The Meaning of the Vision

The angel Gabriel was sent to Daniel to tell him the interpretation.
It pertains to us, you and I, who live in the last days.  Gabriel Explains the Vision (ch. 8)

15As I, Daniel, was trying to understand the meaning of this vision, someone who looked like a man stood in front of me. 16And I heard a human voice calling out from the Ulai River, “Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of his vision.”

17As Gabriel approached the place where I was standing, I became so terrified that I fell with my face to the ground. “Son of man,” he said, “you must understand that the events you have seen in your vision relate to the time of the end.”

18While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.

19Then he said, “I am here to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath. What you have seen pertains to the very end of time. 20The two-horned ram represents the kings of Media and Persia. 21The shaggy male goat represents the king of Greece,^e and the large horn between his eyes represents the first king of the Greek Empire. 22The four prominent horns that replaced the one large horn show that the Greek Empire will break into four kingdoms, but none as great as the first.

23“At the end of their rule, when their sin is at its height, a fierce king, a master of intrigue, will rise to power. 24He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause a shocking amount of destruction   and succeed in everything he does.

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25He will be a master of deception and will become arrogant; he will destroy many without warning. He will even take on the Prince of princes in battle, but he will be broken, though not by human power and succeed in everything he does. He will destroy powerful leaders and devastate the holy people.

The War of the Goat and Ram

What great wars are destined to happen at the 'time of the end'?

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Daniel, the Prophet,  saw a vision of great conflict of nations that will occur at the end of days.  Here is his vision recorded in the Bible:  New Living Translation   Daniel’s Vision of a Ram and Goat (8:1-12)

1^aDuring the third year of King Belshazzar’s reign, I, Daniel, saw another vision, following the one that had already appeared to me. 2In this vision I was at the fortress of Susa, in the province of Elam, standing beside the Ulai River.^b

3As I looked up, I saw a ram with two long horns standing beside the river.^c One of the horns was longer than the other, even though it had grown later than the other one. 4The ram butted everything out of his way to the west, to the north, and to the south, and no one could stand against him or help his victims. He did as he pleased and became very great.

5While I was watching, suddenly a male goat appeared from the west, crossing the land so swiftly that he didn’t even touch the ground. This goat, which had one very large horn between its eyes, 6headed toward the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the river, rushing at him in a rage. 7The goat charged furiously at the ram and struck him, breaking off both his horns. Now the ram was helpless, and the goat knocked him down and trampled him. No one could rescue the ram from the goat’s power.

8The goat became very powerful. But at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off. In the large horn’s place grew four prominent horns pointing in the four directions of the earth. 9Then from one of the prominent horns came a small horn whose power grew very great. It extended toward the south and the east and toward the glorious land of Israel. 10Its power reached to the heavens, where it attacked the heavenly army, throwing some of the heavenly beings and some of the stars to the ground and trampling them. 11It even challenged the Commander of heaven’s army by canceling the daily sacrifices offered to him and by destroying his Temple. 12The army of heaven was restrained from responding to this rebellion. So the daily sacrifice was halted, and truth was overthrown. The horn succeeded in everything it did.

What does this mean?  And when will it happen?

We will examine that in the next post.

Cursed Like the Dragon

I once had a dream years ago where I saw the Pope (some pope to come).

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 He cursed like the dragon, but he looked like the Pope.  He literally spoke like the devil in this dream. He was cursing me. Nobody else could tell.  I was told to get out of there. 

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 I woke up, then remembered the verse in Revelation:  "Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon."  (13:11 NASB)  I've always thought since then that the false prophet may be a Pope.  I'm so sorry to have to say it, as I have so many Catholic friends who I love dearly.  But, that's what I saw and heard in a dreadful dream. 

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Mr. Bigmouth

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Chuck Missler names the coming Antichrist "Mr. Bigmouth."  

Revelation 13:5-6_ And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

Right now the most blasphemous speech is from Islam.  Islam blasphemes God by declaring that Allah is God, which we know he is not. So, they blaspheme His Name.  They blaspheme against God by saying, "Allah Akbar", meaning Allah is greater, implied greater than YHWH, The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  So, Islam blasphemes against God. Islam blasphemes against His tabernacle, which is in heaven.  Islam claims that by killing Christians good Muslims make it to heaven.  They blaspheme against those who dwell in heaven, that's believers in Jesus, and Jesus Himself.  I'm suspecting we will see the "Assyrian Antichrist" arise out of northern Iraq, Kurdistan. 

Banks of the Euphrates River

Nuclear Holocaust From the Banks of the Euphrates River

First Question: Where is the banks of the Euphrates River.  Starting in the northeast we have Kurdistan (eastern Turkey) , then the infamous river flows southeast into eastern Syria into Iraq.  At the southern edge of the river it touches the border between Iraq and Iran before it empties into the Persian Gulf.

Second Question: How do we know a coming nuclear war will be from there, spreading out with fire, smoke and sulfer into the whole world?  How do we know that nuclear fire will consume 1/3 of humanity?  Revelation 9 tells us so.

Third Question:  Who controls rules the banks of the Euphrates River right now? Sunni Muslim ISIL army.

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 The most deadly Al-Queda Sunni sect, ISIL, has wrest control of the banks from the more moderate Shia Muslim.  We see the Euphrates River outlined in the map with the yellow colored ISIL forces in firm control.

Fourth Question:  Who will start the great world war to come?  The answer is, whoever sits upon the banks. What army will control the Euphrates? If we had to answer that now we would have to say, ISIL. (Most radical branch of Al-Quada).  JUN 21, 2014 | 06:18 GMT

Iraq's Crisis Changes the Battle Space in Syria (Stratfor.com)

As conflict spreads southward in Iraq, the fight in the two countries has become increasingly connected.

Members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in a video released in May 2014.

Fifth Question:   Who will control the vast oil wealth of Babylon?  Right now it looks like the Kurds up in the north of Iraq would be the most likely.  This area, an autonomous Kurdistan is ancient Assyria.  Why is that significant?  The "Assyrian" antichrist will arise some evil day.
 Iraq: Kurdish Regional Government

Let's watch, and pray as Jesus commands us in the Gospels.  Will see what happens.  Jesus coming is soon.  Even so, come Lord Jesus. 

Babylon the Great

Today's date is June 14, 2014. 

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 The nation of Iraq, Biblical Babylon is locked in bloodshed.  ISIS, the Wahabi Sunni Muslim beast funded by Saudi Arabia, etc. advances.  They took Mosul, Biblical Nineveh yesterday.  Now they are slaughtering and beheading Christians, and the Shiite Muslim government of Iraq as they drive toward Baghdad with lightening speed.  Their goal is to control the banks of the Euphrates River and establish a Sunni (Saudi) power base in ancient Babylon. Who will prevail and eventually control the vast oil wealth that will finance the rise of Mystery Babylon, the city destined to sit upon the world?  They will control the oil wealth, so they can. In Revelation the angel told John: "That woman that you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth... Babylon the Great." (Rev. 17:18,5b) 

We can see at this moment how she will ride the beast to supreme world domination one day in the future. (Rev. 17) 

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Al-Qaeda Invasion of Iraq

ISIS is rearing its ugly head, the red beast is crawling out of its pit. We can watch all of this start to emerge before our eyes.  We will eventually see the entire military beast of the Mideast (and allies) arise and carry Babylon to glory, before they annihilate her with nuclear fire. (Rev. 17-18)  Babylon, the geographical area,  is drunk even now on the blood of the Christians as the Sunni's slaughter west to east. John saw this evil empire arise in Revelation.  He says: "And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus." (Rev. 17:6)  We will see the city rebuilt.... 

Battle of Gog and Magog

Ezekiel 38 and 39 are two of the most exciting, provocative chapters in the Bible.   They tell of a great war to come.  

The players in this coming battle are easy to identify.  

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The invading Muslim armies are all allied, and in place today even as we speak.   Using ancient geographical maps we can place their locations in the past.  Or, another way of identifying them is through their people groups and their migrations.  There may be slight variations but these 2 methods come to basically the same evil forces.  Who are they?  Ezekiel 38:1-6: 1) Magog: Southern steppes of Russia; 2) Rosh: Russia; 3) Meshech and Tubal: Turkey, Turkmenestan; 4) Persia: Iran; 5) Ethiopia: Sudan, Somalia; 6) Libya: Libya, may include Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia; 7) Gomer: North-central Turkey; 8) Togarmah: Eastern Turkey.

One thing we know for sure, it is a Muslim coalition with  Russian arms.  This is the exact alliance we see in our world today, right now.  Russia is arming the Mideast, and Iran is getting the bomb. We can be sure that in the latter days this great and mighty army will invade Israel.  Why?  So they can take wealth Ezekiel tells us.  Saudi Arabia and Yemen area don't try to stop them, they stand on the sidelines as does the entire world. 

What happens in this great battle? 

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 They march in to take spoil, and don't get out alive. Their flesh will be eaten by the birds. (Ez. 39:4, Rev. 19, 17,18,21 )  A world wide great earthquake shakes the mountains and islands.  All the walls of all the cities on earth fall to the ground. (Ez. 38:20, Rev. 16:18-20) The coastlands and many nations are burned with fire.  Hailstones come down upon them from God. (Rev.16;21, Ez.38:22)  Fire consumes them.  Then, the Name of the God if Israel is glorified in The Day Yeshua fights for His people.  (Ez. 39:6,7)  Even so, Come Lord Jesus.

The timing is a subject of intense scrutiny.  After 20 years of considering all the possibilities including:  1) Pre-rapture;              2) Immediate post rapture;  3) and Armageddon, I have come to the conclusion that God and Magog can only happen at the end of this age, at the end of the tribulation.   So, this battle and Armageddon are the same.  They share the same characteristics that the climatic battle when Jesus returns shares.  This can happen no other time on earth. 

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 After this battle a great a glorious thing will happen.  Yeshua Himself will restore this war consumed, sin sick earth and rule and reign from Jerusalem for 1,000 years of peace and beauty and prosperity.  Jesus is wonderful.  I can hardly wait!