END TIMES: A NEW LOOK
Researching and studying Biblical end-times prophecy is
sometime I have done, off and on, for many years. A few years ago, I stumbled upon an author
named Chris White and studied two of his books entitled: Mystery Babylon – When Jerusalem Embraces
the Antichrist and False Christ: Will The Antichrist Claim to Be the
Jewish Messiah. These two particular
books totally fascinated me because they appeared to almost completely explain
the Revelation in understandable and Biblical terms that seemed to make sense
to me at the time. The information in
these books, along with writings of Dr. Charles Cooper, inspired me to write a
series of articles explaining the end-times scenario presented in the
Revelation and Matthew 24.
If you have read a few of my articles, including the
series on Revelation and Matthew 24, on the Freedom from Delusion blog site,
you may be aware of my past end-times doctrinal thoughts which are very similar
to those of the Chris White books. Much
of this posted material has been removed because I can no longer classify it as
accurate. During the past year or so I have withdrawn most direct support for
my views of the recent past. Not that I
have totally abandoned all of them, but have placed them on a “wait and see
what happens” scenario.
The Revelation
Beasts
The popular and much employed word “antichrist” only
appears in the books of 1 John and 2 John.
The word never appears in the book of Revelation, yet it is used by many
people and writers as the name of an end-times dictator who will conquer and
subdue the majority of the world, kill Christians, instigate the mark of the
beast, and declare himself to be “god”.
The exploits of an end-times “antichrist” which is used as an acronym
for the Revelation 13 “beast”, has essentially been invented and hijacked by
many people through the years by employing Biblical hints, innuendo, and a
misunderstanding of a few scriptures.
Actually the concept of an “antichrist” has taken a life of its
own. Many politicians, among other well-known
people, have been labeled as the antichrist for many odd and bizarre reasons. For example, I can remember Ronald Reagan
referred to as a candidate because there are six letters in each of the three
parts of his name.
Daniel chapter 7 introduces 4 beasts. Avoiding a commentary concerning Daniel 7, it
will be said the four beasts are empires.
Although empires or kingdoms have a king or leader, the beasts
themselves do not refer to a king but a vast empire. These empires are only the ones involved with
Israel/Judah and later various parts of the Church. It is my opinion the two beasts introduced in
Revelation 13 are not people but instead are empires, countries, or possibly a
corporation or organization and they involve certain aspects of the Church.
The beasts listed in Daniel are symbolic. They will not literally rise from the sea
with multiple horns, heads, and wings.
Yet, many people and commentators insist the two beasts of Revelation 13
are literal men, or Satan incarnate, or someone or thing rising from the abyss
(bottomless pit). They believe these two
men will unleash chaos, destruction, and death all across the planet. Now, the dragon with ten heads is considered symbolic
but the two beasts are believed to be real live entities, or so they say. Do they believe a horde of demonic locusts
will arise from the bottomless pit and sting people having the so-called mark
of the beast? Perhaps. Actually very few of the so-called
supernatural events depicted in the book are ever referred to except the
identity of the two beasts.
As a side note, the locusts could be the Muslim
immigrants unleashed upon what formerly was Christian Europe, Australia, and
the USA which are only vaguely Christian today.
Dr. Stephen
Jones
Dr. Stephen Jones is a bible teacher, not a pastor or
preacher. http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/
He has an excellent command of the scriptures and his
Gospel teachings are superb. I recommend his writings and they are free to read
on the above listed website. Other than
Daniel 2 and 7, he interprets all the remainder of the book as historical
generally concerning Greece and two of the four empires which emerged after the
death of Alexander. Dr. Jones also
interprets the majority of the Revelation as historical and he does a first
rate job. However, this historical
interpretation did not agree with me at the beginning and I approached it with
a “wait and see” attitude as done with my original doctrine.
The Beasts
Identified
With the details of Dr. Jones Revelation teaching, he
identifies the first beast as being the Holy Roman empire which began when the
western Roman empire expired. During his
time, Napoleon placed the pope in prison where he died. Later, Napoleon thought he needed a pope to
crown him as the Emperor so he resurrected the office with a new pope.
Revelation 13:3 KJV And I
saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was
healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
The Vatican, along with the Roman Catholic Church, is considered
the first beast which rises from the sea.
Not all Catholic members are considered the beast, just the leadership,
the rituals, the financing, and the propaganda.
This beast, at the total collapse of the Roman Empire, also became the “little
horn” of Daniel 7:8 and continues even now.
Daniel 7:8 KJV 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.
The second beast from the earth is purported to be the
Rothschild banking system. The
Rothschild family, at some point in the past after the pope was reinstated,
supposedly-bank managed the wealth of the Roman Church until sometime in the
recent past when the Roman Church created their own banking system. If this new Roman bank is affiliated with the
Rothschild’s is unknown to me.
The Kings of
the East
The historical narrative only continues to a certain
historical point and then sections become real time. For example, the “kings of the east” is a
current prophecy associated with Russia and China. These nations are supposedly being used by
God to assist in the fall of the banking, financial, mystery, Babylon. As mentioned above, God has used certain
empires and countries to do His will.
Russia and China would be comparable to Babylon, the Persians, and the
Medes of the past.
Revelation 16:12 KJV And the
sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water
thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
From: http://freedomfromdelusion.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-kings-of-east-russia-china.html It is entirely possible the majority of the
banking cartel may destroy itself through massive debt caused by
greediness. China and Russia are now setting up a system of trade payment
that bypasses the Bretton Woods petroleum dollar. Having recently
purchased a huge amount of gold, China is attempting to establish a gold backed
currency system. Many countries have supposedly bought into this plan,
although not the USA.
According to Benjamin Fulford, and a few others (probably
parroting Fulford), a group of Chinese billionaires known by the name of “the
White Dragon Society” is attempting to peacefully change the world for the good
side. This society is currently offering to give (or perhaps loan) large
amounts of gold to various countries if they will transition to a gold backed
currency, protect the environment, and beat their swords into plowshares.
This plan sounds somewhat similar to the Millennium Kingdom of God.
Russia and China are also responsible for the creation of
BRICS, the AIIB, and the SCO. The SCO is the new Shanghai Cooperation Agreement
with China, Russia, and now Pakistan and India, previous long term enemies brought
together at the time of the Brexit vote by a common rejection of the Cabal’s
private central FIAT Banking system which they expect to fail.
The general premise of Dr. Jones historical system and
his group’s interpretation of the end-times prophecies is that God will heal
the earth through human agents. The
human agent agenda has been used throughout the Old Testament history. God used several kingdoms and empires to accomplish
His will including Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Media, Greece, and the Romans with
some perceived supernatural elements added.
Benjamin
Fulford
Mr. Fulford publishes a weekly newsletter describing
so-called “behind the scenes” highly sensitive information that rarely ever
appears in other news sources. His
information is extraordinary and would be great news if it actually came to
pass. However, it should be said, past
reports have uncovered various scenarios that did not happen.
The latest Fulford report in outline form can be found at
the following link: http://freedomfromdelusion.blogspot.com/2016/07/fulford-report-outline.html
