Watching the Seventh Kingdom form over the Last 35 Years!
October 26, 2006
I retired from the National Security Agency (USAF) in 1971. It’s been an exciting experience to see the Revelation 13 Seventh Kingdom come into place over the last 35 years. The Seventh Kingdom’s 10 horns are the same as the 10 toes in Daniel 2 and the 10 horns in Daniel seven. I had eight of them nailed down at the time of my retirement, namely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, and had eliminated Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. I have since added Turkey and Sudan.
There was never any question in my mind that the 10 horns and 10 toes of Daniel and Revelation would come out of the southern flank of the old Roman Empire, and would be the Seventh Kingdom of Revelation. I faced horrendous opposition on this position up until recently, but the events in the Middle East over the last 35 years have changed the minds of many.
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.
The following quote is taken from my second book, “Tribulation Triad,” which I finished in the late seventies.
Begin 1978 Quote
“Six great world empires that affected and afflicted Israel were used by Satan for that purpose. These six great world empires that existed before, and at the time of the cross were, in chronological order, the: (1) Egyptian, (2) Assyrian, (3) Babylonian, (4) Medo-Persian, (5) Grecian, and (6) Roman.
The seventh kingdom will incorporate all the cunning and skill in the arts and sciences that have been handed down from the previous six empires. Man has come a long way since the days of the cruel Egyptian Pharaoh of the Exodus, but all that modern man has learned is based on the root contributions of these six empires – soon all the knowledge and expertise of sinful mankind will be centered in the seventh kingdom.
The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are 10 Arab nations who will soon form the nucleus of the seventh kingdom, and the ten crowns are the 10 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 grin on his face. This viewpoint is quickly changing. Oil is slowly replacing the dollar in international importance – and soon 10 Arab nations will have gained economic control 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 will block itself as the 10 Arab nations prosper in their midst.”
End 1978 Quote
The 1978 prophetic interpretation of Revelation 13:1 has, is, and will continue to be fulfilled in the Middle East. Up until the United States stopped helping Saddam Hussein, when his war ended with Iran, we were major suppliers of weapons to Arab nations that have now turned against us. Russia and China are the two major sellers of sophisticated high tech weaponry and high tech technicians to Arab nations that hate us. Europe and North Korea are also major sellers of weapons to Arab nations. In fact, Russia, China, North Korea, Europe, and in a much smaller way, the United States, have all contributed to the growth of the seventh Arab empire of Revelation.
The European Union helped me make up my Mind about Turkey!
October 26, 2006
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When I wrote my first book in the early seventies, I did not think Turkey would be one of the 10 toes of the great Daniel 2 statue, because she was one of the most pro-western, secular leaning Islamic countries, and a solid member of NATO. Conflicts with Greece, plus a refusal by the European Union (thus far) to admit Turkey as a member, have been driving her into the arms of Islamic fundamentalism, such that
I have believed for several years she would be one of the 10 toes.
Begin Scotsman Article
Turkey’s EU accession could prove to be a bitter pill
The Scotsman
October 25, 2006
BULGARIA and Romania will enter the European Union next year as part of the bloc’s continuing expansion plans, which have seen the number of members almost double in only a few years.
In 2004, the EU took in Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, increasing its membership to 25 and its total population to more than 300 million.
Even after January’s accessions, the process is likely to continue: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia are in the process of applying for eventual membership.
But all the moves to take in former communist states from eastern Europe are relatively insignificant compared to that biggest and potentially most transformational subject of the enlargement process: Turkey. With 80 million people, it would be the biggest EU member, and the poorest. It would also be the first with a majority Muslim population.
Despite agreeing in 2004 to open membership talks with Turkey, the EU has appeared to cool on the prospect in recent months, with Germany particularly sceptical.
Gunter Verheugen, the former EU enlargement commissioner, warned at the weekend that “Europe is sending Turkey almost exclusively negative signals”.
Turkey’s intransigence over talks about the reunification of Cyprus has also slowed the process; some diplomats now believe the entire membership process could yet be derailed.
Begin BLOG Article of May 13, 2006
Opps Number 2 – There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant!
May 13, 2006
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I chose Turkey as one of the 10 toes of Daniel 2 a few years ago, and was quickly reminded that could not happen because the 10 toes were European nations and Turkey was a part of NATO, but I knew when push came to shove that Turkey would follow its Islamic roots to be one of the 10. I chose Iraq as one of the 10 toes 32 years ago. When the United States invaded Iraq I was again quickly told that eliminated Iraq, because the United States was going to establish a democratic government in Iraq, which I knew would only last as long as American troops were there and, after their withdrawal, Iraq would be one of the 10. So, here is my second “Opps” Blog on the subject of the 10. The 10 toes are going to be Arabic, not European! As in goes in the popular song of late – “That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!
The following article was taken from the New York Times. It shows a further slippage of Turkey away from its secular union with the West back into its mother arms of Islam.
Begin New York Times Article by Chris Mason
May 11, 2006
World Briefing | Europe
Turkey: Pullout from NATO Exercise
By CHRIS MASON (NYT)
The Turkish government pulled out of a five-week NATO military exercise in Canada to protest a statement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last month in which he called the killing of Armenians in World War I a genocide. The move followed Turkey’s recall of its ambassador to Canada. Turkey has also recalled its ambassador to France to protest a bill before Parliament that would make denying the Armenian genocide a crime. Officials at the Turkish Embassy in Canada confirmed that a half-dozen Turkish jet fighters and other aircraft to be used in the NATO exercise had been withdrawn. The operation, to begin next week, will go on with about 40 aircraft and pilots from nine other countries, including the United States, Germany, France and Britain.
End New York Times Article by Chris Mason
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 233B
July 27, 2005
10 Jihad Kings among the Kings of Revelation 19:19!
Part 1 – The 10 Jihad Toes of Daniel 2
At the battle of Armageddon most of the kings of the earth will come to join the antichrist in a final attempt to eradicate the nation of Israel. Among them will be 10 nations representing the 10 Jihad toes of Daniel 2 that drove Israel into the Negev three and one-half years earlier.
Revelation 19:19 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
Some three and one-half years before the final battle of Armageddon, which closes the tribulation period, ten kings of nations out of the territory once occupied by the ancient Roman Empire will attack Israel from the north.
Daniel 2:42 – And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
II Thessalonians 2:3 – Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
The last evil kingdom of antichrist on this earth was to initially be comprised of 10 nations with 10 kings led by the man of sin himself. It was to arise out of the ashes of the old Roman Empire. I have always believed it would rise out of the southern half of the Empire and be made up of 10 Arab nations. I believe the elements for its formation are in place today, and I suspect that the most likely Arab nations of which it will be comprised are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Some of these nations are strong like iron, and some are as soft and pliable as clay.
I do not question that in the final battle of Armageddon the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japheth will be combatants against the nation of Israel. But I have always contended, along with the Bible expositors of the 18th and 19th centuries, that the antichrist’s initial attack would be led by Arab descendants of Abraham.
They are the mingled seed of his oldest son Ishmael with the seed of the six sons he sired by Keturah, as well as some of the other offspring of his own father Terah. The empire of the antichrist will be an Islamic empire that eventually takes into it other old world nations.
And, in the final great battle of Armageddon, all those nations that made up the world as it was known in A.D. 95 will come against Israel, such that Japheth, Ham, and Shem’s descendants will also be involved.
Daniel 2:41-43 – And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. [42] And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. [43] And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
The 10 toes will consist primarily of Terah’s descendants. Abraham came out of Terah. Out of Abraham came the leaders of the three great monotheistic faiths associated with Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad. And they have always been in conflict. (See Archive Update 78 Diagram)
The inspired word in Daniel 2:43, from which the word “mingled” comes, is ARAB, which means “to interlace or mix.” The “seed of men” refers to non-descendants of the man Abraham, from which both Jews and Arabs descended. “They” refers to the 10 toes of Daniel’s statue in Daniel 2:42, which have 10 kings over them. Isaac, the father of Israel, had seven half brothers – Ishmael from Hagar and the six sons of Keturah. It was from these seven half brothers that the Arab world has been primarily created. The descendants of Israel have been more likely to marry within the blood line of the man Israel than have the Arabs to marry within their separate bloodlines of Hagar and Keturah, and the Arabs have also intermingled with non-descendants of Abraham more than have the Jews.
Daniel 2:43 – And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Just as iron and clay do not hold together very long, the 10 Arab nations will only hold together long enough to fulfill God’s end time tribulation period prophecies. The saved will be caught up on the sounding of the seventh trump to be judged in heaven, and the kingdom of God will all be united in heaven, waiting to return to earth with Christ at his Second Advent.
Revelation 11:15 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
The God of heaven will call all the saved of all the ages together in heaven during the “days of these kings,” and will initially “set up” his kingdom, from whence he will return to earth with it as its head, after the saved have been judged in heaven. Christ’s coming kingdom will “break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms” of the present world, and his kingdom alone will rule.
Revelation 11:15-18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [16] And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, [17] Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Christ, the stone, came from the mountain representing God, without any human instrumentation, but by God’s Spirit forming his body in a virgin’s womb. Christ will return to destroy those morally destroying the earth. All of the evil that came out of the Babylonian, Medo- Persian, Macedonian, and Roman Empires will be laid waste by his Second Advent.
Daniel 2:45 – Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
The Scriptures which follow describe the coming of the great Stone, the great Rock, coming with his kingdom.
Revelation 19:11-18 – And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. [12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. [13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. [14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. [16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. [17] And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; [18] That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains,
and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Daniel 2:44 – And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Revelation 19:19,20 – And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 16:15,16 – Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Jude 23 – And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Revelation 3:2-4 – Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready
to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. [3] Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch,
I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. [4] Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Revelation 19:7-9 – Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. [8] And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. [9] And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which
are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Micah 4:7 – And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
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