09 Dec 15
Revived Islamic Caliphate
The Book of Revelation was written by John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 1:1-2)
To understand the visions of Revelations one must consider the similar visions from the Book of Daniel.
The legs of iron with the feet and toes of Daniel 2 and the fourth beast of Daniel 7 are the same kingdom. These empires ruled what are today the Middle East and parts of North Africa, Central and South Asia.
Daniel 2:40-43 NASB
Then there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; inasmuch as iron crushes and shatters all things, so, like iron that breaks in pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces, In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with common clay. As the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will be brittle. And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.
That fourth kingdom will crush ALL the other kingdoms. This means this 4th kingdom will have crushed, or conquered, all the areas of the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, and Grecian kingdoms. Since Rome did not conquer most of these areas, the fourth beast of Daniel 2 must be the Islamic Caliphate that included the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
Daniel 7:7 NASB
After this I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
This is picked up again in Revelation 13 and 17.
Revelation 17:9-13 NASB
Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits, and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while. The beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction. The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
The seven heads (and the eighth king) represent the following empires:
1.Egypt
2.Assyria
3.Babylon (first beast of Daniel 7)
4.Medo-Persia (second beast of Daniel 7)
5.Greece (third beast of Daniel 7)
6.Rome
7.Islamic Caliphate (fourth beast of Daniel 7)
8.Revived Islamic Caliphate
09 Dec 15
Revelation 17:1-7 NASB
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly. And the angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
ANGELS INTERPRETATION:
Revelation 17:12-15
The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.”
And he *said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues... The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
My own comments:
It says the kings and those that dwell on the earth are drunk with the wine of acts of her immorality. We see from the following that the WINE is the BLOOD of the saints. This is the same imagery Christ used when he said, 'THIS WINE IS MY BLOOD."
Revelation 17:6 NASB
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.
This blood is the blood from the saints slain by the sword.
In the Middle East, "mother of..." is an idiom meaning "the embodiment of..." The "Mother of harlots" would be recognized by any Middle Eastern person as meaning the embodiment of all whoredom.
Iraqi statements on the Persian Gulf war, as reported in the press, have been filled with references to "the mother of battles." The commander of the Iraqi Republican Guard is quoted as saying that his troops "will repel the heathen alliance led by America in the mother of battles."
The translation is based on a misunderstanding of the use of the Arabic word "umm" (mother). Besides its literal meaning, "umm" -- when followed by another noun -- is often equivalent to English words like "chief," "main" or "principal" (as in "mother lode" ).
Thus, "umm al-watan" (mother of the homeland) means "metropolis," "ummahat al-hawadith" (mothers of events) means "major events," and "ummahat as-suhuf" (mothers of newspapers) means "leading newspapers." The Arabic phrase literally meaning "mother of battles" (umm al-ma'arik) can best be translated "the great battle," "the mighty battle," perhaps "the decisive battle."
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/07/opinion/l-mother-of-battles-mistranslates-arabic-834791.html
So "mother of harlots" could best be translated "the great harlot" or "the mighty harlot" or "the harlot to end all harlots" and does not mean that it has some daughters.
This also includes the "mother of" the abominations of the earth. So this is actually referring to the great evils of the earth. This could be translated:
MYSTERY. BABYLON THE GREAT, THE EMBODIMENT OF ALL HARLOTS AND THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
09 Dec 15
Most prophecy experts in the past have believed this woman or great city must be Vatican City within the City of Rome, Italy. But Rome was no MYSTERY to John and neither Rome nor Vatican City would be in the wilderness where the angel took John to show him this woman identified as a great city.
We also see from Revelation 17:4 and 18:9-19 that this city is very rich and buys much Merchandise. So much so that the merchants mourn over the destruction of this great city in an unusual way for European Roman catholics but not for Middle Eastern Muslims. This woman or city was identified as "Babylon the Great" which seems to indicate that it has something in common with the ancient Babylon, but is greater. Islam is associated with the ancient babylonain moon god.
‘”Allah” is a pre-Islamic name . . . corresponding to the Babylonian Bel’
– (Encyclopedia of Religion, I:117 Washington DC, Corpus Pub., 1979)
I believe this great city, Babylon the Great, will be a combination of three cities linked together in Saudi Arabia. They are Mecca, Jeddah, and the new Economic City that is now being built.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31867727
It should also be obvious from what is happening in our very day that it is radical Islam that is at war with the Lamb and His followers. They are also beheading the saints as is mentioned in Revelation:
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand...
(Revelation 20:4 NASB)
Islamic warriors also wear the Islamic badge of servitude on their foreheads and right arm today.
It can only be that the Woman and the Beast that John saw in the wilderness of the Saudi dessert is the revival of the Islamic Caliphate Empire.
The woman represents the Great religious and economic Harlot City, and the Beast represents the political and military rule over all the People with a Multitude of Languages from many Nations that rise up under the black banner of Islam to war against the Lamb and His followers.
I believe we are actually seeing a preview of this beginning to happen today with these Islamic terror attacks of ISIS radicals and all those they are influencing over the world. Not all the Islamic terrorists are fighting with head and arm bands or under the black flag, but they are beginning to attack places all over the world after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State.
HalleluYaH !!!
Praise the LORD !!!
Holy! Holy! Holy!
11 Dec 15
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Originally posted by RJHindsThat's funny, I predicted much the same thing when your buddy Bush Jr attacked Iraq. I knew it would come out like this. I just thought it would be Iran invading.
Glenn Beck's "Caliphate" Prediction Comes True - Who's "Delusional" Now?
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It was as obvious as the nose in front of your face as long as Saddam was in power there would be no Caliphate.
11 Dec 15
Originally posted by sonhouseIt's not funny. It's a crying shame.
That's funny, I predicted much the same thing when your buddy Bush Jr attacked Iraq. I knew it would come out like this. I just thought it would be Iran invading.
It was as obvious as the nose in front of your face as long as Saddam was in power there would be no Caliphate.
13 Dec 15
From Revelation 17
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration... And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
In the first three chapters of Revelation the Christian Churches are warned of its departures from the faith, but it seems clear to me that the Harlot riding the Beast can not be associated with the Christian Church. The ones beheading the Saints are certainly not other Christians. It is those that believe in Islam, not Christianity.
It is the Muslims of Islam that worship the moon god and bow down toward the star that fell from heaven as an idol in Mecca. It seems clear to me that the endtime scene in Revelation 17 is in the middle eastern desert wilderness of Saudia Arabia where the Harlot City that John sees as "Babylon the Great" is located.
The harlot woman represents a great city in the desert where idolatry is performed by the kings of the earth. Today, that great city must be Mecca, Saudia Arabia.
Revelation 13 and 17 claims that the “head” or "king" will be revived as an eight beast empire.
Consider how Mecca and an Islamic empire fits the criteria.
1. Mecca influences over 1.5 billion people from all nations and countries
2. Western nations are desperate for oil from the world’s largest supplier
3. Arabia is a desert wilderness, and Mecca is the spiritual home where Muslims go for idol worship
4. Saudi Arabia does a huge trade in gold and jewellery and is subverting the west by funding terror
5. Muslims has killed millions and Islam demands the killing of all Jews and the beheading of Christians
6. Some Muslims hate Saudi Arabia because they believe it has corrupted Islam and predict the destruction of Medina and Mecca.
7. The judgement could well be a nuclear device if it is to come in one hour.
HalleluYaH !!!
Praise the LORD !!!
Holy! Holy! Holy!