of under a Christianized name of individuals in the bible, such as Peter, Paul, Mary and John, notably saint peter basilica statue, which I suspect to be Roman pagan god Jupiter, which I read from a source on the net stating that there are people who ‘kissed the feet of the statue of Peter’ which unknowingly to them, turns out to be the Roman pagan god Jupiter.
The protestant reformation: what makes this movement?
The Protestant reformation started in 1517AD. This was the movement by protest by not only believers who resisted the authority of the Papacy, who issued the compulsory of purchasing idols of Mary, Peter, Paul and some other saints by the Pope at that time, but also the church clerics, priest who also resisted as well. One known person named Martin Luther, who also part of the protest at that time, realized and believed that the antichrist in Daniel 7 and Revelations 13 were in fact referring to Papal Rome. Many Protestants as the result of the reformation, discarded all the Roman Catholicism beliefs of saints, reducing books by removing books such as The Third Book of Esdras, The rest of the Book of Esther, The Fourth Book of Esdras, The Book of Wisdom, The Book of Tobias, Jesus the Son of Sirach, The Book of Judith, Baruch the Prophet, The Song of the Three Children, The Prayer of Manasses, The Story of Susanna, The First Book of Maccabees, Of Bel and the Dragon, The Second Book of Maccabees and Psalm 151, reason being that is these books aren’t originally in the original Jewish old Testament. In prior to the number of books of the Jewish old testament and the Jewish Tanakh, the only difference is the five books of Moses remains the same (Genesis to Deuteronomy), but the difference is in the Tanakh, the book of Chronicles, Kings, Samuel, Ezra-Nehemiah and Books of the twelve minor prophets (in total is 5 books in the Tanakh) was reshuffled and divided, forming 39 books of the Christian Old Testament (splitting of the book of Samuel, Chronicles, Kings into two books, Ezra-Nehemiah into two separate books, and books of the twelve prophets are all divided into books under the name of each of the 12 prophets), despite the only part of the bible that Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox have is 27 books in the New Testament.
The movement is also partly because of the contradiction of the Catholic Church at that time to the biblical doctrines of the commandment that God detested the most—idolatry and blasphemes. Throughout the history, people, and priest who opposed the pope faced a undeniable death penalty for being heretics to the catholic church are many, which also might be the seed of the reformation and the split of churches who remain loyal to the catholic authority and churches who left the catholic authority and set up as a new group of Christians; the Protestants.
Then how about Islam? Are they part of the antichrist?
Though some claimed (notably according to Walid Shoebat) claims that ‘666’ refers to the Arabic name of Allah and Islam, though I’m skeptical about it (as I do hear cases of Muslims turning their faith to Christianity), but it is possible that yes due to the non-Trinitarian beliefs of Islam and the significance of the Crescent moon relating to the ancient Babylonian god, but I’m skeptical about these claims. The antichrist can be in many forms, or in my own opinions, the possible force of evil within the church, especially when you hear Christian cults with heretical doctrines blaspheming the doctrines of the gospels of Jesus Christ, masquerading itself as the mainstreams, deceiving the lives of many. Many more about Islam being the antichrist is as of this article being extracted partially from (http://www.beholdthebeast.com/islam__quran_and_666.htm):
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.
“Allah” = 666
On the Zola Levitt program, Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist now Christian evangelist, said that when he saw the Greek symbol that is translated in the Bible as 666, he immediately read it as the Arabic character “Bismillah” (some spell Bismilla) which means “in the name of Allah.” (Though it looks more like the character for “Allah”).
If Shoebat’s account seems a stretch, even though Arabic was his first language and Islam the religion he was indoctrinated into, consider how this Arabic character is stylized into many different artistic forms. Consider also how some look for this character in trees, clouds and virtually everywhere, as this search link attests – even in a fish!
“This Quran is the 666”
There is at least one sect of Islam, the Submission sect (Bahattin Uzunkaya), that considers the number 666 as well as the number 19, to demonstrate the perfection of the Koran and the proof that Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.
In the Muslim’s words:
“The number 666 is highly publicized all over the world and it is associated with evil and danger.
However, it is not what it seems. It was a Satanic trick.
The trick was to prevent the people approaching the 666.
Satan knew that the 666 is the book of GOD and the people should be kept away from it.
According to his plan, he placed a bad image to the number 666.”
“The truth is that This Quran is the 666 , The Book from The Lord of the Universe.”
“The First Sura in the Quran, 666, is Praise. This sura is the gift of GOD to us to establish Contact with Him through our daily Contact Prayers. ”
“GOD made His Messenger a witness with the letter Qaf and the number 666.”
To read the above in context click on the link in this Yahoo search.
The first result on this search might make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.
You can search – quran 666 – or try – sura 1 to sura 36 is 666
This 666 connection is, however, just one incidental component of Bible prophecy pointing to the Middle Eastern Islamic empire as being, geographically, the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation 13. The seat of Islam today occupies the same geographical region as Daniel’s successive lion, bear, and leopard kingdom “beasts”.
Most Muslims do not ascribe to this group that labels the Quran 666. This 666 “miracle” is found on a Turkish website that seems to have embellished Rashad Khalifa’s number prime number gematria, who interestingly began his research in 1968, or the year after the “times of the Gentiles” were fulfilled in Jerusalem. When first brought forward, Rashad Khalifa’s mathematical “miracle” was widely embraced by Muslims throughout the world, including the Middle East. Khalifa eventually determined that according to his gematria, a few verses did not belong in the Quran, and as a result he lost favor and was eventually “stabbed 29 times and his body was drenched in xylol but not set alight”. Submitters still believe Khalifa was a messenger of God. It is interesting to note, that out of the entire universe of numbers that Rashad’s computer “miracle” could have arrived at as holy, that the number 666 would be one of the few.
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six. {666}
Hermeneutics support that the Islamic empire is the “beast” kingdom of the above verse.
“…for it is the number of a man…”
“GOD made His Messenger a witness with the letter Qaf and the number 666.”
Exposing Muhammad as the “man” referenced.
Is this Islamic 666 “miracle” then a warning from God to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, as yet another fulfillment of the related prophecy in the Book of Revelation, now that we find ourselves in this “time of the end”? (Related YouTube)
The book of Daniel defines what a “beast” is: Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,…. Here we learn that the term beast = kingdom when used in the figurative language of a dream or vision in prophecy, and particularly in the context of Daniel’s lion, bear, leopard and fourth “dreadful”, beasts. Bible scholars – Christian and Jew – almost universally understand these four “beasts” to be the successive kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation then, is the Islamic empire, since it’s occupies the same seats in Iraq (Babylon – lion), Iran (Medo-Persia – bear) and Syria/Lebanon (ancient Greece – leopard). These beasts are explored in more detail on their own page here, and in “The False Prophet” in this chapter.
Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw 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.
THE TRAGEDY
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Exegesis:
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken,…” As explained in the prior section the “beast” is the false prophet Muhammad’s Islamic empire – his followers. More on the beast here.
“… and with him…” Daniel’s beasts were assigned the masculine gender: “…and his nails [of] brass; [which] devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet:”
“…the false prophet…” The false prophet Muhammad who founded his Islamic kingdom “beast”.
“…that wrought miracles…” In this rare instance, the NKJV does a little better job of this portion of this verse:
(NKJV) Revelation 19:20 …and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence…
The Greek word “semeion” translated as “miracles” and “signs” is defined in Strong’s as “that by which a person is distinguished from others and is known”. That makes Mohammed a perfect fit for the false prophet, since he is his known for his Quran, and has without question been distinguished from others by it for 1400 years. Muhammad’s Quran is the “semeion” that he wrought.
“…before him,…” From Strong’s “before” meaning “in the presence of” – the beast.
“…with which he deceived them…” Muhammad’s followers.
“…that had received the mark…” The number 666 according to some of Muhammad’s own followers.
More on the “mark” of the beast at this link.
Also consider the physical prayer marks and bumps in Muhammad’s followers foreheads.
“…of the beast, and them…” Islamic kingdom, Muhammad’s followers
“…that worshipped his image.” Today’s Islam and second Jihad, are the image of the first Islamic Jihad, and the beast’s ambition to conquer all the kingdoms of the world, and subjugate all people to Muhammad’s followers. Jihad is the pinnacle of worship in Islam.
“These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” Does the wrath of God get any more serious than that?
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Exegesis:
Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them…” “them” the followers of Muhammad’s Islamic kingdom “beast”
“…was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast…” Muhammad’s Islamic empire
“…and the false prophet…” Muhammad
“…[are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Serious business indeed. Tormented forever and ever without rest, in a lake of fire and brimstone.
If we consider an ethnographic hermeneutic of John’s whole “world” – that is looking through John’s eyes at the time he penned the book of Revelation, which is required because his assignment was to:
Revelation 1:19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Those things John saw, sees and shall be – after John. Thus John’s world would have been limited to the whole known world, or the Middle East area, and perhaps extending into the lands of the Roman Empire at that time. The Bible was written about the Holy Land and God’s people, not about Peoria Illinois.
Through this view we find Iraq, Iran and Syria/Lebanon (geographically the seat of the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation, and successive kingdom beasts of Daniel) to be from 90 to 99% Muslim. Other countries in the area are similarly Islamic – like Saudi Arabia at 100% and Turkey at 99% Muslim.
In other words most everyone in the whole “world” that John knew, is today Muslim, and thus already have the mark. In Saudi Arabia if a national announces they have converted to Christianity they are beheaded. The penalty for “apostasy” or turning away from Islam, is death. This is the prescribed punishment for Christian converts, from Islam to Christianity. The true hallmark of a dangerous cult.
Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast {Islam – Muslim}, or the number {666} of his name.
And thus it is in much of the Middle East – or John’s whole world – TODAY. When we exercise the discipline of hermeneutic rules in our Bible study we find that prophecy is nearly fulfilled, and our Lord and Savior’s return is truly imminent.
When I visited YouTube in about December of 2007 I did a search of – mark beast microchip – and found around 150 videos. When I did the same search on July 27, 2009 I found 645. On October 24, 2011 I found 2,220.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Some Muslims suggest that the Bible was corrupted or mistranslated to demonize Islam, and their above number of perfection 666, but Mohammed wasn’t even born until over 500 years after the Bible was written. Scripture had already been copied thousands of times, and in many languages. Changing the Bible 500 years after the fact would have been an obvious impossibility. See Bible manuscript page.
These absurd claims are even refuted by verses in their own book
Sura 80.13 (It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour, 14 Exalted (in dignity), KEPT PURE AND HOLY,15 (Written) by the hands of scribes- 16 Honourable and Pious and Just.
Sura 5:68 Say: “O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye STAND FAST BY the Law, THE GOSPEL, and ALL THE REVELATION that has come to you from YOUR Lord.”
SAVED BY THE GRACE OF GOD – THE GOOD NEWS
God invites all those that today follow a false prophet, as well as those that are simply lost or unrepentant, to come to know the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:
1 John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 John 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The Father and the Son are coexistent and the Lamb (Jesus) was slain from the foundation of the world by the sinful nature of mankind.
Conclusions
To make a conclusion of all this, after reading from Daniel 7 and Revelations 13, it is well understood of who are the 10 horns and one little horn of the ferocious beast which referred to the mighty Roman empire of the ancient world (27BC~476AD/1453AD), and in the book of Revelations, of the number of the antichrist ‘666’ referring to who, is it the Roman Catholic church, Islam, Christian cult, or some sort of government authority, and my answer is we all do not know who but only God knows who they are and what we can do now is not to judge these people of being antichrist, but to remain in fervor in the word of God, which is the bible, following faithfully to the truth of God, and the truth will set you free, as if you deny the truth from the Bible, you are actually denying God and also denying Jesus as your Lord and Savior. This is based on the eschatology of Protestant Christianity of the end times prophecy and also about the second coming of Christ—which has yet to come for now, and no one knows when the second coming of Christ will be and nor everyone are aware about his return, as mentioned in the book of Revelations that he will return at the time where no one takes notice on, and by that time after the second coming of Jesus—that would be close to judgment day itself, when the book will be open for verdict among all men and women, to be saved or to be prepared to be destroyed eternity by brimstone and fire raining down from the heavens.
So, how to grow the Church God’s way? We learn it from the Acts of the Apostles. The Rev Dr Timothy Tow—wrote a commentary on Acts entitled, Pattern for Church Growth and Missions, and said that the Acts of the Apostles are an infallible pattern for us today in growing the Church. This is because the Apostles of Jesus Christ were infallible in their preaching (1 Thess 2:13), in their writing of the Holy Scriptures (2 Pet 3:16), and in the administration of the Church (2 Thess 3:6-9).
By way of illustration, a lighthouse is only good and useful if it stands alone and away from tall trees or buildings so that its powerful beacon can shine forth its light without hindrance and obstruction, and all can see clearly the way to safety. This was the testimony of the Bible-Presbyterian Church in Singapore founded by the Rev Dr Timothy Tow. In Growing Churches Singapore Style, Keith Hinton wrote, “…in 1950, Timothy Tow, influenced by the International Council of Christian Churches (ICCC), broke from the Presbyterian Church to form the new and rapidly growing Bible denomination … Dean Kelley, in his research on American churches, also discovered that churches which are clear in their beliefs, strict in their membership requirements, rather isolationist and actively evangelistic, grew much faster than those with a social message, ecumenical associations and easy membership terms.”
It is well known of Genesis 6, as mentioned previously on the mermaids, but this time, I further down to the period of the possible environment during the pre-biblical flood period. According to the Bible, or the Tanakh, it is understood that during the Antediluvian Civilizations period, there were Nephilim who were more superior to humans like us, and these Nephilim possibly as mentioned in the bible as ‘sons of God’, and remember, the first book of the old testament to the first book of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Bible (which sons of God in the Bible before New Testament) was referring to fallen angels.
You might be skeptical about it, but there is evidence of human fossilized footprints alongside with the dinosaur footprint having the same carbon dating of both different footprints! The fossil record is filled with large reptiles called dinosaurs that are typically found in the section of the geological column known as the Mesozoic (seen at left). They are believed to have gone extinct from the earth about 65 million years before the first humans lived. However, according to the Biblical account of earth’s early history, God created all the land animals and humans on exactly the same day. The Bible also says there was a great devastating flood that covered the highest mountains by 20 feet, and was only survivable through divine intervention. The scientific community does not recognize this devastating global flood, and therefore if the Bible is true, the fossils and rock layers that blanket the world have been misinterpreted.
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