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OWG4 FV - The Time of the End

I look at the prophecies regarding end of the future antichrist and his ‘The One World Government’ Also The Red Dragon Rev 12-13-17-18 & 19
Part 4
The One World Government – Futurist View
OWG4 FV - The Time of the End
Original Commenced 20201122 -:- Published 20210829 -:- Revised 20250923
This Paper Published 20260715 -:- Revised 20260715
Caution! Possible spelling mistakes - Scriptures from Modern King James (MKJV) unless noted otherwise.
Overview
I 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. In OWG2 FV - The Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings I explained the meanings of the Ten Toes, Horns Or Kings. In OWG3 FV - The Little Horn Dan 7 I examined the prophecies regarding the Little Horn.

Aim
In this talk OWG4 FV - The Time of the End I hope to examine the prophecies regarding the Little Horn who will appear as the future antichrist and the final end of ‘The One World Government’ from the Futurist point of view.

OWG4 FV - The Time of the End
Daniel 12 verses 1 to 4 give the conclusion of the prophecy, which started at Dan 11:1. It is a brief coverage of what could be referring to Armageddon, the resurrection, who’s in the book of life and the end of the world. Again, I am going to ‘skim’ through the verses and just pick the ‘main points’. Again, I will give short ‘[Hints in bold]’ at times to give some clearer possible meaning. As before, I will base my hints mainly on E.W. Bullinger’s commentary notes. You can read the rest that I have left out. Let’s start with the last verse of Dan 11.
 
Dan 11:45 “ ..he shall plant his palace tents between the seas in the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end,” Dan 12:1  ..“at that time Michael shall stand up,” [what time? When the antichrist “shall come to his end”], “there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation; until that time,” [maybe the end of the Tribulation or Maybe a reference to Eze chapters 38-39] “ ..at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. :2  ..those who sleep in the dust  ..shall awake  ..Some to everlasting life  ..Some to shame..” [the Great White Throne judgement, the final resurrection] :3 “ ..those who are wise shall shine  ..as the stars forever and ever.” [the reward for the righteous] :4 “ ..But you,  ..Daniel,  ..seal the book, even to the time of the end.” [the book of Daniel will not be fully understood until these days]. “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
 
In reference to, ‘run to and fro’, [Ref CN by David Guzik on Dan 12:1-13] “has more the idea of searching after knowledge than rapid transportation” “ii. “The idea is that people would run about trying to find answers to important questions, especially in reference to future events.” (Wood). iii. “The correct sense is that ‘many shall search it through and through,’ and that as a consequence ‘knowledge of the book itself shall be increased.’” (Newell)”.
 
I tend to see it this way; If Daniel could see into the future and see a final world war in this day and age, what would he see? Jet aircraft, aircraft carries, tanks rushing across the battlefield, men with ‘jet-backpacks’, hovercraft, parachutes, rocket launchers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, ballistic satellite stations and computer technology.  Defiantly he would be saying, ‘Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.’
 
In the rest of Daniel chapter 12 he hears a dialogue between three angels one on each side of the river and one standing ON the river. (Whom do we know who can stand on water?) One asks the angel on the water, Dan 12:6 “Until when shall be the end of these wonders?” the angel standing on the water answers; Dan 12:7 “ ..it shall be for a time, times, and a half  ..when they have made an end of scattering the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.” This is the famous time span in prophecy, ‘time, times, and a half’. Or ‘time, times, and the dividing of time’. All equal to (1260 days) or 42 months, which is a clear reference to the last 3½ years of the antichrist’s rule. But then we are given these numbers.
 
Then Daniel joins in and says; Dan 12:8 “ ..I don’t understand  ..Lord, what shall be the end of these things?” The angel tells him, Dan 12:9 “ ..Go, Daniel!  ..the words are closed up and sealed until the end-time. :10  Many shall be  ..made white  ..tried…none of the wicked shall understand  ..the wise shall understand.” Then Daniel hears these marvellous verses. Dan 12:11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the desolating abomination set up, a thousand two hundred and ninety days shall occur.” (1290 days) :12 “Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.” (1335 days) :13 “But you go on to the end, for you shall rest and stand in your lot at the end of the days.” So what do these different sets or groups of days mean? Let’s go to David Guzik’s commentary.
 
[Ref CN by David Guzik on Daniel 12:1-13] “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days: This is an amazingly specific prophecy. Daniel says that from the time of the abomination of desolation, you can simply start marking off your calendar to the final consummation of all things, 1,290 days later. This is why Jesus pointed to Daniel’s prophecy of the abomination of desolation as the sign that would mark the immediacy of His return (Mat 24:15). Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days: What is the relation between three and one-half years (1,260 days, mentioned specifically in Rev 11:3 and Rev 12:6), the 1,290 days mentioned here, and the 1,335 days mentioned here? It is difficult to be certain. We could say that at the end of the 1,260 days Jesus returns. At the end of the 1,290 days, Jesus’ government is officially installed. At the end of the 1,335 days the nations are judged (Mat 25:31-46).”
 
The Red Dragon Rev 12
We have covered a lot of this chapter before when we studied the ‘Ten Horns’. Remember from Rev 12 earlier. [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 12:1-17 under B. The Dragon, par B.i.] “it is clear that the revived Roman Empire is in view . . .” (Walvoord)” .. Now let’s focus on ‘The Little Horn’, but in actual fact there is no mention of any ‘Little Horn’ in this chapter. There is the familiar structure of the revived Roman Empire in the form of a beast. Rev 12:3 “ ..red dragon, seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads!” The dragon is the symbol of Rome. The seven heads are most probably political leaders, with ‘crowns’, or presidential power. The ten horns, not crowned, a symbol of ten subordinate rulers, probably military leaders. As I said earlier this is probably the status-quo of the revived Roman Empire immediately after the rapture. But there is NO ‘Little Horn’ as yet? Stay with me.
 
Remember when we were studying the ‘Ten Horns’, what happened during Rev 12:7-13? Let’s ‘skim’ through it again verse 7 “ ..war in Heaven. Michael. defeats the dragon  ..:9 the dragon  ..cast out to earth, and his angels ..”. Verses 10 to 12 is rejoicing in heaven etc. Verse :12 “ ..Woe to the inhabitants of the earth  ..Devil came down  ..having great wrath, knowing   ..he has  ..little time.:13 And  ..he persecuted the woman ..” This woman represents the ‘true’ church; the devil is then confined to earth with evil plans to persecute the ‘true’ church. How does he do it? By possessing one of the seven heads? That sounds logical and it will make sense later when we get to Revelation 13.
 
So, at this point, immediately after the rapture, ‘The Little Horn’ has presumably not been revealed. 2Th 2:3 “ ..there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition”. Once he has been revealed then follows this passage. 2Th 2:4 “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.” So imagine the world after the rapture, people would be in a panic, there is most likely to be mass looting and disorder. That happens now in a world disaster? And remember people are not likely to change! They are not likely to flock to some charismatic leader unless he appears to have something miraculous about him! So let’s see what happens next chapter.
 
The Ten Horned Beast Rev 13
Rev 13:1 “ ..I saw a beast coming up out of the sea,” [a restructuring of the beast of Rev 12], “having seven heads and ten horns  ..on its horns were ten crowns  ..:2  ..the beast  ..was like a leopard  ..a bear .. a lion  ..the dragon gave him its power and its seat and great authority.” And we discussed the apparent restructuring of the beast to encompass greater world coverage. And there are now crowns on each of the ‘Ten Horns’. But this next verse is amazing. Rev 13:3 “And I saw one of its heads as having been slain to death, and its deadly wound was healed. And all the earth marvelled after the beast”. If one of the heads would be representing a key political leader of the revived Roman Empire, and they are assassinated, then consider the following story. (Although verse 15 says, he was wounded by a sword, what follows is still a great story).
 
‘Its head had a deadly wound which was healed!’ Well I remember seeing this real life police chase story, live on the TV news the day it happened. You can find it on this link: - The-Real-Story-Behind-Tim-Atahan-One-Of-Australias-Most-Successful-Bank-Robbers. The story reads roughly as follows. “Tim Atahan had robed numerous banks around Sydney NSW. ‘On a stinking hot January 31, 1984’ after robbing two banks, he had escaped in a vehicle and surrounded himself with hostages. The police had blocked his movement near the Spit Bridge. Detective Senior Constable Steve Canellis got close enough to the car to stick his head in the window and talk to Tim. Steve was then ‘shot point blank between the eyes’. Perhaps the luckiest man in the world, Steve survived and recounts the drama to the media, Ref. Murder, Lies & Alibis: The Bank Job. I remember that Constable Steve was in the news for the next few weeks or so: Hailed the Hero! And the medical report on him showed the travel path of the bullet. It entered between the eyes on the upper bridge of his nose. It passed under the brain and ricocheted off the inside of his skull. Then it travelled down through his throat and lodged in his upper chest! I remember seeing his fist news interview, he calmly said something like, “all I remember is I woke up with a real bad sore throat”. I am sure you could find dozens of other miraculous survival stories.
 
But put that event in the context of that scripture, Rev 13:3. Just imagine if one of the ‘political heads’ of the beast is starting to make a name for himself, becoming popular and striving to unit the world after the rapture. Then he is assassinated with a bullet in the forehead, live on CNN worldwide. Everyone would think, ‘Oh crumbs he’s dead!’ But he’s alive! A miracle! (Or has Satan pulled some strings?) And then he comes back to the political arena only days later. How do you think the world would react to that miraculous person? The world would think he could do no wrong! It would be exactly the same as Hitler’s reaction, after the long list of assassination attempts on him. [Ref link List Of Assassination Attempts On Adolf Hitler]. The last and 22nd attempt was at the Wolf's Lair, 1944 July 20. In Hitler’s mind he thought he had ‘a lucky star’, he could not be killed because he believed he had a divine destiny! And the populous of Germany from 1933 to the 40’s, followed him whole-heartedly! Just like this next verse, Rev 13:4 “And they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with it?” Satan could possess that political leader, ‘the head’, and then Satan would have just the tool he needs to do his dirty work to fulfil the position of the antichrist. Satan would be the one who engineers the deadly wound, and for him to survive.
 
The antichrist could then sweep the world off its feet easily fulfilling these following passages. Rev 13:5 “And a mouth speaking great things ..and blasphemies. And authority was given to it to continue forty-two months.” This authority to continue 42 months? That is the famous 3½ years. But consider this, for most democratic world leaders their term of office is usually 4 years. So if the leader was already elected, then assassinated six months into his term, but miraculous survives! Of cause he would continue another 3½ years. Then in verse :6 “ ..it opened its mouth in blasphemy toward God  ..blaspheme His name  ..His tabernacle, and those dwelling in Heaven”. This is now treading on very shaky ground! And only the saints of God would see the error in those blasphemous speeches, and the saints would speak out against him! They would exclaim, “He’s the antichrist!” so what would the antichrist do then? Verse :7 “ ..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. :8  And all dwelling on the earth will worship it, those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain, from the foundation of the world”. It is not difficult to see how the antichrist could rise to power, to have power over every tribe tongue and nation. The other ‘6 heads’ are either scared stiff of the blasphemous leader, and/or they are completely in alliance with him. It’s the same as Hitler after the last attempt to assassinate him. All his top generals had to swear allegiance to him face-to-face. If not? The next two verses 9 and 10 are a reassurance to the believers ‘Here is the patience and the faith of the saints’.
 
Antichrist Meaning?
When it’s all set and done, ‘anti’ as in antichrist, does not necessarily mean against Christ! It can also means ‘in place of’ Christ. Refer KJV 2Jn 1:7 “ ..This is a deceiverG4108 and an antichrist.G500”. From Strong we find, “G4108  ..that is, (by implication) an impostor or misleader: - deceiver, seducing.” Then we have G500 = “From G473 and G5547; etc.” But word G473, = “anti; an-tee'; A primary particle; opposite, that is, instead or because of (rarely in addition to): - for, in the room of. Often used in composition to denote contrast, requital, substitution, correspondence, etc.” Then word number G5547 = ‘From G5548; anointed, that is, the Messiah, an epithet of Jesus: - Christ”. So antichristG500 is in effect the combination of the two words, G473 ‘is instead of, or substitute for’ and G5547, ‘the Messiah, Christ’! In other word a ‘substitute for Christ’, an antichrist! So the antichrist is setting himself up in place of Christ. Exactly the meaning of, 2Th 2:4 “ ..exalts himself above all that is called God ..” For another example of the use of the word ‘anti’, as ‘instead of’, if you attend a royal function, you and the rest of the guests would assemble in an anteroom, also spelt, “anti-room”. Then when the dignitaries arrive you would all then move into the main function room.
 
The Two Horned Beast Rev. 13
Then we have, Rev 13:11 “And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. And it had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.” This in most commentaries and in other scriptures is recognized as ‘the false prophet’. This brings into effect what is known as the ‘anti-trinity’. [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 13:11] “With the dragon, the beast rising from the sea, and the beast rising from the land we have an unholy trinity. The dragon is the anti-Father, the beast rising from the sea is the anti-Christ, and the beast rising from the land is the anti-Holy Spirit.” Numerous similar references can be found in: - CN in Pulpit on Rev 14:1-20 “the trinity of enemies”; CN in Biblical Illustrator on Rev 13:11  “infernal trinity”; and Rev 13:18 “a trinity of evil”; CN in Expositor's Bible on Rev 19:1-21 “realm of evil a personal trinity”. Again Satan tries to mimic God by forming an ‘anti-trinity’.
 
All sounds very good but what could this new beast physically be in the future? A beast in prophecy has often represented an empire or kings. Refer Dan 7:17 “These four great beasts are four kings”. And two horns represent dominions or leaders. Consider this, Hitler came to power only because of his secret police, the ‘Gestapo’ and the ‘SS’! His proper gander minister Joseph Goebbels spouted off all the Nasi policies! And Hitler’s ‘Two Horned’ secret police, (the ‘Gestapo’ and the ‘SS’), enforced the policies. Could this ‘beast with two horns like a lamb’ be any different? Rev 13:12 “And it exercises all the authority of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” That sounds like a proper gander minister and his secret police force to me. And with Satan as the driving force behind it, what could possibly stop it? Also in this verse is this phrase, ‘the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed’. So the assassinated head is now referred to as ‘the first beast’, that explains why there was no mention of him as a ’little horn’, he has now taken over the total control of the multi-headed beast.
 
Then we hear more of what the ‘Two Horned Beast’, (the false prophet), gets up to. And your imagination can run wild with all the futuristic scientific features already available in the world now, which could be implemented to fulfil this prophecy. Rev 13:13 “And it does great wonders, so that it makes fire come down from the heaven onto the earth in the sight of men .. 14 And it deceives those dwelling on the earth, because of the miracles which were given to it to do before the beast.” Some commentaries suggest this is Satan’s effort to copy the miracles of the two witnesses in Rev 11:5 “And if anyone will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies.” By this stage of Satan’s game of world domination, anything God can do, Satan will also try to do. Go back to Exodus 7:10 Moses rod became a snake and Pharaoh’s sorcerers, “did the same with their secret arts”. But in a practical world of modern technology, who’s to say what this fire from heaven could actually be? It could well be beams of lazar light fired down from a satellite in space. Sighting, pinpointing, then destroying the hiding places of the saints of God.
 
Continuing Rev 13:14 “ ..saying to those dwelling on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the wound by a sword and lived.” Does that sound like cloning to you? Or could it be as we’ve seen in ‘Star Wars’ a hologram? Have you seen the hologram like the whale? Ref. Whale Surprise Jumps into a Gym in Mixed Reality (Exciting) by Magic Leap. Or alternatively could this, ‘image of the beast’, be a cyborg? Perhaps something like the Terminator, in the identical image of the assassinated, miraculous leader. Or they make thousands of them! Now that fits the next verse. Rev 13:15 “And there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might both speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.” To give it a spirit! It lives and speaks and interacts with people! If you let you futuristic imagination go wild, that verse could very well mean an army of clones or cyborgs, made in the exact ‘image of the assassinated leader’, looking identical to him and roaming the world. Each with the primary objective to kill anyone who doesn’t worship IT! Remember the verse does say ‘worship the image’. So if one of the images, a clone of the beast walks up to you, you would have to bow down to it, or it would kill you on the spot! A frighting thought!
 
But what happens to the saints, those who don’t want to worship the beast or its image? Rev 13:16 “ ..it causes all  ..small ..great, rich ..poor, free ..bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads, 17 ..that not any might buy or sell except those having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of its name.” For years we have had our beloved pets ‘chipped’ with a silicon ID chip for identification. So when your dog gets up to mischief, then the pound tracks you down and you get the fine. So imagine the whole world could be convinced to receive a silicon ID chip, in your right hand or your forehead, ‘for security reasons’ they would say.
 
Or as we already hear of now, and you can find it on Facebook etc., that the latest VACCINE may have a DNA tracking aspect about it. Do your own research and you will find hundreds of websites ‘debunking’ that idea! But remember; “Where There’s Smoke There’s FIRE!” CHECK THIS WEBSITE BEFORE IT GETS REMOVED!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HORRIFIC FINDINGS IN THE BLOOD OF THE VACCINATED. Have a look at that link at the ‘6.20 minute’ mark. It speaks of “blood clotting”, people being “magnetic”, and graphene-oxide, (which is a poison), being introduced into you blood if you take the vaccine.
 
And if a tracking device could be implemented in the future, (if not already), then your movements could be tracked all over the world. Rev 13:18 “Here is the wisdom. Let him having reason count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And its number is six hundred and sixty-six”. 666, The Number of the Beast. There is so much speculation about this subject that I won’t go into it in this talk. May I suggest you go to the commentary notes in e-Sword, or the ‘link’ shown above and ponder over that subject at your leisure? I know some of the ideas I have put forward seem a bit far-fetched or too much like science fiction. But the technology is already here, and as you can see a lot of what I have said is plausible. As I said at the start, ‘I will try to present the possible future on the bases of a logical and realistic interpretation of the prophecy’
 
The Great Prostitute Rev 17
We have already looked at the ‘Ten Horns’ in this passage, now let’s look for ‘The Little Horn’. But there is no mention of the antichrist by that name in this chapter either. When studying Daniel 7 E.W. Bullinger gave us twelve other names for the antichrist, some are: - “the man of sin" (2Th 2:3); "the son of perdition" (2Th 2:3); "that wicked (or lawless) one" (2Th 2:8. Rev 13:18); "the beast with ten horns" (Rev 13:1).” So he has already told us ‘the beast’ is the antichrist. So if we do a bit of cross-referencing we should find the character of the antichrist or ‘The Little Horn’ in this passage somewhere. I will give you a hint; he is still to be found amongst the heads. First let’s look at the structure of the beast; and the changes that happened from Revelation 12 and 13 to now, presumably this happens through the seven years of antichrist’s rule. The structure is basically the same, seven heads and ten horns. The crowns go from the heads to the ten horns to finally in this chapter, no crowns?
 
Rev 17:1 “ ..one of the ..angels ..came ..saying to me, Come ..I will show you the judgment of the great harlot”. The harlot represents the idolatrous religion, so the religious system is not the antichrist. But we do know this from 2Th 2:3 “the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, :4  ..he sits as God in the temple of God  ..that he is God”. Therefore the antichrist is the head of the idolatrous religious system. Verse 3 “ ..And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns”. Take note, it is a scarlet beast, gone back in colour similar to the red dragon. Does this mean that Satan is fully in charge again? We know that the antichrist rises up as an additional horn amongst the ‘ten’. So the ‘Ten Horns’ are not the antichrist! He then sets himself up in the temple as God, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

And Revelation 17 verses 1 to 7 are all basically a description of the harlot. Rev 17:1 “ ..the great harlot sitting on many waters, :2  ..the kings  ..drunk with  ..wine of her fornication .. :3  ..a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, .with names of blasphemy  .. :4  ..woman  ..arrayed in purple ..scarlet ..gold  ..precious stones ..pearls  ..golden cup  ..of abominations  ..filthiness of her fornication. :5  ..on her forehead  ..Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Of The Abominations Of The Earth. 7:6  ..woman drunk with  ..blood of ..saints and  ..martyrs of Jesus”. Not the kind of girl you would choose to take home and introduce to mum.

I said the antichrist had something to do with the heads! Remember this in, Rev 13:3 “And I saw one of its heads as having been slain to death, and its deadly wound was healed. And all the earth marveled after the beast :4 And they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with it?” Why does the whole world transfer their enthusiasm from a ‘miraculously healed head’ to worshiping the beast? It’s because the ‘miraculously healed head’, the antichrist, is now the controlling head of the beast! And he has Satan’s authority past on from the dragon. This all falls into place in the next few verses.
 
The angel says to John In verse 7, “I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, that has the seven heads and ten horns”, and the angel continues through to verse 18. By the end of this John should be able to understand the mystery of it all! And so should we! Why? Because the angel is going to explain it to him and in turn, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, to us! But the various commentaries I have looked through regarding this passage have either not covered these verses, or they are so vague with completely different interpretations it’s bewildering; here is an example.
[Ref CN by John Darby on Rev 17:1-18] says nothing about the heads.
[Ref CN by Cambridge Bible on Rev 17:10] this commentary seems to be OFF track, but check it out yourself.
[Ref CN by E.W. Bullinger on Rev 17:10], he scarcely makes any comment.
[Ref CN in Expositor's Bible on Rev 17] he says, “chapters ..17th and 18th ..one of the most difficult, portions of his book”.
[Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 17:10] he says, “This is one of the more difficult passages in the Book of Revelation”.
But I will give you Chuck Smith commentary in full; he seems to do it well. I am not sure what bible version he uses but it’s pretty close to the MKJV, and I’ve moved his reference to the start of each verse, the way I do it.
 
[Ref CN by Chuck Smith on Rev 17] “(Rev 17:8-9) ‘The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit [or abusSo, in the Greek], and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. Now here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits’. Or the city of Rome, the city of seven hills. (Rev 17:10): ‘And there are seven kings’. Seven emperors that have reigned over the Roman Empire. (continuing verse:10), ‘five are fallen’, Or are already dead at the time that John is writing. ‘one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue for a short space. (Rev 17: 11) And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven’.”

[Continuing with Chuck Smith’s commentary], “So,, the beast is according to this, is one of the five previous Roman emperors prior to the writing of the book of Revelation by John. At the time that John was writing, he was no longer alive. He was in the abusSo,. He ascends out of the abusSo,. But the world will wonder at this man who once lived and was dead and is now alive again. Of the seven of the major Roman emperors, and of course the one that comes closest to fitting the description is none other than Caesar Nero whose name numerically in Hebrew totals to six hundred and sixty-six”.

“Caesar Nero was called by the early church the beast. That was the common name, because he wrecked so much havoc among the church. Quite apparent that he was possessed by demonic spirits. The things that he did could only be done by a mind perverted by Satan. The horrible atrocities that this man brought against the Christian church could only be done by a mind that was totally deranged by demonic forces. (Rev 17:11) “And so the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and he is heading towards perdition [Gehenna]”. End of Chuck Smith’s commentary.
 
Remember at the start under the heading, “Interpretations”, I mentioned ‘The Preterist System’. In that theory “Most interpretations identify Nero as the Beast”, or the antichrist. And “the Olivet discourse had come to pass by AD 70” [Ref Wiki link The Preterist System].
 
Verses 12 to 17 we have covered these verses under the heading ‘The Ten Horns’, just a quick ‘skim’. Rev 17:12 “ ..the ten horns ..are ten kings ..received no kingdom yet. :13 These ..give their power ..to the beast .. :14 These ..war with the Lamb  ..Lamb overcome them. :15  ..The waters  ..where the harlot sits are peoples  ..multitudes  ..nations and tongues, :16  ..the ten horns ..hate the harlot ..and burn her with fire. :17 For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, until the Words of God will be fulfilled.” So the ‘harlot’, the antichrist’s church, gets torn to pieces by the ‘Ten Kings’.
 
Rev 17:18 “And the woman whom you saw is the great city which has a kingdom over the kings of the earth”. As above in Chuck Smith’s notes on Rev 17:8-9 ‘this is Rome of Old’. And in the Tribulation it will be the revived Roman Empire’s capital. [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 17:18] “That great city: In John’s day, there was no doubt which city reigns over the kings of the earth. Rome was the political, economic, and religious centre of the world in John’s day”.
 
The Fall of Babylon Rev 18
If you do a word search for ‘Babylon’ in your bible you will get some 261 references, with a mix of literal and allegorical or prophetic meanings. Some of the prophets and the psalms prophetically speak of the demise of Babylon in 338BC. But all the references in Revelation, because they are future, most Futurist commentators believe they are all prophetically Rome. So we will stick with that idea for this study. Now let’s ‘skim’ through the rest of Revelation chapters 18 and 19 to see how God’s wrath is poured out on the ‘anti-trinity’. We can also try to construct a feasible picture of what happens to the ‘One World Government’ in the final innings.
                
Revelation 18:1-11 “ ..after  ..I saw another angel  ..the earth was lighted up from his glory. :2  ..he cried  ..Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen!  ..has become the dwelling-place of demons etc. :3 because of  ..her fornication which  ..the nations have drunk. And the kings of the earth  ..committed fornication with her.  ..the merchants of the earth became rich from  ..her .. :4  ..another voice  ..saying, Come out of her, My people,  ..that you may not receive of her plagues. :5 For  ..God has remembered her unjust deeds. :6 Reward her as she has rewarded you,  ..In the cup which she mixed, mix double to her. :7  ..For she says  ..I sit as a queen,  ..I am not a widow .. :8  ..her plagues will come in one day, death  ..mourning  ..famine.  ..consumed with fire, ..:9  ..the kings of the earth  ..will weep for her ..when they see the smoke of her burning; :10 standing afar off for fear  ..saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, Babylon,  ..in one hour your judgment came. :11  ..merchants  ..weep  ..for no one buys their cargo any more”.
 
This is prophetic ‘Babylon’; it’s Rome at the end of the Seventieth Week and the capitol of the ‘One World Government’. And it sounds very much like a volcanic eruption, ‘the hand of God’ perhaps because they ‘standing afar off for fear’. In verse 1 we have, “another angel  ..the earth was lighted up from his glory”. It would seem this is a reference to Christ. Then we have in verse 4 “..another voice  ..saying, Come out of her, My people”. It’s a separate voice? Perhaps the voice of God from heaven, the same as what happened at the baptism of Christ? Refer Mat 3:17, Mat 17:5. Mar 9:7 and Luk 9:35 “ ..This is My Son, the Beloved, hear Him.”
 
Then verses 12-14 speak of the merchants and there is a great list of all the goods they sold to ‘Babylon’, which made them rich. Gold, silver, stones, pearls, silk, ivory, wood, bronze, iron, marble, and the list goes on. But the key commodity is the one at the end of verse 13, ‘the souls of men’. Here are a few commentaries for you to ponder over. [Ref CN by David Guzik on Rev 18:13] “This idea has many applications, none less so than today’s widespread prostitution and pornography”. [Ref CN by MHCC on Rev 18:9-19] “The spiritual merchandise is here alluded to”. [Ref CN by Popular New Testament on Rev 18] “it meant a spiritual traffic”. [Ref CN by Chuck Smith on Rev 17] “And the false religious system, which traps the souls of men”. Then verses 15-16 are a repeat of verses 8-10. Then we see what the ship captains think.
 
Rev 18:17 “ ..every ship-pilot  ..stood afar off. :18  ..they cried  ..seeing the smoke of her burning .. :19  ..saying, Woe! Woe to the great city,  ..which all who had ships  ..were rich out of her costliness!  ..in one hour she was ruined. :20 Rejoice over her, Heaven,  ..since God judged your judgment on her. :21 And one strong angel took  ..like a great millstone  ..threw it into the sea, saying,  ..the great city, Babylon, will be thrown down and not  ..found any more. :22  ..voice of harpers,  ..musicians.  ..flutists, .trumpeters  ..craftsman  ..Sound of a mill .. :23  ..light of a lamp  ..voice of the bridegroom  ..bride will never more be heard at all in you.  ..your merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by your sorceries all nations were deceived. :24 And in her was found the blood of prophets,  ..saints, and  ..all  ..who were slain on the earth”. Take note in verse 21 the ‘strong angle’ said, “Babylon, will be thrown down”. Future tense!
 
End of the ‘One World Government’ Rev 19
It seems that by the end of chapter 18 Christ still has not put an end to the antichrist or the ‘Ten Kings’ nor the ‘One World Government’. And Christ has not appeared as yet. That happens next in chapter 19, where we will see the end of the harlot the beast and the false prophet. Rev 19:2 “He has judged the great harlot.. :3 ..And her smoke rose up forever and ever”. But consider this scenario. This phrase in Rev 18:23 ‘never be heard in you any more’, is now beginning to sound more like the long lasting effects of a nuclear blast. Could it be that the ‘Ten’ kings are so feed up with the antichrist and any form of religion that they decide to end it all with a nuclear bomb on the antichrist and his capital? If that is the case, then we know that the antichrist must still escape! Because he can only be destroyed by Christ! 2Th 2:8 “And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming”! So hear is a blood curdling thought for you. The ‘Ten’ kings drop a nuclear bomb on the antichrist, ‘DIRECT HIT!’ But out of the radioactive carnage the antichrist, fully possessed by Satan simply walks out! He is revealed! And it’s live on CNN worldwide. This is not just a man who’s survived a deadly wound. This is defiantly satanic and the whole world will know it. And they CAN’T get rid of him!

Then imagine what happens if Christ returns at the advent and destroys him? Then you would see the fulfilment of Romans 14:11 and Philippians 2:10-11 “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of heavenly ones, and of earthly ones, and of ones under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Then in chapter 20 we see Satan bound for a thousand years and cast into the abyss. Then in Rev 20:5 we see ‘the first resurrection’, and the start of the thousand years reign of Christ on earth. It is the end of Satan’s One World Government, and the start of the “New One World Government”, a Theocracy under Christ. By all means read chapters 19 to 22, it’s a great read! Like I said before, go to the end of the book, this time to see who wins!
 
Conclusion From The Futurist Point Of View
I hope that hasn’t been too daunting. I have tried to present the fulfilment of the scriptures with some form of a plausible future outcome, which could appear in the near future. But if the Rapture is still not in our near future, then the world situation could obviously change over a mere few years. And this would perhaps put a slightly different interpretation on some of the scriptures. But I think you could agree with me that the apostasy of the church is already here! Therefore which one of the EEC members or someone else, is a possible candidate for the antichrist?
 
Having finished that set of 4 ‘short papers’, we can have a look at the alternative view! That is the search for the One World Government from the Historical Interpretation point of view.
 
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!


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