Still Riding a De
ad European Beast with 25 Horns?
January 23, 2006
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Following World War II, when the Marshal Plan was introduced into the devastated economies of war torn Europe, six European nations joined together to form what was called “The Common Market.” It was almost guaranteed to be economically successful in rising out of the fractured economic structure left in the wake of war’s devastation. So, when a book w
as written predicting that soon four other European nations would unite with it to form a union of ten nations, it was certain to be correct.
And, after the book was published, it was not long until prophetic teachers began to jump on the book’s teachings that out of the ten nations would arrive an eleventh horn, who would be the antichrist. I did not jump on that bandwagon, and today I am very thankful that I stayed on the same train of what was taught about prophecy prior to the Great Evangelical Movement that began after 1760.
I believe what was taught before 1760 is more compatible with what is happening now in the Middle East, than the teaching of a European antichrist heading ten European nations, that attacks Israel to begin the tribulation period.
Greece became the tenth horn on January 1, 1981 and many anxiously awaited the antichrist, who would be the eleventh horn. However, on January 1, 1986, it suddenly had 12 horns when Portugal and Spain were added. But writers assured their followers that soon the antichrist would take over three of the horns, and pamphlets and articles began to be written that the ruler of Spain was likely to be the antichrist. Then boom, boom, boom, and now there are twenty-five horns on the great European Beast, as well as twenty-five toes on Nebuchadnezzar’ s great
stature in the second chapter of Daniel.
The writers of these European Beast books of the fifties and sixties just keep cranking out books twisting the current world events into grossly distorted configurations to justify what they wrote in their first books, and those who quickly jumped on the original band wagon just keep on following their teachings – None of them seem to be willing to eat crow!
I openly confess that some of the things I wrote in my first books were wrong in their timing of the events, and a couple of things I discovered, by further study of the languages, were wrong, but I just admitted it and ate crow.
God is the only one who never has to eat crow. The rest of us have to eat crow in order to ever learn anything.
If you would like some general insight on what was taught before 1760, then please take a look in our Prophecy Update Archives at Numbers 73D, 74A, 76, 78A, 82A, 114A, 123B, 144A, 144F, 147D, 166C, 223A, and whole numbered Updates 62 to 69.
Revelation 13:1 – And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
I finished writing my first book, “Tectonic Chaos,” almost 30 years ago. In the first edition, published by Diamond W. Graphics, in chapter 5, on page 78, I wrote the following paragraph
about Revelation 13:1.
“The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will soon form the nucleus of the seventh kingdom, and the
ten crowns are the kings that will rule them. For years we have pictured the typical Arab as a scrawny little fellow on a camel in the desert with a comic expression on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance – and soon Arab nations will have gained economic control of much of the earth’s wealth. We will not try to stop them because of the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union will not try to stop them because of us and Red China. The world power block
with block itself as the Arab nations prosper in their midst.”
When I wrote that, one of the leading prophetic teachers told many of his students, Tom McElmurry doesn’t know what he is talking about. Well, I do indeed admit that some of my interpretations of prophecy are bound to be wrong, as anyone who has ever written a book on prophecy will attest, but what I wrote in the preceding paragraph has indeed come to pass.
Revelation 17:12,13 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
In my second book, “Tribulation Triad,” published by Diamond W. Graphics two years after “Tectonic Chaos,” in the first edition, on page 89, concerning Revelation 17:12,13, I wrote the following paragraph.
“The ten horns are Arab nations currently receiving great economic power as an Opec oil block.
They are rapidly becoming a United Arab Kingdom. All ten of these Arab nations were once a part of the vast Roman Empire. They will, by sudden great economic growth, very quickly gain the scientific expertise of the world’s great powers – They will rise as a revived empire out of the ashes of the old Roman Empire.”
When I wrote these two books I was treated like a frog in a punch bowl at a high school prom after my peers discovered that I did not believe the empire of antichrist would be made up of European nations. Some were shocked to find I believed the ten toes of Daniel 2, and the 10 horns of Daniel 7, were to be Arab nations that today occupy the territory that once made up the southern flank of the old Roman Empire.
Well, what has happened in the last thirty years
? Have Arab nations not moved into a position of using oil to strongly influence the conduct of the other nations of the world? Isn’t the reason Russia and China won’t support sanctions against Iran because both have economies tied to Iranian oil? And are not both of them largely responsible for the tremendous gains in scientific expertise by all the Arab nations? Have they not both been the suppliers of sophisticated weapons to the Arab nations? Are they not building the nuclear facilities in Iran? Does not the great statue in Daniel 2 (which was supposed to become a 10 toed empire when four more European toes arose to add to the first six common market nations) now have some 25 toes
? Are not most of the western nations dependent on Arab oil? Is there not a spirit of Jihad sweeping the Islamic world? Is there not an Islamic Arab terror net spreading across the earth? Was 911 carried out by Europeans? Has Europe even stood up to the Arab nations? Does Europe have any real backbone
? Where are the powerful 10 horns and 10 toes that are supposed to come out of mighty Europe
? Is the European Union not having great difficulty in holding together? Are the Arab nations like Iran not able to make the stock market go up and down like a yo-yo by upping or lowering the flow of oil?
Look, at age 73, with one foot in the grave, I have not written what you have just read to say, “See, I told you so!” I have written it because I know that some preachers, having ridden the European revived Roman Empire beast for more than 50 years, have never presented what I teach as an even remote possibility. I think children of God should at least be aware that it might be correct.
I have no other motive at my age other than trying to warn God’s people of the distinct possibility that what is now transpiring in the Middle East may be fulfilling the pre-1760 books interpreting the Bible, and that the majority of prophetic teachers of today may be trying to ride a dead beast that now has 25 European Union horns.