SYMBOLS OF A FINAL RESURRECTED CALIPHATE & CALIPH
THE MOUNTAINS AND THE KINGS OF REVELATION 13 & 17!
November 14, 2012
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When I completed my first book, Tectonic Chaos, in 1976, I had no idea as to the size and prophetic association of the first gigantic Islamic Empire, the Umayyad Caliphate which existed from 650 to 750 AD. Consequently, the quote from my 1976 book, which follows, did not include the Umayyad Caliphate as one of the seven mountains on the beast. I did not identify it as the seventh head. I did not identify it as such until late in the twentieth century.
When I wrote my first book I considered the Revelation beast to picture both an Islamic Caliphate and a supposedly resurrected Caliph Antichrist. After I wrote my last book in the early eighties, I critically considered Chapters 13 and 17, and came to the conclusion that the bleeding head on the beast pictures not only a supposedly resurrected Antichrist, but a resurrected Umayyad Caliphate as well,
1976 Quote from Page 78 of “Tectonic Chaos”
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 seven heads of the Beast in Revelation 13:1 represent six great world governments that of the past in which Satan has been actively involved. The seventh world government is now rising again at the present time around Israel and will soon produce the Antichrist. Prior to God separating from His wife, the nation of Israel, six great world Kingdoms that existed before, and at, the time of the cross are, in chronological order as follows:
(1) The Egyptian
(2) The Assyrian
(3) The Babylonian
(4) The Medo-Persian
(5) The Grecian
(6) The Roman
The rising seventh Kingdom will incorporate all the cunning and skill in the arts and sciences that have been handed down from the previous six kingdoms. Man has come a long way since the days of the cruel Pharaoh of the Exodus, but all that modern man has learned is based on the root contributions of these six kingdoms – and soon all the knowledge and expertise of sinful mankind will be centered in the final kingdom.
The ten horns of Revelation 13:1 are ten Arab nations who will form the nucleus of the final kingdom, and the ten crowns are the power of the kings that will rile 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 replacing the U.S. dollar in international importance – and soon ten 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 will block itself as the Arab nations prosper in our midst.
End 1976 Quote from “Tectonic Chaos”
Begin Exposition of Revelation 13:1 from “Tectonic Chaos”
SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 193A
October 10, 2004
Tectonic Chaos – Chapter 19 – The Resurrected Beast
Revelation 13:3 – And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The seven heads of the beast represent seven evil empires that that have, or shall, persecute the nation of Israel. They are, from the first to the seventh – Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, Roman, and the soon coming seventh empire of the antichrist, which is the wounded head on John’s beast, but represents the little horn that arises from the midst of the ten horns on the fourth beast of Daniel.
Daniel 7:8,21 – I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. [21] I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
John symbolizes antichrist as a bleeding head on his first beast, while Daniel pictures him as the eleventh horn on his fourth beast.
Revelation 13:3 – And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The word “deadly” is “thanatos.” It is an adjective used as a noun. It simply mean “death.” A deadly wound is a wound that renders someone dead. A deadly wound, unless miraculously healed, is a wound from which the recipient dies stone, cold, dead. Some say that this represents the fourth beast of Daniel, which would be the sixth beast of John, but this same bleeding head on John’s first beast later becomes a non-bleeding head on John’s second beast.
Apparently, the antichrist, who is represented as being the king of the seventh head, suffers a wound from a weapon of war that would kill an ordinary man, but he miraculously recovers. This would explain the last two sentences in the next verse.
Revelation 13:4 – And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
The world, as a whole, has never been privy to a confirmed, visual, return of a man from the spiritual world. We accept the resurrection of Christ by faith. The world has long sought for absolute proof of the resurrection of a stone cold dead human. They may finally receive it in the return to life of antichrist from a wound that would kill any other man. Who on this earth could be said to be “like unto” such a man? And how would one be able to win a war against someone who could keep coming back from the dead? In Revelation 13:12 he is again referred to as “the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed,” and in 13:14 as “the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”
When John wrote the Book of Revelation the first five kings, which pictured the “mountain” empires of Assyria, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, and Greece, had already fallen, and he was writing during the “one is” Roman Empire, which was the sixth. He indicated that one was yet to come, which will be the seventh empire of antichrist. But if the antichrist, as the king of the seventh empire dies from a deadly wound, and then returns as a resurrected man indwelt totally by the spirit of the dragon, he would, in reality, have been the king of both the seventh and eighth empires. He would be the king of an Islamic Empire that would last for three and one-half years.
Revelation 17:10-14 – And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. [11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. [12] 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. [14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
“That was” means the beast was previously alive. “And is not” means the beast died. “Even he is” means he came back to life to be the eighth. It is difficult to follow the personification changes of the antichrist from a beast empire to the king of it. At times he is represented as a dying head on the first beast that comes back to life on the second beast. But in the vast majority of cases, as in Revelation 13, 17, 18, and 19, he is identified as the entire beast.
I have been asked by some WHEN I “think” the beast that is wounded by a weapon of war will be killed. In my opinion it will be just before the blowing of the seventh trumpet in Revelation 11:18 and the death of the two witnesses in Jerusalem in Revelation 11:7. I believe he will be Satan incarnate in a body of human flesh at that time, and I think it corresponds with II Thessalonians 2:8.
II Thessalonians 2:8 – And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
End Exposition of Revelation 13:1 from “Tectonic Chaos”
SEVEN FALSE GOD KINGDOMS AFFLICT ISRAEL
SEVEN MOUNTAINS (GOVERNMENTS OR KINGDOMS)
EACH ONE HAD ITS OWN LINES OF RULERS (KINGS) & GODS
(1) The Egyptian (False Religion)
(2) The Assyrian (False Religion)
(3) The Babylonian (False Religion)
(4) The Medo-Persian (False Religion)
(5) The Grecian (False Religion)
(6) The Roman (False Religion)
(7) The Umayyad (False Religion)
THE SEVEN LINES OF KINGS (RULERS)
(1) The Egyptian lines
(2) The Assyrian lines
(3) The Babylonian lines
(4) The Medo-Persian lines
(5) The Grecian lines
(6) The Roman lines
(7) The Umayyad lines (Muslim)
(8) The Last King, the Antichrist (Muslim)
The 7th and 8th Evil Kingdoms are considered as I because their Kings and Kingdoms are both Islamic Caliphates.
Revelation 17:9 – And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
The woman is the final consolidation of all heretical and apostate religions from all of the false religions, including the apostate Catholic Church and all her heretical offspring.
Revelation 17:10 – And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
When John wrote Revelation the first 5 lines of kings had fallen, namely the (1) Egyptian, (2) Assyrian, (3) Babylonian, (4) Medo-Persian, and (5) Grecian lines. The “one is” was in existence when John wrote was (6), the Roman line of Kings. The “one” that had “not yet come” when John wrote, was (7) the Umayyad lines of Kings (Caliphs), which is counted as one head because it has the same false religion as the 8th king , who is Muslim over a Caliphate resurrected Mountain.
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.
The 10 horns are most likely Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
The 10 horns will experience initial success against Israel, driving her into the Wilderness of the Negev, and keeping her surrounded there for some 1260 days, but when the Second Advent occurs the Lord will return with his followers, and lead Israel to drive out all her enemies.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Daniel 7:24-27 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. [26] But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. [27] And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Revelation 17:14-18 –These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. [15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. [16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
In John’s day the great city of Rome ruled over all the kings of the known world,
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