The bible talks about a little horn. This is a continuation of a study
"Hope in the future". Please make sure you go through that before you read this as it becomes much clearer once you have gone through that first
4. Babylon 605 - 539 BC
Medo – Persia 539-331 BC
Greece 331-168 BC
Rome 168 BC - 476 AD
Europe 476 AD
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16. Kingdom Nebuchadnezzar
(Daniel 2)
Daniel
(Daniel 7)
Babylon Head of gold Lion
Medo-Persia Breast and Arms
of SILVER
Bear
Greece Thighs of BRASS Leopard
Rome Legs of IRON Terrible beast
Divided Rome
(Europe)
Feet of IRON
and CLAY
Ten horns
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23. Kingdom Nebuchadnezzar
(Daniel 2)
Daniel
(Daniel 7)
Babylon Head of gold Lion
Medo-Persia Breast and Arms
of SILVER
Bear
Greece Thighs of BRASS Leopard
Rome Legs of IRON Terrible beast
Divided Rome
(Europe)
Feet of IRON
and CLAY
Ten horns
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33. Has eyes like a man
In rising it destroyed
three other kingdoms
It speaks blasphemy
against God
It killed God’s people
God will destroy it
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35. Has eyes like a man
In rising it destroyed
three other kingdoms
42. “the defeated Chaldeans fled to Asia
Minor, and fixed their central college at
Pergamos, and took the palladium of
Babylon, the cubic stone, with them.
Here, independent of state control,
they carried on the rites of
their(Babylonian)religion”
(William B. Barker, Lares and Penates: pp. 232–233).
The first American space probe of venus was lost due to substitution of a period to a comma
This is DO31=1.3,,, What should have been put is DO31=1,3
the only difference was a period was placed where a comma should have been
And that multy million dollar rocket took off and and it was headed to a populated area and had to be destroyed
Details matter
Yesterday we say a dream of king Nebuchadnezer
This was the dream
And we saw clearly yesterday the bible tells us
While we still have Europe Jesus will come
while we still have Europe Jesus is coming
For 3500 years there hasn’t been any prophecy that failed in the bible
Why would this prophecy fail ?
Jesus is coming back
The rock is coming
This was a dream given to King Nebuchadnezer
But remember he was a heathen king when he was getting this dream
Do you think God will give a heathen king an important dream like this and not give it to his children who love him ?
In fact the bible says in Amos 3 : 7
And sure as your born
Not only getting the Nebuchadnezzer’s dream and it’s meaning
God showed Daniel also a dream
There is one prophetic system which God uses in the bible which I want us to remember
The principle is called
What does this mean
This means God repeats the prophecies covered in previous chapters and expands on them
This mean God is giving us bit by bits information as we can bear
He does come and bombard you with a lot of prophecy and leave you breathless and say goodluck don’t say I never told you
He takes us by the hand give us as much as we can handle at a time
You remember when Jesus was talking to his disciples ---John 16 : 12
So he gives the prophecies to His disciples but He doesn’t go further than they could bear
He leaves it at that point
And He continued later where He left off through the Holy Spirit
Jesus also uses the same principle of repeat and expand
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God gives Daniel the same dream He gave to King Nebuchadnezzar
He repeats the same dream but now with different symbols and much details
King Nebuchadnezer saw these kingdoms politically
But now Daniel sees these kingdom how they fair spiritually and with much more details
Now we are ready to go to Daniel dream
Daniel says in chapeter 7 : 1 -
Waters in the bible prophecy represents people and nations
Revelation 17 : 15 ---
Jeremiah 51 : 1 –tells us the winds represents war and destruction
So Daniel sees nations in wars and bloodshed
And as he keeps looking
In Verse 3 he says ---
He sees nations in wars and bloodshed
And out of these nations comes out four beasts
What are these beasts ?
In V. 17 the bible tells us that these beasts are
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So out of nations of the earth came out four superpowers
So just like in Nebuchadnezer’s dream
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Where kingdoms of the earth are represented in the image of a man
Now Daniel sees these superpower Kingdoms represented through animals
And now with much more details
Daniel 7 : 4
While Nebuchadnezzar saw a head of gold for Babylon
Daniel sees a lion with eagles wings
The eagle was a symbols of the sun god
This means that the ---
the sun god was the power of Babylon
And we clearly saw that yesterday
In V. 5
Daniel sees the second beast -
While nebuchadnezer saw Breast and Arms of SILVER
Daniel sees a bear With three ribs – representing the kingdom of Med-Persia
The Persians were stronger than the meeds that’s why the bear is shown raised on one side
Three ribs represent kingdoms which the kingdom of Medo- Persia conquered
Babylon
Lidia
Egypt
V. 6
While Nebuchadnezzar sees the Thighs of BRASS – Daniel sees a leopard with four wings
Representing the kingdom of Greece
The four heads represented four generals who took over after the death of Alexander the great
Ptolemy
Lyisimacus
Seleucus
Casander
And the wings represents speed
In V. 7
Daniel continue saying ---
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While Nebuchadnezzer saw two legs of iron with ten toes
Daniel sees a terrible beast with then horns
V. 8 Daniel continues -
Daniel continues
He says in V. 15
This horn was making war and killing God’s people
The bible continue saying in V. 25
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Looking at this power Daniel says in V. 15
Apostle Paul was also shown this power
And he spent his time warning Christians
In Acts 20 : 31 apostle Paul says
These men of God saw this power rising up
And all apostle Paul could do is to warn people night and day with tears
But there is hope
The bible says in V. 26
God will completely destroy this terrible power
And this power shall be no more
This is what we have read so far
Let us use the features God has given us to identify this power -the little horn
This power has eyes like the eyes of man
Speaking of eyes the bible says in 1 Samuel 9 : 9
In the bible the prophets were called seers
They were vested with ability to see
The eyes in this kingdom represent religious power
Before I continue there is something I must tell you
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Friends,,,God never send truth to humiliate or embarass
God is not against any individual
God is against error and systems that put His people in error
He loves everyone
That is why He gave us prophecy that we may walk in the light and not in error
A bit of recap on what we have studies so far
We have talked about The first King of Babylon
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Who was worshiped as a god
And we saw after his death they came up with an idea that souls don’t die
(Immortality of soul)***Click
Nimrod soul went to the sun
so they began to worship the sun
And since Nimrod was worshiped as a god by worshiping the sun
every other king that followed him
Became a “high priest of the sun god” by the title “Pontifex Maximus”
and we saw also King Nebuchadnezzar as a king of Babylon he too became a high priest of the sun god - “Pontifex Maximus”
Leader of the priests of Babylon
Under the high priests you had normal Babylonian priests :
These were : Magicians , -> Astrologers , -> Sorcerers, -> Chaldeans
So the priesthood of Babylon was full of Astrology, magic, sorcery and witchcraft
And these were known as the wise men of Babylon
In 539 BC Babylon fell to Medo-Persia
And Medo- Persia took over the Babylonian religion but the priesthood revolted against Medo - Persia
and so the Priesthood was driven out and established itself in a city called Pergamos
Official Ancient Babylonian Priesthood
William Baker tells us
Kings of Pergamos also became pontifex maximus
The last pontiff king of Pergamum was Attalus III,
who bequeathed his title to the emperor of Rome in 133 BC
So this title of pontifex maximus went from one empire to another -
After the fall of Babylon the priest revolted and went to Pergamos
The last pontiff king of Pergamum was Attalus III,
who bequeathed his title to the emperor of Rome in 133 BC.
In 431AD, Christian emperor Gratian refused the title,
and the title was taken over by Damascus, bishop of Rome
In 476 AD After the fall of Roman empire to the Barbarian tribes
In times of confusion and darkness
Emperor Constantine left Rome to establish his new capital: Constantinople
And the bishop of Rome now called the Pope
Who by this time already inherited the title pontifex maximus
Largely took over the leadership of the people
And in 533 AD emperor Justinian issued a decree declaring the bishop of Rome a leader of all religions in Rome
But there was a problem
The three tribes would not agree to be led by the bishop of Rome
- The Heruli
- The Ostrogoths
- The Vandals
And for the Bishop of Rome to have full power , these powers were to be destroyed
In 493 A.D the Herulites were destroyed and completely wiped out of the map of the world
In 534 AD the vandals were completely destroyed
And in 538 AD the ostrongths were completely anihalted from the earth
And in 538 AD Roman catholic papalcy became an official power in Europe
From 538 –the Roman Catholic Pope officialy became a political & religious power
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History proves this ,,,exacly the way the bible prophecied
In Revelation 13:5 talking about the same Roman Catholic power
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The bible says this power blasphems God
The bible is clear that nobody is God but God himself
Nobody can call himself God
Anybody who claims to be God is blaspheming
John 10:33 –when Jesus told the Jews He was the son of they wanted to stone him
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But they didn’t know
He is the son of God
In fact the bible says He is God
But this power claims to be God
The diginity of the priesthood by Liguori, p. 33
Even worse than that the pope has claimed to be the creator of God
Speaking of this power the bible says in Rev 13 : 5
In bible prophecy a day is equal to a year
You remember when prophet Ezekiel was told to lay on his left side for 390 days because of the iniquity of Israel
And then later on he lay on his right side for 40 days
And then the Lord told Ezekiel a day stands for a year ,,,therefore Israel will go into captivity for 430 years
In Ezekiel 4 : 6
In Rev 13 : 5
That means for 1260 years the roman catholic papasy would kills and blaspheme and stalk the people of God
We already saw that this power started in 538 AD
This power , The Roman Catholic Church
Persecuted God’s people for 1260 years
I wish i could stimulate you to go read about
The waldenses, the abagencies, the hugonouts, the spanish inquisitions
This is history which can be read it in libraries
God did warn us this power was coming and it would kill God’s people
Men and women of God were killed for following the bible
How they were hunted and killed like animals
How they laid their lives rather than to worship a man who calls himself God
How they didn’t give in to the system of sun worship
How they were brought in the fields
And delivered to lions
But still they wouldn’t give up Jesus
For sun worship
These were dark ages
This period was to last for 1260 years
At the end of 1260 years
the bible says this power would get a deadly wound
Rev 13 : 3
Right on time as the bible prophecied
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on Feb 13 1798 General Bathier by the order of Napoleon
Captured the Pope and locked him
And the pope died in prison
And it was announced that the papacy should not rise again
John Adolphus, The History of France from 1790-1802, vol. 2, p. 379
And everybody rejoiced that the era of oppression and tyranny was ended
But the bible continues saying in Revelation 13 : 3
While people thought that papacy would not rise again
The bible had warned us that this power would rise again
And in 1928 just like the bible had predicted
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In Feb 1929, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Cardinal Pietro Gasparri signed a contract
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Where the Pope was given back his seat and power.
From 1929 the Roman Catholic papasy gained back the power they lost in 1798
The bible says –Rev 13 : 3
Right on time as the bible prophesied
**story is told of Persians and Titans **
Tomorrow we will talk about –
Mark of the beast ---bring your friends and family