With all the chaos currently going on around the world, one has to wonder if 2020 is the prelude to the rise of a global totalitarian regime.
Daniel7:7 “Then in my night vision I looked and there before me was a 4th beast, terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth, it crushed and devoured it’s victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts and had ten horns.”
Daniel 7:8” While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like a human and a mouth that spoke boastfully.”
Daniel 7:23”He gave me the explanation: The 4th beast is a 4th kingdom that will appear on Earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole Earth. Trampling it down and crushing it.”
I recently watched this video that discusses the many interpretations of the 4th beast shown in the book of Daniel.
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Christians, is the 4th beast in the book of Daniel referring to a future global authoritarian/totalitarian regime?
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Yes. In order to understand the symbols you must read Daniel and Revelation. The Bible tells you what symbols mean if you read it in its proper context.
Ten horns = 10 kings according to the book of Revelation. Which regions have kings? Middle Eastern countries.
In this case beast means government, kingdom or a ruler.
The one you're talking about is a one world kingdom, which will come into vision right towards the end before Jesus Christ comes back. Any further questions I can help you with just ask.
I don’t propose to speak for God on this one as I’m still studying eschatology myself. I believe it’s the Roman Empire, however it seems to be connected to the “little horn” which I believe is the Antichrist.
It would seem to imply the little horn comes out of the Roman Empire. Whether historically the little horn is referring to Antiochias Epiphanies, the coming Antichrist, or both I do not know. Your thoughts?
The Book of Daniel is a false book and was written about 200 years after the fact.
there are two true statements in the Book of Daniel, including a true prophecy, however even that was most likely a lucky guess.
1) A True scientist is a million times better than a false prophet, but a True Prophet is 10 times better than a True Scientist.
2) The Book correctly predicts a revolution in knowledge and travel at exactly the correct time, this could have been a lucky guess or it could have been a true prophecy.
Internal Evidence that the Book of Daniel is not inspired nor infallible.
1) The story about the Kings of the North and South is so vague it's impossible for a human to ever know what is being described there, so no eternally wise God would give an useless prophecy.
2) The real King Nebuchadnezzar never lost his mind and acted like an animal for 7 years. This would have been recorded in their literature had it actually happened.
3) In the Book of Judges, in the story of Samson, which God has told me IS inspired and infallible, the Angel tells Manoah and his wife that his name is a secret, and none of the other angels in the Old Testament have names, but in the Book of Daniel the concept of naming Angels is introduced, and so two angels, Michael and Gabriel are named.
4a) The Book of Numbers says "God is not a man... neither the Son of Man..." (Numbers 23:19). IN the Book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar claims to have seen "The Son of Man" in a firey furnace with the Hebrew children. First of all this story never happened, because it's not possible to heat a furnace to 7 times hotter than Coal already burns, and secondly God told me this story never happened. 4b) The book mentions the Messiah and teh speaker claims to have seen "The Son of God" which is false, since Numbers already states God is not a man and God is not the Son of Man. Therefore the Book of Daniel teaches false doctrine and gives false prophecies regarding a man-god which never existed. 5) Since the book was written 200 years after the fact, the prophecies of the 4 beasts is invalidated, anybody could have written a true parable of the war of the Greeks and Persians 200 years after the fact, so it's of no value whatsoever, and the 4th beast is simply a false prophecy.
I'll give you a True Prophecy from God, to prove I am a True Prophet and prove the Book of Daniel is a false book.
I am 39 years old. God has told me the following things will happen in the United States in my lifetime. God told me I will live to be 77 years old, but not 85 years old. So that gives the time frame of these prophecies.
1) The Federal government will raise a 50% income tax on all ordinary income above 200,000 dollars per year, AND a 1% Property tax on all property above 3 million dollars. This still will not be enough to balance the budget, but it will help.
2) God has told me the Federal Government will cut Militry spending by 90% in my lifetime.
3) God has told me humans will stop Carbon Dioxide pollution, all within a few years, by 45 years from now. I will not live to see this, but many of you will live to see this.
4) God has told me Nitrate pollution is worse than CO2 pollution, and humans will not stop nitrate pollution any time soon, but they will make improvements just after the end of my lifetime.
5) God has told me the United States Federal government will try a Gold standard of currency again in my lifetime, but this is the WRONG thing to do, because they will not have a balanced budget yet, and you do NOT want to increase the value of your currency when you have a massive debt and a massive deficit. A Precious metal standard would be workable if you had no federal debt and had a federal budget surplus every year, but it is not significantly better than paper currency. This attempt to fix our currency will fail miserably.
6) God has told me the Federal Government will change to an electronic currency in the future, but not in my lifetime.
7) About 25 years after I die, China and Afghanistan will invade the United States and temporarily rule over the United States. God is going to give Afghanistan all the technology they need to defeat the United States military, and China can already defeat the U. S. anyway, they have twice as good of missiles, rail guns, and laser technology as the U. S.
When these prophecies come to pass, you will know I am a True Prophet and there is an Almighty, All-knowing God, and Jesus of Nazareth not only was not and is not God in the Flesh, but Jesus never even existed. The New Testament is a fable.
How God ranks several modern civilizations. A "1" is the most Godly nation that ever existed, and a "20" is the most evil nation that ever existed. And anything other than "1" is evil in the eyes of God.
God ranks the United Kingdom, France, and Afghanistan as all being a "4", and God ranks the Soux tribe as being a "4".
God ranks contemporary China as an "8" and Japan as a "7" and the Iroquois people as a "7".
God ranks the United States as a "10" and North Korea as a "10".
God ranks Russia and contemporary Israel as a "13", and God ranks Ancient Israel as a "13". By the way, the "Jews" in Israel are 50% German and only about 50% Hebrew. The Palestinians are 100% Hebrew.
God ranks the Spanish Conquistadors as a "15" and modern Spain as a "15". The fact the Spanish did not oppose the Nazis and did not oppose Saddam Hussein offends God, and the Spanish and Portugeuse also have unruly women who demand more and more rights God never gave to women. The U. S. has the same problem.
God ranks the Navajo as an "18" because they performed ritual cannibalism, even though they deny this to this day. God ranks South Korea as an "18", however God says the United States did the right thing to ally with South Korea against North Korea, but things change.
God ranks the Nazi Germany as a "20" and Saddam Hussein's Iraq as a "20" and God ranks contemporary Germany as a "16" because they are still anti-semitic and they are actually planning another Holocaust against the Israelis.
When China and Afghanistan ally against the United States, abotu 25 years after I die, Spain will take a side in a war for the first time in a very long time, and Spain will INCORRECTLY ally with the United States, because Spain will assume Capitalism is better than Communism, and they'll assume Democracy is better than a Republic, and they'll assume Christianity is better than Islam, and they'll be wrong on all three points. China and Afghanistan will defeat both the United States and Spain, and they'll temporarily set up a Communist Theocratic Republic government in the United States. Around this time, China will also defeat and divide Germany 4 ways again for the next 1000 years, as God commanded the Allies to divide Germany 4 ways for a 1000 years, and they only divided Germany two ways for two Generations. You cannot reverse the evil of the Nazis in 40 years. It takes many, many generations to change the political and moral condition of an entire nation from being as evil as the Nazis to "deserving" to be a unified nation again. So God is going to have the Chinese invaded Germany and divide them 4 ways again, and there will be a concrete and steel wall bisecting Germany both north/south and east/west, and anybody who crosses the wall will be shot dead for the next 1000 years.
Germany is currently the Second most powerful nation in Europe again, behind only the U. K., and the United States currently INCORRECTLY shares all military technology with Germany at cost, even though the Nazi party is still the most powerful party in Germany, they just changed the name of their party. This offends God too.
By the way, China does not have any Weapons of Mass Destruction armed presently, they disarmed all of their nukes. China will not need WMD to defeat the United States, even if the United States tries to use Nukes of its own. China has good enough missiles and lasers to shoot down all of the United States nuclear missiles, and they have better missiles of their own, twice as good of missils, lasers and rail guns as the United States, so in terms of conventional warfare, china will demolish the United States military. In addition. God is going to cause the U. S. government to spend a LOT less on the military in my lifetime, because military spending is the biggest budget deficit contributor, and the U. S. is in no moral or ethical position to police the world. So in my lifetime the U. S. will eventualy decrease the Military Budget by 90%, down to 65 Billion dollars per year. We are presently "officially" spending 650 billion per yar on the military, and most of this ends up in the hands of corrupt corporate CEOs and corrupt government officials. The U. S. has not added a ship or submarine to the fleet of the Navy in decades, and so the present budget is enough to pay every person in the military a 100,000 dollar salary, but most people in the military only make a little over 20,000 per year. So most of the money goes to corruption anyway, not actually salaries nor technology nor weapons nor ships nor tanks nor aircraft.
So anyway, by the time this future war happens, China will be the sole world super power, and their military will be both 4.5 times bigger and more cost effective and twice as advanced as the U. S. military, and they will have 10 times the production capability ni their manufacturing due to more advanced technology and more population. They currently spend one THIRD as much money on the military as the United States, and they could mop the floor with the United States if World War III happened TODAY.
the United States human rights activists oppose china because of alleged violations there. God has told me China's ban on Abortion of all females is justified, and they ban male abortions except certain exceptions. God wants all abortions banned world wide EXCEPT to save the woman's life.
God has told me China's ban on homosexuality is justified, as the God-given penalty for homosexality is DEATH.
God has told me the forced labor camps in China are justified, as the people in those camps are criminals, and the United Stats should bring back forced manual labor of criminals. The U. S. Constitution does NOT ban forced manual labor as punishment for a crime. The 14th amendment says "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property EXCEPT as punishment for a crime." that word "except" matters, because it means chain gangs and other forms of forced manual labor as punishment for a crime are perfectly legal, and it means death penalty as punishment for murder and rape and certain other capital offenses is still perfectly legal. A common-sense reading of that amendment says Abortion, except to save the woman's life, is already illegal in the United States.
God told me there WILL eventually be a Constitutional Amendment in the United States banning all abortions EXCEPT to save the woman's life. Even then, it would be more moral for the woman to sacrifice her own life to save the life of the child, but even God does not actually hold humans to a perfect standard of love, so it's up to the woman, if she wants to sacrifice her life to save the child, she should do so, and if she simply doesn't have enough love to do that, God won't hold it against her if her own life really is on the line.
God has told me the United States population a couple hundred years from now will be 1.1 Billion, and the Russian population a couple hundred years from now will be over 500 million. Presently, the fertility rate in the United States has fallen all the way down to 1.7 children per woman. This is not even replacement rate of reproduction. God wants the average fertility rate to be 2.3 Children per woman, and god wants MORE Legal morally and mentally qualified immigrants to come to the United States, because the United States has enough land and resources to support them all. But God does NOT want illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America coming to the United States, and God says they should all be Deported. God also told me black people are unruly and unthankful for what God and white people have done for them, and the black people in the United States should all be shipped back to Africa, where they will learn a lesson in humility again. They commit twice as much violent crime as white people, evne though they make up less than half as much of the population of whites, and they refuse to admit they are even more racist than white people, and so God is going to punish black people for their perpetual violence and racism against whites. There's a moral and Godly reason the Coronavirus kills twice as many blacks as whites.
While I'm on that subject, God told me we don't need more lockdowns in the United States for the virus. At this point, fi somebody catches the virus, it is God's will for them to catch it, and if they die from the virus it is God's will for them to die, they must have done something wrong to deserve death.
Also, God told me Earned Income Credit will not be done away with in the United States, but in the future the Federal Government will have a way of stopping the fraudulent tax returns. Presently, God says 75% of all people who file for Earned Income Credit commit Fraud on their tax return to optimize the amount of EIC they receive from the Government. This is the SECOND biggest contributor to the Federal Deficit every year is tax fraud related to Earned Income Credit. In the Future, the Federal Government will have a way to stop this fraud, including converting to a totally electronic currency which will make most illegal transactions impossible, and will make it possible to track all income correctly so people can't fake cash income to optimize EIC. It will also make it harder to purchase illegal weapons and illegal drugs. This will happen after I die, but will still be in the lifetime of some people who read this.
In fact, God told me in the future the government will actually increase EIC, but because they'll stop most of the fraud, it will actually cost less funds each year to pay more EIC to people who really qualify for it.
Also, you should not be able to trade dependents with people who are not really blood related to the dependent. A LOT Of people do this to maximize Earned INcome Credit and Child Tax Credits, because if you have 2 or more children you get more Earned Income Credit, so a person with 3 children "sales" their dependent to a person with 1 child, so they can both get the 2 children rate of EIC on their returns. This should not be legal. You should not be able to claim a dependent who isn't a blood relative unless you've legally adopted that child, and in that case you should not be able to claim a dependent who isn't legally your adopted child.
People who can't afford to raise their own children shouldn't get married and shouldn't have children in the first place, and since premarital sex is a sin, poor people shouldn't be having sex in the first place. If you want to have sex, get married, and if you can't afford to get married, tough: Get a better job, or get two jobs and work harder, like everyone else.
Poor people should have Zero children. Middle class people should have 2 or 3 children, but only if they can comfortably afford to raise them, and rich people should have 3 or more children, however many they both want and can afford to raise. God wants the fertility rate to be 2.3 children per woman in the United States.
"Be Fruitful and Multiply" is both a commandment and a blessing.
God says within 25 years after I die, the Cost of Living deduction on U. S. tax returns will be removed, and "Refundable Child Tax credits" will be removed, but normal child tax credit will not be removed.
This is because if you cannot afford to raise a child, you should not be encouraged to have children, and if you cannot afford to live, get a better job or get two jobs, tough luck. God created everyone with the capacity to work for a living, and so you shouldn't get a deduction for your cost of living, the cost of living is part of the income you just need to learn to budget.
God says the Federal tax rate on people below 200,000 per year needs to be 25% across the board, but the U. S. government is never going to do that.
In China, EVERYONE pays at least 3% tax, and the progressive tax grows a lot faster than the U. S. tax rate. So by the time you make around 80,000 dollars per year, you are taxed 45% of all income, and China gives very few tax credits or deductions. There is a deduction for migrant worker's rent, and there's a deduction for college education, and not much else. There's no cost of living deduction and no child tax credit or deduction. If you cannot afford to raise children, don't have sex and don't get pregnant, that's how China deals with that problem... and again most Abortions are actually banned in China... and they removed the 1 child limit a long time ago, and the 1 child limit was never actually enforced anyway, it was more of a suggestion, and it especially was not enforced in Hong Kong. They need to grow their population to avoid Demographic Winter in order to be able to afford retirement programs for the elderly, so now they are recommending couples have multiple children...
Anyway, that's real prophecy. I can tell you world events I have no way of knowing, with God's help, nad I can tell you thefuture of humanity for the next million years, which God has told me humanity will exist for a little over 1 million years into the future, and God will end humanity's existence in a Righteous condition, and that will be the end of humanity.
I can tell you how many humans the Earth can support during the next Ice Age. God has said the Earth can support 2.75 Billion people during the next Ice Age, but by then humans will have a population of a couple billion in space living in Dyson Swarm orbiters around the Sun, and will have a population of about 100 million civilian miners living on Mars. A moderate Ice Age happens about once every 25000 years on Earth due to the Precession of the Earth's Axis, and a major Ice age happens about once every million years on Earth, due to changes in the Earth's Orbit around the Sun. The Milankovich cycle, which is about 108,000 years, does not significantly effect Ice Ages. God has told me the Maunder Minimum, which will start near the end of my lifetime, will cool the EArth by 0.5 Celsius, whic hwill offset Man-Made Global Warming by about that much, which Man-made global warming will warm the Sea Surface Temperature by 0.5 Celsius in the next 40 years, and will warm the atmospheric temperature by about 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius in that time, but the Maunder Minimum will reverse this warming for the next several decades after that. Also God is going to perform a world wide bonafide miracle to stop man-made global warming, AFTER humans stop Carbon dioxide pollution and stop some of the Nitrates pollution.
Now, if you think I'm a false prophet, or you think I'm cruel for saying illegal immigrants should be deported, or black people should be shipped back to africa, or for saying Homosexuals deserve the Death Penalty... don't shoot the messenger, I'm just delivering God's message to humanity.
A few years ago, I was interceding on behalf of Americans, and God spoke to me in my ear and said, "Stop praying for Americans. I'm not going to forgive them anyway."
So I can assure you China is more righteous than the United States, and I can assure you when they invade the United States, in about 65 years, they will do so with God's blessing, because the next several generations of Americans are going to be even more evil than this generation, and God is going to allow the Chinese and Afghanistan to invade the United States.
Everything I have written here is a True Prophecy, and will be proven in about the next 65 years, again some of it in my lifetime, and some of it 25 years after I die. The Book of Daniel is a false prophecy. So if you believe in the Book of Daniel, BEHOLD YOUR GOD, THE TRUE CREATOR, "Yahweh", will bring to pass what I have said, and the Book of Daniel will not come to pass.
By the way, God told me humans will neve rinvent a true Artificial Intelligence, and no alien species in the Universe is smart enough to do that either. God told me there are just over 1 million alien species in the Milky Way Galaxy which are smarter than humans, and they can't do it, and most of the intelligent species in the entire Universe live in the Milky Way, because other Galaxies have Quasars that produce too much radiation for complex life to exist there. the Milky Way's Super Massive Black Hole is a thousand times less massive than the ones in other Galaxies, so it is much less energetic than other Quasars, and it's also dormant right now anyway, so it doesn't produce much radiation. quasars in other galaxies are so powerful they destroy entire galaxies, so obviously most types of carbon-based life cannot exist there, but God told me there is at least one life form in every galaxy that still exists, but some galaxies do not have a single sentient life form in them.
Also, the Andromeda Galaxy is misunderstood. Andromeda is not even a full scale Galaxy. Andromeda is a Dwarf Galaxy and is a lot closer than scientists think it is. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are true galaxies. There are over one trillion true galaxies in the Observable Universe, and several trillion Dwarf Galaxies, and yet MOST of the sentient life in the Universe exists in the Milky Way... and NONE of them are smart enough to invent a true Artificial Intelligence, even though some of those intelligent aliens already have Quantum Neural Net brains and/or photonic neural net brains. In comparison humans have electronic neural net brains.
Humans will never invent a video game A. I. that can defeat a Grand Master at a REatl Time Strategy game. In fact I am number 1 Platinum, three leagues below Grand Master, and I can win a 1vs 5 Insane A. I. handicap, where the A. I. are all playing 800 Actions per minute and map hacking and money hacking, and I can beat them on some maps even though they are all allied against me.
So no, Artificial Intelligence is never going to happen.
And A. I. is even worse at First Person Shooter games. I can create a single player game on first Person Shooters and ally all the bots against me, and they cannot even hit me one time before I reach my kill quota and win the game. I am a 99th percentile player at first Person Shooter, so I know how bad A. I. is at first person shooter, and I can dodge any A. I. indefinitely and kill them all repeatedly until time expires or until I reach the kill quota, whichever win condition the game is set for.
So again, computer programmers are nowhere near inventing something anywhere nearly as intelligent as a human being.
question: how do you know that that voice you keep hearing is in fact the holy spirit and not just a demon? or even your own voice obuncing off the walls of the echo chamber you've sealed yourself in?
It could be, But I see it as a possible meaning for something that we either know about already, or a figure of speech for something else... If I can put it in other words:
People of the Bible probably wouldn't call a Truck a truck. They'd use words like "Mobile box" or something of the like. When we read the Book of Revelation, it goes into great description of the details of many things, but it's' pretty elaborate! If we boil it down, perhaps some of the items described are things that we could already have existing, but we call them something completely different! I hope that makes sense...
It was referring to a future empire, yes, but it was in the future *at the time it was written*, and referedto the Roman empire. so that's a prophesy that has already come and past. It's important to remember that the books of the Bible were written with contemporary readers in mind, not readers thousands of miles and years off.
Of course you liberals would assume Trump is the “anti Christ”, anyone you disagree with is suddenly evil incarnate. You guys even called him “Hitler” back in 2016.
And by the way my profile picture is from the 1984 film “Red Dawn”, I just think it looks cool. So I don’t know what’s with your faulty assumption.🙄
both of oyu, shut up. I won't deny that I've been alarmed at how well Trump fits the bill of the antichrist, but I've been hesitant to point the finger since *Every US president in history* has been accused of being the antichrist. remember when all the conservative extremists were throwing those same accusations at Obama? and before that Ronald Reagan?
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In disregard of all 'interpretations' - there is no mentioning that there's anything that WE can do about it. The main thing from my p. o. v.: continue trying to do the right things; wait and see.
I have an unsure eschatology. There are good arguments for a future fulfillment and good arguments for other views. I have decided for the simple solution: to always be ready.
If anything, the 4th beast in the Book of Daneil, pretending it were a true prophecy and ignoring the obvious flaws I already know about, but pretending anyway that it was true, if anything the 4th beast would represent the Roman Empire, as they are the only world power that ever controlled all of those regions so they were "Diverse" from the other beasts. The United States does not control those regions, and the European Union does not control all of those regions, and since the United Nations is not a world government at all they don't really control those regions either, the United Nations is composed of 5 nations with veto power plus anyone else dumb enough to join the U. N. And besides about 90% of the funding for the U. N. comes from the U. S. the same as every other world alliance, the U. S. always provides 75% to 90% of the funding, because our leaders are freaknig MORONS and we alreays get ripped off by the other nations, and the only reason the U. S. is the "richest" nation in the world is because were LIARS and defraud everyone else back, and so we have an 80 trillion dolalr debt when you combined all private and public debts, which is damn near the entire land value of the continental U. S. So no, the U. S. is not the fulfillment of the 4th beast of Daniel, even if it were a true prophecy. It could only be referring to Rome, and Rome has already come and gone.
If you really did respect and understand the scientific process and critical thinking, you wouldn't be a religious moron in the first place, the 2 are entirely incompatible
Pure speculation on your part. What are you, some kind of mind reader? And yet you consider me scientifically illiterate. Quit projecting. All you have to do is read into these figures and you’ll understand they were devout towards their religion.
Many parts of the Bible can actually be supported by science, so assuming that religion is nothing more than “hocus pocus” shows how ignorant you are on both science and religion.
You are pretty much arguing from a false dichotomy standpoint.
No, no part of any religious text is supported by science. None of it. Thats the whole point. The default position is non belief, in anything and there is nothing to support any of the claims made by religion.
Once again you are wrong. Various bible verses can actually be supported by science.
The snake in the garden of eden who use to have legs but was cursed by god to slither around or speaking scientifically, “evolved” to slither around. Biologists have proven that snakes still have the genes to grow limbs. www.google.com/.../snakes-grow-legs-evolution
this will probably come as a surprise to everyone here, but not only is theistic evolution (God created the universe millions of years ago, then let life evolve naturally because art) the officialy stance of the catholic church, www.newsweek.com/pope-franciss-remarks-evolution-are-not-controversial-among-roman-catholics-281115, but non-literalitic, non-creationistic interpretation of the book of genesis has been official catholic doctrince since long before darwin, all the way back to Sain augustine. in fact it was these writings of autustine that got him canonized as a saint in the first place.
I'd also like to point out that gregor mendel, father of genetics, and Copernicus, father of heliocentirsm, were both catholic clergy. and also that the vatican helped found oxford university.
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