Daniel’s Seal Broken─The Beasts Arise
By Phil Mayo
The book of Daniel is the foundation of biblical prophecy. Misinterpret it and you will be unable to connect that prophecy to world events, men, or empires of the past, present or future. It’s a map of history, beginning with the Jews taken into Babylonian captivity, and finishing with the return of the Messiah─Jesus Christ to rule over this world.
But in the final chapter we are told that the book’s meaning has been closed and sealed until the time of the end. We can see looking back at the attempts of Bible scholars from centuries past, that they had been unable to break that seal. Their attempts to interpret events prophesied by Daniel failed because they failed to realize that “the time of the end” would not begin until Daniel’s people had been gathered from the four corners of the earth; back to their Promised Land, ready to keep their final appointment with God. And Israel was once again a sovereign nation in control of its capital city─Jerusalem.
The book is made up of multiple layers of historical facts and symbolism that inform the reader of the origin and future of a man. Students of Scripture know this as the Antichrist, and his world empire. This man, who shall arise at a certain point in history empowered by God’s enemy─Satan, will attempt to usurp the throne of Jesus Christ as ruler of this world.
It is therefore somewhat ironic that another cause of those centuries of misunderstanding is something as simple as the incorrect application of a present tense interpretation to a phrase that is future tense.
I thank God for that day, as I once again sat down to read chapter seven wearing my usual regulation eschatology reading spectacles. When he wiped the mist of old scholastic dogma from them, and caused me to take notice of the fact that the phrase – “shall arise” doesn’t mean: “already exists.” And to realise the implications of that fact…
Mark’s gospel records the Sadducees (who didn’t believe in the resurrection), questioning Jesus. He told them they were in error because they did not know the Scriptures. He said, “Haven’t you read how God said to Moses, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?” In using the present tense – “I am.” God was indicating that those men were still alive.
Getting, or not getting the message can often hinge on the proper understanding of a single word or phrase.
Daniel Chapter 7: The Beasts Arise
First of all we have to understand that God who created all things, gives this vision. Time is one of the dimensions of this universe that God created. He is not subject to it. He exists outside of time. He can see the end from the beginning. From his position above world history, he can look down upon, or even enter into any moment in that history. Because of this unique perspective, God does not have to describe the events of world history in linear order for them to be an accurate account. With God there is no past, present or future. There is only now.
“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, those things that have not yet happened. Declaring, ‘My word shall be done, and I will do all that I wish’” (Isaiah 46:10).
“Beloved, don’t forget this one thing. That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8).
When considering this vision, imagine you have a bird’s eye view. Look down on the events described as if you were looking at a map laid flat on the floor. This map of world history, past, present and future, begins with Daniel captive in Babylon and ends with Jesus Christ the Messiah taking over rule of the world.
Consider it possible for the vision to start at any point in time on that map of history. It may describe the past, present, or future in any order, or simultaneously.
“During the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions in his mind, while he lay on his bed. So he wrote down the dream, summing up the main points” (Daniel 7:1).
Note that this was the first year of the last king of Babylon. Belshazzar was ruling in the absence of his father: Nabonidus, who was elsewhere on business. Babylon was not arising, neither was Nabonidus or his son. Both they, and the kingdom were already established. Babylon had reached its zenith many years ago under Nebuchadnezzar.
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Sorry, Mr. Rolls. There is not going to be any pre-trib “rapture.” You’re beginning to sound like a “holy roller.”
that’s not smart. you need to read your bible more often. but I am sure you don’t have one
there are not any toilets in heaven
Mr.Rolls JEWS are not gods chosen people the chosen people are Israelites, The Jewish Talmud contradicts the bible in every way,Jews are evil!
star person,
If you would read the old testament you would find that God divided the whole house of Jacob into the house of Israel, 10 tribes and the house of Judah, 2 tribes. The name Jew is a slang term for Ju – dah and the first time it is used in the Bible in 1 Kings the Jews are at war against Israel.
The 10 tribe house of Israel has been called the lost 10 tribes, they went into captivity about 120 years before the House of Judah and vanished. They can be found today if you look.
Without knowing the identity of the House of Israel you can not understand prophecy.
“Jews are evil!”
Do you people take lessons on being offensive? About time you grew up isn’t it?
Pix,
I was touched by god last night for the first time in my life!
“I had a dream last night that came straight from god”, and there were tens of thousands of ‘bonfires’ of celebration all over America”!
“They were formally called “churches, synagogs, and mosques” and got tax-free status, while the people starved and were homeless, sleeping on the street, all around the EMPTY structures owned by truly heartless, blind, deluded, evil and inhuman people.”
“In the end, the EMPTY,, underused structures served a good purpose.”
“They were the FUEL for the bonfire!”
And, that was the end of my dream, given to me by god, Pix.
THANKS BE TO GOD
Mr. Rolls are you aware that the 4th Seal is world war three? Read it, 25% of the earth is at war that is roughly 1.5 billion folks at war. I am sure you are aware the 4th comes before the 5th, so is your pre-trib in the middle of the third world war? And this one will use the big bomb.
The beast power goes to war with the House of Israel and wins, the House of Israel is taken captive and transported around the world as slaves. Maybe 75 million, do you remember the promise of numbers as the sands of the sea and the stars in the heaven? They are real.
Yes I know the beast only has power for 3 1/2 years and this war occurs before that time, remember what is said in revelations, “who can make war with Him” this is the reason they say that.
I skimmed the article, not even close, you are missing too many truths to even begin to fit this together.
You have a pretty interesting take on that.
ministeroffire
read Ezekiel chapters 5 and 6, in the first few chapters God told Ezekiel to warn the House of Israel, Then in 5 & 6 He shows exactly what is coming to the nations of Israel because of their lawlessness.
In Chapter 12 Ezekiel is told these prophecies are for the “far off” times.
The key is: just who are the nations of Israel? And they must have 100′s of millions in population to fulfill the promises God made to the fathers.
JOHN 1;9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of YAHUAH 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of YAHUAH
Repeat of history his people rejecting him again.
YHWH = Lord. not the name of the biblical deity, but a title. It has 3 names because it’s a trinity. Or to be precise 1 thing with 3 aspects, the sun… osirIS + RA + EL = ISRAEL
Osiris represents solar minimum activity. If you know the story he gets chopped to pieces by Set, as in sun set. He becomes impotent.
Ra represents solar maximum activity, he is represented by a giant eye within the solar disc.
El represents balanced solar activity and thus abundance.
It originates from ancient Egypt, the first mono deity religion was invented by Amenhotep IV, c1’300 BCE. The Israelites being his hand chosen slaves fleeing Egyptian after his death, who reached Palestine c1’100 BCE. There is no evidence of them prior to that.
The Jews have a messiah who leads their armies to victory over their enemies, pacifist Jesus didn’t lead armies he’s otherwise called Mithra, the pagan half human half divine redeemer of evil. Allegorically reborn every 25th december, ie the renewed sun. Mithraism is the origin of baptism, the last supper, Christmas, Easter, Revelation, the immortality of the soul, heaven or hell afterlife, a history that begins with a flood and ends in a judgement upon a final conflagration of the Universe. Not from Judaism.
Nice photo of the totemic representation of the star constellation Leo though. Notice those little lumps, most noticeable on the foreleg, match the stars in the Leo constellation. Quite what you think that has to do with your plagiarised pagan religion, is anyones guess, no doubt you’ll find some excuse it has something to do with your religion… once a plagiarist, always a plagiarist.
Christianity comes from Mithraism? Sounds like something a daffy know-nothing Brit dyke would say.
In your dreams. Stop attacking the person instead of the comment. It makes you look like an idiot.
Prof. Franz Cumont, of the University of Ghent, writes as follows concerning the religion of Mithra and the religion of Christ: “The sectaries of the Persian god, like the Christians’, purified themselves by baptism, received by a species of confirmation the power necessary to combat the spirit of evil; and expected from a Lord’s supper salvation of body and soul. Like the latter, they also held Sunday sacred, and celebrated the birth of the Sun on the 25th of December…. They both preached a categorical system of ethics, regarded asceticism as meritorious and counted among their principal virtues abstinence and continence, renunciation and self-control. Their conceptions of the world and of the destiny of man were similar. They both admitted the existence of a Heaven inhabited by beatified ones, situated in the upper regions, and of a Hell, peopled by demons, situated in the bowels of the Earth. They both placed a flood at the beginning of history; they both assigned as the source of their condition, a primitive revelation; they both, finally, believed in the immortality of the soul, in a last judgment, and in a resurrection of the dead, consequent upon a final conflagration of the universe” (The Mysteries of Mithras, pp. 190, 191).
Reverend Charles Biggs stated: “The disciples of Mithra formed an organized church, with a developed hierarchy. They possessed the ideas of Mediation, Atonement, and a Savior, who is human and yet divine, and not only the idea, but a doctrine of the future life. They had a Eucharist, and a Baptism, and other curious analogies might be pointed out between their system and the church of Christ (The Christian Platonists, p. 240)
The Christian Father Manes, founder of the heretical sect known as Manicheans, believed that Christ and Mithra were one. His teaching, according to Mosheim, was as follows: “Christ is that glorious intelligence which the Persians called Mithras … His residence is in the sun” (Ecclesiastical History, 3rd century, Part 2, ch. 5).
Here’s a poem to go with your photo. Although I have my doubt’s you’ll get it.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Pix,
Wasn’t Yeats a sodomite? of the flaming kind?
You need to find some one that has creditability. Actually since I trust no man that may be very hard to do.
But you go right ahead putting your trust in man, that has worked very well in the past I mean just look how well that has worked for the human race so far….everything is great, right?
I understand it is very hot in Wales, just wait, the Germans are coming to make it better.
You vill love the Germans they are very gentle.
Is that the best you can do? If you can’t think of a sensible reply, use slander?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats
What you mean as opposed to you, putting your trust in a bunch of creeps earning a living off the back of your indoctrinated belief?
I have German relatives, they are welcome anytime.
People – the pre-trib rapture and the 70th week of Daniel being thrown into the future is a new religious system that twists Scripture. Christ returns ONCE, at the end of the age.
Uh maybe but its plain in the other dream The head of Gold the arms and chest of silver the thighs and waist of brass and then the legs of Iron, and finaly the feet of clay and Iron Mixed.
I may change for some of my beleifs are somewhat changing, but there will be no one man antichrist for most of us here are antichrists. atheists follow this almost perfectly.
The one that may be antichrist and hope they don’t take offence, but the pope could follow this.
that would be the only one man I might say would fit.
BTW as a warning to those that believe I’d satay away from SUnday worship If i was you for it may be coming a National SUnday law here soon. Pope benidict talked about it, and Obama in 2009 was talking about it. May want to go adventist or some other church that worships on Saturday. Sorry I have to warn people even if this isn’t the thing that will happen It may just be what could be it. It’s the one thing that does make sense since the one argument that has been going on since Catholics started was the day of sabbath. The catholic church was the one that changed saturday to sunday. Of which they had no real authority to do for God never sanctified them to do so. But yes a rfid chip could go along with this for if you pass a law that says you have to go to church on sunday but you go on saturday a rfid chip would have to be used to keep track of this! You go the wrong Gov sanctified day you wont be able to hold a job no money no way to sell or buy.
as someone who once prayed for a way to warn people since I’m not one to go out and speak much to people since I hate arguing with people I asked for a way to do it if that was something he wanted me to do. SO lo and behold a method I can.
Like it or lump it this in fact may just be the truth.
wow got shafted!
Lets see if i get censored now!
Uh maybe but dont forget the statue dream Head of Gold which was told that it was Nebachanazar. The arms and chest of silver themedes and persians. THighs and waste of bronze or brass Greece and the legs of iron Rome and The feet of iron and clay.
Also don’t put too much into a one man antichrist although that belief may change.
For the one who follows that description best is the pope. Warning there may just be a national Sunday Law coming soon!!!!
I have to warn people.