Good Morning!
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 (Daniel 7:8).
These horns were on the head of Daniel's Fourth Beast. The other three beasts are defined and placed in history. The winged lion is Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The bear is Medo-Persia. The leopard is Alexander the Great of Greece. But the fourth beast is not named but we must assume that he comes in the same time line as the other three….one after the other. Rather than a name and place, we are given a description that fits the Roman Empire better than any other. It lasted in its identifiable state for about one thousand years.
Several of our most conservative Bible scholars and writers believe that although the Roman Empire dissolved from its great cohesive state, that it actually has continued to survive in a dormant and fragmented state. It is yet to rise again into an aggressive and powerful empire resembling iron and clay mixed (as in the feet of Nebuchaednezzar's dream of the great image) and will resume its role as world ruler. Adolf Hitler of NAZI Germany envied the glory and longevity of the Roman Empire and poured much concrete into buildings designed to last hundreds of years. Mussolini of Italy had visions of a revived Roman Empire. French General and President Charles de Gaulle struggled from the days of WWII through his presidency (1959-1969) to restore France to its glory before the days of Napoleon. Europe worked hard after the war to work its nations into an effective common market. Commerce and money is power!
One day—it may be sooner than you think—there will be a formal federation of ten nations in Europe. There is now a clamor to form a United States of Europe. Money power can be as powerful as military power in forming alliances. As the American dollar continues to lose it value, the time is approaching when the EURO, the new currency of Europe, may edge out the dollar as world leader. Europe is growing so strong in its fast development that the United States, Canada, and Mexico are working desperately to build a unit that will compete with the uniting of European nations in financial power. Don't forget the new NAFTA highway being built from Mexico to Canada that no one knows anything about. See: (June 12, 2006) http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497 The talk is not fiction of merging Mexico, United States and Canada (including a new common currency to replace the other three currencies) to compete against the emerging European system. This kind of reaction to what is happening in Europe should not be taken lightly. It's part of adjusting to a one-world government that's sure to come. It is the reviving of the Roman Empire as displayed in this fourth unnamed beast in Daniel's dream.
Briefly, I will mention that one of those ten states will pluck up three of the ten and the leader of that one new, little horn will be the anti-Christ. We will continue on this theme for a while. It is very big, very important.
Yesterday I said: "Internet searches show little about the Fourth Beast." I should have said "little that is conclusive or worthwhile." Presumptuous? I must rescue myself. Good engineers and brain surgeons know their margins of error and we require it of them. We want precision and that's narrow. Two plus two is not five.
A long time ago I had read enough commentaries and other literature on end-time Scriptures to conclude with a sigh that the only worthwhile approach to prophecy is literal interpretation unless the text strongly suggests otherwise. Cut out all the speculation and nonsense. A prophecy passage is no excuse to write a piece of religious fiction. If there is an obvious time line, then leave the time line in place.
One life-time student and professor of Bible prophecy wrote that he had read about sixty different explanations and scenarios of scriptures relating to end-time prophecies and Christ's reign upon the throne of David in Jerusalem. All of them can't be right. Therefore my basic assumption in writing about Bible prophecy is to let the Scriptures say what they say and attempt to understand the undefined portions as much as possible by studying history and current events. If I don't agree with a writer, I at least want to know what I disagree with him about. Consider that these ten horns and the little horn that uproots three of the ten is literally going to come to pass.
I don't intend to be here. Be sure and miss it. If you are genuinely saved and the Holy Spirit is living inside your body, you are going to miss it regardless of what religious denomination you belong to. And if you are not saved, you are going to need to raise a lot of turnips to survive because the Mark of the Beast will be required on your hand or forehead for you to buy a loaf of bread. If you take the mark so you can buy and sell, your soul is doomed forever. It's going to happen. This is either dogmatic of the worse sort, or it is precision. You decide.
Memory Verse for this week: (This is the second week with this important verse.)
(Hebrews 3:12,13) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest
any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:12,13).
Digging Deeper
God actually commanded His people to hide His word in their hearts. Not just their heads, but their hearts. Obviously, no one could memorize all the Old Testament books they had at any given time or even the Books of Moses. There were no Bibles, no books available to any but the hand-copied books available only to therich until the Gutenberg press was invented about 1450 A.D.
So, the only Bible that people had in Old Testament times and in New Testament times was the copies that only the priests were allowed to access and read to the people on special occasions. Other sources were the small portions memorized by individuals and passed by word of mouth to family and neighbors. When synagogues came along after the Babylonian Captivity, some of them had portions of Scripture. In Jesus' day, in the synagogue in Nazareth he read from Isaiah on the Sabbath Day. Memorizing requires commitment, time, and work. But….don't all things worth having require those things?
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: (7) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up (Deuteronomy 6:6-7).
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; (Deuteronomy 4:9).
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee (Psalm 119:11).
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