America in Prophecy: Daniel 8:5-8
A Goat Stomps a Ram, Symbol of Islam, Al-Adha
God says there is none like
Him, declaring the end from the beginning. In Genesis 22, God shows the
end of militant Islam when
Isaac was saved from sacrifice by a ram caught by its horns in a
bush. The Quran says Ishmael
was spared by sacrificing the ram. Which is right?
When Christ was asked about
the end of the world in Matthew 24, he recommended we understand a
desolating power first mentioned in Daniel 8. Here is a prophecy that
reaches from the time of Daniel to the present and includes a ram that
gets stomped and its horns are broken by a goat. Daniel 8:20,21 tells us
the horns on the ram are the kings of Media and Persia and they are
broken by the first king of Grecia (Alexander the Great).
But Gabriel said the vision
is “at the time of the end,” (verse 17) so what we’re looking at is a
double application of prophecy—once in history, and again for our time
when the Medes and Persians have become Iraq and Iran. If we read
closely, several items fit better now:
U.S. coalition v Iraq and Iran is Bible prophecy
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Daniel was in the palace at Shushan, but "I
saw in a vision and I was by the river Ulai," Daniel 8:2. The modern
name is the Karun River by Kuwait where U.S. troops deployed against
Iraq in 2003.
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Alexander’s victory at
Arbela was 700 miles away. Daniel saw our time and our deployment.
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The goat “came from
the west on the face of the whole earth,” Daniel 8:5. The
U.S. coalition came from Korea, Australia, S. America, Canada,
Europe—“the
whole earth.” Not so with Alexander; he did come "from
the face of the whole earth.
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The goat “touched not
the ground.” Daniel 8:5.
Desert Storm was the
first war fought largely in the air. Alexander had no choice of
planes. The imagery fits "the time of the end." Alexander's victory
was a type for our time
- Persia was the name for Iran today. Daniel 8 suggests war with Iran.
Daniel implies an end-time
destruction of Jerusalem. Twice before it happened on the 10th
of Av.
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Daniel has an historical and an
end-time application in chapters 1-9. Daniel 9:25 includes
“the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem.” This implies an
impending calamity--
“Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and
your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.
"For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished; and half the city shall go forth into captivity...
"Then shall the LORD
go forth and fight against those nations, as he fought in the day of
battle."
Zechariah 14:1-3.
Twice in history the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed on the 10th
day of the 5th month —Solomon’s Temple (Jeremiah 52:12) and
Herod’s Temple in 70 AD as chronicled by Josephus in
Wars of the Jews.
Both of those times meant the end of an era.
A calamity on that date would have similar meaning.
To
understand this, let’s look at context of Daniel’s prophecy. It says,
“70 weeks [of years] are determined upon your people…from the going
forth of the decree to restore and build Jerusalem,” Daniel 9:24,25.
The decree to restore and build Jerusalem let exiles leave Persia and
return at the beginning of a prophetic period.
A
similar situation seems to be impending as we are at the end of the
prophetic period that we saw the chapter, “The Time is Fulfilled.”
We should be ready, like the wise
virgins with lights, to share what we know if something huge happens.
Why not “watch and pray” as Christ
said, on the eve of the 10th day, 5th month. When
is that?
In Bible times, the year didn’t begin
in mid-winter as it does with the Roman calendar. The year began with
the first new moon after the spring equinox.
The new moon is the thin crescent
seen in the western sky just after sunset after no moon has been visible
for one or two nights. That night and the next day is the first day of
the month.
Why not watch for the thin crescent
on the evening of July 31. Seeing it after sunset means August 1 is the
first day of the month that’s beginning, because “the evening and the
morning” constitute a day, as we see from Genesis 1:5,8,13.
Grecia is named in Daniel 8:21, but Grecia was “the west.” Its
government was more democratic, and its education emphasized the
mind and reason more than manual skills and apprenticeship. So we are
like Grecia.
Grecia wasn't just the country of Greece as it is today. Some troops
from Bosnia (part of ancient Grecia) went to Iraq in 2003. So yes, the
goat could be said to come from Grecia, Ancient Grecia also included
Cyprus where U.S. ships were stationed that participated in the war with
Iraq.
Animals fight with horns.
The breaking of the ram’s
horns suggests the end of militancy by the ram (Islam). Islam
understandably hates us as a great Satan for the tobacco,
alcohol,
drugs, rock music,
immodest dress and immoral
movies. In Scripture, the ram is more noble than a goat, but it is
sacrificed to save Isaac (Israel).
Further support for this is also found in the Bible.
Abraham, the father of Jews, Muslims and Christians,
was tested over his willingness to sacrifice his son. At the last
second, God spoke to release him from the test, as Abraham saw “a ram
caught in a bush by his horns.” Genesis 22:13.
The ram was caught by its
horns (militancy) in a bush. President Bush fulfilled this imagery. This
is not saying that the war is good, but it is taking care of a "pushy"
ram (militant Islam).
Islam sacrifices a ram to celebrate this in Al-Adha, the Feast of
Sacrifice, but the Quran, Surat, Al-Saffat (37: 99-111), teaches
that the son spared by the ram was Ishmael. The Bible says it was
Isaac.
Which is the true Holy
Book? Events in the Middle East will show if Isaac (Israel) is spared by
sacrificing a ram (Islam) or if Ishmael was the son spared by a
sacrifice of a ram (Isaac?)
"The day of the LORD comes,
and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.For I will gather
all nations [Arab nations?] against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished...Then
shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations." Zech 14:1-3
But
God’s foreknowledge of military victory is not a statement about the
rightness of the US. The ram is a more noble creature than a goat and
Christ will separate sheep from goats as shown in Matthew 25:33. We
should understand Islam’s (ram) concern that the US has been much like
the “great Satan.” Have we not brought tobacco, alcohol, drugs,
Hollywood’s immorality, perversion and rock music to pollute their land
and their younger generation?
After a military victory,
the US’ “horn” gets broken, Daniel 8:8. Please consider further
information at
www.CommonGround4All.com offers insight on Biblical
unity of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
www.Islam1.netfirms.com A comparison of American
Christianity with Islam
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The Fall of America: Revelation 13:11-15
Early Americans fled the Old World
and generally
believed that the first beast (political cartoon) in
Revelation 13 was the papacy as it had assimilated
all the characteristics of previous kingdoms in Daniel
7 where there was a lion, bear, leopard and dreadful
beast with 10 horns. The first beast in Revelation 13
had a mouth like a lion, feet like a bear; it looked
like a leopard and had the total of seven heads and
ten horns from Daniel 7.
Those beasts represented succeeding kingdoms
of
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grecia and Rome.
As the Roman Empire fell, 10 tribes roamed Europe, represented by
the 10 horns that grew out of the 4th beast. Then a “little horn”
emerged to uproot three horns. It spoke great
(blasphemous) words, changed times and laws and
persecuted the saints shown in Daniel 7.
Pioneers believed the papacy survived the Dark Ages of oppression as an amalgamation of those other beasts, but it had a “deadly wound” which they believed was the Protestant Reformation. John saw this deadly wound heal and “all the world wondered after the beast…” Revelation 13:3. Every living president of the US bowed before the casket of a dead pope.
America in prophecy is
represented by the second beast in Revelation 13:11-15. It has two horns like a lamb,
but no crowns as on the
previous beast. This suggests a government without
a king and a church without a pope—Protestant
America.
The US beast causes fire
to come
down from the
sky (Hiroshima) and "it spake as a dragon." Rev 13:11. It makes an image (look-alike) of
the previous (papal) Old World Order.
New World Order is the image beast
that has its
headquarters in the
United Nations
building:
video
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/nworder05.html
and
http://www.remnantofgod.org/nl0606.htm
The image beast (UN--New World Order) "causes as many as would not worship [pay homage to] the image beast should be killed," and he causes everyone to be marked, Revelation 13:15-17
We are only a short way from seeing this happen. America is already speaking like a dragon in recent Executive Orders. Soon, the most solemn warning in the Bible will apply...
“If any man
worship the beast and his
image, and
receive his mark
in his forehead or in his hand, the
same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God…and he shall be tormented with fire…Revelation 14:9,10.
God is not taken by surprise, and He has provided for this worldwide emergency. You can read an explanation of this and the richest promise in the Bible...
An Interesting Catholic Statement
“When the time comes and men realize that the social edifice must be rebuilt according to eternal standards, be it tomorrow, or be it centuries from now, the Catholics will arrange things to suit said standards.
Undeterred by those who
prefer to abide in death, they will re-establish certain laws of
life. They will restore Jesus to His place on high, and He shall no
longer be insulted. They will raise their children to know God and
to honor their parents. They will uphold the indissolubility of
marriage, and if this fails to meet with approval of the dissenters,
it will not fail to meet with the approval of their children.
They will make obligatory the religious observance of Sunday on
behalf of the whole of society and for its own good, revoking the
permit for freethinkers and Jews to celebrate incognito, Monday or
Saturday on their own account. Those whom this may annoy, will have
to put up with the annoyance. Respect will not be refused to the
Creator nor repose denied to the creature simply for the sake of
humoring certain maniacs, whose frenetic condition causes them
stupidly and insolently to block the will of a whole people.”
The Liberal Illusion, Louis Veuillot, published by National Catholic
Welfare Conference, Washington, DC.
Roman Catholicism
by Lorraine Boettner, Ph.D.
Church & State United is Plan for New World Order
"The Syllabus of Errors, issued by pope Pius IX in 1864, is still in full force where the Roman Church can enforce its will. The hierarchy in the United States plays down this Syllabus, and for many years has conducted a subtle campaign designed to hide many of its distinctive doctrines and so to gain the favor of the American public. But here are its claims in plain language..Some of its most distinctive articles in their affirmative form are:
Click for additional insights: The Bible does not teach that we go to heaven when we die.
Identifying the Whore in Revelation 17
Roman
Catholicism is suggested by these verses--
1. “The great whore
that sits upon many waters.” “The waters which you saw where the whore sits are peoples and multitudes and nations,” verse 15 implies a worldwide, universal (catholic) church.2. “With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication.”
This church is involved in politics and governments, mingling church and state as we see in so many Catholic countries south of our border.3.
“I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” This is the “image” beast of Revelation 13 mentioned in the first chapter—New World Order will look like the Old World Order. “Names of blasphemy” include the pope’s title, “Lord God the Pope,” or in Latin, Vicarius Filii Dei, which means Vicar of the Son of God. The Roman numerals of the Latin words add up to 666 if “u” is given the equivalent of 5 as “v” is. (C is 100; L is 50; D is 500; I is 1), see Revelation 13:18.4.
“The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls.” A wealthy church with the color of cardinals.
5.
“The
Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.”
Rome boasts of
being the “Mother Church” and her harlot daughters no longer protest
her false teachings and will go along with her New World Order with
its false worship forbidden by God.
6. “Drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the martyrs.” Conservative historians estimate 80-100 million martyrs gave their lives in protest to this system of worship.If the above reasons aren’t sufficient to identify this whore, it’s doubtful that more would help. What are we willing to accept as evidence? Could there be another meaning? Let’s be honest!
Jack Chick, Protestant
publisher said,
"Rome in a
position of weakness is as gentle as a lamb.
Rome in a position of
equality is as clever as a fox.
Rome in a position of strength is as
fierce as a tiger."
“The doctrine which, from
the very first origin of religious dissension, has been held by
all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and
stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the
right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you
ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But
when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty
to persecute error.” Lord Macaulay,
“Essay on Sir James
Mackintosh” Critical &
Historical Essays.
The time is fast approaching when the "Mother of Harlots" will ride the beast (New World Order) of Revelation 17 and force compliance world-wide as Revelation 13:15-18 shows.
That last verse says, "Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
The pope has many crowns, one of which is a triple crown with the words VICARIUS FILII DEI (Vicar of the Son of God) The Roman numerals add up:
V = 5
F = 0 D = 500
I = 1 I = 1 E
C=100 L = 50 I = 1
A I =
1
R I =
1
I = 1
U = 5
S
Total:112 + 53 + 501 = 666