Chapter
4
Rise
of the Antichrist
The
word “Rise” in this title is significant in that it is one of the
words that Charles Manson had his death-servants write in their victims’
blood on the walls of every murder scene. As sick and twisted he was, he
happened to be right about something regarding endtime prophecy. He had
unquestionable power and influence over people’s minds. His plan was to
have his disciples murder famous people, and then to somehow pin the
murders on the black race with the hope of starting a race war that would
spiral into the war of apocalypse. He believed some god of his called him
to instigate this final war of mankind for purposes that only he and his
demons could comprehend. The part he was right about was the fact that the
Bible does predict racial disturbances resulting from economic collapse
and the breakdown of civilization that will contribute to this country’s
demise with global implications. However, he was wrong in thinking that
the apocalypse would be a race war. Rather, the Bible depicts the
apocalypse as a religious war. It is a war that mankind will pose against
God Himself. The apocalypse is iconic to just how sick and twisted the
human mind will become at the end of the age. Another thing the devil
forgot to tell Charles Manson was that economic opportunists will have
just as big a role in leading the world into apocalypse as racial unrest.
People will give God no other choice but to put the human specie out of
its misery, like shooting a lame horse, as He did in Noah’s time. The
collective consciousness of mankind is destined to assume many of the
character flaws, hence attract many of the spiritual entities that Charles
Manson personally entertained, since the world he loved and the devil he
served both share in the same spirit of antichrist.
The
Bible passage above serves as a description of the world in the last days,
particularly of those who would take the mark of the beast. It paints a
picture of a world obedient to their God; a world controlled by the love
of money. It is a description of people giving demons power to rule over
mankind. The antichrist will take advantage of the world at its weakest
moment, posing as the good guy, as though he were our friend; but the
antichrist has anything but benevolence in mind for the world.
Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream serves as a skeletal structure for Daniel’s dream, so that when
you superimpose the two, they seem to almost snap together to furnish us
with a rough sketch of how the antichrist comes to power, acting as a
guide for the rest of Bible prophecy throughout Scripture. Following is
the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, interpreted by Daniel,
"You
looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue-an enormous,
dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of
pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While
you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck
the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron,
the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the
same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The
wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the
statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. "This was
the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. You, O king, are the
king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and
might and glory; in your hands he has placed mankind and the beasts of the
field and the birds of the air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler
over them all. You are that head of gold. "After you, another kingdom
will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will
rule over the whole earth. Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong
as iron-for iron breaks and smashes everything-and as iron breaks things
to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that
the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this
will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron
in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron
and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle.
And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be
a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
"In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom
that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It
will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself
endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a
mountain, but not by human hands-a rock that broke the iron, the bronze,
the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. "The great God has shown
the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and the
interpretation is trustworthy." Dan 2:31-45 NIV
Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream indicated that the Medes would take over the Babylonian empire, then
it said in Dan 5:30,31, “That very night Belshazzar, king of the
Babylonians, was slain, and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the
age of sixty-two.” The prophecy of the Medes taking over the Babylonian
empire was fulfilled while Daniel was still alive. In the same way, World
War II was just a mark away from transpiring almost exactly according to
Bible endtime prophecy, suggesting that such a violent scenario is
destined to recur, except that next time it will be different – the
antichrist, reminiscent of Hitler, will successfully come to power.
Likewise, Daniel was clear about his prophecies being meant for the last
days, saying, “But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up
the book until the end of time…” (Dan 12:4 NASB). So, how do we
reconcile the events of Daniel, and the events of World War II with the
fulfillment of endtime prophecy? The answer is encoded in the following
statement:
The
timelessness of endtime prophecy is exemplified in that some of the events
that will take place in the last days have already occurred to illustrate
several predictions for the future, implying that they will occur again in
a different form, from different causes and in a different age.
Note
that Nebuchadnezzar’s statue represented four metals, which in turn
represented four Old Testament kingdoms, which all had one thing in
common: they were all world empires. Similarly, Daniel’s dream also
represented four world empires. The difference between them was that
Daniel’s dream represented kingdoms from the New Testament era. The
nations involved in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream were: Babylon of gold, the
two kingdoms of Media and Persia of silver, Greece of bronze and Rome of
iron. Hint: although gold is not a practical metal for building a war
machine, it is practical for financing one. Rome happens to be the only
world empire that transcended both Old and New Testament eras. It was
reminiscent of Revelation’s Babylon in that it hardly needed the nation
of Italy for its identity, since the city itself was the empire,
suggesting that the city of Satan will also be a nation in it own right.
You can say the same thing about the Vatican in Rome, which claims to be a
nation in its own right. Perhaps the antichrist wants a city as the seat
of his world empire without a country representing it to counterfeit the
heavenly Jerusalem that also has no country under it, but the city itself
is the kingdom. Remember also that Rome was the empire that crucified
Israel’s Messiah at the request of the Jews. Using these facts, we can
establish the identity of Nebuchadnezzar’s fourth kingdom by
acknowledging its resemblance to the fall of Rome. This Babylonian empire
embodying the foundation of the antichrist’s kingdom is reminiscent of
Rome for four important reasons:
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Both
Babylon and Rome captured Israel and reduced Jerusalem and its temple
to rubble.
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Prior
to overthrowing Israel, God sent them His prophets in an attempt to
thwart their captivity.
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The
major prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Lamentations document
God’s efforts to turn Israel from their inevitable conclusion, who
were not heeded before the Babylonian takeover.
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Jesus
Christ Himself came and spoke to Israel during the Roman seizure.
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After
Israel’s captivity God used his prophets to write about end times
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Daniel
after the Babylonian takeover
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John
the revelator on the island of Patmos (Rev 1:9) after the Roman
seizure.
4.
The end of days will therefore be similar to the days of Babylon and Rome
in that Jerusalem will once again be leveled (Mat 24:15-22; Lk 21:20-24).
Jesus
spoke of these devastating times in the following verses:
"When
you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its
desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,
let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the
city. For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has
been written. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and
nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath
against this people. They will fall by the sword and will be taken as
prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the
Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Luke
21:20-24 NIV
When
you take into account that the context of the above verses is referring to
the last days, and then note the language He used to refer to His own
time, it becomes clear that when the Romans came and dispersed the Jews
into all the nations in 70 AD, launching the period of the gentiles, he
was simultaneously talking about events that would unfold in the last days
in very much the same manner. In other words, Jesus was able to interlace
Jerusalem’s destruction with both His era and our era, because they are
essentially mirror images of each other. That is, according to Rev 11:2,
Rome will once again tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.
The
country representing the legs, feet and toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue,
the foundation of Satan’s one-world government, is picturesque of the
fall of Rome, having an insufficient foundation for supporting so much
weight. Taking a closer look at Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, each nation has
its own metallic identity, except the kingdom of the antichrist, which
mixes clay with the iron legs, feet and toes, weakening the iron, which
acts as the foundation for the rest of the statue. The clay represents the
antichrist taking over the nation of iron. Iron is the metal of choice for
war. It describes the fourth kingdom as mixing iron with clay as an
analogy for mixing the races, according to Dan 2:43, “Just as you saw
that the feet and toes were partly of iron and partly of baked clay, so
this will be a divided kingdom that will be partly strong and partly
brittle.” Then this verse, “The people will be a mixture, but will not
remain united anymore than iron mixes with clay,” refers to an
ethnically diverse people. The King James Version puts it this way (Dan
2:43), “As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with
the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron
does not mix with clay.” The seed of men refers to socially and
genetically mixing the races that do not adhere to each other, as iron
does not mix with clay. This points to anarchy and chaos due to racial
disturbances in a plummeting economy.
Therefore,
whichever nation is depicted as the melting pot of the world is the most
likely candidate for the foundation of Satan’s world empire. That
country is none other than the United States. In other words, the Bible
predicts racial integration as the work of Satan that has contributed as
much to encouraging the demise of the human race as the greed of the
moneylenders. We may be the melting pot of the world, but we have not
resolved our differences and the Bible predicts death and destruction to
erupt with ethnic roots in the nation represented by the iron legs of the
statue divided at the crotch. No other nation in the world boasts of its
ethnic diversity like the United States, but its iron and clay have not
mixed with the great social experiment of racial integration. The legs
themselves were strong, made of pure iron, smashing everything to pieces.
This was America in its earlier years, but then something happened and
another kingdom spawned from it, parasitic in nature, depending on the
iron for its strength, contributing nothing but clay as its representative
substance, and according to the analogy, socially and genetically weakened
the iron.
The
antichrist’s contributive substance according to Nebuchadnezzar’s
statue being nothing more than clay, which by no means is a metal and
hence is technically not a legitimate kingdom relies solely on the iron
for its strength and identity as a nation. This clay, then, represents the
deterioration of the human gene pool (as promised from the last chapter,
Evolution of Culture), and at the same time illustrates the frailty of
this emerging one-world economy. The Bible treats the word “beast” as
a generic term to mean either the false prophet or the antichrist. The
difference between them is that the antichrist is a fascist, political,
religious, totalitarian dictator, whereas his false prophet (the beast)
will represent capitalism out of its cage and dominating the governments
of the world, calling all the shots, the opposite of fascism. Every animal
on earth has originated from the wilderness, but the wilderness is off
limits to this beast, analogous to Adam being expelled from the garden.
That is, this money-ruling-rulers economy is unnatural. Although the
antichrist and his false prophet will be in collusion with each other,
they will also have conflicting interests; they will both want to rule.
These conflicts will cause internal struggles between them that they will
never resolve.
Catholicism
was once a world power that held humanity in the palm of its hand and
spread its influence around the globe. It would have destroyed the world
long ago, had they access to technology in their glory days. Watch for the
rise of Catholicism in the coming days, and when it becomes a
word-religion with the wealth of the false prophet behind him and the
power of technology at its disposal, its power to do evil will have no
bounds. The irony is that science dethroned Catholicism during the
renaissance period and brought the age of enlightenment, but it also
inadvertently brought the future age of technology along with it, the
ability to end civilization as we know it. Catholicism’s influence as a
one-world religion has dribbled to nothing more than a lot of sexual
predators posing as spiritual leaders, but one day very soon the world
will become desperate enough to place such a man as the pope into a
position of world spiritual authority, so that all of mankind will have to
answer to him just as in the glory days when Catholicism once ruled the
earth with an iron scepter. If they called that period the dark ages, what
will we call the days when Catholicism is reinstated as a one-world
religion, this time with the iron fist of technology capable of destroying
the world?
China
has an interest in keeping America afloat by continuing to lend it money,
since it is China’s greatest customer. However, it is getting to the
point that China is lending us money just so we can buy their products,
and when their profit margins shrink to zero, they will eventually pull
the plug on their lending, and when they do, the curtain will drop on the
American economy. So, when this hokey bailout plan fails and the economy
begins to freefall, China will begin to slip from its world status and
begin feeling the strain of a world economic downturn from nations that no
longer are able to buy their products, they will turn to America demanding
their money back from us with interest. Since we will not have the means
to repay, they will begin to confiscate American assets as collateral. We
will be taken over by China, but America will retaliate, starting WWIII,
which will be a nuclear war, since America won’t have the finances to
fight a conventional war. They will most likely shoot Inter Continental
Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) across the ocean and vaporizes a few Chinese
cities, containing millions of people.
One
of the similarities between Nebuchadnezzar’s statue consisting of silver
arms and a breast is that it represents the two-horned ram of Daniel’s
dream. It is no mystery which nations the ram represented in Old Testament
times. Dan 8:20 says, “The two-horned ram that you saw represents the
kings of Media and Persia.” In New Testament times it will represent
Russia and China (Gog and magog). A rogue moneylender, the eleventh horn,
will reform Daniel’s two-horned ram to emulate Revelations lamb that
also had two horns, but spoke like a dragon, which represents the false
prophet. The goat represents the United States. It will attack the ram as
directed by this rogue moneylender who betrayed the trust of his fellow
moneylenders. This eleventh horn will seduce America into attacking China
and its bodyguard (Russia) under the premise that he will refinance and
restore America’s economy, but his real motive will be for the U.S.
military to soften Russia and China in order to take control of their
governments and assimilate their economies like he did to all the other
developed countries of the world. Thus, we have a scenario of Russia and
China rising to power in the last days, and then being attacked by the
United States, whose moneylenders have already taken over its economy and
has financed its military to attack the ram with the promise of restoring
America’s status as world superpower, but this rogue moneylender will
betray United States’ interests after it has used its military to soften
Russia and China for the purpose of assimilating their governments and
economies into its multi-trillion dollar empire that has now gained world
supremacy. World War III will therefore encompass the struggle between the
ram and the goat.
Greece,
comprising the thighs of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, being the metal of
bronze, represents the goat, according to Dan 8:21, “And the shaggy goat
represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is
the first king” (NASB). The goat is the first of five kings, as we will
see later. The goat represents the United States military, according to
Dan 8:5, “Behold, a male goat was coming from the west over the surface
of the whole earth without touching the ground” (NASB). This war machine
coming from the west is most likely describing ICBMs coming from the
United States constituting WWIII. It will be a nuclear war, since the
nations’ economies will be in ruins by then from a combination of
man’s selfish greed and God’s fierce judgment mostly from earthquakes.
No kingdom on earth at that time will be able to afford a conventional
war.
The
beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the
Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names
have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world
will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is
not, and yet will come. This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads
are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five
have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he
must remain for a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is
an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
Rev 17:8-11 NIV
These
verses describe the empire of Satan as once was and now is not is an
eighth king and is one of the seven. He is the antichrist who once was a
world religious tyranny, referring to Catholicism, now is not, but will
regain its former glory in the world at the end of the age. The eighth
king is the Vatican, which is a city within a city (Rome), or it could
also be said that it is a country within a country (Italy). The antichrist
intends to forsake his own religion and convert Catholicism into a
religion of worshipping Satan, that is, the antichrist will cause the
world to worship himself.
Now,
compare the two horns of the ram (Dan 8:3), “One was longer than the
other, with the longer one coming up last,” with Rev 17:10, “…one
is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little
while.” These verses are talking about the same two countries, Russia
and China. We know that China is currently rising as a giant from its
continuously growing economy and promises to involve itself in all
significant international affairs, and Russia will be heavily involved in
the fulfillment of endtime prophecy as the following verses articulate
(Ezek 38:15-16),
You
will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you,
all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. You will
advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In
days to come, O Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations
may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes. NIV
These
verses are speaking of a time after the false prophet assimilates the
economies of the world. This happens at the end of time, during the last
war of mankind, when men go to war against God Himself. It says that the
northernmost country will lead many nations to war against Israel, led by
the false prophet, but why would the false prophet war against Israel? It
would be easy to assume that it was because Israel is God’s chosen
people, that countries have been warring against them since the beginning
of their nation, but don’t forget that the antichrist and his minions
will be occupying Israel at that time, so the war may be about rooting out
the antichrist, especially when you take into account that the false
prophet has already leveled the antichrist’s hometown, the Vatican in
Rome, which is the Babylon of Revelation, the city of Satan and mother of
harlots. Obviously the antichrist and the false prophet are at odds with
each other. The nations of the world led by Russia will surround Israel
intending to pound it into the ground. Rev 11:1,2 speaks of the occupation
of Israel, which “will trodden the holy city underfoot by the gentiles
for forty-two months,” but this is not referring to the great war
against God. This is referring to the occupation of the antichrist, who is
in Israel trying to snuff out a Christian revival that originated from
Jerusalem. The war of the false prophet against Israel, therefore, will
not be against the Jews, but against the antichrist who is occupying
Jerusalem. In other word, Jerusalem will be caught in the crossfire of a
war between the false prophet and his antichrist after their relationship
has deteriorated, but God will step in and save His chosen nation from
their enemies before they completely annihilate the city, and at that
point He will set up His own kingdom that will never end.
Summarizing
what has been said, according to the book of Daniel chapters two, seven
and eight, there are seven phases of the antichrist’s plan to take over
the world.
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The
ten horns of Daniel’s dream represent the ten toes of
Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, which were made partly of clay, making them
the weakest point yet the most important structural element of the
statue. They represent ten world banks taking over the United
States’ economy, whose destructive influence ripples throughout the
world economy.
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An
economic genius (the 11th horn) will appear in America, uprooting
three world banks on his rise to power, and finance the United States
military (the goat) in a nuclear conflict with Russia and China –
WWIII.
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After
the war the goat’s one horn will be broken (the destruction of New
York City), casting the world into deep depression. Four other
European kings will take his place.
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Later,
a spiritual world ruler will arise from one of the four European
nations that replaced the goat (Rome) in response to a Christian
revival originating in Jerusalem.
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This
spiritual world ruler will be the antichrist, who will migrate from
the Vatican to Jerusalem after a global Christian revival rooted in
Jerusalem.
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He
will break ties with all legal, political, religious and economic
authorities and ally his religion with the Jewish Talmud to create
ties with the orthodox Jews and to create confusion in the world, in
attempt to obfuscate the work of God.
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The
nation of his origin will be Italy, the Vatican in Rome. He will be
the pope, but he will betray his own city and religion in pursuit of
self-worship posing as Israel’s messiah.
It
would behoove us to understand that the ten horns of Nebuchadnezzar’s
statue represent money. It is almost impossible for this interpretation to
be wrong, since money has always played a central theme of man’s
civilization throughout the ages, and has always been controlled by dark
forces. It would be natural for Satan’s kingdom to have money as its
foundation, and it would be just as natural for that foundation to be
tenuous, since Satan himself has no foundation as an entity, being that he
is in very poor standing with his Creator. It makes sense that Satan would
be completely and utterly bankrupt of all substance and character with the
power only to steal, kill and destroy, which he does better than anyone,
which will ironically be the fate of his empire. Satan is a real entity in
his own right, but he would be nothing without man giving him power though
transgression, as in the example of Adam and Eve giving him power by means
of the first transgression. The book of Revelation talks about an eighth
king as one of seven, implying that he doesn’t have a place of his own,
just like he didn’t have a metal of his own to offer the nation that
sponsored his rise to power. It is as though he doesn’t really exist,
except in the human imagination, as though he were a ghost. This is the
god that man has chosen for himself to rule over him, who has set man free
to realize the full potential of his greed, lust and pride. Starting with
Nebuchadnezzar’s empire in the 600’s B.C., the last days kingdom of
the antichrist will be a montage of all the empires that dominated the
world after the Babylonian empire to the present day. Next is Daniel’s
dream,
Daniel
said: "In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the
four winds of heaven churning up the great sea. Four great beasts, each
different from the others, came up out of the sea. "The first was
like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings
were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two
feet like a man, and the heart of a man was given to it. "And there
before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up
on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth.
It was told, `Get up and eat your fill of flesh!' "After that, I
looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a
leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This
beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule. "After
that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth
beast-terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron
teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever
was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten
horns. "While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was
another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the
first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a
man and a mouth that spoke boastfully. Dan 7:2-8 NIV
In
the verses above Daniel is describing the four kingdoms of Israel, Russia,
China and the United States. The United States is the foundation of
Satan’s empire, stating that this nation is different from all the rest.
It said this twice, first that all the beasts “were different from each
other,” then said that the fourth kingdom “was different from the
rest.” The United States is different in nature from the others in its
government, which is controlled by capitalism to the point that the
moneylenders have taken control of the government. This is
characteristically different from any nation in history. That is why it
doesn’t have an animal name assigned to it, but simply calls it the
beast. Next, Israel is the lion, indicating that Satan will enter the
antichrist while occupying Jerusalem. It says that its wings were clipped
and he fell to the earth. He was then lifted from the ground to stand on
two feet like a man. This is a word picture of Satan losing his status as
prince of the power of the air, and forced to possess the man of
lawlessness in order to lead the world into his religion of self-worship.
The last two nations are the leopard and the bear, representing Russia and
China, together representing the false prophet. Daniel’s vision
encompasses the antichrist, the false prophet and the foundation of
Satan’s empire, which is the United States through its false economy.
There
is something about the ancient Babylonian empire that has become iconic to
endtime prophecy and deserves center stage in God’s revelation of world
events. The Babylonian empire invented the concept of banking and money
lending sometime around Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, which is why God used
Babylon to describe the evils of Satan throughout the discourse of endtime
prophecy. We live in a world that we have created through money.
Consequently, the further we wander into this manmade world, the more
dependent we become on money and the further we stray from nature and the
wilderness, hence the more susceptible we become to economic tyranny.
People will have intentionally destroyed the economy so they can rebuild
it according to their own specifications for the purpose of enslaving the
people. Humanity will be controlled to the point of only a handful of
people determining who lives and who dies. In other words we are on the
brink of self-annihilation.
Rev
13:1 says, “And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns
and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a
blasphemous name.” The horns represent power, while the heads represent
kingship, thus making a distinction between puppet rulers holding
positions of authority, while the horns of power control the laws and
policies of those governments. Our government officials are puppet rulers,
while the moneylenders are the true lords of the earth. On each head there
was a blasphemous name. The Jewish Talmud is more blasphemous than
intolerant Islam, implying that the heads represent Jewish adherents of
the religion of Judaism, representing our government officials, who will
spread their antichristian propaganda, condemning Christianity in society,
and persecuting them to the death by gathering the saints into their
concentration camps for execution.
Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream was about a statue made of four different metals, while Daniel’s
dream was about four terrifying beasts that rose from the sea. They both
resemble the four horsemen of Revelation chapter six that were given
authority “over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword, with famine,
with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.” They all depict
Satan’s wrath. Dan 7:2 says, “In my vision at night I looked, and
there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great
sea.” What you have with the illustration of a churning sea is a state
of chaos. The wind represents Satan and the sea represents humanity.
Through the combination of Daniel’s and Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams we
have the scenario of economic disaster triggering racial instability,
creating an atmosphere of global pandemonium churning up the populations
of the world, and within this environment four great beasts arose from the
sea of humanity, each different from the others. The number “four”
keeps popping up. There were four metals to Nebuchadnezzar’s statue,
representing four distinct countries. Later, when the goat’s horn is
broken, four other horns grew in its place. The book of Revelation
mentions four horsemen. Now Daniel is saying there are four winds of
heaven. All four metals of the statue represent distinct countries, but
the kingdom of the antichrist is partly made of the same metal as the
United States. It is a predator species that has strayed from nature and
created its own world through economics, industrialization and technology.
When its economy is uprooted and reformed, the end result is the goat.
Rev
6:1,2 says, “I watched as the Lamb opened the first of seven seals. Then
I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder,
"Come!" I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its
rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror
bent on conquest.” The first seal is a rider on a white horse carrying a
bow but mentioned no arrows, suggesting it is not a conventional war, but
a war of economics. The fact that he rode a white horse suggests
deception. The fact that it is a seal indicates that economically
conquering the United States is the first of God’s judgments against
America. The fact that he wore a crown indicates that the American
government helped him achieve his goals. The second seal refers to WWIII,
and the result is a worldwide economic disaster. The third seal refers to
famine and to the true condition of the economy, according to Rev 6:5,6;
the rider of the horse, “had a pair of scales in his hand saying, ‘a
quart of wheat for a denarius [a days wages] and two quarts of barley for
a denarius [a days wages], and do not harm the oil and the wine,’”
depicting inflation at unprecedented levels. The fourth seal is the
unraveling of civilization and death by famine, murder, pestilence and the
wild beasts of the earth. The fact that people are killed by wild animals
means that people have already started living in the wilderness, also that
there is a population explosion of carnivorous predators (feral dogs)
resulting from an increased food supply (human flesh). Finally, the fifth
seal is martyrdom, which turns the proverbial corner, causing God to stand
from His glorious thrown for the first time in two thousand years, and God
begins to intervene by evidence of the sixth seal, which involves an
extremely large earthquake that will rock the earth so violently that the
stars will appear to fall from the sky. Smoke and ash will partially block
out the sun, turning the moon blood red, suggesting that this earthquake
will trigger many volcanoes that were on the verge of erupting. This quake
will be second only to the final earthquake that will literally remove
every mountain preparing the earth for the Millennium.
Read
these next three portions of Scripture keeping in mind that they refer to
significant events that will shape the destiny of the world to fulfill
Bible prophecy of a one-world government that requires its subjects to
worship a man. There will be three assaults against the world by two
different men both possessed by Satan at different times. Against popular
belief there is more than one antichrist as it says in 1John 2:18, “Dear
children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist
is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is
the last hour” NIV. The ten horns will avail their resources to the
false prophet in return for the opportunity to rule with him, each
receiving a kingdom and authority when they pool their resources together
as a single economic, military and political system. Their objective is to
confiscate all the wealth of the world and to turn the earth into a giant
sweatshop, so that they can rule over the nations in the most luxurious
empire the world has ever known. The false prophet will be the first of
two men that Satan will possess as he merges three of ten horns together
to form an eighth horn (10+1-3=8). These ten horns are world banks that
have hijacked the American economy and launched the false prophet into
power. He will siphon off whole economies, betraying the spurious
moneylenders and effectively controlling their militaries as the false
prophet, who is also considered an antichrist. He will have corralled all
the wealth of the world, but the second antichrist is the one that gets
all the notoriety, because he acts as spokesman for Satan’s kingdom. His
objective it to rid the world of Christianity as covered by the books of
Daniel and Revelation. He is a religious figure, who will want to be
worshipped as god, similar to the character of king Nebuchadnezzar. He is
the great whore of Babylon.
While
I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn [an
eleventh horn], a little one, which came up among them; and three of the
first [ten] horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the
eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully. Dan 7:8 NIV
The
phrase, “had eyes like a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully,” is a
trademark of the antichrist and represents the head of the world economy,
evidenced by the all-seeing eye on the back of your one-dollar bill.
China, the leading producer of goods in the world, is continuing to loan
money to the United States, because we are their best customer. We buy and
consume their products, though we have not yet repaid them one thin dime.
Essentially, we buy China’s products with the money they have loaned us,
while our economy continues to weaken. When China quits showing a profit
on the U.S. market, they will terminate their lending, causing our economy
to come to a complete standstill, since we no longer have a job base to
generate income. China will then attempt to confiscate American assets and
exact rights and titles over property for payment on our loans. In other
words, China has not been our lender for the past twenty years; they have
been buying the United States without our even realizing it. The
governments of these respective moneylenders (Russia and China) will come
and attempt to take possession of our country as collateral, who together
represent the two-horned ram according to Dan 8:3-4, I looked up, and
there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and
the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew
up later. I watched the ram as he charged toward the west and the north
and the south. No animal could stand against him, and none could rescue
from his power. He did as he pleased and became great” NIV.
One
truism of economics is that money is never lost; it is merely transferred.
In this case the wealth of America along with its job base has been
transferred to China. The United States owes trillions of dollars to them
and we have no means of repaying it, so the ten moneylenders will attempt
to divvy up America among themselves. This nation’s government will be
in effect taken over by the moneylenders to be governed not by
politicians, but by the moneylenders themselves – by banks if you will,
and they will hire puppet rulers to reside in positions of authority, who
will see to it that their needs are met on a political level in order to
achieve their goals to enslave the world in its tyrannical economic
system. The bedfellow relationship between the governments and this
economic system is already established, meaning that the basis of
fulfilling Bible prophecy is already in place, so that there is nothing
left to do but wait for this endtime scenario to unfold like a game of
dominoes. China’s economy is already feeling the global decline, and as
their profit margins reach zero, they will begin demanding our property as
collateral, but as an economic strategist and opportunist from hell, this
eleventh horn will emerge from the ten toes of America’s oppression and
will betray the moneylenders, assimilating three world banks on his rise
to power, becoming greater than any of the other seven and will help the
U.S. finance a military retaliation against Russia and China, becoming the
grounds for the next world war, amounting to a nuclear exchange.
There
will be a republican president in office, who will believe in war as part
of his religion, who will not hesitate to start WWIII after receiving a
promise that if he attacks Russia and China with a nuclear assault,
America’s debts will be forgotten and America will regain its former
glory as a world superpower with the help of a rogue moneylender. The
United States will take the bait and bomb Russia and China into the Stone
Age, but the man of lawlessness who is connected to the money system, who
promised to help America if they go to war, will abandon America’s
interests, and will siphon what is left of Russia and China’s economies
as he previously did to America. Meanwhile, a Middle Eastern nation with
nuclear capability (possibly Iran) will wipe New York City off the map,
which will represent the impending fate of Babylon, the city of Satan. The
global economy will then take a nosedive far greater than the crash of
1929 as Rev 6-6 prophesies a loaf of bread for a day’s wages. Like
Hitler’s Germany, America will be ready to accept whatever terms is
required to return to their former glory, but their glory will be broken
forever. This next portion of Scripture depicts the scenario that I have
just described; the United States is the goat in Dan 8:5-8 that refers to
a military coup engendering World War III.
As
I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between
his eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the
ground. He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the
canal and charged at him in great rage. I saw him attack the ram
furiously, striking the ram and shattering his two horns. The ram was
powerless to stand against him; the goat knocked him to the ground and
trampled on him, and none could rescue the ram from his power. The goat
became very great, but at the height of his power his large horn was
broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four
winds of heaven. Out of one of them came another horn, which started small
but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful
Land. Dan 8:5-9 NIV
Although
the Bible says that the antichrist and the false prophet work together,
their relationship is tenuous at best. When it says the “goat came from
the west crossing the surface of the whole earth without touching the
ground,” it sounds like military air superiority, or possibly even Inter
Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) will be the central figure of this
war. Then it says that the goat’s one prominent “horn was broken
off.” Just as the United States is basking in its victory, four powerful
kings will replace him, who together will not have the power of the former
goat. From those four European nations a fifth king will emerge (the
Vatican from Rome), who will be a religious figure. He will be the second
of two antichrists, the first being the false prophet, head of the world
monetary system. This second antichrist will take his place over Jerusalem
as Israel’s messiah after appealing to the orthodox Jews in response to
a global revival that will have its roots and origins in Jerusalem, and he
will go there and set up his kingdom over them as an attempt to control
the revival by claiming to be the object of their worship, but the saints
who are led by the Holy Spirit will see through this man, but those who do
not belong to Christ and who are not familiar with the Scriptures will
believe in him to be the second coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh (Matt
24:23-28).
After
the devastation of World War III a long bout with poverty and famine will
grip the world, preparing peoples’ minds to receive this religious
deception purely through desperation. The false prophet will use his
global economy to rally the whole world around the antichrist’s religion
for the purpose of establishing a one-world government. WWIII will leave
the world in an abysmal economic depression, which is the perfect
conditions for Satan to take complete control of mankind, and he will do
so by bailing out all the nations of the world under the condition that
they use his money to integrate into his new global economic system that
will be facilitated by the mark. The following passage of Scripture refers
to this religious takeover that will be reminiscent to the catholic reign
of the dark ages. It is the second of two assaults that Satan will levy
against the world. The antichrist will launch a crusade against the
saints.
Then
I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a
lamb, but he spoke like a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the
first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship
the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And he performed great
and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth
in full view of men. Because of the signs he was given power to do on
behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He
ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by
the sword and yet lived. He was given power 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. He also forced everyone, small and great,
rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on
his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark,
which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for
wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast,
for it is man's number. His number is 666. Rev 13:11-18
NIV
The
first beast emerged from the sea (of people), but the second beast emerged
from the earth, that is, he came from hell! He is the false prophet; he is
the one actually in command, but internal struggles for control cause
fissures in their kingdom, which eventually leads to their demise. The
passage above indicates that this economic strategist will reform
Daniel’s two-horned ram (Russia and China; Dan 8:3-7), resulting in the
false prophet. Revelation describes it as having two horns like a lamb,
portraying it as a young, innocent creature, but no less spoke like a
dragon. He will cause all who refuse to worship the antichrist to be
killed by forcing everyone to receive the mark, knowing that Christians
will sacrifice of their lives before they will take the mark, thus the
mark is for them. The antichrist will have charisma enough to rally
together the whole developed world for the purpose worshipping him, whose
fatal wound had been so-called healed. The purpose of the antichrist is to
glorify the false prophet, whose only interest is in money, wealth and
power, while the purpose of the false prophet is to glorify the
antichrist, whose main interest is in self-adulation. So, they will both
help meet each other’s needs in an attempted symbiotic relationship,
which ultimately fails because of Satan’s lack of unity.
And
the dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of
the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns,
and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard,
but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The
dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of
the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal
wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the
beast. Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the
beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the
beast? Who can make war against him?" Rev 13:1-2 NIV
This
last world empire received the generic name beast because it was an
economic system of unknown specie. Its overall appearance resembled a
leopard (China, whose national emblem happens to be a dragon), suggesting
that China contributes the overall appearance of this global economic
system, except that it also has the attributes of a bear (Russia) and the
mouth of a lion (Jerusalem). Together these make up the antichrist and the
false prophet at the very end of time. The four heads of China (the
Leopard) are the European countries of England, Spain, France and Rome,
all of which were world empires in New Testament times in keeping with the
pattern of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Dan 2:39).
In
summary, the seals in Revelation chapter six are a series of events that
will transpire in a domino effect with the antichrist coming to power at
the end of the fifth seal, suggesting that these first five seals are not
judgments from God per se, but are the act of human will, that is, the
will of Satan (there’s no difference between man and Satan after man
obeys him). The eleventh horn will rise from the ten horns of the monetary
system and take over the world economy. By the time he has finished
destroying the U.S. economy, he will have siphoned off all its wealth and
power, leaving it in ruins. He will then turn to Russia and China and
siphon off their resources after WWIII, leaving behind a smoldering pair
of countries to reach his goal as owning all the wealth of the world.
However, just as Satan is literally manifesting himself as god of this
world, the true God of heaven will stand from his glorious throne and with
His great and awesome power will begin to reign in his people through a
world revival originating in Jerusalem. In response to this revival, Satan
will reform Catholicism and proclaim it as the only religion of the world
that all must use to worship god, posing as Israel’s messiah. He will
enter their temple, attempting to complete his delusion as savior of the
world for the purpose of stifling the Christian revival, but the orthodox
Jews will extricate him from their temple. He will implement the mark of
the beast at this point and begin a crusade of killing Christians,
triggering the judgment of God in the form of the trumpets and later the
bowls.
James
R. Wuthrich
jimwuthrich@yahoo.com
