PART 4
Antichrist from the Middle East? By Chuck Missler
1/27/2009
(2nd Gulf War ended in 2011BTW.)
"Koinonia House: In our previous article, we explored the possibility that while we understand that the coming world leader, whom we commonly call “the Antichrist,” is predicted to come from the Roman Empire,1 we tend to be myopic regarding the extent of this designation: we tend to equate the Roman Empire with Western Europe, ignoring the eastern leg of this empire, which outlasted the western leg by a thousand years!"
"If we carefully examine the many references in the Old Testament, we discover a surprising number of allusions to this dominant personage as “the Assyrian.”2 This would seem to focus on the region that we know today as Syria and Iraq.
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani
Former Emir
or leader of the Nineveh region in western Iraq
for the Islamic State of Iraq,
which was essentially the predecessor group to what we now call the Islamic State."
"With the current world tensions over that very region, it seems quite timely to re-examine some of our perspectives regarding the potential role of that region in the climactic Biblical scenario!"
"Satan’s Seven Empires
The Bible profiles man’s history in terms of seven major empires:
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. -Revelation 12:3
These would appear to be Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persian, Greece, and Rome, this last one in two phases: Ancient Rome (“Phase I”) and the final re-emergent revival of the Roman Empire (“Phase II”)."
"This perspective derives from a careful study of Daniel 2 and 7, which profiles the “times of the Gentiles” from Babylon until God establishes His own Kingdom, with the Messiah reigning as King of Kings. In both Daniel 2 and 7, we see four major kingdoms:
Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome-with the fourth one fragmenting, but then ultimately re-emerging in the “last days.”
(I disagree with Dr Missler here.
The one we see as clearly emerging
is the Neo-Ottoman, or Turkish empire.)
"Strangely, the prophecies of Daniel provide a surprising amount of detail concerning both Greece and Rome, with both Chapters 7 and 8 highlighting a “little horn” that emerges among the prominent “10 horns” that will dominate the final scenario.3"
(Reference:
12 [a]And the ten horns which thou sawest, are [b]ten kings, which yet have not received a kingdom, but shall receive power, as Kings [c]at one hour with the beast
Unaccountable Technofacist TechBros anybody?)
“10 horns” that will dominate the final scenario"
??????)
"This “little horn” – an 11th, in effect – is another designation for the climactic world leader we commonly call “the Antichrist.”"
(That is pretty well agreed upon.)
"When Alexander the Great died, four of his generals divided up the Greek Empire, with Ptolemy in the south and Seleucus in the east taking the largest shares. In fact, the contentions detailed in Daniel 11 chronicle – in advance – the rivalries between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids over the subsequent centuries with such an accuracy that skeptical critics have attempted to “late date” these passages to avoid acknowledging the supernatural aspect of these prophecies.4 [The fact that the Old Testament was translated into Greek (the Septuagint Version) during the early part of this period refutes these attempts.]"
"It is noteworthy that in both Daniel 8 and 11, prophecies highlighting the final world leader emerge from the passages involving the sequence of the leaders of the Seleucid Empire: the region now known as Syria and Iraq.
(Again, that is Right where:
was the emir of.)
5 The seven empires are also the focus of Revelation 17:
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. – Revelation 17:10
The “five are fallen” would seem to refer to the five kingdoms that had preceded John’s day: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Greece. The “one is” would seem to be the one existing when John was writing: Rome, in its “first phase.” The “other is not yet come” would seem to point to that final world empire that will be taken over by the “11th horn.”
(The antichrist doesn't
come from
the final world Kingdom
(to rule Jerusalem BTW),
The Neo-Ottoman Empire we can see emerging today
HE SIMPLY TAKES IT OVER.)
"The following verse also focuses on this final empire:
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. -Revelation 17:11
"It would seem that this final “eighth” empire is one “that was, and is not,” and yet is among the list of seven. The only empire among the seven that doesn’t exist in some form today is Assyria. It strangely disappeared from history until the sensational discoveries of Henry Layard in 1849."
(Again I have to disagree here with Dr Missler.
The Ottomans didn't exist in any way at the time of this writing either.
They were the last Kingdom to have ruled Palestine
"the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth,
and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."
The Neo-Ottomans fill that
better than any of the other Kingdoms as
"The Beast" could easily be equated with the genocide
of over 1 million Armenian Christians,
no other Kingdom has that
in that list of seven,
and its exactly
what we plainly see emerging today.
I always thought the Antichrist would come from Turkey.
Lots of reasons to suspect that, I wont bore you with the details,
but knowing for a few weeks now that Abu Mohammed al-Jolani is him?
How in the world do you reconcile that
with him not coming from the Neo-Ottoman Empire that is currently rising?
"The “other is not yet come” would seem to point to that
final world empire (that will rule Jerusalem) that will be taken over by the “11th horn.”
Problem solved.)
"The Return of Nimrod?
The first world dictator was Nimrod (whose name means “we rebel”), who ruled from Babylon.6 It is interesting that Micah also refers to the “land of Nimrod” in his allusion to the final world empire. Could it be that this final world dictator will be, in some sense, a return of Nimrod? Could it be that there will also be some kind of climactic ellipsis of Satan’s kingdoms7 as we approach the final judgment? If so, it is noteworthy that Nimrod ruled from Babylon.
(Modern day Iraq
)
"The Mystery of Babylon
This may add an additional dimension to the mysteries surrounding the future of Babylon: Is it just used as a symbol? Or will Babylon literally rise to prominence on the banks of the Euphrates once again?
There are those who regard “Babylon” as simply a rhetorical device, and who interpret the prophetic passages symbolically. There are also those who feel that the “Mystery Babylon” of Revelation refers to the Vatican. 8 However, there are passages in both Isaiah and Jeremiah that clearly describe a destruction of Babylon that has never happened-yet.9 (Many Bible commentaries and helps are in error on this point: one must not confuse the fall of Babylon to the Persians in 539 B.C. with the destruction of Babylon detailed in the Bible. When Cyrus conquered Babylon, he was able to brag to the world that he did it without a battle!)
"It is significant to compare the accounts of Babylon’s destiny in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Revelation. [See Table]. Contrary to the details emphasized in the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah, the building materials of ancient Babylon have been reused; the area has been inhabited over the centuries, contrary to the prophetic passages. We feel that it is quite significant that Saddam Hussein has made significant efforts to rebuild Babylon and has used the rebuilt Nebuchadnezzar’s palace for state occasions. It appears that the cataclysmic destruction described by Isaiah and Jeremiah (“like Sodom and Gomorrah”) is still in the future.
(It's the complete destruction of the Satanic World System.)
"A strange vision in the Book of Zechariah may hold the key.
Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth. And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. – Zechariah 5:5-8
"An ephah was a familiar volumetric measure in commercial practice, about a bushel in capacity. The talent of lead was a commercial standard of weight, about 96 Avoirdupois (U.S.) pounds. The woman that was sealed into this container was labeled “wickedness.”"
"Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar (Babylon) : and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. – Zechariah 5:10-11
It should be borne in mind that the stork was, in Jewish terms, an unclean bird.10 This vision has “sinister” written all over it! Shinar is the geographic location where Babylon was located. It seems that this woman – wickedness, mother of harlots, etc. – is to be relocated to where it all began.
(Oh you mean like where he ruled at first?
????)
"All idolatry and paganism had its roots at Bab-El, which became Babylon. The pagan priesthood and its attendant rites then followed the political power structures of each succeeding empire until it ultimately settled in Rome. Thus, the various false gods they worshiped followed in various forms:
Ishtar and Tammuz of Babylon
became Isis and Osiris in Egypt,
Aphrodite and Zeus in Greece,
Venus and Jupiter in Rome,
and Ashtoreth and Baal in Chaldea.
Zechariah’s vision seems to indicate that this pagan centroid of power will migrate back to where it all started to receive its final judgment.
(I think it is fair to conclude
we are witnesses to that.
Daniel 11:30
1599 Geneva Bible
30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be sorry and return
and fret against the holy covenant:
so shall he do,
he shall even return
(As has already been pointed out numerous times already?
He already did return)
and have intelligence with them
that forsake the holy covenant.
(He most certainly does.
"have intelligence...
that forsake the holy covenant."
Cause its artificial.)
Daniel 11:28
1599 Geneva Bible
28 Then shall he return into his land with great [a]substance:
(He did, came back with AI for his intelligence this time around.)
for his heart shall be against the holy covenant:
(It most certainly is. AI is God now don't you know yet?)
so shall he do
and return to his own land.
(Keep telling you he already has :-).
Nahum 1:14
1599 Geneva Bible
14 And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee
(The evil that flowed from Babylon to Asseria etc...)
that no more of thy name be [a]sown:
(You are done.)
out of the house of thy gods
(From this place where it all started)
will I cut off the graven,
and the molten image:
(From here?
False Gods will never be anymore)
I will make it thy grave for thee,
for thou art vile.
This is the second time around for this one.
Law of double (or more) intention
The first time was about Ninevah falling.
Second time is about evil being done for.
I got three prophets talking about Nineveh's inevitable destruction
(Isaiah, Nahum and Zephaniah)
and three talking about evil returning
(He already has)
for its final destruction
(Daniel, Nahum, Zechariah).
What's your candidate for the Antichrist got?
"Further Mysteries
There are those who also suspect that the final world leader will be an apparent “reincarnation” of a prominent leader of the past. Nero was a common suggestion. Others even believe it could be Judas reincarnated.11
(“Reincarnation” has been a traditional lie of Satan, echoing his lie at Eden:
“Ye shall not surely die.”12
Reincarnation is clearly refuted in Scripture,13 although Satan may stage a counterfeit.) But there are other possibilities as well. What about cloning from a protein sample of the past? Is it possible that this “eighth” is “of the seven” in microbiological sense? Also, remember the strange hint that Jesus gave us:
But as the days of Noah were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
-Matthew 24:37; Luke 17:26
In order to appreciate this allusion, (Reference) it is essential to understand what the “days of Noah” were like, including the strange mischief caused by the fallen angels. It has been suggested that this coming leader may be a Nephilim, a recurrence of events in Genesis 6 that brought the previous cataclysmic judgment of the flood upon the earth.
(FLAT OUT NAILS IT IN 2009!
Do you really have to wonder why that is?
Angels don't need bodies
they are all ministering Spirits.
Who needs a habitation?
An abode?
A residence?
An Essence as it were?
Evil Spirits born on this earth
that werent supposed to be here,
they simply have no place to go
till judgement.
"I can remember even as a kid I I saw a little cartoon a guy was showing a friend his Factory and in the factory had as far as the eye could see robots sitting on benches and other robots making them it was a factory where robots were making more robots and the guy was telling someone:
"I don't know where it's going to all end."
Now days?
The robot factories?
("About 738 of OpenAI's 770 employees, including Murati and Sutskever, signed an open letter stating they would quit their jobs and join Microsoft if the board did not re-hire Altman as CEO and then resign.
Point 3 The case for Superintelligence
Are having their end users conjure up the evil spirits to inhabit them.
THAT IS 100%
EXACTLY
WHERE WE ARE.)
Conclusion
"With the current world turmoil surrounding Iraq and the Middle East,
(written in 2009 remember, just subsite Iran, Israel for Iraq and were still right there.)
it is likely that the coming months and years will bring some striking changes. It is essential that we stand back from our presumptions and prejudices and listen carefully to what the Biblical text is telling us. We are living in exciting times, but we need to be diligent in our study of God’s Word. The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that we already have it."
Bible verses with Footnotes from:
Antichrist from the Middle East? By Chuck Missler
I am using The 1599 Geneva Bible.
The forerunner to the King James
as the notes are detailed and extensive.
However,
Where they see:
Rome, Vatican, Pope, Roman Empire?
I see the Neo-ottoman empire
and the new king of Syria.
That we are currently witnessing today.
Daniel 9:26.
1599 Geneva Bible
26 And after threescore and two [a]weeks, shall Messiah be slain, and shall [b]have nothing, and the people of the [c]prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood: and unto the end of the battle it shall be destroyed by desolations.
Daniel 9:26 In this least week of the seventy, shall Christ come and preach and suffer death.
Daniel 9:26 He shall seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation, as Isa. 53:2.
Daniel 9:26 Meaning Titus, Vespasian’s son, who should come and destroy both the Temple and the people without all hope of recovery.
Old testament verses about
"The Assyrian(s)."
from:
Antichrist from the Middle East? By Chuck Missler
Isaiah 10:5
1599 Geneva Bible
5 ¶ O [a]Assyria, the rod of my wrath: and the staff in their hands is mine indignation.
Footnotes
Isaiah 10:5
God calleth for the Assyrians to be the executioners of his vengeance.
Isaiah 10:24
1599 Geneva Bible
24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people, that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of Assyria: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of [a]Egypt.
Footnotes
Isaiah 10:24 As the Egyptians did punish thee.
Isaiah 10:24 in all English translations
Isaiah 14:25
1599 Geneva Bible
25 [a]That I will break to pieces Assyria in my land, and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot, so that his yoke shall depart from [b]them, and his burden shall be taken from off their shoulder.
Footnotes
Isaiah 14:25 As I have begun to destroy the Assyrians in Sennacherib: so will I continue, and destroy them wholly, when I shall deliver you from Babylon.
Isaiah 14:25 From the Jews.
Isaiah 30:31
1599 Geneva Bible
31 For with the voice of the Lord shall Assyria be destroyed, which smote with the [a]rod.
Footnotes
Isaiah 30:31 God’s plague.
Ezekiel 31:3
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with thick shadowing boughs, and shot up very high, and his top was among the thick boughs.
Micah 5:5
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And he [a]shall be our peace when Assyria shall come into our land: when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.
KJV renders:
"when the Assyrian shall come into our land:"
Footnotes
Micah 5:5 This Messiah shall be a sufficient safeguard for us, and though the enemy invade us for a time, yet shall God stir up many which shall be able to deliver us.
Micah 5:6
1599 Geneva Bible
6 And they shall destroy [a]Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with their swords: thus shall he [b]deliver us from Assyria, when he cometh into our land, and when he shall tread within our borders.
Footnotes
Micah 5:6 These whom God shall raise up for the deliverance of his Church, shall destroy all the enemies thereof, which are meant here by the Assyrians and Babylonians which were the chief at that time.
Micah 5:6 By these governors will God deliver us when the enemy cometh into our land.
Back to other verses from:
Antichrist from the Middle East? By Chuck Missler
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WHEN READING THE FOOTNOTES
TURKEY and a small province of the fallen ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
(Nineveh)
were parts of
The Roman Empire.
(At least for a while.)
All the focus on Rome and the Pope in the Geneva Bible kinda gets on my nerves after a while but we are all products of our time to some degree I suppose.
Daniel 7:8, 20-26;
Daniel 7:8
1599 Geneva Bible
8 As I considered the horns, behold, there came up among them another little [a]horn, before whom there were [b]three of the first horns plucked away: and behold, in this horn were [c]eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things.
Footnotes
Daniel 7:8 Which is meant of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, etc., who were as kings in effect, but because they could not rule, but by the consent of the Senate, their power is compared to a little horn. For Muhammad came not of the Roman Empire, and the Pope hath no vocation of government: therefore this cannot be applied unto them, and also in this prophecy the Prophet’s purpose is chiefly to comfort the Jews unto the revelation of Christ. Some take it for the whole body of Antichrist.
Daniel 7:8 Meaning, a certain portion of the ten horns: that is, a part from the whole estate was taken away. For Augustus took from the Senate the liberty of choosing the deputies to send into the provinces, and took the government of certain countries to himself.
Daniel 7:8 These Roman Emperors at the first used a certain humanity and gentleness, and were content that others, as the Consuls, and Senate, should bear the names of dignity, so that they might have the profit, and therefore in election and counsels would behave themselves according as did other Senators: yet against their enemies and those that would resist them, they were fierce and cruel, which is here meant by the proud mouth.
"Like the eyes of a man"
He's not a man.
"...a mouth speaking presumptuous things."
"In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also called bullshitting,[1][2] confabulation[3] or delusion[4]) is a response generated by AI that contains false or misleading information presented as fact.[5][6][7] This term draws a loose analogy with human psychology, where hallucination typically involves false percepts. However, there is a key difference: AI hallucination is associated with erroneous responses rather than perceptual experiences."
Daniel 7:20-26
1599 Geneva Bible
20 Also to know of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the others which came up, before whom three fell, and of the horn that had eyes, and of the mouth that spake presumptuous things, whose [a]look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same [b]horn made battle against the Saints, yea, and prevailed against them,
22 Until [c]the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the Saints of the most High: and the time approached, that the Saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Then he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom in the earth, which shall be unlike to all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten Kings that shall rise: and another shall rise after them, and he shall be unlike to the first, and he shall subdue [d]three Kings,
25 And shall speak words against [e]the most High, and shall consume the Saints of the most High, and think that he may [f]change times and laws, and they shall be given into his hand until a [g]time, and times, and the dividing of time.
26 But the [h]judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end.
Footnotes
Daniel 7:20 This is meant of the fourth beast, which was more terrible than the others.
Daniel 7:21 Meaning the Roman Emperors, who were most cruel against the Church of God both of the Jews and of the Gentiles.
Daniel 7:22 Till God showed his power in the person of Christ, and by the preaching of the Gospel gave unto his some rest, and so obtained a famous Name in the world, and were called the Church of God, or the kingdom of God.
Daniel 7:24 Read the exposition hereof, verse 8.
Daniel 7:25 That is, shall make wicked decrees and proclamations against God’s word, and send throughout all their dominion, to destroy all that did profess it.
Daniel 7:25 These Emperors shall not consider that they have their power of God, but think it is in their own power to change God’s laws and man’s, and as it were the order of nature, as appeareth by Octavius, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Domitian, etc.
Daniel 7:25 God shall suffer them thus to rage against his Saints for a long time, which is meant by the time and times, but at length he will assuage these troubles, and shorten the time for his elect’s sake, Matt. 24:22, which is here meant by the dividing of time.
Daniel 7:26 God by his power shall restore things that were out of order,
and so destroy this little horn, that it shall never rise up again.
Daniel 8:9-14.
1599 Geneva Bible
9 And out of one of them came forth a [a]little horn, which waxed very great toward the [b]South, and toward the [c]East, and toward the [d]pleasant land.
10 Yea, it grew up unto the [e]host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host, and of the stars to the ground, and trode upon them,
11 And extolled himself against the [f]prince of the host, from whom the [g]daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his Sanctuary was cast down.
12 And [h]a time shall be given him over the daily sacrifice for the iniquity: and it shall [i]cast down the truth to the ground, and thus shall it do, and prosper.
13 Then I heard one of the [j]Saints speaking, and one of the Saints spake unto a certain one, saying, How long shall endure the vision of the daily sacrifice, and the iniquity of the [k]desolation to tread both the Sanctuary and the [l]army underfoot?
14 And [m]he answered me, Unto the [n]evening and the morning, two thousand and three hundred: then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed.
Footnotes
Daniel 8:9 Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who was of a servile and flattering nature, and also there were others between him and the kingdom, and therefore is here called the little horn, because neither princely conditions, nor any other thing was in him, why he should obtain this kingdom.
Daniel 8:9 That is, toward Egypt.
Daniel 8:9 Whereby he meaneth Ptolemeus.
Daniel 8:9 That is, Judea.
Daniel 8:10 Antiochus raged against the elect of God, and trode his precious stars under feet, which are so called, because they are separated from the world.
Daniel 8:11 That is, God, who governeth and maintaineth his Church.
Daniel 8:11 He labored to abolish all religion, and therefore cast God’s service out of his Temple, which God had chosen as a little corner from all the rest of the world to have his Name there truly called upon.
Daniel 8:12 He showeth that their sins are the cause of these horrible afflictions: and yet comforteth them, in that he appointeth this tyrant a time, whom he would not suffer utterly to abolish his religion.
Daniel 8:12 This horn shall abolish for a time the true doctrine, and so corrupt God’s service.
Daniel 8:13 Meaning, that he heard one of the Angels asking this question of Christ, whom he called a certain one, or a secret one, or a marvelous one.
Daniel 8:13 That is, the Jews’ sins, which were cause of his destruction.
Daniel 8:13 That is, which suppresseth God’s religion, and his people.
Daniel 8:14 Christ answered me for the comfort of the Church.
Daniel 8:14 That is, until so many natural days be past, which make 6 years, 3 months and an half: for so long under Antiochus was the Temple profaned.
Daniel 11:5-35.
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And the [a]King of the South shall be mighty, and one of [b]his princes, and shall prevail against him, and bear rule: his dominion shall be a great dominion.
6 And in the end of years they shall be joined together: for the King’s [c]daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement, but she shall not retain the power of the [d]arm, neither shall [e]he continue, nor his [f]arm: but she shall be delivered to death, and they that brought her, and he [g]that begat her, and he that comforted her, in these times.
7 But out of the bud of her [h]roots shall one stand up in his stead, [i]which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the King of the North, and do with them as he list, and shall prevail,
8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods: with their molten images, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold, and he shall continue [j]more years than the king of the North.
9 So the king of the South shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
10 Wherefore his [k]sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a mighty great army: and one [l]shall come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he [m]return, and be stirred up at his fortress.
11 And the King of the South shall be angry, and shall come forth, and fight with him, even with the king of the North: for he shall set forth a great [n]multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand.
12 Then the multitude shall be proud, and their heart shall be lifted up: for he shall cast down thousands: but he shall not still prevail,
13 For the King of the North [o]shall return, and shall set forth a greater multitude than afore, and shall come forth (after certain years) with a mighty army, and great riches.
14 And at the same time there shall [p]many stand up against the king of the South: also the rebellious children of thy [q]people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision, but they shall fall.
15 So the King of the North shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the strong city: and the arms of the South shall [r]not resist, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
16 But he that shall come, shall do unto him as he list, and none shall stand against him: and he shall stand in the [s]pleasant land, which by his hand shall be consumed.
17 Again he shall [t]set his face to enter with the power of his whole kingdom, and his confederates with him: thus shall he do, and he shall give him the [u]daughter of women to destroy [v]her: but [w]she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
18 After this shall he turn his face unto the [x]isles, and shall take many, but a prince [y]shall cause his shame to light upon him, besides that he shall cause his own shame to turn upon [z]himself.
19 For he shall turn his face toward the forts of [aa]his own land: but he shall be overthrown and fall, and be no more [ab]found.
20 [ac]Then shall stand up in his place in the glory of the kingdom, one that shall raise taxes: but after few days he shall be destroyed, neither in [ad]wrath, nor in battle.
21 And in his place shall stand up a [ae]vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
22 And the [af]arms shall be overthrown with a flood before him, and shall be broken: and also the prince of the [ag]covenant.
23 And after [ah]the league made with him, he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and overcome with a [ai]small people.
24 He shall enter into the quiet and plentiful province, and he shall do that which his fathers [aj]have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers: he shall divide among them the prey and the spoil, and the substance, yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strongholds, even for a [ak]time.
25 Also he shall stir up his power, and his courage against the King of the South with a great army, and the King of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army: but he shall not [al]stand: for they shall forecast and practice against him.
26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of [am]his meat, shall destroy him: and his army [an]shall overflow: and many shall fall, and be slain.
27 And both these Kings’ hearts shall be to do [ao]mischief, and they shall talk of deceit at one table: but it shall not avail: for [ap]yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
28 Then shall he return into his land with great [aq]substance: for his heart shall be against the holy covenant: so shall he do and return to his own land.
29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the South: but the last shall not be as the first.
30 For the ships [ar]of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be sorry and return and fret against the holy covenant: so shall he do, he shall even return [as]and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
31 And arms [at]shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the Sanctuary [au]of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall set up the abominable desolation.
32 And such as wickedly [av]break the covenant, shall he cause to sin by flattery: but the people that do know their God, shall prevail and prosper.
33 And they that understand among the [aw]people, shall instruct many: [ax]yet they shall fall by sword, and by flame, by captivity and by spoil many days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a [ay]little help: but many shall cleave unto them [az]feignedly.
35 And some of them [ba]of understanding shall fall to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, till the time be out: for there is a time appointed.
Footnotes
Daniel 11:5 To wit, Ptolemy king of Egypt.
Daniel 11:5 That is, Antiochus the son of Seleucus, and one of Alexander’s princes shall be more mighty: for he should have both Asia (Turkey) and Syria.
(Go figure right?)
Daniel 11:6 That is, Berenice the daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus shall be given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, thinking by this affinity that Syria and Egypt should have a continual peace together.
Daniel 11:6 That force and strength shall not continue: for soon after Berenice and her young son after her husband’s death, was slain of her stepson Seleucus Callinicus the son of Laodice, the lawful wife of Antiochus, but put away for this woman’s sake.
Daniel 11:6 Neither Ptolemy nor Antiochus.
Daniel 11:6 Some read, seed, meaning, the child begotten of Berenice.
Daniel 11:6 Some read, she that begate her, and thereby understand her nurse, which brought her up: so that all they that were occasion of this marriage, were destroyed.
Daniel 11:7 Meaning, that Ptolemeus Euergetes after the death of his father Philadelphus should succeed in the kingdom being of the same stock that Berenice was.
Daniel 11:7 To revenge the sister’s death against Antiochus Callinicus king of Syria.
Daniel 11:8 For this Ptolemy reigned six and forty years.
Daniel 11:10 Meaning, Seleucus and Antiochus the great, the sons of Callinicus, shall make war against Ptolemy Philopater the son of Philadelphus.
Daniel 11:10 For his elder brother Seleucus died, or was slain while the wars were preparing.
Daniel 11:10 That is, Philopater when he shall see Antiochus to take great dominions from him in Syria, and also ready to invade Egypt.
Daniel 11:11 For Antiochus had six thousand horsemen, and threescore thousand footmen.
Daniel 11:13 After the death of Ptolemy Philopater, who left Ptolemeus Epiphanes his heir.
Daniel 11:14 For not only Antiochus came against him but also Philip King of Macedonia, and these two brought great power with them.
Daniel 11:14 For under Onias which falsely alleged that place of Isa. 19:19, certain of the Jews retired with him into Egypt to fulfill this prophecy: also the Angel showeth that all these troubles which are in the Church, are by the providence and counsel of God.
Daniel 11:15 The Egyptians were not able to resist Scopas Antiochus’ captain.
Daniel 11:16 He showeth that he shall not only afflict the Egyptians, but also the Jews, and shall enter into their country, whereof he admonisheth them before, that they may know that all these things came by God’s providence.
Daniel 11:17 This was the second battle that Antiochus fought against Ptolemy Epiphanes.
Daniel 11:17 To wit, a beautiful woman which was Cleopatra Antiochus’ daughter.
Daniel 11:17 For he regarded not the life of his daughter in respect of the kingdom of Egypt.
Daniel 11:17 She shall not agree to his wicked counsel, but shall love her husband, as her duty requireth, and not seek his destruction.
Daniel 11:18 That is, toward Asia, Greece, and those isles which are in the sea called Mediterranean: for the Jews called all countries isles which were divided from them by sea.
Daniel 11:18 For whereas Antiochus was wont to contemn the Romans, and put their ambassadors to shame in all places, Atilius the Consul, or Lucius Scipio put him to flight, and caused his shame to turn on his own head.
Daniel 11:18 By his wicked life, and obeying of foolish counsel.
Daniel 11:19 For fear of the Romans he shall flee to his holds.
Daniel 11:19 For when as under the pretence of poverty he would have robbed the Temple of Jupiter Dodomeus, the countrymen slew him.
Daniel 11:20 That is, Seleucus shall succeed his father Antiochus.
Daniel 11:20 Not by foreign enemies, or battle, but by treason.
Daniel 11:21 Which was Antiochus Epiphanes, who as is thought was the occasion of Seleucus his brother’s death, and was of a vile, cruel and flattering nature, and defrauded his brother’s son of the kingdom, and usurped the kingdom without the consent of the people.
Daniel 11:22 He showeth that great foreign powers shall come to help the young son of Seleucus against his uncle Antiochus: and yet shall be overthrown.
Daniel 11:22 Meaning, Ptolemais Philopater’s son who was this child’s cousin germane, and is here called the prince of the covenant, because he was the chief, and all others followed his conduct.
Daniel 11:23 For after the battle Philometor and his uncle Antiochus made a league.
Daniel 11:23 For he came upon him at unawares, and when he suspected his uncle Antiochus nothing.
Daniel 11:24 Meaning, in Egypt.
Daniel 11:24 He will content himself with the small holds for a time, but ever labor by craft to attain to the chiefest.
Daniel 11:25 He shall be overcome with treason.
Daniel 11:26 Signifying his princes and the chief about him.
Daniel 11:26 Declaring that his soldiers shall brast out and venture their life to slay and to be slain for the safeguard of their prince.
Daniel 11:27 The uncle and the nephew shall take truce, and banquet together, yet in their hearts they shall imagine mischief one against the other.
Daniel 11:27 Signifying, that it standeth not in the counsel of men to bring things to pass, but in the providence of God, who ruleth the Kings by a secret bridle, that they cannot do what they list themselves.
Daniel 11:28 Which he shall take of the Jews in spoiling Jerusalem and the Temple, and this is told them before to move them to patience, knowing that all things are done by God’s providence.
Daniel 11:30 That is, the Roman power shall come against him: for P. Popilius the Ambassador appointed him to depart in the Romans’ name, to which thing he obeyed, although with grief, and to revenge his rage he came against the people of God the second time.
Daniel 11:30 With the Jews which shall forsake the covenant of the Lord: for first he was called against the Jews by Jason the high Priest, and this second time by Menelaus.
Daniel 11:31 A great faction of the wicked Jews shall hold with Antiochus.
Daniel 11:31 So called because the power of God was nothing diminished, although this tyrant set up in the Temple the image of Jupiter Olympius, and so began to corrupt the pure service of God.
Daniel 11:32 Meaning, such as bare the name of Jews, but indeed were nothing less, for they sold their souls, and betrayed their brethren for gain.
Daniel 11:33 They that remain constant among the people shall teach others by their example, and edify many in the true religion.
Daniel 11:33 Whereby he exhorteth the godly to constancy, although they should perish a thousand times, and though their miseries endure never so long.
Daniel 11:34 As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet will he not deliver it all at once, but so help, as they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, whereof he here prophesieth.
Daniel 11:34 That is, there shall be even of this small number many hypocrites.
Daniel 11:35 To wit, of them that fear God and will lose their life for the defense of true religion. Signifying also that the Church must continually be tried and purged, and ought to look for one persecution after another: for God hath appointed the time: therefore we must obey.
Daniel 11:36
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36 And the [a]king shall do what him list: he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself against all, that is God, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath [b]be accomplished: for the determination is made.
Footnotes
Daniel 11:36 Because the Angel’s purpose is to show the whole course of the persecutions of the Jews unto the coming of Christ, he now speaketh of the Monarchy of the Romans which he noteth by the name of a King, who were without religion and condemned the true God.
Daniel 11:36 So long the tyrants shall prevail as God hath appointed to punish his people: but he showeth that it is but for a time.
Genesis 10:8-10.
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8 And Cush begat Nimrod, who began to be [a]mighty in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, [b]As Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of [c]Shinar.
Footnotes
Genesis 10:8 Meaning, a cruel oppressor and tyrant.
Genesis 10:9 His tyranny came into a proverb as hated both of God and man: for he passed not to commit cruelty even in God’s presence.
Genesis 10:10 For there was another city in Egypt, called also Babel.
2 Corinthians 4:4
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4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds, that is, of the infidels, that the [a]light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, which is the [b]image of God, should not shine unto them.
Footnotes
2 Corinthians 4:4 The light of plain and lightsome preaching, which telleth forth the glory of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the Father setteth forth himself to be seen and beholden.
Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, is the classic work here. However, Dave Hunt’s A Woman Rides the Beast , has emerged as the definitive work here; well researched and documented, it is a “must read” on this topic.
Isaiah 13, 14; Jeremiah 50, 51.
(As they are full chapters I am only going to supply the links
to the 1599 Geneva Bible
again, largely to share the footnotes,
agreed upon or not they are detailed and extensive and worthy of taking a look at.)
Leviticus 11:19;
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19 The stork also, the heron after his kind, and the lapwing and the [bat]:
Deuteronomy 14:18
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18 The stork also, and the heron in his kind, nor the lapwing, nor the [bat].
Psalm 55:11-14;
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11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
12 Surely mine [a]enemy did not defame me, for I could have borne it: neither did mine adversary exalt himself against me: for I would have hid me from him.
13 But it was thou, O man, even my [b]companion, my guide, and my familiar:
14 Which delighted in consulting together, and went into the house of God as companions.
Footnotes
Psalm 55:12 If mine open enemy had sought mine hurt, I could the better have avoided him.
Psalm 55:13 Which was not only joined to me in friendship and counsel in worldly matters, but also in religion.
Isaiah 28:18
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18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall ye be trodden down by it.
Revelation 6:8;
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8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed after him, and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with beasts of the earth.
(Green, color of Islam)
Matthew 12:41-43;
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41 [a]The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah: and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The Queen of the [b]South shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the [c]utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon: and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
43 ¶ Now when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh throughout dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Footnotes
Matthew 12:41 Christ teacheth by the sorrowful example of the Jews, that there are none more miserable than they which put out the light of the Gospel which was kindled in them.
Matthew 12:42 He meaneth the Queen of Sheba: whose country is South in respect of the land of Israel, 1 Kings 10.
Matthew 12:42 For Sheba is situated in the utmost coast of . . . Arabia at the mouth of the Arabian Sea.
John 17:12;
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12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gavest me, have I kept, and none of them is lost, but the child of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
John 6:7;
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7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may take a little.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
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3 Let no man deceive you by any means: [a]for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that [b]that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition.
Footnotes
2 Thessalonians 2:3 The Apostle foretelleth that before the coming of the Lord, there shall be a throne set up clean contrary to Christ’s glory, wherein that wicked man shall sit, and transfer all things that appertain to God, to himself, and many shall fall away from God to him.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 By speaking of one, he pointed out the body of the tyrannous and persecuting Church.
Acts 1:25, with Revelation 11:7.
Acts 1:25
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25 That he may take the [a]room of this ministration and Apostleship, from which Judas hath [b]gone astray, to go to his own place.
Footnotes
Acts 1:25 That he may be fellow and partaker of this ministry.
Acts 1:25 Departed from, or fallen from: And it is a Metaphor taken from the way: For callings are signified by the name of ways, with the Hebrews.
Revelation 11:7
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7 [a]And when they have [b]finished their testimony, [c]the beast that cometh out of the bottomless pit, shall make war against them, and shall [d]overcome them, and kill them,
Footnotes
Revelation 11:7 That is, when they have spent those thousand two hundred and sixty years, mentioned verses 2 and 3, in publishing their testimony according to their office.
Revelation 11:7 When they have done their message.
Revelation 11:7 Of which after Rev. 13. That beast is the Roman Empire,
(Neo-Ottoman, which was a part of the Roman Empire.
"we tend to equate the Roman Empire with Western Europe,
ignoring the eastern leg of this empire,
which outlasted the western leg by a thousand years!")
made long ago of civil, Ecclesiastical: the chief head whereof was then Boniface the eighth, as I said before: who lifted up himself in so great arrogancy (saith the author of Falsciculus temporum) that he called himself Lord of the whole world, as well in temporal causes as in spiritual: There is an extant of that matter, written by the same Boniface most arrogantly, shall I say, or most wickedly, ca. unam sanctam, extra de majoritate & obedientia, and in the sixth of the Decretals (which is from the same author) many things are found of the same argument.
Revelation 11:7 He shall persecute most cruelly the holy men, and put them to death, and shall wound and pierce through with cursings both their names and writings. And that this was done to very many godly men by Boniface and others, the histories do declare, especially since the time that the odious and condemned name amongst the multitude first of the brethren Waldenses or Lugdunenses, then also of the Fratricels, was pretended, that good men might with more approbation be massacred.
(He emerges out of the Abousso , Rev 11:7.)
Genesis 3:4.
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4 Then the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not [a][b]die at all,
Footnotes
Genesis 3:4
This is Satan’s chiefest subtlety,
to cause us not to fear God’s threatening's.
(He has been warning us
a long time already)
Genesis 3:4 Hebrew, die the death.
Hebrews 9:27.
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27 And as it is appointed unto men that they shall [a]once die,
and after that cometh the judgment:
Footnotes
Hebrews 9:27 He speaketh of the natural state and condition of man: For as for Lazarus and certain others that died twice, that was no usual thing but extraordinary, and for them that shall be changed, their changing is a kind of death, 1 Cor. 15:51.
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