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What does God's Word convey
for the present?
Biblical work,
intended for the churches, all Christians and impartial people, to provide
encouragement and insight in current worldly development.
Written by: František Mladějovský
with the support of Vítězslav Kohút and other
friends
(Translated into English by: Vítězslav Kohút)
Introduction
Events in
the world, the direction the Christian nations are heading, make Christians ask:
what does that mean? We naturally seek answers in God's word. God does not
leave His faithful servants in ignorance. We want to share with you the results
of our many years of study of God's Word, because we believe that the attainments
the Scriptures have revealed to us are so relevant that all Christians should take
them in consideration. We will approach all the churches we know of, for God
and his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, know their servants and know where they
are.
The point
is that our civilization is undergoing changes on a scale that humanity has not
yet experienced. It is not just a global, worldwide scope, nor is it just a
change caused by the application of modern technology, but above all a change
in the values promoted in Christian civilization. It is the attitude of rulers
and governments to their nations, to all creation, to the natural order of God.
God's Word testifies that God does not give the right to influential people and
rulers, to act arbitrarily, does not give them the right to abuse the power
entrusted to them to support perverted ideologies contrary to God's natural
order and ultimately to incite rebellion against God (Psalm 2).
All this is
reflected in the new laws legalizing unnatural and perverted actions and relationships,
in laws weakening the role of the family based on the natural relationship of
man and woman, in the role of father and mother in behalf of their descendants.
It reflects
in the indifference of society to the values on which the civilization of the
Christian nations arose and have stood for a long time. We can surely say that
the world is changing very quickly and dramatically. We therefore searched the
Bible, sought God's explanation of what is happening, and found that the
origins and roots of current events are described most clearly in the book of
the prophet Daniel.
The fourth
and fifth chapters of the book of Revelation tell that in parallel with the
events here on earth, important events and processes take place in heaven.
Without them, the final period of our age and of the whole epoch, the beginning
of which is described, as has already been said, by the Prophet Daniel, cannot
begin. This is also one of the reasons why God's reaction to the current
development has not yet come and some people foolishly think that it will not
come. We Christians should be able to tell people who still want to listen to
what information the Scriptures provide about our time. That is because God
will definitely intervene but many will be trapped.
The subject
of this work is the search for answers to four important questions. What epoch
do we live in? Where is its origin (roots)? What is its purpose for? Where is
the development of human governments heading?
Why is it
good to ask these questions? Simply so that we even know what's going on and at
the same time be able to understand what we have to do at this time. This is
important because then we can tell people who are concerned about what is going
on and look for Bible-based answers to the important questions they may ask
themselves. God's Word can answer all well-asked questions. And we Christians
must know the answers. That is what is expected of us, although few people say
it out loud today. And unfortunately, people who are not Christians, but think
honestly about the future of Christianity, do not expect much from us. Why?
Because so far no one has come up with clear and credible answers.
Therefore,
please pay attention to this short study, verify the arguments on which its
conclusions are based. We present them to you for consideration, and you decide
for yourself whether you will take on your own task before God's people.
Content
Obsah
Where is the
beginning of the era we live in?
Global government
is the goal of the Babylonian era
Is the Development
of Human Rule heading for a deteriorating global totalitarianism?
Transition to the
period of Iron Kingdom
The Babylonian Era
ends with a rebellion against God and His order.
The final
rebellion against God and his people will be real
We can rely on
God's righteousness
Two fulfillments
of the prophetic dream of a giant statue
The first
fulfillment was only partial
The present, the
expected development and the germ of the God's Kingdom
Events in heaven
and the kingdom of God on earth
Modern history
related to the end of the Babylonian era
What does this
mean for Christians?
Where is the
beginning of the era we live in?
Without a
proper understanding of the epoch, we live in, the finding of its beginning and
the knowledge of the aim for which it came to being, it is impossible to
understand the current development. The book of the prophet Daniel records the
testimony of the epoch in which we live. The second chapter of the book of the
prophet Daniel tells a story that took place more than two and a half thousand
years ago. It tells us that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon considered the
future before going to bed (verse 2:29). And the God of heaven, through a
dream, told him what would happen in the future.
The statue
the king saw in the dream had a golden head, a silver chest, a bronze belly and
hips, iron legs whose feet were partly made of iron and partly made of clay.
God's interpretation of the dream, communicated through the mouth of the
prophet Daniel (Daniel 2: 17-30), says that each part of the statue represents
a sequence of several kingdoms in succession, from head to bottom. The fact
that the head was golden, the other parts were made of less noble metals, and
the feet were made of a mixture of iron and clay, God explains by the declining
quality of the consecutive kingdoms. (Daniel 2:39, 40)
The king was told that he was the golden head of the
statue (verse 38). This means that King Nebuchadnezzar is the beginning of an
era that will last until the saints of the Highest take over the rule (Daniel
2: 34,44-45), which has not yet happened, as we shall see. That is why we call
the epoch in which we find ourselves the Babylonian epoch.
Summary
Current
developments cannot be understood if we do not know the beginning and the goal
to be achieved. We live in an era that began during the reign of
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. That is why we call it the Babylonian epoch.
The four kingdoms are periods of four governments. The end of the Babylonian
era will come when the saints of the Highest take over the government.
Global government
is the goal of the Babylonian era
The
beginning of the Babylonian era is described, as it already has been said, in
the second chapter of the book of the prophet Daniel. The large statue that the
king saw in the dream, which, according to the description, had a human form,
represents the whole, still lasting era. It is an epoch of human governments
that have the permission of the God of heaven to rule over the whole earth,
wherever a living soul may be found. Daniel writes in verses 2: 37-38: "You, O
king, the king of kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the
power, the strength, and the honor and into whose hands he has given men
wherever they may dwell, as well as the beasts of the field and the birds of
the heavens, and whom he has made ruler over all of them-you yourself are the
head of gold." The head is a source of ideas and plans. Short-term and
long-term ones. The idea of governing over the whole earth was not new. Shortly
after the flood, Nimrod aimed at the rule over all people (Genesis 11: 1-9).
The God of heaven has not yet allowed him to do so.
By doing
so, God made it clear to the King that it was Him, the God of heaven, who let
people form a world government according to his own concept.
Summary
We already
know how and when the Babylonian era began. We have now learned that the goal
of the Babylonian epoch is worldwide government, created in conformity with the
will of man.
Human worldwide government will be based on the
exercise of power
The concept
of human governments is based mainly on the exercise of power. This is the
principle followed by King Nebuchadnezzar and all the rulers after him to this
day.
,,Is this not Babylon the Great that I myself
have built for the royal house by my own strength and might and for the glory
of my majesty?" (Daniel 4:30)
We will
return to this statement of the King of Babylon even later, here we present it
in order to see what human governments base their existence and their
motivation on. They are aimed with the power and strength at achieving ever
greater majesty of their own. A proof that human governments give priority to power
and might rather than justice and the other two basic qualities (wisdom and
love) is given in verse 40 of the interpretation of the dream of a great
statue:
,, As for the fourth kingdom, it will be
strong like iron. For just as iron crushes pulverizes everything else, yes, like
iron that shatters, it will crush and shatter all of these." (Daniel 2:40)
We do not learn much about the silver and bronze kingdoms, but the fourth, the iron kingdom, is characterized by the hardness and strength of iron. Developments throughout all of the whole of Babylonian era moves to this goal. To increasing strength and hardness. At the expense of justice and the prospects of others.
Summary
The second
and fourth chapters of Daniel's book describe that the concept of King
Nebuchadnezzar's rule is based on strength and power, and the purpose of his
rule is to achieve higher majesty to his honor. This concept of government is
being followed also by the kingdoms of the Babylonian era, which come after the
Babylonian Empire. The worst and hardest will be the fourth kingdom, which is
represented on the great statue of the King's dream by iron feet and soles with
toes, which are partly made of iron, partly made of clay.
Is the
Development of Human Rule heading for a deteriorating global totalitarianism?
In the
interpretation of the dream of a great statue, God said to the king, that his
reign (golden head) would be replaced by another (silver), worse kingdom. The
third, bronze kingdom is first said to rule over the whole earth. Finally, the
government of the Iron Kingdom will come.
,,... you
yourself are the head of gold. But
after you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to you, then another
kingdom, a third one, of copper, that will rule over the whole earth. As for
the fourth kingdom, it will be strong like iron. For just as iron crushes and
pulverizes everything else, yes, like iron that shatters, it will crush and
shatter all of these." (Daniel 2:38-40)
The
description and interpretation of the dream of the King of Babylon show that
the quality that grows with each new kingdom on the statue represented by
silver, bronze and iron is hardness. Silver is a little harder than gold.
Bronze is a much harder material than gold and silver, and iron is the hardest
of these materials. The deteriorating quality of the kingdom, as the
interpretation of the dream of a great statue suggests, must be associated with
increasing hardness.
The period of Bronze
Age
We know
that the so-called bronze kingdom will rule over the whole earth. The first
kingdom that could be said with some exaggeration to rule over the entire
country was the British Empire. At the time of his greatest glory, it was said
that the sun did not set over him. The British Empire can therefore be
considered a representative of the Bronze Kingdom. At the time of its greatest
glory, England is a kingdom, but the executive power in the country is split
between the royal family and the Parliament. The political power of the
Parliament and government composed of elected representatives of political
parties is greater than royal power. England is considered the cradle of
democracy in modern times. The democratic political-power system began to
spread around the world.
The United
States, the former English colony, was the successor to the British Empire. To this
day, the United States is the strongest and most zealous promoter of democracy
in the world. The great worldly powers spread not only the political system,
but also modern technology and the western lifestyle with its values and
gradual alienation from God. Gold and silver are soft, forgeable metals. They
are easy to shape and process according to the creator's intention. Although
bronze is an alloy of soft metals, copper and tin, their alloy, bronze, is very
hard. However, iron is even harder than bronze. During Daniel's lifetime, iron
was the hardest material to be used for weapons manufactory. As for gold and
silver, much less force and energy are needed on the processing than in case of
bronze and iron. But in what way is the hardness of other kingdoms worse and
greater? After all, the hardness in antiquity and in the Middle Ages was at
first sight the same, if not greater than it is today. The question is, to
whom? Hardness against people has always existed. There was even a murder
between Adam's two sons.
According
to Daniel's prophecy in the seventh chapter, the last beast is described as
follows:
,,As for
the fourth beast, there is a fourth kingdom that will come to be on the earth.
It will be different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour all the
earth and will trample it down and crush it. As for the ten horns, ten kings
will rise up out of that kingdom; and still another one will rise up after
them, and he will be different from the first ones and he will humiliate three
kings. He will speak words against the Most High and he will continually harass
the holy ones of the Supreme One. He will intend to change times and law, and
they will be given into his hand for a time, times and half a time."
(Daniel 7:23-25)
The
hardness of the kingdom of the Iron Era is not only directed against the
people, creation and the earth (it will devour and plunder the whole earth),
but in the end it will also degenerate into open hostility and open rebellion
against God and His people.
Transition to
the period of Iron Kingdom
The
transition from the Bronze Era to the reign of the Iron Kingdom can be traced
both by the hardness in the use of force and injustice against the weak and by
the loss of respect for God. We are not able to determine the exact date of the
transition from the Bronze to the Iron Era. Perhaps the first major break in
the relationship of rulers, but also of the lower classes of society towards
the Church (probably not to God yet) occurred after the War of Thirty Years'.
The Renaissance and new discoveries in the use of steam and electricity
gradually strengthened people's faith in their own strength and abilities. The
British Empire became the dominant kingdom of the Bronze Era. But it itself
gradually turned into an iron kingdom. But nowadays we surely live in the Iron
Era. The relationship of rulers, governments and other powerful and rich people
of the contemporary world to human society, to nature and to God has completely
changed. This is evident after World War I and especially after World War II.
The last fourth, the Iron Kingdom crushes and smashes everything. The
destructive power of the iron governments is evident from this verse.
.
Summary
The Kingdom
of the Babylonian Era differs in severity in the exercise of power and in the
deteriorating relationship with God and all that is associated with Him. The
last, fourth, Iron Kingdom, during which the last worldwide rule of the
Babylonian era will come, is characterized by an increasing destructive force,
directed at people and nature. The democratic political system, which is being
spread through the great worldly powers mainly after the Second World War, will
be replaced at the end of the era by totalitarianism, which will destroy and crush
everything that stands in its way.
The Babylonian
Era ends with a rebellion against God and His order.
Daniel's
prophecy in the seventh chapter tells that in the period of the fourth kingdom,
at the end, someone powerful will wage war on the saints and overcome them.
Eventually, however, it will be destroyed and wiped out (Daniel 7:21,25,26).
,,I kept
watching as that horn made war on the holy ones, and it was prevailing against
them,...He will speak words against the Most High, and he will continually harass
the holy ones of the Supreme One. He will intend to change time and law, and
they will be given into his hand for a time, times and half a time. But the
Court sat and they took away his rulership in order to annihilate him and to
destroy him completely ".
The end of
the Babylonian Era is also confirmed by the interpretation of the dream of the
great statue in (Daniel 2:34):
,,You looked on until a stone was cut out, not
by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and of clay and crushed
them."
,,And just as you saw the feet and the toes to
be of clay of a potter and partly of iron, the kingdom will be divided but some
of the hardiness of iron will be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with
soft clay. And as the toes and the feet
were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong
and partly fragile. Just as you saw iron mixed with soft clay, they will be
mixed with the people, but hey will not stick together, one to the other, just
as iron does not mix with clay. In the
days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be
destroyed . And this kingdom will
not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these
kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever, just as you saw that out of the
mountain a stone was cut not by hands and that it crushed the iron, the copper,
the clay and the silver and the gold. The Grand God has made known to the king
what will happen in the future"
In the
final period of the Babylonian Era, people of different races and cultures will
mix, and this will cause the kingdom to be internally divided. It is certainly
a very important feature, a signal for recognizing the approaching conclusion
of the Iron Kingdom and the entire Babylonian epoch (see the quoted verses of
Daniel 2: 34,41-45). The mixing of people of different nationalities and races
has been under way since the beginning of the Babylonian Era in antiquity. The
king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, in an effort to control the peoples who had
conquered, moved them throughout the empire. The Medo-Persian kings let the
relocated nations to return and restore their culture and religion (thanks to
which the Jews could return to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple again). In the
Roman Empire, after the introduction of Christianity, the Christian nations
lived side by side for a long time. They did the business with each other; they
shared the same faith and for a long time the same church. Consequently, for
many centuries there has been no significant mixing of people and different
cultures. The mixing of people described in Daniel 2: 34,41-45 must be of
particular importance, in relation to the behavior and features of the Iron
Kingdom at the end of its existence. There is currently a consciously and
openly supported experiment under way in Europe, during which a large number of
people of different races come to Europe, people with completely different
mentalities, cultures and religious roots. That process began on a large scale
in 2015. On a smaller scale, however, the mixing of people of different races,
cultures and religions with the European population has been under way for a
long time since the end of World War II.
Promoting
the migration of large numbers of foreigners is not a caprice of some political
leaders, but a consciously controlled process. It is a process consciously
supported. Whatever his goals, God considered it important to draw attention to
this fact. We must therefore take current, artificially supported migration
into account as one of the important signs of the ongoing Era of Iron Kingdom.
The final
rebellion against God and his people will be real
This
rebellion has not taken place yet, but it will be completely real. There are
several places in the Bible where rebellion against God and his Anointed is
mentioned.
,,Why are
the nations agitated and the peoples muttering an empty thing ? The kings of the earth take their stand
and high officials gather together as one against the God and against his
Anointed One. Let us tear off their shackles. " (Žalm 2:1-3)
,,AS for
the fourth beast, there is a fourth kingdom that will come to be on the earth,
it will be different from the other kingdoms, and it will devour all the earth
and it will trample it down and crush it. As for the ten horns, ten kings will rise up out of that kingdom and
still another one will rise up after them and he will be different from the
first ones and he will humiliate three kings. He will speak words against the
Most High, and he will continually harass the holy ones of the Supreme One. He
will also intend to change times and law, and they will be given into his hands
for a time, times, and half a time. But the Court sat and they took away his
rulership in order to annihilate him and to destroy him completely and the
kingdom and the rulership and the grandeur of the kingdoms under all the
heavens were given to the people of the Supreme One. Hus kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom and all rulerships will serve them and obey them."
(Daniel 7:23-27)
,,Then
you will be handed over to tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be
hatedby all the nations on account of my name." (Matthew 24:9)
,,A for
the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him,
we ask you not to be quickly shaken from your reason not to be alarmed either
by an inspired statement or by a spoken message or by a letter appearing to be
from us, to the effect that the day of our God be here. Let no one lead you
astray to any way, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and
the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. He stands in
opposition and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship,
so that he sits down in the temple of God publicly showing himself to be a god."
(2 Thessalonians 2:1-4)
Na konci
období čtvrtého království, popsaném u Daniela ve druhé kapitole (chodidla
sochy částečně ze železa, částečně z hlíny) a v sedmé kapitole je to čtvrtá
šelma (... strašlivá, úděsná a neobyčejně
silná. Měla veliké železné zuby. Požírala, drtila a to ostatní svýma nohama
pošlapávala. Ta byla ale odlišná ode všech šelem, které byly před ní, a měla
deset rohů. ... Daniel 7:7, 23-25) se objeví šelma popsaná také ve Zjevení 13:1,2;
,,And I
saw a wild beast ascending out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, and
on its horns ten diadems, but on its heads blasphemous names. The wild beast
that I saw was like a leopard but its feet were like those of a bear, and its
mouth was like a lion´s mouth. "
Šelma
popsaná ve Zjevení bude skutečná. Nebude se podobat ničemu, co dosud lidstvo
zažilo. Protože nebude respektovat Boží přirozený řád a bude se ho snažit
nahradit falešnými a zvrácenými idejemi a hodnotami, bude se vlastnostmi
vymykat všemu, co jsme dosud znali, proto je v Danielovi o ní napsané, že
se nebude podobat žádnému pozemskému tvoru, jako předchozí království
připodobněné lvu, medvědovi a levhartovi. Některé rysy předchozích království
bude však mít (Ta šelma, kterou jsem
uviděl, byla podobná levhartovi, její nohy jako tlapy medvěda a její tlama jako
tlama lví.). Bude se prosazovat mocí a silou a bude se snažit zničit
všechno, co připomíná Boží autoritu a spravedlnost.
Summary
From the
interpretation of the prophecies related to the dream of the great statue, it
follows that at the end of the Iron Era of the Babylonian epoch, people from
different, often very different nations and cultures will mix. A shameless king
will make his apparition, a beast who will persecute God's people and try to
destroy everything that reminds God, his authority and righteousness, and will
persecute anyone who sticks to God's word and does not deny Jesus. At the end
of this forty-two months lasting period, during which the beast will fight and
overcome the saints, the beast will be destroyed without human intervention, so
will be put a term to the Babylonian epoch, in which people are allowed to form
a world government of their own will. The government will be taken over by the
saints of the Most High and the Kingdom of God will be established.
We can rely on
God's righteousness
God's
righteousness is mentioned in various contexts throughout all the Bible in over
700 texts.
The apostle
Paul writes of rulers as servants of God to judge righteously. At that time
there were no rulers other than the pagans. Like before them king
Nebuchadnezzar. If governments do not act righteously and keep maintain God's
natural order, which is based on a family of men and women, but instead support
perverted values and ideas, disparage anyone who admonishes them and warns them
that it is wrong, we must sooner or later expect God's response.
,,It is
God's minister, an avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is
bad." (Romans13:4)
Jesus said
we should seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness (Matthew 6:33). Few
today know that God's righteousness is the most important key to understanding
Bible prophecy. When the God of heaven gave King Nebuchadnezzar rule over the
whole earth, he also showed him that the king must recognize God's sovereignty
and respect the Supreme God, who made approval of his rule over the whole
earth. Therefore he sent the king another
dream
of a large tree that had been cut down, leaving only a stump in the ground
gripped with iron and bronze hoops for seven times, so that the king would know
that the Supreme ruled over the human kingdoms and gave them to whomever he
wanted.
,,This is
by the decree of watchers, and the request is by the word of the holy ones so
that the people living may know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of
mankind and that he gives it to whomever he wants.... . ... At the end of that time I Nebuchadnezzar looked up to the heavens
and my understanding returned to me. I praised the Most High, and to the one
living forever I gave praise and glory because his rulership is an everlasting
rulership and his kingdom is for generation after generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded
as nothing, and he does according to his own will among the army of the heavens
and the inhabitants of the earth. And there is no one who can hinder him or say
to him: ´What have you done?' At that time my understanding returned to me and
the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and my splendor returned to me. My high
officials and nobles eagerly sought meout, and I was restored to my kingdom,
and even more greatness was added to me. Noe I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and
exalting the King of the heavens because all his works are truth and his ways
are just and because he is able to humiliate those who are walking in pride."
(Daniel 4:17,25,34-39)
The
narration of this story of Nebuchadnezzar, as well as of other powerful acts
that God did before the eyes of the king and his nobility (liberation of Daniel's
friends from the fiery furnace) and later before Medes King Darius, when he
delivered Daniel from the lion's den, is intentional. The main purpose of these
demonstrations of God's power is to instruct the rulers of the world to respect
God's natural order, authority, and righteousness. God's power and justice
(manifested in the natural order he created) are two qualities the Bible draws
our attention to. Why? To learn about the principles of his righteousness and
the ways in which God manifests justice. He is not indifferent; he watches what
is going on earth and he knows about each of us.
,,God is a righteous Judge, and God proclaims
his judgments every day.... ... he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the
inhabited earth with righteousness. " (Psalms 7:12; 96:13)
,,God is
in his holy temple, God´s throne is in the heavens. God examines the righteous
one as well as the wicked one. His soul hates anyone who loves violence. Upon the wicked, he will rain down snares.
Fire and sulfur and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup, for God
is righteous. He loves righteous acts. The upright will see his face.." (Psalms
11:4-7)
,,Two sparrows sell for a coin of small
value., do they not? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your father´s
knowledge. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered." (Matthew 10:29,30)
Let us be
sure that he records the actions of every ruler and government. The quality of
human governments is being determined by justice and respect for his authority.
He does not call for rebellion against bad rulers, because he will eventually
judge them. See the text cited in Romans 13: 4;
On the
contrary, the kingdom of God, which comes when the measure of evil that will
lead to open rebellion against God is
complete, guarantees that his government will be righteous.
,, For a child has been
born to us, A son has been given to us; and the rulership will rest on his shoulder. His name will be
called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of
Peace. To the increase of his
rulership and to peace, there will be no end,
on the throne of David and on his kingdom i n order to establish it firmly and to sustain it
through justice and righteousness, from now on and forever. The zeal of
God of armies will do this." (Isaiah 9:5,6; 16:5;)
Summary
There are
mainly two reasons for which human kingdoms are deteriorating in our era. The
first aspect is the relation to the God of heaven and his creation. The second
aspect is in the application of justice that respects God's natural order.
Two fulfillments
of the prophetic dream of a giant statue
Biblical
prophecies do not only announce what is to come. In most cases, biblical
prophecies state, in addition to the events that are to take place, the causes
that those events will provoke and the starting point leading to salvation.
That is why we need to know God's justice, because it is the key to
understanding God's prophecies. Biblical prophecies sometimes have more than
one fulfillment, because most processes in human society are somehow re-echoed (Ecclesiastes
1: 9,10) even with consequences. Only the form and staffing of the participants
in the process change. The question is whether the prophecies we are now
examining have not happened, and if so, when? Let's take a closer look at the
two accomplishments of the interpretation of the dream of a great statue.
The first
fulfillment was only partial
Commentators
of Daniel's prophecies sometimes sustain that the dream of a giant statue and
the prophecy of the four beasts had their accomplishment in ancient times. And
they are partially right. The domination of the seemingly invincible Babylon
was replaced by the Medo-Persian Empire, which was overthrown by Alexander the
Great. The age of the ancient pagan empires was completed by the Roman Empire. During
its reign, Jesus Christ, who announced the coming of God's kingdom (Matthew 3:
2; 4:17), was born on earth. By this the
prophecy described in the interpretation of the dream of the giant statue was
partially fulfilled.
Mankind
failed to form a world government during the reign of the pagan empires because
it simply was not possible. And the Kingdom of God came, but not with the power
to put an end to all those kingdoms. On the contrary, the Kingdom of God
(represented at the time by the people of Moses) coexisted with other, pagan
empires. The Roman Empire did not disappear under the invasions of the
barbarians, but only gradually transformed during the first millennium into the
Christian Holy Roman Empire, in which the Roman Catholic Church had a very
significant share in the power and spiritual influence. The first emperor
appointed was Charles the Great (Charlemagne). The Christian faith was
gradually adopted by most nations in Europe. The rule of the saints of the Most
High, as stated in the king's dream, did not occur through the union of
spiritual and secular power, for the world was still in the power of the bad
one (1 John 5:19). The Church did not end all those kingdoms (Daniel 2: 44,45).
The expected second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ also did not come true.
With the second coming of our Lord, the order to commemorate the Lord's death
at the Lord's Supper with bread and his covenant, which He made with us through
His blood symbolized by a glass of wine, will end.
,, For I received
from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the
night on which he was going to be betrayed took a loaf, and after
giving thanks, he broke it and said: "This means my body, which is in your
behalf. Keep doing this in remembrance of me." He did the same with the
cup also, after they had the evening meal, saying: "This cup means the new
covenant by virtue of my blood. Keep doing this, whenever you drink it, in
remembrance of me." For whenever you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you
keep proclaiming the death of the Lord, until he comes. " (1Corinthians
11:23-26)
This is
still true until the Lord comes.
Jesus said
that the Kingdom of God is among us: " On being asked by the Pharisees when the
Kingdom of God was coming, he answered them: "The Kingdom of God is not
coming with striking observableness; nor will people say, 'See here!' or,
'There!' For look! the Kingdom of God is in your midst ." (Luke 17:20, 21)
In the
parable of the field and the weeds, Jesus showed that the kingdom of God is on
earth (in the field that represents the world) through the sons of the kingdom,
along with the sons of the evil:
In response he said: "The sower of
the fine seed is the Son of man; the field is the world. As for the fine
seed, these are the sons of the Kingdom, but the weeds are the sons of the
wicked one, and the enemy who sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is a
conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are
angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with fire,
so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things. The Son of man will send his angels, and they
will collect out from his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling and people
who practice lawlessness"(Matthew 13:36-41)
It is clear
from the parable that the kingdom of God is represented by the "sons of
the kingdom" and are in the field (in the world) together with the sons of
the evil one. And this condition will continue until the harvest (Revelation
14:15). This situation persists today.
The
prophecy of the four beasts was not fulfilled during the first accomplishment,
because Daniel had the vision in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon,
shortly before the fall of his empire. The kingdoms represented by the beasts
of Daniel's vision recorded in the seventh chapter of the book relate to other,
kingdoms that appeared later. Nevertheless, we can consider the time of the
pagan empires from the Babylonian Empire to the collapse of the Roman Empire as
the first partial fulfillment of the prophetic dream of the Babylonian king
Nebuchadnezzar because most of what is said in the interpretation of the dream
came true.
Summary
The
development of the ancient empires during the period of the first fulfillment
of the dream of a great statue can be taken as help in the sense of
Ecclesiastes 1: 9,10. The first fulfillment of the interpretation of the dream
of a great statue was completed with the beginning of the Christian age. In the
first fulfillment, pagan empires ruled. However, none of them formed a world
government, and the Kingdom of God came up without the intervention ('not by
hands') during the rule of the last empire from the period of the first
fulfillment of the dream about the giant statue. It was and still is
represented by the Sons of the Kingdom. However, it did not end the Babylonian
era, as there was no worldwide rebellion against God, which is mentioned in the
prophecy of the four beasts representing the four kingdoms. God's people of the
first covenant were replaced by the people of Christ, which was created on the
basis of the new covenant of Christ. The process that Jesus described in
several parables began, the most famous of which is perhaps the parable of
wheat and weeds.
The second
fulfillment is related to the interpretation of Jesus' parable of the corn and
the weeds in the field and of the harvest.
The
prophecy of the great statue covers a period of more than two and a half
thousand years. Therefore, we must be careful to put the individual prophecies
correctly into their places. This is not about specific data. We must try to
understand the purpose for which God's prophecy was communicated to us (Isaiah
55: 9-11).
The dream
of the giant statue and its interpretation is basic information about the growth
of human governments and the purpose of the entire Babylonian era of more than
two and a half thousand years. We already know from the process that the evolution
of human governments is leading to the destructive, unrighteous use of force
and rebellion against the God of heaven. The purpose of the whole epoch is
undoubtedly to enable humankind to form a world government according to its own
conception. Through Daniel, God communicates this not only to the rulers but
also to His people (Moses and Christ) to let them know and understand the era
in which we are living (Daniel 12:10). As the victory of God's Kingdom over
human governments is conditioned by the occurrence of a world government
according to human conception and the rebellion of human rulers against God, we
cannot determine any exact time. This shows to be a very useful point, as this
way we are protected from hastily determining the date of the end of the age
and the coming of the Kingdom of God.
We also
know that the whole epoch can be divided into periods of four kingdoms. We know
that one cycle of the four great empires has already taken place, and we call
it the first fulfillment. From the history of the empires of the first
fulfillment of the dream related to a giant statue, we can see that even then
the relationship with the God of heaven and his people was deteriorating.
Especially after the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great, Macedonian.
During the reign of Antiochus IV. Epiphany there was even desecration of the
temple when a statue of Zeus was placed in it. Later, some Roman emperors
claimed to be gods, as described in Daniel, in the Revelation of John, or in 2
Thessalonians. Nowadays, looking back at two thousand years of the Christian
Era, we can see the same tendency of humankind evolution. Mainly in the
Christian part of the world. Why does it take so long?
To have
enough time to accomplish the main task that the Lord Jesus has entrusted us
with:
,, Jesus approached and
spoke to them, saying: "All authority has been given me in heaven and on the
earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy
spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And
look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things ." (Matthew 28:18-20)
This task
was not technically feasible for a long time, because the time of discovering
new continents, islands and the people living on them came much later. The
evangelization and missionary work of the churches could spread on a large
scale from the then known world to all continents and inhabited islands with
the development of commercial sailing.
Another
reason why it takes so long was explained by the Apostle Peter in his letter:
However, do not let this escape
your notice, beloved ones, that one day is with God as a thousand years and a
thousand years as one day. God is
not slow concerning his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is
patient with you because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires
all to attain to repentance. But God's day will come as a thief, in
which the heavens will pass away with a roar, but the elements being
intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be exposed (2 Peter 3:8-10)
The third
reason is the fact we already mentioned at the beginning of the study. In
secret, a very important process of sanctification (purification) of God's name
has been taking place in our eyes in heaven. John writes about this in
Revelation chapter four. This chapter confirms the importance of the first
sentence in the Father's Prayer: " Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.
" We do not know how long this process will take, but it will not end
until the angels represented in the first heavens by twenty-four elders sitting
on their thrones around God's throne, acknowledge that God has the right to
rule his creation. ,, You are
worthy, Lord our God, to
receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you
created all things, and because of your will they came into existence and
were created." (Revelation 4:11)
The fourth reason is
explained in the fifth chapter of Revelation, where the Lamb takes over the
scroll with the seven seals. Among other things, it is explained why the Lamb
is worthy to take over the scroll. ,,You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals,
for you were slaughtered and with your blood you bought people for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
and you made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they
are to rule as kings over the earth. " It probably also takes some time to
raise enough individuals suitable for God's government. Therefore, we cannot
base our studies of prophecy solely on events that have happened or are to
happen. We must understand the meaning of even those prophecies about events
that we cannot see because they are happening in heaven.
If we are
to understand the current evolution of mankind and the world in the age of the
Christ' covenant, we must understand the conditions described by Jesus in
several parables. We already mentioned the first one when we explained the
first accomplishment. It is a parable about wheat and weeds from Matthew,
chapter 13. There Jesus says that the sons of the kingdom (wheat) and the sons
of the evil (weeds) live together until the harvest, when everything matures. Another
parable "On the growth of the kingdom" written in Mark 4: 26-29
brings another important detail. "The kingdom of God is like a man casting a
seed on the ground; he sleeps at night and gets up during the day and the seed
germinates and grows, he doesn't even know how. The earth bears fruit of its
own, first the stalk, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when
the harvest is ripe, a man shall send a sickle at once: for the harvest is
come." The parable tells us that one can observe the growth of the harvest, but
one does not even know how it happens. Only by external signs does he know that
the harvest is approaching. We know that the sower is the Son of Man (Matthew
13: 37-39), and he also knows what the harvest should look like. Another
information from this parable is the fact that the evolution (growth and
maturation) of mankind, the people of Christ including, follows God's natural
order. This includes the education of God's people for the roles of kings and
priests in God's government.
As a
result, we should pay more attention to the traits and characteristics that
usually manifest in specific events in the behavior of the society, in the
growth of lawlessness and the influence of the wicked, in the values that most
people follow or recognize, including rulers and politicians of the world we
live in. These signs indicate that the crop is ripening. Do we know how to know
it? We know at least two important features. Deviation from God's natural
order, manifested in perverted behavior, support for perverted and false
ideologies, and the adoption of laws contrary to natural law that is in harmony
with God's natural order. This is just one important feature. The second is a
spontaneous tendency towards rebellion against God and his Anointed One.
Summary
The second
fulfillment of the interpretation of the dream that the Babylonian king
Nebuchadnezzar had about the giant statue, took place in the so-called
Christian age. With the arrival of Jesus Christ and his successful accomplishment
of the mission he received from his Father, the God of heaven, the development
of a world in which the sons of the kingdom and the sons of the evil live
together began. The great powers that have embraced Christianity as their
religion have a significant influence on the formation of the world. From
John's prophecies written in the fourth and fifth chapters of Revelation, it is
clear that the end of the Babylonian era and the coming of God's government
will come when all the conditions in heaven and on earth are fulfilled. The
parables of "wheat and weeds" and the "growth of the
kingdom" explain that humanity in the Christian age must mature like a
harvest in a field, and also that the sons of the kingdom and the sons of the
evil must grow together side by side as grain and weeds grow in the field.
The present, the
expected development and the germ of the God's Kingdom
In previous
chapters, we have presented biblical data and evidence for the nature of the
epoch in which we live. We have also presented biblical evidence explaining the
purpose God intended for this epoch. We have found that the beginning of this
era came during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. That is why we
call it the Babylonian epoch. From the above, it is easy to calculate that the
Babylonian epoch has lasted for more than two and a half thousand years. We
have also found biblical evidence that the Babylonian epoch will end when the
process of sanctification (purification) of God's name is completed in heaven
and the Lamb takes over the scroll with the seven seals. Then there will be
events on earth leading to open rebellion against God and his Anointed One. In
this way, based on biblical data, we created a scheme that allows us to
understand the current development of this world and also the events that we
observe or experience personally.
The world
has changed completely in the last more than one hundred and twenty years.
Human society, especially in Europe and the former British colonies, has
changed beyond recognition. The world at the turn of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries looked completely different than it does today. The biggest
difference is not only in the new types of energy, transport and communication
technologies that man has discovered and uses. The biggest difference is in
people's thinking. The value scale at the level of the whole society has
changed. The differences between what was previously considered normal and
perverted, decent and immoral, just and unjust, are gradually disappearing
(Isaiah 5: 19-21). The relationship to the homeland, to authority, the
relationship of children to parents, pupils to teachers, the relationship to
education and culture are changing. All this and much more is today in many
ways virtually incomparable to the behavior and attitudes of people one hundred
and twenty years ago. Is it possible to deduce from the present events that the
lesson of Jesus from the parable of the fig tree is currently underway?
"Now learn this illustration from the
fig tree: Just as soon as its young branch grows tender and sprouts its leaves,
you know that summer is near. Likewise, also you, when you see all these
things, know that he is near at the doors. Truly I say to you that this
generation will by no means pass away until all these things happen. "(Matthew 24:32-34)
The events
that caused these changes did not happen by accident. Historians, political
scientists, sociologists, military experts, climatologists and other experts
publish scientific studies to explain the observed changes and events and to
determine the expected development for the future. Each of these experts
studies these changes from the perspective of their field and provides
interesting data and observations. We look at past and present events in the
context of human development from a biblical perspective.
In past
chapters, we have found that some biblical prophecies announce events that are
to take place in heaven (the prophets Isaiah, Daniel, and John in Revelation)
and therefore cannot be seen from the earth. Even so, they are very important
testimonies of processes and events that, although we do not know when they
will happen or have already happened, have or will have a great influence on
events on earth. We assume that the development will lead to an increasingly
tougher exercise of power. We remind you to keep in mind that the main, second
fulfillment of the dream of the great statue will not be completed until God's
name is purified and the Lamb is recognized as the one to be worth opening the
scroll with the seven seals.
Events in heaven
and the kingdom of God on earth
The fourth
chapter of Revelation describes the process of verifying the holiness of the One
who sits on the throne. Just the first verse is important.
,,After this I saw, and look! an opened
door in heaven, and the first voice that I heard speaking with me was like a
trumpet, saying: "Come up here, and I will show you the things that must take
place." (Revelation 4:1)
Compared to
verse 19 in the first chapter of Revelation, which says that the following
content applies to the present and future things of John: "So write the
things which you have seen and those which are, and those which are they are to
happen after them. ", the first verse of the fourth chapter announces that
everything that is written on is to happen after them. After what? Here is the
answer:
,,After this I immediately came to be in the
power of the spirit, and look! a throne was in its position in heaven, and
someone was seated on the throne. And the One seated had the
appearance of a jasper stone and a sardius stone, and all around the
throne was a rainbow like an emerald in appearance. All around the throne were
24 thrones, and on these thrones, I saw seated 24 elders dressed in white
garments, and on their heads golden crowns. From the throne were coming
lightning and voices and thunders; and there were seven lamps of fire
burning before the throne, and these mean the seven spirits of God. Before
the throne was something resembling a glassy sea, like crystal. In the midst of
the throne and around the throne were four living creatures that were
full of eyes in front and behind. The first living creature was like a
lion, and the second living creature was like a young bull, and the
third living creature had a face like a man's, and the fourth living
creature was like a flying eagle. As for the four living creatures,
each one of them had six wings; they were full of eyes all around and
underneath. And continuously, day and night, they say: "Holy, holy, holy
is our God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming." Whenever
the living creatures give glory and honor and thanksgiving to the One seated on
the throne, the One who lives forever and ever, the 24 elders fall down
before the One seated on the throne and worship the One who lives forever and
ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying: "You are
worthy, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the
power, because you created all things, and because of your will they
came into existence and were created."
The prophecy tells
us that the canonization, or purification of God's name from satan's
accusations and contentious issues is a continual process in heaven, including
the questioning of God's right to rule over the beings to whom He has given
free will. We can easily verify that this is a long-term process by comparing
it with the similarly described process of the canonization of God on the
throne, that is written by Isaiah in the sixth chapter, verses 1-3: " In the year
that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a lofty and elevated
throne, and the skirts of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs
were standing above him; each had six wings. Each covered his face with
two and covered his feet with two, and each of them would fly about with two. And one called to the other: ,,Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole
earth is filled with his glory."
These are
two prophecies about the canonization of God (more information is available on
our website) written by two different prophets who lived about a thousand years
apart.
In the
fourth chapter of John's Revelation, the canonization is done by four living beings.
They keep saying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord, God Almighty, he who
was and who is and who is to come." The information is apparently
addressed to the twenty-four elders (prezbyteros) sitting on their thrones,
around God sitting on the throne: Whenever the
living creatures give glory and honor and thanksgiving to the One seated on the
throne, the One who lives forever and ever, the 24 elders fall down
before the One seated on the throne and worship the One who lives forever and
ever, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying: "You are worthy,
our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the
power, because you created all things, and because of your will they came
into existence and were created."
The controversial
issue for which God's name has been and perhaps is still being purified is the
questioning of God's right to rule over beings to whom He has given free will.
The fourth chapter of Revelation and Isaiah's prophecy, written in the sixth
chapter, are extremely important testimonies of the ongoing legal process in
heaven. That procedure was initiated by satan with his controversial questions,
by which he accused God who provides us with the necessary information about
this process. He wants us to realize that this case is mainly about justice.
The twenty-four elders cannot be human servants of God in their heavenly
position, but representatives of the angels of the first heavens, charged with monitoring
the process of verifying God's holiness. You will find everything explained in
detail in our studies.
The sixth
chapter of John's Revelation describes the consequences of the events just
described in heaven, their visible manifestations here on earth. Here comes the
second fulfillment of the prophecy of the four horsemen and the first four
seals. The first fulfillment probably took place from the end of the nineteenth
and throughout the twentieth century.
It is
important for us Christians to realize that a rider on a white horse has a holy
(white, pure) mission, because white is the color of purity and holiness. The
rider's bow points to the service of the Word (Ephesians 6:16; Psalm 64: 4;
Proverbs 25:18). The rider on the white horse sends arrows of warning words
that will warn people of the wrath of God and the Lamb. And depending on the
fact that he has a winner's wreath, he will be successful. The role of the
rider on the white horse is certainly positive. Christians "from above"
will probably be called to remind humanity of the updated gospel, supplemented
by warnings of the wrath of God and the Lamb. (With this warning, both young
and old will rightly interpret the catastrophe described in the sixth seal of
Revelation.) And apparently someone will respond to the challenge "from
above" and carry it out successfully. God's selection of the elect ones and
their marking with the seal of God (the Holy Spirit in fullness) and the
gathering of the Great Crowd under God's protection ( "These are the ones who come out of the
great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb. That is why they are before the throne of God, and they
are rendering him sacred service day and night in his temple; and the One
seated on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will hunger
no more nor thirst anymore, neither will the sun beat down on them nor any
scorching heat, because the Lamb, who is in the midst of the
throne, will shepherd them and will guide them to springs of waters
of life. And God will wipe out every tear from their eyes." (Revelation
7:14-17)) will be the beginning of a new phase of God's
people and the presence of God's kingdom on earth.
Summary
The
situation in the world depends on how and when the canonization of God's name
turns out. Although it is not known how long the Holiness of God's name and of
God's government in heaven has been continually verified, this fact is clearly
recorded in the books of Isaiah and Revelation. It is a legal process, the
result of which is so important that it became the first request in Jesus'
model prayer, "Our Father." Although there seems to be
virtually injustice on earth, the situation in heaven is quite the opposite.
That is why Jesus said, "Seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness."
The end of the Babylonian era is also the end of a legal process to purify
God's name and defend his right to rule over all beings to whom he has given
free will, because his rule is just. When the process of canonization of God on
His heavenly throne is over and the Lamb, our Lord Jesus Christ, takes over the
scroll with the seven seals, some Christians on earth will accept the call to warn
mankind of the wrath of God and the Lamb. Their anger will manifest itself in
the catastrophe described in the sixth seal.
Modern history
related to the end of the Babylonian era
This brief
study does not go into detail about the history of Christianity, the history of
Christian nations, the history of the spread of the gospel on earth, or the
history of the failed proclamations of the ends of the world and the coming of
God's kingdom. We cannot describe in detail the influence of the Renaissance
and scientific and technical progress on people's thinking and on the gradual
weakening of the power of the nobility and the Church. But a certain part of
modern history is enough for us to understand what is happening today and what
lies ahead. We will focus our reflection only on some events and their
development since the turn of the 19th and during the 20th century. We will
relate the following facts to what we already know about the purpose and goal
that humanity is pursuing in the Babylonian era we are currently experiencing.
We have
said that the main, second fulfillment of the interpretation of the dream of
the great statue, (Daniel chapter 2), takes place entirely in the Christian
age. During this period, most of the time, the nobility and feudal rulers ruled
along with the church. Therefore, it is important to remember when the turning
point came and the feudal lords and the church lost most of their power.
The feudal
order was based on the union of ecclesiastical and secular power. The titles,
rights, and property of the nobility and feudal rulers were inherited and
approved by God through the Church (Matthew 18: 18,19). Church power and
secular power supported this way mutually. The position of the church (later
more churches) in society corresponded to this. Their power was enormous. Feudalism
began to weaken only with the decline of the nobility and the growing influence
of the free class, mostly formed by wealthy burghers. That feudal world ended
with the First World War, which ended the rule of three powerful monarchies,
the Hohenzollerns in Germany, the Habsburgs in Austria-Hungary and the Romanovs
in Russia. The feudal order was replaced by new democratic regimes in the
countries ruled by these monarchies. This happened in the states created after
the disintegration of Austria-Hungary and also as a result of the coming of
communism in Russia and a little later by the Nazi regime in Germany. In none
of these power-political units does the Church have the same status after the
First World War as it did before the war. In the Soviet Union, the church was
even persecuted so that faithful believers often lost their lives. In other
countries with a new regime, the influence of churches has rapidly waned.
This is
important to realize, because the social systems that replaced the former
monarchies no longer needed the approval of the church to rule. God,
represented by the Church, was replaced by free people with the right to vote.
Governments, presidents, chancellors, prime ministers and deputies are no
longer accountable to God, but to their electorate. This is the first time in
European Christian history.
Governments
and politicians no longer need the church. But it was not until many decades
later that they dared to openly support perverse actions and ideologies as we
see it today. For many decades, under the influence of strong media massage
promoting the consumerist way of life and educating new generations to a life
in which there is no room for God has borne fruit. Political governments could
finally openly take a secular position. The development of new technologies and
media has also contributed to this, enabling much greater and faster
dissemination of ideas and the promotion of values that divert people's
attention and thinking from God. With this, of course, the hope of salvation by
the redemption through Jesus Christ disappears and further deepens the
alienation from God's creative work and God's natural order.
The
conditions for the arrival of the last supertotality of the Babylonian epoch,
the beast, which is described in the Book of Daniel and in Revelation, are
essentially ready. We cannot go into more detail here about all the important
events that contributed to this, but the attack on the twins in New York in
September 2001, the economic crisis in 2008-9, the migrant invasion launched in
Europe in 2015 and the lockdowns for Covid-19 in many countries are important
milestones on the way to the arrival of this beast. So far, more information
cannot be squeezed into this study.
Key event
We seem to
have many good reasons to believe that the time of great events and changes is
just around the corner. There are many indications that preparations for the
final period of the Babylonian era will be completed soon. But we don't have certitude
yet. The key evidence will be the event described in the sixth seal.
,, And I saw when he
opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became
black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of
heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its
unripe figs. And the heaven departed as a scroll that is
being rolled up, and every mountain and every island was removed from its
place. Then the kings of the earth, the high officials, the military
commanders, the rich, the strong, every slave, and every free person hid in the
caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they keep saying to the
mountains and to the rocks: "Fall over and hide us from the face of the
One seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the
great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"(Revelation
6:12-17, Isaiah 2:8-12, 19-21)
This event
will be a turning point that clearly and unquestionably means that the
generation that experiences it will not pass away until it all happens.
Everything will most likely be announced in time to humankind by a rider on a
white horse.
What does this
mean for Christians?
For
decades, Christians have watched the world change. We think it's time to tell
people the information described in this study. Not because we are announcing a
specific time scenario to announce the end of the Babylonian era. However, we
should give people a chance to understand what is happening and why it is
happening. Malachi writes in the second chapter of the seventh verse: ,,
For the lips of a priest should safeguard knowledge, and people should seek the
law from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts ." People have the right to seek knowledge from Christian clergy. We do not
know when God will intervene. His first major intervention is described in the
sixth seal in the sixth chapter of John's Revelation. The verse from the sixth
seal brought us to the idea of warning humanity, warning the nations that God
will not be eternally inactive, but will show His anger at the evil actions of
rulers:
,, Then the kings of the earth,
the high officials, the military commanders, the rich, the strong, every slave,
and every free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they keep saying to the mountains and to the
rocks: "Fall over us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the
throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of their
wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" ( Revelation 6:15-17)
How would
people come to the conclusion that the catastrophe described in the sixth seal
is a manifestation of the wrath of God and of the Lamb? Only by someone telling
him before it happens. And it can be none other than Christians, because people
will fear not only the wrath of God, but also the wrath of the Lamb, or the
wrath of Christ. And no representative of a religion other than a Christian can
do that.
We think
that the representative of the Christians who will perform this task is
represented in the sixth chapter by a rider on a white horse. He will be called
at the right time: " And
I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the
four living creatures say with a voice like thunder: "Come!" And I saw, and look! a white horse, and the one
seated on it had a bow; and a crown was given him, and he went out conquering
and to complete his conquest. (Revelation 6:1,2) And he will evidently
do his job.
Our
intention is to let you know in advance that someone will be approached to warn
humanity in advance. We are not the ones to be commissioned from above, but we
are long-standing Bible researchers, impartial to all churches and Christian
congregations. We do not criticize or blame anyone. Judgment belongs to God and
the head of all churches, our Lord Jesus Christ.
However, we
ask you to consider and verify in the Scriptures the knowledge and ideas we
present to you. There is much more we could present, but this study is the
basis on which to build. As long as it's time. The blood of those who perish
will not just fall on our heads.
,,When I say to someone wicked, 'You will surely die,' but you do not
warn him, and you fail to speak in order to warn the wicked one to turn from
his wicked course so that he may stay alive he will die for his error
because he is wicked, but I will ask his blood back from you. But if you warn someone wicked and he does not turn back from his
wickedness and from his wicked course, he will die for his error, but you will
certainly save your own life." ( Ezekiel 3:18,19)
People
should be warned and informed. The Bible provides enough information to help
people answer their questions. We also address you because we are
insignificant, we have no capacities and resources necessary to reach people on
all the continents. We would like you, our brothers to consider the knowledge
presented in God's Word and share it with the brothers and sisters whom our
Lord has entrusted to your care. There is a lot at stake.
Your
brothers
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