The Main Players of End Time Prophecy
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01/18/2008 13:02
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The Bible uses symbology throughout it's revealing of the future. These
symbols can seem confusing at first or even bizarre. However, with a better
understanding of the whole council of God (Bible), the symbols become clear in
the understanding of Jewish history as written in the Old Testament. The following is a quick layout of the main "players" of end-time prophecy.
The relevant scripture is posted. For more detail, click the personalities
above.|
Yeshua |
24 Elders |
Bride of
Christ | Woman of Revelation 12
| Two
Witnesses |
Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2 |
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Beast 1: The Antichrist |
Beast 2: The False Prophet |
Woman Riding the Beast |
Many Waters |
Beast 1
(Revelation
13:1-11) = The
"antichrist"
- Ascends out of bottomless pit into perdition, Apollyon (Revelation
17:8) [Greek god Apollo?] ~
Revelation 9:11
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- Like a leopard (quick &
powerful?)
- Feet as a bear (powerful
and deadly claws, military?)
- Mouth as a lion (powerful
orator?)
- "...the dragon [Lucifer] gave
him his power, and his seat, and great authority." (Revelation
13:2)
- One of 7 heads (see below) wounded to death and
healed and the world wonders after the beast
- "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." (3½ years
or the last half of the
70th week of Daniel)
- He's given the opportunity and power to make war with,
and overcome the saints. He's also given power over the whole world.
- 7 Heads (Revelation
17:9) = 7 mountains the woman sits on. (Vatican
is city on seven hills) however, it
goes on to talk about the 7 kings. Are the mountains representative of 7
historical kingdoms over which the Vatican presided?
- 7 kings (Revelation
17:10,11) (Leaders of the 7 historical kingdoms [7
mountains] on which the Vatican presided over [sits]?)
- 5 fallen (Past "Anti-Christ's" controlling kingdoms?)
- 1 is (Current wave of rebellion and apostasy? Falling
away? One-world religion encouraged by
Vatican [see "Woman" below])
- 1 is not yet come (when he comes, continues short
[puny] while. He then receives his head wound and comes back. (Revelation
13:3) Hence, "And
the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the
seven, and goeth into perdition") This is saying, I think, that
the seventh king that comes will be the beast (Anti-Christ). He will be
wounded in the head and when he comes back, he won't be entirely himself
alone, but indwelt. He will be a different man, but the same body under
Lucifer's (dragon) control. This is
beast 1, the "antichrist".
- So the 1st Beast is
the seventh king. Then he is wounded to death, but lives. That is why the
"Anti-Christ" is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.
(Revelation
17:11) This identifies the beast with Apollyon
(Revelation 9:11) and one of the 7 kings who is resurrected or saved by
the dragon, at which point he becomes the evil anti-Christ we all know and
despise.
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Personal Theory on future events based on scripture: I personally
believe that the deadly wound by the sword may happen at the abomination
of desolation. I think, like the Maccabean revolt, the Jews will realize
that the great peacemaker is not who he seems when he declares himself God
in their temple. I think that perhaps that will prompt an assassination
attempt by a religious Jew or group of Jews. The dragon will save the
beast and the world will be amazed. In retaliation, the newly revived and
dragon-controlled beast will order the genocide of all Jews in Judea. The
Muslim hoards will probably be worked into a fervor and
go through Jerusalem and Judea like a wave of
murder, (Joel
2:1-11)
killing 2/3 of Israel. That is
their stated goal, to wipe Israel off the map. (great
tribulation) That's why
Christ said for them in
Judea to run to the mountains
when they see the
abomination of desolation. Because
soon after that, the Anti-Christ will order the genocide. The passage
about
accepting one that comes in his own name
is talking about the time of relative peace just prior to the abomination
of desolation, I believe. Why? If he's going to kill all the Jews he can,
why would they accept him as their Messiah? It doesn't add up. However, a
great diplomat will work a peace deal between Israel and the Muslims to
allow the rebuilding of the Jewish temple on the
Temple Mount, so my guess is that
is when they will accept him.
- 10 Horns
(Revelation
17:12-14) = 10 kings without kingdoms
for one hour with the first beast, the
Anti-Christ. (Muslim
EU Member nations? Also the 10 clay toes of
Daniel 2:41-44?)
Beast 2 (Revelation
13:12-18) = The false
prophet
- Two horns like a lamb, speaks like a dragon [Lucifer]
- Has all the power of the 1st beast (Anti-Christ)
- Makes all in the earth worship the 1st Beast with the
head wound.
- Does great wonders like calling fire from heaven in the
presence of the 1st Beast. (With these things he deceives the world into
worshipping the beast, and making an image to him, who was wounded by the
sword but lived)
- Able to give life to the image of the Beast so that it
speaks and kills anyone who doesn't worship at it.
- Makes everyone get a mark of the Beast in order to buy or
sell anything. (666 ~ Read
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recommendation, numbered 666, that created the office of Secretary-General of
the E.U. with all the power over the military and political structure of
Europe.)
Woman Riding the Beast
(Revelation
17:1-6; 16-18) = (Mystery Babylon?
Vatican?)
- "Great whore that sits upon many waters" (comprised of many
peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues so it must not be a nation, but a
religious system comprised of members from many nations)
- Great city reigning over kings of the earth.
- Hated by the 10 horns (Revelation
17:16,17)
Woman of Revelation
12
Revelation 12:1-5
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman
clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be
delivered. 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.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to
the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be
delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
The dragon is clearly Satan, and the man-child is clearly Christ. The woman you
say on the basis of Genesis is very generalized to include the church it sounds
like. There's more symbology that can't just be overlooked. Everything in scripture is
there for a reason. Bypassing certain things and basing a theory on incomplete
evidence isn't solid foundation. There's a couple symbols you left out of your
assessment.
- A woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars
with child [singular]
Genesis 37:9-11
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and
said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the
moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his
father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto
him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother
and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
- According to how Jacob himself
interpreted this:
- Sun = Jacob (Israel)
[Rev12 woman: clothed with the sun,
identified by her clothing which is Israel]
- Moon = Rachel (mom) [Rev12
woman: standing upon]
- 11 stars = 11
brothers [Rev12 woman: crowned with the 12
tribes of Israel (their father). We see the 12 tribes identified with
the doorways in and out of New Jerusalem as well. (Revelation
21:12)]
- She brought forth a man child,
who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron
Psalms 2:9
Thou
[Yeshua] shalt break them
with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Revelation 19:15
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
[Yeshua] should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 2:27
And he [he that overcometh, and keepeth
my works unto the end] shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the
vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of
my Father. *We are fellow
heirs with Christ, not the other way around. The prophecy of Revelation 12
is specifically talking about Christ being born through Israel and being
caught up to God.
- The Meshiach Nagid was
prophesied to come from the lineage of Israel along with other prophecies
that place Christ being born of a virgin and of Jewish lineage. Indeed, all
of our scriptures are Jewish and
Romans 11 is quite clear on how important Israel still is to Him.
Now this all fits perfectly and we see more clearly using all of the
scripture and spanning all of scripture, from beginning to end, that the
Meshiach Nagid would be Jewish. The prophecy of Revelation 12 clothes the woman
with the symbol for Israel as seen in a vision by Joseph and recognized as
symbolizing himself, his wife and 11 sons by Jacob. I didn't have to interpret
anything with my own conclusions, the Bible did it all. That is a more sure
foundation on what these symbols mean.
Waters
(Revelation
17:15) = Peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues
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