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Part 2
The One World Government – The Futurist View
OWG2 FV -
The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings
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OverviewI published ‘The One World Government’ study in Nov 2020 some 90 plus pages. Not conducive for a quick 10-minute read on the Internet. So I’ve divide it into a few manageable ‘Short Papers’, also revising some of my earlier work. Below I’ve given you the links to ALL the related ‘Short Papers’ on the “OWG”.. The One World Government Study. This basically gives you an index. The first four from the Futurist View (FV). The rest are from the Historical View (HV)!
List of ‘Short Papers on the OWG’: -
OWG1 FV - The Origin Of The One World Government
OWG2 FV - The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings
OWG3 FV - The Little Horn Dan 7
OWG4 FV - The Time of the End
OWG5 HV - The Historical View Reasoning
OWG6 HV - The “Ten, Toes, Horns, Kings”
OWG7 HV - [9] Characteristics of The Little Horn Daniel 7
OWG8 HV - Who Are The Saints Who Topple The Antichrist?
OWG9 HV - The Revelation, Heads, Horns and Crowns
OWG10 HV - The Ten Horned Beast of Rev 13
OWG11 HV - The Harlot Astride The Beast Rev 17
OWG12 HV - The Fall of Babylon Rev 18
Revision
In the talks entitled; OWG1 FV - The Origin Of The One World Government, I used the Futurist View to look at where the idea of a future One World Government came from, along with other important building blocks needed to formulate this study.
Aim
In this talk OWG2 FV - The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings I hope to explain the prophetic meanings of the Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings.
OWG2 FV - The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings
Just to give you a brief list of references to the ‘ten toes, horns or kings’. Most of them prophetically represent the Ten Kings that all ‘stem from the Roman Empire’. [If you’re a Futurist, they are yet to appear]. They can be found in the following scriptures: -
Dan 2:41 ..the feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron
God’s ‘Time-Line’ Dan 2
Daniel chapter 2 is very useful for understanding God’s ‘time line’ and the fulfilment of many prophecies. If we read and condense the whole chapter, we find Daniel was explaining to Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, the unfolding of future events. Daniel said there would be four Gentile kingdoms or ‘Empires’. And history proves Daniel’s prophecy. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a great statue; Daniel explained it to the king as follows. Dan 2:32 “…head was of fine gold; his breast and his arms were of silver; his belly and his thighs were of bronze .. :33 his legs were of iron; his feet were part of iron and part of clay.” History has shown us that these Empires were Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece then Rome. Media-Persia was a composite kingdom hence the two arms. We see this also in Dan 7:5 with the bear, which was up on one side, meaning one side was stronger than the other, [Ref CN John Wesley on Dan 7:5]. And again in Dan 8 above we saw ‘a ram with two horns’. Also Greece, was the bronze, and it was a composite kingdom. Refer Dan 7:6 “a leopard ..four wings ..four heads”; so Greece was divided into four kingdoms. [Ref CN by John Wesley on Daniel 7:6]. And the two thighs represented Ptolemy of Egypt, and Seleucus of Syria, the strongest two kingdoms of the four. Rome also became a composite kingdom, the two legs of iron representing the Eastern and Western Roman Empire.
Then the Roman Empire divided into ten kingdoms Dan 2:41-42. “feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron”. Partly Iron! So they stem from the ‘legs of iron’, which represented Rome. ‘Ten Toes, Horns or Kings’! The futurists say they are all still in the future. [Ref CN by David Guzik on Dan2:1-49 par 3,d,i] “Since Roman history provides no fulfillment of this federation of kings (which seems to number ten, because of the number of toes, and passages like Dan 7:24 and Rev 17:12) this prophecy must still be future.” So these ‘Ten’ play an important part in the understanding of a coming ‘One world Government’. Therefore if the ‘Ten’ kings are in the future, then every thing that happens to them in prophecy is still in the future and is very useful for understanding the end times.
The ‘Ten Toes', part of ‘potters clay’ and part iron? I have been thinking this over for months, wondering if God is showing me something here? And it’s just a thought I could be wrong! Daniel sees into our future, present day, and these ‘ten toes’ are in our future, consisting of iron & clay? How would Daniel describe a vision of modern day reinforced concrete? If the ‘potters clay’ is concrete, then iron and concrete is exactly what we use to build our modern-day fortifications. Also some commentaries speak of the change from Gold through to Iron as representing a change of the quality or characteristics of the gentile empires, or even the fighting metals used. Iron defeats bronze! But these days we use concrete barriers to defeat Iron tanks. Who knows? I did say it was just a thought.
So, what happens to these ‘Ten’ kings in the future? Daniel then told the King, Dan 2:34-35 “You watched until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon its feet which were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken to pieces together. And they became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.” Daniel then gives the interpretation…etc. till Dan 2:44 “And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom.. 45And the dream is certain, and its meaning is sure.” Many futurists and some Historic believers see the stone representing Christ, who on His return shall destroy the antichrist and the ‘Ten kings'.
So, there we have God’s ‘Time-Line’ covering the past 2600 years. But up to this point in the prophecies that where written before Daniel, apart from Isaiah 14:12-14 with Lucifers’ five “I wills”, God has not revealed any information about a future coming antichrist. Also you can refer to Adams Synchronized Chronological Chart of History, around the 800 to 600 BC to see which other writings where around at the time of Daniel, to see if they made any mention of a future antichrist?
The Ten Horns: Dan 7
Daniel chapters 7 to 12 and Revelation chapters 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19 then give us a better understanding of the future Roman period of history. When we look into these chapters we find Daniel and Revelation go together like ‘hand in glove’. Both books refer to a “dreadful beast and/or dragon, most often having seven heads and ten horns” etc. Let’s look at each chapter and examine the references and character of the ‘Ten Horns or Kings’ in order to piece together the jigsaw of these ‘Ten’.
Let’s first look at the Ten Horns and what this chapter tells us about them. Dan 7:7, Daniel sees the beast, it is frightening and terrifying, it subdues all the other empires. But in Daniel 7:20 you will find that this beast has only one head, Why? Our futurist commentators accept this beast as representing the revived Roman Empire, and it had ten horns. As in Daniel chapter 2 this clearly shows us that the Ten Horns stem from the Roman Empire. Back in Dan 7:16, Daniel asked one of the angels standing by, for an explanation of the vision and he was told in Dan 7: 23-26. “..The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, and shall trample it and crush it. 24And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise.” We know these ten kings are yet to appear, so this would mean we are still in the fourth kingdom period, subdued somewhat, but we are still in the ‘Roman World’. For many futurists, any passage speaking of ‘The Whole Earth’ is interpreted as the modern-day whole planet earth. By believing this, the ‘ten kings’, are often expected to arise from many parts of today’s modern world, rather than solely from the European Roman world. Possible but I will just stay with the concept that they rise from the European or Roman World.
As we read on in Daniel 7, we find more information. Daniel sees in Dan 7:8 “..there came up among them another little horn, …three of the first horns were uprooted… 9..thrones were set in place …the Ancient of Days … etc.” So the ‘Little Horn’, (Also, referred to as the man of sin or the son of perdition, refer 2Th 2:3), he comes up after, but amongst, the ‘Ten’ horns. So he must also ‘come up’ out of the Roman world. He then destroys three kingdoms. [Ref CN by C.I. Scofield on Dan7: 8] “who subdues three of the ten kings so completely that the separate identity of their kingdoms is destroyed.”. This is also repeated in the angel’s explanation in Dan 7:24 “And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise. And another shall arise after them. And he shall be different from the first, and he shall humble three kings.” We will cover this ‘Little Horn’ in more detail later.
Revelation
Rev 1:1 “A Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to declare to His servants things which must shortly come to pass. And He signified it by sending His angel to His servant John.” John received the Revelation some 650 years after the time of Daniel. They were in different worlds. Daniel was given enough information so that people in John’s day could understand where they were in God’s ‘Time Line’. For example, because of Daniels’ prophecy of ‘the seventy weeks’ and other prophecies, people at the time of Christ realised those prophecies should have been fulfilled and therefore were expecting the Messiah to appear! John was given more detailed information so that we can understand God’s plan for our time and the end of the age. But first refer back to Philip Schaff’s description above. [HCC Vol. 1, Ch. 12, Par101] “The different interpretations are reduced.. The Futurist system: The events of the Apocalypse from Rev 4:1-11 to the close lie beyond the second advent of Christ.”
So what does this mean? Well Revelation consists of; Chap. 1, the introduction; Chap 2 & 3, letters to the churches; and Chap. 4, John sees the throne in heaven. But chapter 4 starts with this; Rev 4:1 “After these things I looked, and behold, a door was opened in Heaven. And the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show you what must occur after these things.”
For the Futurist this ‘door in heaven’ is a symbol of the ‘Rapture’, and John represents the church ‘caught-up’ to heaven. Then John, from the position of heaven, sees the rest of the Revelation unfold. You can find this in some commentaries: -
[Ref CH by C.I. Scofield on Rev 4:1] “Come up hither. This call seems clearly to indicate the fulfilment of 1Th 4:14-17. The word "church" does not again occur in the Revelation till all is fulfilled”.
It could be said that John was also transported in time; to a point in time after the Rapture? Then from heaven John sees the ‘Great Tribulation’. That is interpreted as meaning; the church is up in heaven so she is ‘not in the ‘Great Tribulation’. And since we have not been caught-up in the Rapture as yet, that would mean everything from Revelation chapter 6:1 onward, is still in the future. This puts a completely different view between the Futurist and the Historical interpretation of Revelation. Therefore the Futurist sees Revelation from chapter 6 onward, briefly in the following sequence of events. And we can call this, Daniels’ Seventieth Week, it is a literal 7 years under the antichrist’s domination. It is a more detailed version of the earlier list, ‘A Brief On The Futurist View’. [Ref CN by C.I. Scofield on Dan 9:24, then CN by David Guzik, John Darby, Chuck Smith and E.W. Bullinger on Dan 9:27].
I will explain Daniels’ Seventieth Week in more detail later when we come to study ‘The Little Horn’.
Daniels’ Seventieth Week
1/ The world runs as normal. Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the son of Man.
2/ The Rapture. 1Th 5:2 Lord comes like a thief in ..night. 1Th 4:17 we ..alive ..caught up ..meet the Lord in the air.
3/ The Church is taken out of the world! One will be taken, and the other left. Mat 24:40-41 & Luk 17:34-36
4/ Some say the Holy Spirit is take out of the world. 2Th 2:7 ..he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst.
5/ Daniel’s 70th week starts. Antichrist makes covenant ..one week ‘with many’! Maybe Jews and Muslims. Dan 9:27
6/ The temple in Jerusalem must by this time be rebuilt. Rumours are that it is already in a prefab state ready to go.
7/ The antichrist will charismatically reveal himself, 2Thes 2:3 the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition
8/ Mark of The Beast! Rev 13:16-17 all …receive a mark on ..right hand ..foreheads Rev 14:9-11; 16:2 & 19:20
9/ The antichrist exalts himself above ..God …sits as God in ..temple of God, setting himself forth …he is God. 2Th 2:4
10/ Then in the midst of Daniels 70th week the antichrist breaks the covenant. Dan 9:27
11/ The whole world enters the Three and a half year Great Tribulation. Refer to the following: -
12/ Dan 7:25 he ..speak words against the Most High ..wear out the saints for 3 ½ times ..change times and laws.
13/ Rev 11:3 …My two witnesses …they will prophesy 1260 days, clothed in sackcloth.
14/ Rev 13:5 ..a mouth speaking great things…and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue 42 months.
15/ Then The Lord returns 2 Pe 3:10 heavens ..pass away ..noise ..elements ..melt ..heat. And the earth ..will be burned up.
But through all that we know that God is in charge! If we now keep that sequence in mind, let’s now look at Revelation chapters 12, 13, 17 and 18 to see what else happens to the ‘Ten’ kings during the 7 years of the tribulation.
The Red Dragon With Ten Horns: Rev 12
Refer Revelation Chapter 12:3 “And another sign was seen in the heavens. And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads!” [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 12:1-17 under B. The Dragon, par B.i.] “From the similar description given in 13:1 and the parallel references in Dan 7:7-8; Dan 7:2, it is clear that the revived Roman Empire is in view . . . The seven heads and ten horns refer to the original ten kingdoms of which three were subdued by the little horn of Dan 7:8, who is to be identified with the world ruler of the great tribulation who reigns over the revived Roman Empire. (Walvoord)”
From Rev 12:9 we see that the dragon represents Satan and he is directly managing the resurrection of the Roman Empire. So, this revived Roman Empire must rise again in our modern day future. It has regal power denoted by the ‘seven crowns on his heads’. Yet at this point in time, the ‘Ten’ horns or kings do not have crowns. So this must indicate the states-quo of the antichrists rulership at the very start of the 7 years of Daniel’s Seventieth Week. Currently the EEC, (European Economic Community), is the closest thing to a revived Roman Empire at present. It would seem that after the rapture there would have to be seven major leaders, or ‘heads’ that would rise from the EEC in order to regain world stability after the chaos caused by the rapture.
But consider the following. I asked Google, “How many Christians are there in the world?” As of 2021 I found the following answer in wiki/Christianity by country, ‘As of the year 2015, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents out of a worldwide population of about 7.5 billion people.’
That’s almost one third of the world’s population. Imagine if only half, 1.2 billion, Christians of the world were worthy of being ‘caught-up’ in the Rapture? Let’s presume say 1 billion Christians, mainly from Europe and the USA were to vanish! This could leave a huge void in the leadership and administration throughout the Christian world. Newly elected “heads” of world powers would try to restore order in a panicked world. Is it possible that this passage is a reference to ‘seven heads’ that would come to power in Europe immediately after the Rapture? NB: these ‘heads’ stem from the dragon, and it represents the Roman world, so as we saw in Daniel chapters 2 and 7, these leaders or heads must rise from within the Roman or European world.
The ‘Ten horns’? Well there are numerous references to them as being ‘Ten’ kings’. But let’s be realistic, between the time of Napoleon and WWII nearly all the monarchies of Europe have been killed or permanently displaced, so it is highly unlikely that Europe would revert back to ‘Ten’ monarchies. The ‘Ten Horns or Kings’ could be a reference to ‘Ten’ military leaders appointed, and given marshal law, to restore world order. For example if we go back to Dan 8 above, when Alexander The Great died, ‘4 horns’ rose up. These horns represented the four generals of Alexander’s army. So ‘Seven’ new political European leaders, ‘heads’, and emergence powers are given to ‘Ten’ generals, is a plausible scenario!
This all seems harmless enough, a world trying to recover from the Rapture. But if you study Rev 12, start to finish, there are some other interesting things happening. You see in verses 1-6, a woman births a man-child; the dragon tries to kill him. The child is caught-up to God. Then verses 13-17 "the dragon turns on the woman, and she is then protected. You can check various commentaries about these, they are all very interesting. But that has very little to do with the ‘Ten kings’ that we are studying at the moment. The key point is, starting in verses 7 “there was war in heaven. ..:9 And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent called Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. .:12 …Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and in the sea! For the Devil came down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time.” Satan is now stuck on earth, he’s infuriated, time is short and he can no longer stand face to face with God in heaven, accusing the brethren. This happens some time immediately after the Rapture. Some say that at this point Satan will be roaming the earth seeking someone to possess, and this person would become the antichrist, the Little Horn, the leader of the ‘Ten kings’.
The Beast With Ten Horns: Rev 13
This passage gives us more information about the antichrist, this time known as the ‘healed head’ and/or the beast itself. It also introduces the ‘Two Horned’ beast. But we will group together all the info about them later. Let’s first look at Rev 13:1-2 “And I stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads was the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and its feet like ..a bear, and its mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him its power and its seat and great authority.”
· [Ref CN by John Darby on Rev 13:1-18] “In Chapter 13 we have the clear and full development of Satan's instruments of evil. They are two — the ten-horned and the two-horned beasts. To the first the dragon, who swept with his tail a third part of the stars to earth, Satan under the form of the Roman Empire, gave his throne and much authority. [15] The second not only wielded the first power administratively before him, but was the active power of evil to lead men to recognize the first, and therein the dragon. The beast is the original Roman Empire, but largely modified and in a new character. It has perfect completeness in its forms of government or heads but is composed of ten kingdoms.”
· [Ref CN by C.I. Scofield on Rev 13:1] “Daniel’s fourth beast, (See Scofield on Dan 7:26), The "ten horns" are explained in Dan 7:24; Rev 17:12 to be ten kings, and the whole vision is of the last form of Gentile world-power, a confederated ten-kingdom empire covering the sphere of authority of ancient Rome. Rev 13:1-3 refers to the ten-kingdom empire; vs. Rev 13:4-10 to the emperor, who is emphatically "the Beast."
This new beast came up out of the sea. Refer Rev 17:15 “..The waters which you saw ..are peoples and multitudes and nations.” I think this beast represents a broader coverage of the antichrists power over the modern-day populous of the whole planet. It is a composite of the leopard the bear and the lion. If you refer back to Dan 7:3-6 we find the same animals representing the empires of Greece, Media-Persia and Babylon. So it stands to reason that after the shock of the Rapture the New World order, (the beast), which starts in Europe, would have to then encompass a greater coverage of planet earth if it wishes to maintain control. You can also refer to the rest of the commentaries above, [Ref CN by C.I. Scofield and John Darby on Rev13] and [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev13: 1-18]. They all make reference to the leopard, bear and lion, as being an indication of a change of the characteristics of the beast. Very interesting should you care to read them. Equally it’s also logical that the beast should change in character to incorporate other nations. Then verse 2 continues, ‘the dragon gave the beast his power and his seat and great authority’. Now Satan appears to be controlling more of the earthly governments, but still seated in Rome.
But consider this, when God uses animals to represent nations, He uses
animals that are recognised at the time the prophecy is to be revealed. For
example in Daniel 7 He used a leopard to represent Greece, which indicated the
speed at which Greece would conquer the world. But in the very next chapter,
Daniel 8 God uses the ‘he-goat’ to represent Greece, why? [Ref CN by Adam Clarke on Rev 12:3] “God has represented the kingdom of the Greeks by a he-goat, for no
other apparent reason than this, that it was the national military standard of
the Grecian monarchy.” So if the
Revelation is meant to be understood in our generation, what would we
understand the ‘leopard the bear and the lion’ to represent now? Referà[Slide#1]
Remember in Rev 13: 1 “And on its ‘Ten horns’ there were Ten crowns!” This is a distinct change for the ‘Ten’, because they now have regal power. Earlier I did talk about the possible reinstatement of ‘ten’ of the old monarchies as unlikely. But do you remember Napoleon, ‘corporal Napoleon’; he eventually crowned himself as Emperor of Europe. So who’s to say that as I suggested, ‘Ten’ military generals, appointed by the antichrist, are not later crowned as kings. Or it could also mean they are appointed as military dictators. What ever you choose to believe these ‘Ten’ are now much more powerful. Then the antichrist uses them to ‘reap the whirlwind’ during the last three and a half years of Daniel’s Seventieth Week. This period of time is often referred to as the 1260 days or 42 months or 3½ times etc. as in: - Rev 13:5 “..And authority was given to it, (the antichrist), to continue forty-two months.” And Rev 13:7 “And it was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given to it over every tribe and tongue and nation.” Also in Dan 7:25 “..shall wear out the saints ..they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and one-half time.” We will cover how the antichrist can achieve this under the heading, “The Little Horn”.
The Great Prostitute Riding The Beast Rev 17
This chapter is virtually the culmination of Daniel’s Seventieth Week, so where do the ‘Ten Kings’ fit in? Briefly in Rev 17:1-6 the angel takes Daniel to, ‘see behind the curtains’, so to speak, as to what the ‘religious harlot’ is doing, riding on a beast and what will happen to her at the end of the Seventieth Week. Rev 17:1 “And one of the seven angels…talked with me, saying ..Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters, 2 with whom the (Ten) kings of the earth committed fornication, and became drunk with the wine of her fornication, those inhabiting the earth.” Firstly who is the harlot? Often in bible studies you will hear or read, “a woman in prophecy represents a church”. In this case it is the antichrist’s church of which the antichrist is the head of the false religious church, committing ‘Fornication’? [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 17], “The idea of fornication often has strong associations throughout the Bible with idolatry”. Ref also to John Darby, John Wesley and others. The (Ten) kings and those inhabiting the earth have committed fornication with her! This is clearly saying that the whole world will be swept up into an idolatrous one-world religion. Remember from above regarding the Futurist System; “Ribera …taught…the future apostasy of the clergy of the Roman church to the camp of Antichrist”. Now [Ref CN by John Darby on Rev 17] “a character plain enough to mark the Roman or Papal system… a woman, a religious system, sitting on an imperial beast full of names of blasphemy, having the form which marked it Roman.” So after the rapture the Church of Rome becomes an apostate system with the antichrist as its head, supported by the ‘Ten Kings’.
Then in Rev 17:7 “And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, that has the seven heads and ten horns.” Most of this chapter we will talk about under the heading, ‘The Little Horn’. But as for the ‘Ten Horns’ we will cover them now. The key scriptures that support the ‘One World Government’ theory are usually found in this chapter. Let’s consolidate the various passages we need regarding the ‘Ten’.
Rev 17:12-17 “And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no kingdom yet, but will receive authority as kings one hour with the beast. 13These, (the ten kings), have one mind, ..they will give their power and authority to the beast. 14These, (the ten kings), will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them .. 16 and the ten horns…will hate the harlot ..make her desolate ..naked…they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. .17For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the Words of God will be fulfilled.”
The ‘Ten’ kings have 'received no kingdom as yet'! This point is usually interpreted as, we are reading the prophecy now, and as of now they have not received their kingdoms yet. Of course that makes sense, because the ‘Ten’ kings are still in the future! Then when the antichrist, (the beast), comes to power then the kings will receive their authority. The tricky bit is the phrase “one hour with the beast”. If we go to some commentary notes it might shed some light on that, and I’ll give you quite a few of them.
[Ref CN by John Darby, Chuck Smith, John Gill, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Albert Barnes, Joseph Benson and Adam Clarke on Rev 17:12]. Parts of some of their comments are briefly listed here as: - “one hour; namely, that at one and the same hour or season he came to his supreme authority”, “short duration”, “cannot be taken literally…meaning a brief…time” or “at the same time, or for the same length of time”; “with the beast”; “receive the same kind of a power as a king”.
We can also look at the word numbers and their meanings from Strong’s or Thayer’s, “oneG3391 hourG5610 with the beast.” Let’s first look at the word, “oneG3391”. It can also mean, “a (certain), + agree, first”. Now refer to verse 17 as above, “to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom”, then cross-reference to KJV it reads, ‘to agree,G4160 G3391 G1106 and give their kingdom.’ so instead of the word “oneG3391”, we could also use the word, ‘agree’. Now let’s look at the word, “hourG5610”. From Strong’s it can be interpreted as, “day, hour, instant, season, X short, [even-] tide, (high) time.” So for the phrase, ‘one hour with the beast’, we could rephrase it to read, “agree for a time with the beast. That’s much the same as the commentaries above.
Verse 13 “These have one mind, ..they will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 These will make war with the Lamb” The Lamb is Christ the head of the Church, therefore the ‘Ten kings’ are fighting against the true Church, this is much the same as above in Rev 13:7 “And it was given to it to war with the saints and to overcome them.” [Ref CN in Popular New Testament on Rev 17:14] “ ..the last half of the verse is not that of the Authorised Version, that the Lamb shall overcome because they that are with Him are called and chosen and faithful, but that they that are with him, called, and chosen, and faithful, shall be partakers of the victory.”
It is the most horrid time under the antichrist rule. Satan knows ‘his time is short’, and in his vengeance for being exiled from heaven he is trying to destroy God’s creation on earth. But hallelujah there is a massive change. Rev 17:16 “and the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked. And they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. :17 For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, and to act with one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the Words of God will be fulfilled.”
It would appear the ‘Ten’ kings submit to the antichrist’s rule. Then in the middle of ‘the week’, as in point 9 above, the antichrist as described in, 2Th 2:4 “ ..exalts himself above ..God, ..he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth ..he is God..” He then ramps up the bloodshed and slaughter. As in verse 14 “These, (the Ten with the antichrist), will make war with the Lamb,” Then right at the end of Daniels’ Seventieth Week, the ‘Ten kings’, as above in verse 17 “For God gave into their hearts to do His mind”. It is a capital ‘H’, His, Gods’ mind! God has put into the hearts and minds of the ‘Ten’ kings to submit to the antichrist’s rule until it seems they can no longer stand the degradation they have come to. They then rebel!
They turn against the ‘harlot’. [Ref CN by C.I. Scofield on Rev 18:2] “Two "Babylons" are to be distinguished in the Revelation: ecclesiastical Babylon, which is apostate Christendom, headed up under the Papacy; and political Babylon, which is the Beast’s confederated empire, the last form of Gentile world-dominion. Ecclesiastical Babylon is "the great whore" Rev 17:1 and is destroyed by political Babylon”. They “make her desolate and naked”, in other words strip her of all her accumulated wealth. Then ‘eat her flesh and burn her with fire’. This is an interesting Old Testament parallel. [Ref CN by John Gill on Rev 17:16] “(4) Shall burn her utterly with fire. The language is most probably taken from the Old Testament, in which to be so burned is the punishment of fornication on the part of a priest’s daughter (Lev 21:9). The whole is a picture of complete destruction.” You should also Refer CN on Rev 17 from Summarized Bible, Robertson Word Picture, John Darby and others. They are all quite interesting.
But the antichrist must still have a ‘trump card’ up his sleave, because he continues to exist until the return of Christ. 2Th 2:8 “And then the lawless one, (the antichrist), will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:G3952 ”, From Strong’s, “G3952 ..advent ..return; specifically of Christ to punish Jerusalem, or finally the wicked”. So Christ destroys the antichrist, not when He comes at the rapture, but at the Second Advent. But as I have said we will talk about that when we get to ‘The Little Horn’, we’re nearly there.
Rebuilding The Temple
Just a quick ‘side note’: Remember above under the heading, Daniel’s Seventieth Week, I mentioned in point 6 ‘The temple in Jerusalem must by this time be rebuilt’. Well I recently found an article on the net entitled, Misunderstandings About Jerusalem's Temple Mount – 2011, “While it has not been widely published, it assuredly has been known for more than 40 years that the 45-acre, well-fortified place that has been mistakenly called the “Temple Mount” was really the Roman fortress—the Antonia—that Herod built. .. The area is called the Haram Al-Sharif in Arabic.” I saw this originally on ‘You-Tube’. And YES there are a lot of critics that will try to pull this theory apart. But if it is correct it would appear that the actual site of the temple mount is in an area, about 200m south and completely separate of ‘The Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque’. So if the Jewish world could ultimately be convinced of this, then the Temple could be rebuilt. It would be completely separate of the Muslim sacred site and theoretically nobody would be offended.
Why wouldn’t it be possible that after all these centuries we have had the location of the temple in the wrong spot? Consider this, if you go to the back of nearly every bible these days to find a map showing Mt Sinai, you will find it somewhere in the middle of the Sinai peninsular! Where as Paul tells you in Gal 4:25 “For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia”. So why do we keep looking for Mt Sinai in the peninsular, we should be looking for it in Saudi Arabia? You can look for Mt Sinai yourself, but try looking for it as the Saudi’s call it, Jebel el Lawz. Roughly in English that is, ‘Mount of the Laws’. Another thing to consider about the temple is Jesus said, in Mat 24:2 and Mar 13:2 “There shall not be one stone left on another that shall not be thrown down”. So how come the foundation wall of the temple is supposedly still intact? It should have been pulled down as well! It just doesn’t add up! Mt Sinai is not in the right spot, and I believe nor is the temple mount.
Hope you found that interesting and that I have explained everything well enough. If you have any comments by all means let me know your thoughts in the comments!
Again here is a list of the ALL the related ‘Short Papers’ on the “OWG”.. The One World Government Study: -
OWG1 FV - The Origin Of The One World Government
OWG2 FV - The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings
OWG3 FV - The Little Horn Dan 7
OWG4 FV - The Time of the End
OWG5 HV - The Historical View Reasoning
OWG6 HV - The “Ten, Toes, Horns, Kings”
OWG7 HV - [9] Characteristics of The Little Horn Daniel 7
OWG8 HV - Who Are The Saints Who Topple The Antichrist?
OWG9 HV - The Revelation, Heads, Horns and Crowns
OWG10 HV - The Ten Horned Beast of Rev 13
OWG11 HV - The Harlot Astride The Beast Rev 17
OWG12 HV - The Fall of Babylon Rev 18
GBY (God Bless Ya) Yours Adrian DEACON
OWG1 FV - The Origin Of The One World Government
OWG2 FV - The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings
OWG3 FV - The Little Horn Dan 7
OWG4 FV - The Time of the End
OWG5 HV - The Historical View Reasoning
OWG6 HV - The “Ten, Toes, Horns, Kings”
OWG7 HV - [9] Characteristics of The Little Horn Daniel 7
OWG8 HV - Who Are The Saints Who Topple The Antichrist?
OWG9 HV - The Revelation, Heads, Horns and Crowns
OWG10 HV - The Ten Horned Beast of Rev 13
OWG11 HV - The Harlot Astride The Beast Rev 17
OWG12 HV - The Fall of Babylon Rev 18
GBY (God Bless Ya) Yours Adrian DEACON
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