Where is the judgment of fallen angels?

The Judgment of fallen angels will certainly take place (Jude 6; 2 Pet. 2:4; Matt. 25:41) and saints will play a role judging them (1 Cor. 6:3), but scholars cannot agree where the judgment occurs in the Bible.

I believe their methodology is flawed, that if we use Sherlock Holmes-like deduction the precise time and place of the judgment of fallen angels can be found in the Bible. Scripture provides the clues; we need only connect the dots:

Fallen angels are judged on the “great day” of God Almighty:

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (Jude 1:6 NKJ) See also 2 Pet. 2:4

The Church will participate in their judgment:

2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? (1 Cor. 6:2-3 NKJ)

The “great day” of God Almighty spans the time before the coming of Christ (Mal. 4:5; Rev. 6:17; 16:14) and End Time Judgment.

Accordingly, there seems to be a judgment prior to Christ’s return (Dan. 7:9-12; Rev. 20:4-5) and another after the Millennial reign of Christ, the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev. 13:11-15):

9 “I watched till thrones were put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels a burning fire;
10 A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.
11 “I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking; I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame.
12 “As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. (Dan. 7:9-12 NKJ)

The Church “received authority to Judge” (CJB) in Revelation 20:4 and this implies they continue to play a role in the Great White Throne Judgment in Revelation 20:11-12.

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. (Rev. 20:4-5 NKJ)

Although the angels are not explicitly said to be judged by what’s written in the books, its follows from the existence of “elect angels” (1 Tim. 5:21) that their names also appear in the “book of life” just like human elect (Phil. 4:3).

That this judgment includes more than the human “dead” is implied in Revelation 20:13. It is impossible to personify “Sea…Death…Hades” in this verse, therefore listing “sea” alongside “death” —which contains all human dead who died in the sea; is tautological UNLESS the intent is to imply angels leaving their prison Tartarus (5020 ταρταρόω tartaroo, 2 Pet. 2:4), whose entrance was believed to be in the sea (Compare Job 26:4-5).

Corroborating this, theSea of Chaos (Prov. 8:29) is associated with angels and demons (Job 26:13; Isa. 27:1; 51:9; Ps. 74:13-14; Dan. 7:2; Rev. 7:1; 13:1). Moreover, the sea is “the realm of the Devil” (Isa. 27:1; Dan. 7:2-3; Rev. 20:13). That would explain why the “sea” does not exist in the New Heavens and New Earth (Rev. 21:1).

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.
14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:11-15 NKJ)

Both angels and men will be judged together.

The punishment of God must fall at the same time both upon the princes of heaven and upon the princes of earth…Verse 22a announces the preliminary punishment of both angelic and human princes.-Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 7, p. 282). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson

21 It shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones, And on the earth the kings of the earth.
22 They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished.
23 Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously. (Isa. 24:21-23 NKJ)

At Armageddon Satan’s “angels” (= “stars” Rev. 1:20; 9:1) his angelic UFO armada fall from the heavens like “untimely figs” while the Beast’s armies are bombarded on earth (Isa. 34:4-8; Rev. 6:13-17). Then the “mighty”(2478 ἰσχυρός ischuros) Nephilim “Kings of the sunrising” (395 ἀνατολή Anatole) (Rev. 16:12; 19:18) are slain alongside the Beast’s human army by the King of Kings Jesus Christ our LORD (Rev. 19:11-21). Imprisoned in their appropriate places in Hell they wait for the resurrection of condemnation (John 5:28-29; Rev. 20:11-15) on Judgment Day.

The Beast and False prophet are cast body and soul into the Lake of fire (Rev. 19:20; Mt. 10:28), perhaps in a “twinkling of an eye” their bodies changed (Contrast 1 Cor. 15:52) into abominable bodies reeking of corruption (Dan. 12:2; Isa. 14:11; 66:24; Mk. 9:42-48; Gal. 6:8). Satan is bound and imprisoned in a separate place to be unleashed once again on the earth (Rev. 20:1-3, 7-9) and will join the Beast and False prophet in the lake of fire later (Rev. 20:10).

The judgment of fallen angels was prefigured when a legion of demons, imprisoned in “unclean flesh” (which could symbolize the abominable resurrection bodies of the damned), were driven into the Lake where they died physically, their spirits ending up in the very abyss they feared. Gehenna, Lake of Fire, Furnace of Fire, the Depths, Destruction, and Abyss refer essentially to the same place:

30 And Jesus questioned him, saying, ‘What is thy name?’ and he said, ‘Legion,’ (because many demons were entered into him,)
31 and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,
32 and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,
33 and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked. (Lk. 8:30-33 YLT)

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[1] Contrary to the “ruling” of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, angels are corporeal (1 Cor. 15:40). The theory angels materialize physical bodies to appear physical in our realm is a hasty generalization fallacy confusing “spirits” with “angels”. They are distinguished from each other in Acts 23:8-9. The lying spirit who fools the prophets (1Kings 22:21-22) is nothing like the angels who ate and drank with Abraham (Gen. 18:1-8) or sat under a tree speaking to Gideon (Judges 6:11-12). Rather than conjure up physical forms to be seen, it appears they have cloaking technology (2Kings 6:17) and appear in our matrix without walking through doors or walls just as Jesus did in his physical resurrection body (John 20:19-20). Jesus eats a fish to contradict any suggestion He is a spirit (Luke 24:36-43).

Angels are always represented as physical and the theory they have God like power to create living bodies contradicts the declaration God alone has that power (Dt. 32:39). Rather, scripture reveals there are portals that can connect earthly and heavenly realms. Jacob saw angels walking through a portal on a ladder through the “gate of heaven” (Gen. 28:12, 17). John went through a similar door to enter heaven (Rev. 4:1). So did the chariots of fire that took Elijah away, a swirling energy vortex (2 Kings 2:11). Christ and His heavenly army will enter our Matrix through an opening in the sky (Rev. 19:11) perhaps similar to when the clouds concealed His departure during his Ascension (Acts. 1:9).

When the “complete” (5046 τέλειος teleios) and “partial” (3313 μέρος meros) (1 Cor. 13:10) touched each other [“kingdom of God came in power (Mk. 9:1)] during the Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah step into our Matrix still physical as Peter confirms by wanting to build tents for them (Mk. 9:4-5). [Satan had tried to prevent the resurrection of Moses (Jude 1:9)]. It is a massive violation of Occam’s razor sola scripturists ignore these scriptures to perpetuate the error proposed by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.

“Spirits of demons” implies angelic bodies contain within them an immaterial spirit (Rev. 16:14). Spirits and angels are distinguished from each other (Ac. 23:8-9). The hapax legomen λειτουργικὰ πνεύματα “ministering spirits” in Hebrews 1:14 notwithstanding. This is not a reference to angelic nature, but to their function as minsters of the spirit. If these were immaterial spirits, then God wouldn’t have to make them spirits after creation (Ps. 104:4. Heb. 1:7).

Nothing about New Jerusalem coming down from heaven implies an “immaterial city”, it follows neither would their likely builders be immaterial (Rev. 21:10-27). If one cannot be physical in heaven, why didn’t Paul realize he wasn’t still in his own body while in third heaven? (1 Cor. 12:2, 4). The description of this matrix as a “partial” requires it is less substantial as “the complete”. The “teleios” contains dimensions of revelation of God we lack (1 Cor. 13:8-12). If anything is “immaterial”, it be us ghostly photons consisting in the Infinite Mind of God the Eternal Son held together by His thought (Col. 1:17. Ac. 17:28). As the “Word of God” Jesus makes concrete what Triune YHWH God conceives (2Cor. 4:6. Gen. 1:1).

Let’s not confuse the “spirits of demons” (Rev. 16:14) with angels still having “celestial bodies” (1Cor. 15:40).

Unclean spirits and demons wandering tombs etc. craving corporeality, are the spirits of Nephilim Fallen Angels who did not corrupt the image of God in man; but not permitted to reenter the dimension of heaven as the flood waters killed all flesh alive on the earth (Gen. 7:21-23). Included among these are the evil hybrid offspring of the angels (Gen. 6:4). Desperately craving corporeality, they pathetically roam the wastelands possessing anything they can, insects (2Kings 1:2), animals (Lk. 8:33) or men (Lk. 8:30-32).

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Satan’s angels are cast out twice: Angels are cast out by Satan (Rev. 12:4), Satan and his angels are cast out by Michael (Rev. 12:9-11). The prophecy is “telescoped” skipping over the time separating the Flood of Noah’s Day and the End Time Seven Year “Week” revealed in the Apocalypse. As the Days of Noah were, so also the Days of Christs return (Luk. 17:26). Angels appeared physically on the earth both times.

During Satan’s war against the Woman’s Seed (Gen. 3:15) which he waged by corrupting the human genome with Nephilim DNA, hoping to prevent the incarnation of the Son of God in truly human flesh (John 1:14; 1 John 4:2-3), Noah’s generation joined the conspiracy, tempting the sons of God sent to minister to them with their beautiful daughters, seducing them to sin (Gen. 6:1-4). All Nephilim and God’s angelic sons guilty of corrupting the human genome were not permitted to return to heaven when the Flood came killing them all (Gen. 7:21-23).

When these angels died physically their spirits (cf. πνεύματα δαιμονων Rev. 16:14 compare Acts 23:9) were bound in chains in Tartarus (2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6). Demon spirits were segregated from them and cast into the fiery “Abyss” (Rev. 9:1-2) . Their hybrid children who refused to believe God would forgive their Frankenstein human-Elohim nature, and so refused to believe Noah and be saved, were cast into a separate prison (1 Pet. 3:19-20) after they died physically in the flood. Christ preached salvation to these after His Crucifixion and they believed His preaching and were led back into paradise to wait with righteous dead (1 Pet. 3:21-22; Eph. 4:8). Those dismbodied spirits God judged not worthy of any of these fates, remained on the earth wandering as unclean demon spirits desperately seeking to be “clothed” again (cf. 2 Cor. 5:4) by possessing insects animals and men (Luke 8:29-30). The swine drowning in the lake prefigures their being driven into the Lake of Fire when Christ sets up His Reign, before the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:11) Judgment Day (Jude 1:6 “Judgment of the Great Day” is the day of Jesus’ return Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:17; 16:14).

After Michael casts them out “woe to the earth” because they walk again among mankind as they did in the Days of Noah to deceive mankind again to fight against God (Gen. 6:1-4; 2 Thess. 2:11; 1 Tim. 4:1; Rev. 16:13-14).

That this prophecy is telescoped showing what happened in the Days of Noah and the Days of the coming of the Son of Man, is confirmed by the appearance of transcendent Lady Zion in heaven, at the dawn of human history when the war against the woman’s seed began. (Gen. 3:15; 37:9-10; Gal. 4:26).

It was in Genesis Satan first tried to destroy her seed by defiling the image of God in man with that of angels (Gen. 6:1-4). Therefore, its deducible the Dragon cast his angels down to earth in Genesis before the flood of Noah’s Day.. [They were called the Nephilim (fallen ones), and these conspired with humanity enticing their contemporaries the “sons of God” to partake of forbidden relationships with the daughters of men. Their role in enticing the sons of God is why they are mentioned first Genesis 6:4, its looking backward to what they did. The fallen angels on earth who had not taken wives were allowed to return to heaven].

So this apocalyptic scene is telescoped from Genesis to the end time week when Michael and his angels cast Satan and his angels out of heaven. That is how they can be cast down to the earth twice.

It follows that Satan and his angels are literally cast out and come down from heaven when Michael and his angels cast them out. They will be visible, Satan the Dragon will appear (Rev. 16:13) and so will the demon Kings of the East (Rev. 16:12). Unlike the “spirits of demons” (Rev. 16:14) they retain their corporeal.

It wasn’t until the Fourth Lateran Council that the corporeality of angels was seriously rejected. Most Protestants faithfully retain this Catholic tradition. However, that dogma is a massive violation of Occam’s razor as not one scripture implies a creative act occurs whenever angels enter our realm. Rather, Scripture implies an “opening” connects the realms (Gen. 28:12-13, 17; Mat. 3:16; Lk. 3:21; Ac. 7:56; 10:11; Jo. 1:51; Rev. 4:1; 19:11). Jesus did not materialize physical forms to prove He had risen from the dead (Lk 24:39). He did not walk through locked doors or a wall, He suddenly “stood in their midst” (Lk. 24:36; Jo. 20:26). At Jesus’ ascension a cloud received him out of their sight (Ac. 1:9).

At the transfiguration the “kingdom of God come with power” (Mk. 9:1) implying a point of connection was made linking the heaven and earthly realms, an opening into heavenly TELEIOS (“complete”) and the earthly MEROS (“incomplete”) 1 Cor. 13:10. This point of connection is where Elijah, Moses and Jesus stand and converse in radiant light. That all three were physically standing together and not spirits is confirmed by Peter’s reaction, he wanted to build tents for them (Mk. 9:23-5).

Enoch was translated (3331 μετάθεσις), a transfer not a dematerialization (Gen. 5:22; Heb. 11:5). Paul did not know if he went to third heaven in the body or out (2 Cor. 12:3) which could not be the case if he couldn’t enter heaven physically. Elijah was taken up into heaven in a chariot ascending into heaven through a vortex opening said described as a “whirlwind”.

New Jerusalem descends from heaven, it does not materialize on earth and its clear mankind will physically walk its streets (Rev. 21:2-3).

A study of 1 Cor. 13:10 indicates within the meta-universe two parallel universes consist. The more substantial reality is the TELEIOS “kingdom of God”, not our MEROS “that which is in part” because it lacks the dimension of the revelation of God (1 Cor. 13:10-12). In the infinite mind of Christ the Multiverse (meta-universe) consists and has its being (Col. 1:17), in Him both human and angel exist and have their being (Ac. 17:28).

This does not deny spirits (whatever their nature) exist in heaven (1 Ki. 22:21), only that they are another form of life within it. Evil spirits and demons wandering the earth longing for the corporeality they lost in the flood (Gen. 7:21-23) cannot be confused with Satan and the rest of his angels who retain their physical form (Dan. 10:13; Rev. 12:7-8; 16;13). Only God’s restraining decree (2 Thess. 2:7; Rev. 9:1, 14-16) prevents these from appearing physically now on the planet. Any time after God lifts that restraint is when they can appear, no doubt disguised as an extraterrestrial race.

So the angels Michael kicks out of heaven will appear on earth physically, in effect the Nephilim will have returned just as it was in the Days of Noah.

Its not symbolic, its literal. They will walk among us, deceiving mankind they offer immortality, a “workaround” to God’s denying humanity this casting them out of the garden of Eden (Gen. 3:22-24), just as they deceived men in the Days of Noah (Gen. 6:1-4).

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Words are closed up and sealed

In Daniel 12:4 the angel commands the preservation of the words of the vision by closing and sealing the book. Once the original is preserved from changes, unclosed and unsealed copies are made for study (Jer. 32:9-12). “Many will go here and there [throughout the earth looking for answers (compare Amos 8:12; 2 Chron. 16:9; Zech. 4:10), and “the knowledge” shall increase.

4 “But you, Daniel, shut up (05640 סָתַם catham) the words, and seal (02856 חָתַם chatham ) the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro (07751 סוּט shuwt), and knowledge shall increase.”

So “the knowledge” shall increase as interpreters go “to and fro” in the “the time of the end” to discover the new meaning old words have. Prior to the End Time Generation, some of the words remain “closed up and sealed.”

8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up (05640 סָתַם catham) and sealed (02856 חָתַם chatham ) till the time (06256 עֵת `eth) of the end (07093 קֵץ qets).
10 “Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise (07919 שָׂכַל sakal) shall understand. (Dan. 12:4, 8-10 NKJ)

“Closed up” and “sealed” reappear in Daniel 12:9 with a change in meaning, now words in the vision are “obscure” and “mysterious” and there is no reference to literally “shutting up” and “sealing” the book to preserve its words from harm.

End time events “open up” and “unseal” what is “obscure” and “mysterious”, not “special revelation by God’s Holy Spirit.” “The wise (prudent, circumspect) shall understand”. Everyone “critically thinking” on the text and looking “to and fro” in End Time events will discern the meaning of the prophecy.

Until End Time events uncover the new meaning of old words, they remain obscure and mysterious. The prophet Daniel illustrates this perfectly. Daniel and his associates were experts in Jewish customs, its Temple and sacrifices including past interruptions of its Daily Sacrifices. Yet in prophecies which todays interpreters so confidently apply to Antiochus and Antichrist and a third Temple yet to be rebuilt, Daniel and his contemporaries don’t understand the vision at all.

27 And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it. (Dan. 8:27 NKJ)

The events giving new meaning to old terminology had not yet happened in Daniel’s time. It was not until the New Covenant in Christ’s blood we see a new application for old terms like “Temple of God” and “Daily Sacrifice”. The “saints” now include the greater “Israel of God” (Gal. 6:15-16), Jew and Gentile descendants of Abraham’s seed (Gal. 3:27-29). The Temple priesthood and Daily Sacrifice are in the Christian Church. The Church is the Temple of God (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21), Christians its priests (1 Pet. 2:5). We offer up “the Daily Sacrifice” (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1; Lk. 9:23; Heb. 13:15).

It was impossible Daniel understand his own prophecy even though he was expert in Jewish custom and law and specially gifted by Holy Spirit to interpret visions and enigmas (Dan. 4:8-9, 18; 5:11-12). Without knowledge of these new events, the words remained “closed up” and “sealed.”

As it is “end time events” that “open up and unseal” what is “obscure and mysterious”, special revelation by God is not required for the critical thinker studying the text to know what it predicts. Only those living in the End Time will have all the necessary information to know what Daniel’s prophecy predicts.

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What is the “wing of abominations” in Daniel 9:27?

A literal rendering of the Hebrew text is, “And on the wing of abominations one who causes desolation [will come].”-Miller, S. R. (1994). Daniel (Vol. 18, pp. 272–273). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

“Abominations” usually refers to idols (Dt. 29:16; Jer. 7:30; 16:18; 32:34; Ezek. 5:11; 7:20; 11:21; 20:7, 8, 30; 37:23), hence “wing of idols” doesn’t make sense. How can [plural] idols have just one [singular] wing? Hence interpreters ancient and modern remove the conflict, changing “wing” into “wings” or “abominations” into “abomination”, then interpret the verse.

However, when an explanation does not conform to fact it is no longer “true”. Rather than change God’s Word to fit a preferred interpretation, why not change the assumptions of the Interpreters and see if that “opens up” and “unseals” the words in this time of the End (Dan. 12:9)?

19 What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?
20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. (1 Cor. 10:19-20 NKJ)

The plural šiqqûṣîm, ‘abominations’, refers to unspecified deities other than the LORD and their respective cult statues in Deut 29:16; Jer 7:30; 16:18; 32:34; Ezek 5:11; 7:20; 11:21; 20:7, 8, 30; 37:23.-Gruber, M. I. (1999). Abomination. In K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, & P. W. van der Horst (Eds.), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (2nd extensively rev. ed., p. 3). Leiden; Boston; Köln; Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Brill; Eerdmans.

A “wing” infested with demons would fit the description of a “wing of abominations”. In Luke 8:30 A “Legion” of demons control a single man.

What did Daniel mean by “wing of abominations”? Recall he is seeing the future End Time when things exist that would “astonish” him” (Dan. 8:27), such as flying vehicles:

But from such passages as Deut. 32:11, Ex. 19:4, and Ps. 18:11, we perceive the sense in which wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, the idolatrous objects. In the first of these passages (Deut. 32:11), wings, the wings of an eagle, are attributed to God, because He is the power which raises up Israel, and lifting it up, and carrying it throughout its history, guides it over the earth. In P. 18 wings are attributed to the wind, because the wind is contemplated as the power which carries out the will of God throughout the kingdom of nature. “Thus in this passage wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, idol-objects, and to idolatry with its abominations, because that shall be the power which lifts upwards the destroyer and desolater, carries him, and moves with him over the earth to lay waste” (Klief.)-Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (1996). Commentary on the Old Testament (Vol. 9, pp. 739–740). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Although Keil did change “wing” to “wings”, he ably connects the dots between the demons energizing idols and the “wing of abominations.”

Many reports of UFO/UAP craft comment on the lack of any visible means of propulsion. These reports do not necessarily conflict with Bob Lazar’s testimony of an “antimatter propulsion reactor” powering the ship he worked on. The facts surrounding UAP events imply the existence of both purely demonic entities (which violate all known laws of physics and appear and disappear with ease); and the deployment of physical objects that leave physical evidence and show up on radar etc., These transit into our Matrix through a “trans dimensional portal” (cp. 2 Ki. 2:11) into the TELEIOS (“heavenly places”) Satan and his corporeal angels inhabit (Eph. 6:12; Rev. 12:7-9).

The Desolator (Beast) commands this “flying abomination of desolation” to terrorize the earth desolating all who oppose him.

2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
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4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
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13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. (Rev. 13:2-13 NKJ)

His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; He shall destroy fearfully, And shall prosper and thrive; He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people. (Dan. 8:24 NKJ)

Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.” (Dan. 9:27 NKJ)

The False Christ (Man of Sin) will reign for seven years. He will promise to respect the world’s religions. But after 3 ½ years “Chancellor” Adonikam morphs into the Son of Satan Antichrist and he will destroy the Great Harlot Babylon world Empire of false religion, demanding all worship him. And on flying wings of fallen angel technology Satan the Destroyer will rain down destruction upon all who oppose his Seed the Son of Destruction Adonikam, This continues for 3 ½ years until Adonikim’s prophesied end at Armageddon, and he is cast in the lake of fire.
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The False Christ (Man of Sin) will reign for seven years

The prophecy telescopes to the end time “week” because Christ died in the Seventieth Week. AFTER the “seven and sixty two weeks Messiah shall be cut off” (Dan. 9:25-26).

Therefore Dan. 9:26b should begin a new verse:

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;

26b And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

The “Seventy Weeks” end when Christ ushers in the New Covenant in His Blood. Everything listed in Daniel 9:24 is fulfilled. See Seventy Weeks Explained

What happens thereafter is not part of the Seventy weeks. The Destruction of the Temple by Titus in 70 A.D., then in 136 A.D. Hadrian drives the Jews out of Jerusalem to become a pagan city.

Christ’s prophecy covers the time from the end of the Seventy weeks, “the times of the Gentiles” go from 70 AD to the End Time when Christ sets up His Kingdom. The last seven-year period is not part of the Seventy Weeks.

22 “For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
24 “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Lk. 21:22-24 NKJ)

Daniel 9:27 telescopes to the end time, from the people who destroyed Jerusalem to the rise of the Grecian Roman Empire the Elohim insist be created, that lasts seven years (Rev. 13:1-2). Because Adonikam the False Christ hailed Satan’s arrival as the “kingdom of God” he is made its “Chancellor” and for 3.5 years the “man of sin” conquers the earth with the false gospel of scientific Atheism. After 42 months he reveals he is the “seed of Satan” Son of Destruction (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 13:5). Harlot Babylon is then destroyed, only the 666 religion permitted. Without the political protection of Babylon the church is persecuted into near extinction.

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Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice (02077 זֶבַח zebach) and offering (04503 מִנְחָה minchah).

“And from the time that the daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd) sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Dan. 12:11 NKJ)

There is no contradiction, the “Sacrifice and offering” in Dan. 9:27 refers to any sacrifice and offering (Num 25:2; Isa. 66:3) unlike the “daily” sacrifice of the lamb in the Temple. Therefore, in Daniel 9:27 the Man of Sin breaks his covenant with the world’s religions at mid-week, when he declares himself God. In Daniel 12:11 the “end time clock” begins when Christendom’s “daily sacrifice” to God end, and they worship the false Christ man of sin, at the beginning of the seven-year end time “week”.

Christ is our “continual” [08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd] sacrifice (ἡ θυσία δι παντoς, LXX) . Confirming this, the apostles apply Old Testament Temple imagery to the Church, calling it “the Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Thess. 2:4; Eph. 2:21). Its members Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5).

you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Pet. 2:5) NKJ

As we take up Christ’s cross daily (Lk. 9:23) our sacrifice and service is continual:

Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. (Heb. 13:15) NKJ

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (Rom. 12:1) NKJ

The End Time “clock” starts when the fallen away Church receives the Antichrist as Christ. The Antichrist breaks his covenant with the world’s religions when he declares himself God and outlaws all other worship than to him.

11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 “Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. (Dan. 12:11-12 NKJ)

The “man of sin” false Christ morphs into the “Son of Perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3) at “mid-week” or 1,260 days (42 months, 3 1/2 years) (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 13:5). The beast with two horns like a lamb Britain and America convinced the world to build a global network to manage the earth’s dwindling resources as famine, pestilence, civil unrest and war overwhelmed the earth’s ability to manage the crises. When Russia Turkey and allies nuke the rebuilt city of Babylon, Britain and America rise unite to form two-horned beast under an individual called the “False Prophet” (Rev. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10) and rise to support of the wounded Grecian Empire Beast (Rev. 13:11-2). Formerly Christian free market nations, they now speak like a Devil. For decades Satan seeded their black-operations with fallen-angel technology through the ruse (Roswell etc.) of crashed spaceships, piloted by plant-based drones (Exod. 7:11-12). Their military capability enhanced far above all other military power on earth. That advanced technology causes Russia and allies to cease attacking the Beast’s empire. The Anglo-American false prophet deceives the nations into networking their economies with the Beast, to manage resources against the global depression the destruction of the city of Babylon caused. Then the earth’s economies are commandeered by that very network (Rev. 13:14-17).
End Time events timeline

When Adonikam declares himself God his interface with the AI enhanced network truly affords him godlike abilities such as seeing and hearing in real time everywhere a device is connected. The AI programmed in his image, is an “abomination that causes desolation” able to kill anyone who tries to disconnect. It required 30 days to fully set up, or 1,290 days counting from the beginning of the end time week. Blessed are Christians who are still alive after the intense persecution that follows, for at 1, 335 days they will be raptured:

12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write:`Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”
14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
(Rev. 14:12-15 NKJ)

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And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate

and a destroyer comes on a wing (on the wings) of the monster (monsters)-Koehler, L., Baumgartner, W., Richardson, M. E. J., &; Stamm, J. J. (1994–2000). The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament (electronic ed., p. 1640). Leiden: E.J. Brill.

“Thus in this passage wings are attributed to the שִׁקּוּצִים, idol-objects, and to idolatry with its abominations, because that shall be the power which lifts upwards the destroyer and desolater, carries him, and moves with him over the earth to lay waste” (Kliefoth, T.). -Keil, C. F., & Delitzsch, F. (2002). Commentary on the Old Testament [1866 first edition]. (Da 9:27). Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Demons supply the Satanic “working” (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia), abominations energizing idols (2 Thess. 2:9; 1 Cor. 10:19-20; 1 Ki. 11:5; 2 Ki. 23:24; Ez. 20:7-8; Dt. 32:17; Lev. 17:7). No doubt multiple demons are in each fallen angel craft, “abominations”.

38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. (Dan. 11:38-39 KJV)

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (Rev. 13:4 KJV)

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Daniel 9 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel 9 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel 9 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (Daniel 9 24-26 KJV)

These Seventy Weeks (of years) are divided into three segments characterized by special events. In the first Jerusalem’s streets and wall are rebuilt in troublous times. The second counts down to the appearance of the Messiah. After those 69 weeks, the Messiah is crucified but His sacrifice accomplishes all six items listed in Daniel 9:24 . That ends the Seventy Weeks.

The Six Elements Christ Fulfilled at His first Advent

1) to finish the transgression

Neither transgression or sins literally cease within the Seventy weeks, both are seen after the 1,000 year reign of Christ (Rev. 20:7-10). Therefore, we must look for a “literal spiritual” meaning, a particular event Daniel had a mind when he used the definite form of pešaʿ (06588 פֶּשַׁע pesha`). Only one Transgression to end all transgression was committed by “Daniel’s people in their holy city Jerusalem during these seventy weeks,” that was when the “Messiah be cut off”, i.e., the crucifixion of Christ the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Christ’s murder was an abominable “transgression (06588 פֶּשַׁע pesha`) of desolation” (Compare Daniel 8:13) causing God “go far off from my sanctuary” (Compare Ezek. 8:6). His leaving rending the veil of the Sanctuary and breaking the rocks as He “passed by” (Mt. 27:51. Compare 1 Kings 19:11).

That sin merited the literal desolation of the Temple about 40 years later just as Gabriel said would happen in Daniel 9:26 (b). The people of the Beast Ruler (05057 נָגִיד nagiyd) to come (Dan. 9:27) destroys the city and the sanctuary. That is, the revived Roman Empire that rises from the sea in Revelation 13:1-2, their “ancestors” the Romans came and destroyed. In other words, the 1st century people of the Ruler who rises centuries later in the end time, destroys the city and temple. Then the “times of the Gentiles” begin, and that desolation continues “until the end of the war” when Christ destroys the Beast Adonikam at Armageddon.

2)to make an end of sins

20 Moreover the law entered (3922 παρεισέρχομαι), that the offence (3900 παράπτωμα) might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:20-21 KJV)

Romans 5:20-21 is exposition of Daniel 9:24, revealing its application:.

Paul says “the law slipped in that the Trespass abound to its greatest [completion], the crucifixion of the Incarnate Son of God. But that was so God’s grace could abound, bring in everlasting righteousness of the New Covenant in Christ’s blood bringing reconciliation to all in heaven and earth (Col 1:20).

So God did this not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him (John 3:15).

Where transgression abounded, God’s Grace abounded even more. Christ appeared to the condemned end of the world, to save them:

But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Heb. 9:26 KJV)

Jesus said “It is finished” (John 19:30). The “vision and the prophecy” of Lamb of God our Redeemer Lawmaker like unto Moses, had fulfilled the law (Mt. 5:18)

3)to make reconciliation for iniquity

20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Col. 1:20-22 KJV)

8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. (Rom. 5:8-11 KJV)

4) to bring in everlasting righteousness

God alone is righteous, He alone is everlasting, therefore bringing in everlasting righteousness is bringing in “justification by faith” (Rom. 3:25-26), the righteousness that that is of God that was foretold in vision and prophecy of the New Covenant in Christ’s Blood:

24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. (Rom. 3:24-26 KJV)

19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Cor. 5:19-21 KJV)

5)to seal up the vision and prophecy
Christ’s fulfilling the other five elements of Daniel 9:24, vision and prophecy were authenticated, closed and sealed with God’s seal of truth.

6)to anoint the most Holy.

1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:1-4 NKJ)

The Most Holy Temple of God the Church is anointed to be His Dwelling forever.

The Church is the Temple of God in the New Covenant, Paul transferred the imagery of the priesthood and Daily Sacrifice to the church even while the literal Temple in Jerusalem was still standing. The Church is “the Temple of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Thess. 2:4; Eph. 2:21). Its members Temple priests (1 Pet. 2:5). Christians offer up “the Daily Sacrifice” (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1; Lk. 9:23; Heb. 13:15).

Therefore, the Seventy Weeks were completed in the 1st century, when the cutting off of the Messiah fulfilled all the elements of Daniel 9:24. The destruction of the Temple that occurred about 40 years later, not part of the seventy weeks. That is confirmed by the complete absence of any mention of the Temple or Jerusalem’s destruction in Daniel 9:24.

But Gabriel continues to prophesy about events that occur AFTER the Seventy weeks are ended. Jerusalem’s Temple will be destroyed in A.D. 70, and Hadrian destroys the nation forbidding Jews live in the Holy Land leading them as captives into all the nations in A.D. 131. The “times of the Gentiles” persist until the coming of Jesus Christ.

Daniel 9 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:27 KJV)

When the “times of the Gentiles” are about to end, another week separated from the seventy by the “times of the Gentiles” appears, in which the Antichrist rises from the people who destroyed the Temple and Israel. After 3 ½ years of benign rule as the Man of Sin false Christ, Chancellor Adonikam morphs into the “Son of Perdition” Seed of Satan Emperor Beast 666 Adonikam of the tyrannical Babylonianish Roman Empire, the Ten Horn Version Daniel saw in his vision. Adonikam rules for 42 months until the times of the Gentiles are ended by the return of Christ, who rains down desolation upon the Antichrist Beast Desolator at Armageddon.

Considerations

Hundreds of weeks cannot be called “seventy weeks”

How can Gabriel call hundreds of weeks “seventy weeks”? If the 69th week is followed by a “gap hundreds of weeks long”, how can the last week be called “the 70th week”? Obviously, it cannot as the total is much greater than “Seventy Weeks”.

Destruction of Temple and holy city Jerusalem not among the six items listed in Daniel 9:24

It is fitting the 70th week end when the Messiah is cut off, for then is when all six items in Daniel 9:24 are fulfilled. The events that follow Messiah’s being cut off are not part of the seventieth week. How do we know this? See for yourself, reread Daniel 9:24 and find these events among the six items:

23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luk 21:23-24 KJV)

Messiah appears at the end of the 69th week, then “after shall Messiah be cut off”. Therefore, it is in the 70th week Messiah is cut off. That’s where the verse should end, Daniel 9:26 (b) a new verse.

Daniel 9 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself.

[All six items of Dan. 9:24 now fulfilled, so the verse should end here.]

And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

“The army of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the temple” (Dan. 9:26 NIRV), nothing is said when the Ruler himself will appear. The “Ruler” doesn’t appear until the end time, when the Roman Empire is revived and the Ten Horn (ten toed) version of it Daniel saw appear in the end time (Dan. 2:40-45; 7:7-10. Rev. 13:1-2). That is when the 666 Beast Ruler himself comes. This enigmatic wording is consistent with sealing up these prophecies until the end time (Dan. 12:9-10).

“That holy thing” the Son of God (Lk. 1:35) was put to death and this sealed up the vision of the prophets about the coming of the New Covenant in Christ’s blood which would reconcile all things in heaven and earth to God (Col. 1:20). The benefits of His sacrifice are now universal, bringing in everlasting righteousness making an end of sins to all who believe in His Name (John 3:15; 20:31).

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The Temple’s destruction is a sign of the end times (Mk. 13:2-4)

Jesus did not say the destroyed Temple would be rebuilt, only that “there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” (Mt. 24:2). The “abomination of desolation” “Man of Sin” who rises in the end time shattering the power of the “holy people” (Dan. 12:11), appears to the Church the only “Sanctuary of God” (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 2:21) existing in the end time. This changed reality of the end time explains how the words were “sealed” until the end time (Dan. 12:7-9). The New Testament changed the meaning of the “abomination of desolation”, in Daniel 12:11 it is completely unlike the image placed in the Temple by Antiochus (Daniel 11:31). This one can “standup” (Mk. 13:14) and be called “the Desolator” (Dan. 9:27).

The subtle difference in Hebrew explains why Jesus cautioned future readers of His prophecy (Mt. 24:15. Mk. 13:14) to think critically on the “abomination of desolation” in Daniel 12:11. The New Testament reality sealed the meaning of the words. In the “time of the end” Christians are the “holy people” and the Temple God” is the Church. The “Daily” is their taking up the cross of Christ. It is their apostasy accepting the “Man of Sin” as the Christ that takes away the Daily (08548 תָּמִיד tamiyd). Readers must deliberate carefully upon what they read, even Daniel expert interpreter of enigma (Dan. 5:12-16) was hopelessly confused (Dan. 12:8-9).

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There are four possible “decrees” 1)Cyrus 538 B.C. (Ezra 1:1-4; 5:13-17); 2)Darius 517 B.C. (Ezra 6:6-12); 3)Artaxerxes 458 B.C. (Ezra 7:11-26); 4) Artaxerxes 458 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8). Of these the most “scriptural” is by Cyrus (2Chron. 36:22-23; Ezra 1:1-4; Isa. 44:26-28):

26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. (Isa. 44:26-28 KJV)

Many reject Cyrus’ decree as the beginning of the Seventy Weeks. Ptolemy based Chronologies don’t have 483 years pointing to Christ’s appearance and the consensus accepts that construct. However, Philip Mauro (Seventy Weeks and the Great Tribulation, 1921) citing Rev. Martin Anstey (The Romance of Biblical Chronology, NY 1913) document the uncertainty surrounding some of Ptolemy’s assumptions. They have 483 years pointing to Jesus’ anointing at His baptism in 26 A.D. That is a very scriptural view given the pertinent verses cited and the fact His Baptism was meant to manifest the Messiah to Israel (John 1:31-34).

31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. (Jn. 1:31-34 KJV)

I agree with Philip Mauro, its unwise we interpret scripture according to secular theories of probability. Whether Anstey’s correction of Ptolemy’s work or J. D. Davis rejection of his argument (The Princeton Theological Review, 1915, XIII, 1-4, p. 106) is accepted, neither can achieve the certainty of John the Baptist’s declaration he came baptizing to manifest the Messiah to Israel.

“Confirmation bias” and “mass delusion” evident in the evolution consensus could be replicated in consensus accepting Ptolemy based chronologies, just as easily.

However, A.D. 26 still results if we count 483 years from 458 B.C. (Ezra 7:11-26) leaving undiminished the precision of this prophecy. That this “decree” didn’t command the restoration of Jerusalem isn’t a weighty objection because it is implied by the simple fact the Jews could never return from exile without restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem.

As for Gabriel using a 360-day year in his seventy weeks, nothing in the context or the rest of the OT suggests Israelites used it to count literal years.

Many interpret the “mortally wounded head” in (Rev. 13:3) and the “beast whose deadly wound was healed” (Rev. 13:12) as the same thing. But that ignores the different imagery and time frame wherein these wounds exist:

The author switches from past [Rev. 13:1-11] to present tenses in Rev. 13:12–18, though apart from producing a more vivid narrative, the reasons for this stylistic change are not immediately evident.-Aune, D. E. (1998). Revelation 6–16 (Vol. 52B, p. 757). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

The wounds are not the same. The first was a “death blow” to the head that killed it (Rev. 13:3). The second survived a sword stroke (Rev. 13:14). Although weakened it was not killed as in the first.

The wounded head is ancient Babylon, the wounded Beast is the Revived Roman Empire that appears in the end time.

John provides the interpretive key, “the Sea”. That alludes to the “Great Sea” the Mediterranean. From whence four beasts came in Daniel 7:2-8. The first two beasts have one head each, the third beast has four heads, that totals 6 heads. Therefore, the head of the fourth beast is the seventh head (Dan. 7:2-7). The final form of the empire (eighth king Rev. 17:11) is the Grecian Roman Empire is the final ten-horned ten-toed form (Dan. 2:44; 7:7) containing the rebuilt city of Babylon.

Confirming Revelation’s end time Roman Empire Beast having seven heads and ten horns is a composite of Daniel’s last beast, the same animals leading up to it are in both. But notice the order of appearance is reversed, in Daniel its lion, bear then a leopard. In Revelation its leopard, bear then a lion. This confirms they are not the same beast. Unlike Daniel’s seven successive kingdoms rising from the sea, John’s Beast rises from the sea a single kingdom FROM them. Therefore, the ten horned version of Daniel’s fourth beast, is the John’s beast having seven heads and ten horns.

9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,
10 and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.
11 “And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction. (Rev. 17:9-11 NAS)

John is looking from the end time back to the entire span of human history; Daniel was looking from Babylon onward. The seven great empires of history 1)First Babylon with the Tower 2)Assyrian, 3)Babylon of Daniels Day 4)Medo-Persian, 5)Grecian 6)”one is” Roman 7)British Empire.
British empire whose mandate over Palestine was only a short while is the seventh head. The Balfour Declaration supported the establishment of Israel but Britain’s mandate over Palestine was short lived. This is consistent with Scripture listing only nations that impacted Israel in a meaningful way. The League of Nations/United Nations isn’t a kingdom and never did anything binding. America makes her appearance with Britain as the Beast with two horns like a lamb.

Therefore, the wounded head (First Babylon) “was and is not” (in ruins) and is healed (restored in the Grecian Roman Empire) and so “of the seven” but itself is an eighth king (Rev. 17:11) and goes off into destruction.

Ancient Babylon (mortally wounded head) died and was buried under the desert sand. It is “healed” in the end time when fallen angels return claiming to be extraterrestrials. The magic of fallen angel technology inspires Progressive Globalists to worship the New World Order of the Beast and its “Dragon Commander.” That is the meaning of Babylon rising from the abyss of demons (Rev. 17:8; 9:1-3). [1]

Wounded by the sword and lived

This Final Version of the Roman Empire and the power of Emperor Adonikam is wounded by a sword when Russia, Iran and Turkey reject the new World Order. They are the forces from Babylon’s North that destroy her (Jer. 50:41-42; 51:47-48). It then goes off into total destruction fulfilling the OT prophecies (Jer. 50:3, 13, 39-40; 51:29. Rev. 18:2-10). Although Babylon’s destruction causes global Economic Depression (Rev. 18:11), Emperor Adonikam and his beast kingdom survive the wound.

Then the formerly Christian (and liberty loving free market) nations of Britain and America unite under a “False Prophet” President or Prime Minister and ally themselves with Antichrist Beast. Against this alliance Russia, Iran and Turkey cannot war. They stand down and join the Beast’s Federation.

Therefore, the wounds are completely different. The wounded head was the ancient kingdom of Babylon restored in the ten horn Grecian Roman Empire that rises in the end time. The wounded Beast is that Empire Beast when its rebuilt capital city of Babylon is destroyed by the sword by forces from her North. It survives and regains control with the aid of the two horned beast like a lamb Britain and America. Now speaking like a Dragon, they support the Antichrist, totalitarianism and controlled markets.

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Revelation 13 Seven Heads and Ten Horns Explained

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Adonikam the “man of sin” false Christ who morphs into the Beast Son of Destruction after 3 ½ years (2 Thess. 2:3-4) also ascends from the abyss (Rev. 11:7) because he is the literal seed of Satan, a hybrid angel human creation.

The Nephilim will return disguised as Extraterrestrials with Satan as their Dragon Commander (Rev. 12:7-9). The “ancient alien theory” is the satanically energized strong delusion (2Th. 2:11-12; Rev. 16:13-14) The “flying frog” demons out of their mouths “the BIG LIE” Satan and his angels are extraterrestrials. They will cause the Great Revolt (2Th. 2:3-4) against even the definition of God, opposing it while exalting the hybrid 666 Beast as above “the Elohim extraterrestrial gods” hoping to change times and law of civil society (2Th. 2:4. Dan. 7:8, 25; 8:10-11, 24; 11:36-39). The hybrid Satan-human is “Satan’s seed” (Gen. 3:15) “The Beast”(Rev. 16:13) “the Antichrist” (1Jn. 2:18; 22-23; 4:3. 2Jn. 1:7) whose human name will be “Adonikam” (Rev. 13:18; Ezr. 2:13). On this see: The 666 Riddle solved

Satan craftily spoke through a serpent corrupting Eve from the simplicity of God’s truth beguiling her to eat (2Cor. 11:3) from the tree of knowledge (Gen. 3:1-6). Satan is called a cedar tree (Ezek. 31:8-11), whom the fallen angels followed (Ezek. 31:6). Christ “the ruler of the nations” and His angels will cast them into “the pit” (Ezek. 31:11-14). In Ezekiel 31:3 this “cedar” is called Assyria, his “seed” then would be “the Assyrian” (Mic. 5:5-6; Isa. 14:25-27), the apostate Jewish Christian named Adonikam (King of the North) Satan’s seed (Gen. 3:15).

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And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Rev. 17:5 NKJ)

After the Flood of Noah’s Day, the world’s first Tyrant Nimrod appeared, renowned for bold and daring deeds in opposition to God he built the first cities in the plain of Shinar Mesopotamia. The city of Babylon was the beginning of his kingdom, there he seated the world’s first religious Harlot (Gen. 10:8-10) to rule from the Tower “whose top is in the heavens” in rebellion against God (Gen. 11:1-4).

God scattered the rebels after confusing their language, and each took with them their worship of Fallen Angels, the abominations (946 βδέλυγμα bdelugma; 08251 שִׁקּוּץ shiqquwts ) that became their cult statues.

The plural šiqqûṣîm, ‘abominations’, refers to unspecified deities other than the LORD and their respective cult statues in Deut 29:16; Jer 7:30; 16:18; 32:34; Ezek 5:11; 7:20; 11:21; 20:7, 8, 30; 37:23.-Gruber, M. I. (1999). Abomination. In K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, & P. W. van der Horst (Eds.), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (2nd extensively rev. ed., p. 3). Leiden; Boston; Köln; Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Brill; Eerdmans.

That is how the world’s first religious Harlot became the “mother of Harlots and of the abominations of the earth.” She is “great” (3173 μέγας megas) because she spans most of the earth’s history, always existing “below the surface” as it were, incubating more false religion giving birth to new harlots. Much like the woman who deviously hid her leaven in healthy meal (Mat. 13:33) till all was leavened with false teaching (compare Mt. 16:6, 11-12).

She becomes visible again when the world’s false religions unite in the rebuilt city of Babylon the Capital of the New World Order the seven head ten horn Roman-Grecian (Babylonian) Empire Beast that rises from the sea (Rev. 13:1-2), carrying her (Rev. 17:7). This Babylonianish Empire upon which the Harlot sits is also the “eighth king” (Rev. 17:8, 11) “of the seven” that rises in the seven-year End Time “week” (Rev. 11:3, 7 plus Rev. 13:5).

Unlike the horns that have crowns in Rev. 13:1 symbolizing this is the “dominant version” of the “fourth beast” of Daniel (Rev. 17:12-13), the ten horns on the scarlet beast the woman rides (Rev. 17:3) are crownless. She may ride the beast, but she has no control over its ten kings. That is confirmed when she is destroyed by the ten horn-kings (Rev. 17:16) .

Religious Harlots prostitute themselves to civil authority enabling them to rule over their people. For example, the cities of Jerusalem (Jer. 13:27), Nineveh (Nah. 3:1-7), Tyre (Isa. 23:15-16). The Nations Israel (Jdg. 8:27, 33. Hos. 9:1), Judah (Jer. 3:8), Ephraim (Hos. 6:10), and Samaria (Mic. 1:6-7). In every scriptural instance the “Religion” works with political entities (Zech. 5:5-11). Both priests and kings act through each other to deceive the people, prostituting their principles for money and power.

But religious and civil Harlots can suffer destruction independently, and that is what is seen in the book of Revelation. The Religious Harlot Babylon is slain first (Rev. 17:1-18), then Babylon the city (Rev. 18:2-10).

When “Chancellor Adonikam” the “man of sin” “False Christ” morphs into the “Beast Adonikam” “son of destruction” declaring his hybrid human-Satan (Gen. 3:15) nature above all Elohim (2 Thess. 2:3-4) 3.5 years into his rule (Rev. 13:5), the Harlot’s services are no longer required. The ten kings aligned with Adonikam destroy her so completely it manifestly was divine judgment against her (Rev. 17:16-17).

Not long after, Russia, Iran and Turkey from her north so quickly and completely destroy Babylon the city (Jer. 50:1-3, 13, 39-46; 51:1-48) it is likely it suffers nuclear destruction, never to be inhabited again like Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa. 13:19-21; 50:23, 39-40; 51:37). The destruction so complete and swift its likened to the Day of the LORD when the God’s Heavenly Army rains down destruction upon the Beast at Armageddon (Isa. 13:6). But these come from “a far country” (Isa. 13:5), therefore the “mighty ones…sanctified ones” (Isa. 13:3) are not angels.

To recap, the original Harlot Babylon born in Nimrod’s rebellion against God rises into view carried by the rebuilt city of Babylon. Symbolically she rides the “eighth kingdom” or “seven head ten horn Grecian Roman Empire” that rose from the sea of spiritism (compare Dan. 7:2-3; Rev. 13:1); or if seen from a different perspective, ascended from the abyss of demons (Rev. 9:1-11; 17:8). Twice the symbolism points to demons, to emphasize Babylon and its “wonderous Tower” will be rebuilt using Fallen Angel technology, demonic technology. Energized by Satan (2 Thess. 2:9 compare Wing of Abominations Dan. 9:27). Babylon is the satanic antithesis of heavenly “New Jerusalem” built by the Elect angels of God (Rev. 21:2).

Satanic energy (1753 ἐνέργεια energeia) inspiring great signs and wonders (2 Thess. 2:9) in Babylon cause the earth to marvel so greatly they worship the Dragon Commander of the “Elohim” and his seed (Gen. 3:15) the Son of Destruction (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Dan. 9:27) Adonikam the Beast (Rev. 9:1-3; 13:3-4; 17:8, 11, 18).

The Harlot’s spiritism poisons the waters (“nations” Rev. 17:1, 5) with the same “wine of fornication” with demons. The drink makes men insensible to God’s truth, inwardly working to induce believe in the strong delusion (2Th. 2:7-12) of “scientific atheism” and its Nimrod like Antichrist Adonikam the Beast. Confirming the wine is a reference to spiritism the “mystery of lawlessness”: The wine causes derangement (Jer. 51:6) and is poured from her golden cup full of “abominations” (Rev. 17:4). Spiritual experiences caused by idols (the demons working through them 1 Cor. 10:19-20) subverting clear thinking (1Cor. 12:2-3. 2Cor. 6:15-16. Deut. 29:17. 1 Kgs. 21:26. 2 Kgs. 21:11; 23:24. 2 Chr. 15:8. Isa. 66:3, 17. Jer. 16:18. Ezek. 6:9; 8:10; 14:6; 16:36; 18:12; 20:7, 8. 1 Pet. 4:3. Rev. 21:8).

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Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. (Rev. 13:11 NKJ)

John alludes to the book of Daniel in Revelation 13:1-2, the “beast-Empire” rises ‘from the sea of spiritism’ just like in Daniel (Isa. 27:1; Dan. 7:2-3). That points to the location of the “interpretative key” necessary for decoding the symbolism used here.

Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and there, standing beside the river, was a ram which had two horns, and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last…

“The ram which you saw, having the two horns– they are the kings of Media and Persia. (Dan. 8:3, 20 NKJ)

Most translations render ἀρνίον (721 arnion) as “Lamb” in Revelation 13:11 but its a fact lambs don’t have horns. Accordingly, The Idiomatic Translation of the New Testament by William Graham MacDonald translates ἀρνίον as “ram” and the Louw Nida Lexicon agrees:

I saw another beast emerge from the earth, having two horns like a ram. He spoke like a dragon (Rev. 13:11 MIT)

4.25 ἀρνίονa, ου n: (derivative of ἀρήν ‘lamb,’ 4.24) a sheep of any age—‘lamb, sheep, ram.’ εἶχεν κέρατα δύο ὅμοια ἀρνίῳ ‘he had two horns like those of a ram’ Re 13:11. In the one context in the NT, namely, Re 13:11, in which ἀρνίον refers literally to a sheep, it is used in a phrase referring to the horns of an ἀρνίον. In such a context the reference is undoubtedly to a ‘ram,’ that is to say, the adult male of sheep.-Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 41). United Bible Societies.

Therefore, given the book of Daniel provides the interpretive keys to understanding much of the book of Revelation, it follows the ‘two horned ram” in Revelation symbolizes a dual world power, just as the two horned ram did in the book of Daniel.

Moreover, it would be odd if Empire of Britain (upon which the sun never set) and its “special relationship partner” the USA, both of which were (and are) instrumental in the return of Israel to the world scene, were not in Bible prophecy.

This Beast is another Government Beast:

Another (243 ἄλλος allos)[1] World Power Beast like the Grecian-Byzantine Empire (Rev. 13:1-2) rises in Revelation 13:11 with “two horns like a lamb”. In Daniel a “two horned ram” symbolizes the dual kingdoms of Media-Persia (Dan. 8:3-7, 20) in a coalition (Dan. 5:28; 6:8, 12, 15; Esther 1:3, 14, 18-19; 10:2).[2]

It rises “from the earth” because its origin is earthly, a natural evolution of a previous “special relationship” Britain and America enjoyed.

To modern readers the equivocal use of “Beast” is confusing, the source of much misinterpretation of this context. Daniel provides the interpretive “key” to unlock the code. In Daniel King and Kingdom are visualized as One Beast (Dan. 7:17, 23). Same in Revelation 13, the Revived Roman Empire (Dan. 2:40-42; 7:7, 19-20) that rises from the sea (Rev. 13:1-2) doesn’t get a “Mouth-King” until 3.5 years (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 11:2, 7) into the end time week in Revelation 13:5 (Dan. 7:8, 20). Thereafter, only its Emperor Adonikam “the Beast” is in view.

Same with the Anglo-American Beast, after its rise its “beastly King” is prominent.

This second beast is referred to as a θηρίον, “beast,” only here in Revelation, for throughout the remainder of this pericope (vv 11–18), it/he is referred to only by a series of eight third-person singular verbs (13:11[2x], 12[2x], 13[2x], 14, 16) and two occurrences of the pronoun αὐτός (13:14, 15). This figure is elsewhere referred to as the “false prophet” (16:13; 19:20; 20:10), which clearly conveys the role the author assigns him.-Aune, D. E. (1998). Revelation 6–16 (Vol. 52B, p. 755). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

Formerly Christian free market nations, Britain and America now “speak like a Dragon” deploying their technological and military might in service to the Seed of Satan Adonikam and his centrally controlled membership only 666 economy.

For decades Satan has been seeding fallen-angel technology through the ruse of crashed spaceships (Roswell etc.), piloted by plant-based drones (Exod. 7:11-12). The military capability of Britain and America has been enhanced far above other militaries earth. Britain and America are destined to be the two horned Beast False Prophet after the great falling away has occurred (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 13:11-17).

At “mid-week” (Dan. 9:27; Rev. 13:5) Chancellor Adonikam” (Rev. 13:18; Ezra 2:13) False Christ (Mat. 24:24; Rev. 6:2) “Man who condones every Sin”, morphs into the Antichrist (1 John 2:18) “Son of Perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) Seed of Satan (Gen. 3:15) Assyrian (Mic. 5:5-6) Emperor Big Mouth (Rev. 13:5; Dan. 7:7-8, 19-20) King of the North (Dan. 11:36-40).

Russia Iran and Turkey (Jer. 50:41-42; 51:47-48) rebel and Nuke the “fallen angel Nephilim city of Babylon” that had caused the world to marvel (Rev. 13:3-4; 17:8). This caused a global depression (Rev. 18:8-21; Jer. 50:3, 13, 39-40; 51:29) God’s judgment fulfilled (Rev. 17:16-17; 18:8; Isa. 13:19-22; Jer. 51:63-64; Rev. 18:21).

In response the Anglo-American coalition rises to aid the wounded kingdom of Emperor Adonikam; Russia and allies “stand down” (Rev. 13:11-13). The world is reeling from warfare, pestilence, and natural disasters (Rev. 6:1-8). Proposing a solution to insufficient resources, the False Prophet deceives the nations into creating a global quantum computing Artificial Intelligence network (Rev. 13:14) that will be programmed with the personality (image) of Emperor Adonikam, or more likely he is directly interfaced with it so it is in effect, “him”. The global network itself will be “alive” able to kill instantly any who try to rebel against it (Rev. 13:15). Through it Adonikam has “god like” power to see and hear all that happens near any connected device. He controls everything (Rev. 13:16-17).

Do not confuse the “wounds”, one is to ancient Babylon and was fatal (Rev. 13:3), it remains dead in ruins. When the wound “was healed” its symbolized by the appearance of a new “eighth king” “one of the seven” (Rev. 17:11). That indicates a total disconnect between ancient Babylon (buried under the sand) and New Rebuilt Babylon with its “Tower to the Gods”.

John switched tenses from past to present in Rev. 13:12-18 to distinguish that wound’s “healing” and the “deadly wound…by a sword” (Rev. 13:12, 14) the Antichrist’s Kingdom received when rebuilt Babylon was destroyed by Russia Iran and Turkey.

END NOTES

[1]

ALLOS (ἄλλος ) and HETEROS (ἕτερος ) ((243)) have a difference in meaning, which despite a tendency to be lost, is to be observed in numerous passages. Allos expresses a numerical difference and denotes another of the same sort; heteros expresses a qualitative difference and denotes another of a different sort.-Vine, W. E., & Bruce, F. F. (1981). Vine’s Expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words (Vol. 2, p. 60). Old Tappan NJ: Revell.

[2]As Sheep don’t have horns some translate Rev. 13:11 as “two horns like a ram”. That strengthens the connection to Daniel’s two horned ram symbolism:

I saw another beast emerge from the earth, having two horns like a ram. He spoke like a dragon.- (Rev. 13:11 MIT)

ἀρνίον refers literally to a sheep, it is used in a phrase referring to the horns of an ἀρνίον. In such a context the reference is undoubtedly to a ‘ram,’ that is to say, the adult male of sheep.-Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 41). New York: United Bible Societies.

3 Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and there, standing beside the river, was a ram which had two horns, and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.
4 I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward, so that no animal could withstand him; nor was there any that could deliver from his hand, but he did according to his will and became great.
5 And as I was considering, suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
6 Then he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing beside the river, and ran at him with furious power.
7 And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him; and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his…
20 “The ram which you saw, having the two horns– they are the kings of Media and Persia. (Dan. 8:3-7, 20 NKJ)

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The monster having seven heads and ten horns (Rev. 13:1-5) is the last global government to rise in the seven-year end time “week” before the coming Kingdom of God. In the book of Daniel this is the fourth and last government beast to rise (Dan. 7:7). Because it is a Grecian version of the old Byzantine Roman Empire (before the split) it has 7 heads (count the heads Dan. 7:2-7) in a leopard body. The head that died and was revived is Ancient Babylon, its first head. So this entire beast is in effect the Eighth king “out of seven” (Rev. 17:7-10). The Beast is both Empire and Emperor, but because it morphs into a dictatorship controlling the earth’s economy after 3.5 years, the “little horn big mouth” doesn’t appear until Revelation 13:5.

1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
4 So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
5 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.
6 Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:1-8 NKJ)

John saw two phases of the revived Grecian Roman Babylonian Empire Beast. It rises from a sea of spiritism (Job 38:16-17; Isa. 27:1; Ps. 74:13; Dan. 7:2 compare Rev. 21:1) when Satan and his fallen angels appear on earth (Rev. 12:7-9) insisting they deal with only one global government to deliver global peace and safety (1 Thess. 5:3). After 3.5 years, it adds gains a Big Mouth (Rev. 13:5) “Chancellor Adonikam” the false Christ “man of sin”, who now claims his hybrid “Satan-human” nature is superior to all Elohim (2 Thess. 2:3-4) and demands to be worshiped.

The formerly benign Grecian Roman Empire now becomes a fierce Beast. The false Christ man of sin Chancellor Adonikam morphs into the Antichrist “Son of Perdition” big mouth “little horn” prophesied to come (Rev. 13:5-6; Daniel 7:8; 8:9; 9:27; 11:36; 2 Thess. 2:3-4; 1 John 2:18). He reigns for for 42 months until Christ destroys him at Armageddon (Rev. 19:11-21). An analogy would be “Chancellor Palpatine” in “Star Wars”, morphing into a “Sith lord”. Likely minus the physical change, however.

9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,
10 and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while.
11 “And the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is one of the seven, and he goes to destruction. (Rev. 17:9-11 NAS)

So the end time Government that rises, is “one of the seven” but so different, it is “an eighth.” This revival of the Grecian Roman Empire is therefore a revival of ancient Babylon, with its Tower of Babylon in rebellion against God Gen. 11:1-9).

John used the same symbolism as Daniel, but John is looking from the end time at a composite of the kingdoms Daniel saw in linear time as they arose. John is counting all the major Empires that affected Israel, Daniel from his time on. So the list of empires involved is different. Daniel’s kingdoms were 1)Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon, 2)Medo-Persian, 3)Grecian 4)Roman. John’s seven heads include the last great Empire, British and does not include Egypt because it never exerted power over the Holy Land: 1)Ancient Babylon with its Tower, 2)Assyrian, 3)Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon, 4)Medo-Persian, 5)Grecian 6)”one is” Roman 7)British Empire.

The British empire’s mandate over Palestine was only for a short while, therefore it is the seventh head. The Balfour Declaration supported the establishment of Israel, no more important single act exists for the existence of modern Israel. As for the League of Nations/United Nations that some suggest is this final Beast, that isn’t a kingdom and Israel exists despite its best efforts. America makes her appearance with Britain as the Beast with two horns like a lamb, later in the chapter (Rev. 13:11-12).

Therefore, the slain head (Babylon) “was and is not” (in ruin buried beneath the sand) and is healed (restored to become the Capital of the Grecian (Assyrian) Roman-Babylonian Empire). Hence the final Beast in its totality is “of the seven” but itself is an eighth king (Rev. 17:11) and goes off into destruction (Dan. 2:40-45; 7:11-12), but the rest are judged during our LORD’s millennial kingdom (Daniel 7:12-14).

Rebuilt Babylon ascends from the abyss to symbolize it was rebuilt using demonic energy of Satan (cp. Rev. 9:1-3; 2 Thess. 2:9) and fallen angel technology (2 Thess. 2:9; Dan. 9:27). The city’s supernatural character will inspire worship of the Dragon and the Son of Perdition Antichrist who appear invincible (Rev. 13:3-4; Dan. 9:27; 11:36-39).

Rebuilt Babylon “will go off into destruction” fulfilling all that is written concerning her (Jer. 50:3, 13, 39-40; 51:29; Rev. 18:2-10) by forces from her North (Russia, Iran, Turkey Jer. 50:41-42; 51:47-48) but ultimately it will be God’s judgment against her (Rev. 17:16-17; 18:8; Isa. 13:19-22; Jer. 51:63-64; Rev. 18:21). A Nuclear destruction? Likely, but I don’t know.

Many interpret the “mortally wounded head” in (Rev. 13:3) and the “beast whose deadly wound was healed” (Rev. 13:12) as the same thing. But that is a hasty generalization of two very different contexts. John puts them in different time frames:

The author switches from past [Rev. 13:1-11] to present tenses in Rev. 13:12–18, though apart from producing a more vivid narrative, the reasons for this stylistic change are not immediately evident.-Aune, D. E. (1998). Revelation 6–16 (Vol. 52B, p. 757). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

Moreover, the wounds are not the same. The first was a “death blow” to the head that killed it (Rev. 13:3). The second survived a sword stroke (Rev. 13:14). Although weakened it was not killed as in the first.

Therefore, slain wounded head is ancient Babylon. It is revived to become part of the Revived Roman Empire which subsequently is wounded when its capital city Babylon is destroyed by forces from the North, Russia Iran and Turkey.

The Ten Horns are Ten Kings who reign one hour (Rev. 17:12-13) with the Assyrian King of the North (Antichrist Adonikam) end time head of the Grecian Roman Empire (Dan. 2:41-45; 7:7-10, 23-27; 8:9-14; 9:27; 11:36-12:1).

After Babylon’s capital is destroyed the Beast’s Empire is wounded and there is a global depression (Rev. 18:11-19). Britain and America unite, rising from the earth to the Beast’s defense (Rev. 13:11-12), their indisputable military strength causing Russia and associates to stand down. For decades Satan seeded fallen angel technology to Britain and the United States, via the ruse of “crashed UFO” ships.[How ridiculous it is to believe craft capable of faster than light travel could be disabled by lightening or other natural causes.]

Britain and America used this black ops technology with great effect, and created the first quantum computing AI. They forced all to network with it (Rev. 13:13-17), giving the Beast total control over the “membership only 666 Mark economy” (Rev. 13:11-17). Formerly Christian and lovers of the free market, now their prime minister spoke like a dragon, backing the Antichrist and his total control over the economy. Enforcing economic sanctions on nations fits the symbolism killing all who refuse to obey, without diminishing the more literal interpretation and application to individuals.

Commentators are wrong if they think these things are done secretly. Ancient Alien theory with the arrival of Satan and his fallen angels will so convince all not written in the lamb’s book of life, that YHWH is not God, that the earth will embrace Lucifer and his rebellion. 666 will become their Swastika. They will be proud of their spiritism and idolatry, their hatred for God fully out in the open, just as it was in the days of Noah (Luke 17:26; Matt. 24:29); the last time Nephilim walked the earth (Gen. 6:4, 11):

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: (Rev. 9:20 KJV)

End Notes
[1]
John provides the interpretive key, “the Sea”. That alludes to the “Great Sea” the Mediterranean. From whence four beasts came in Daniel 7:2-8. The first two beasts have one head each, the third beast has four heads, that totals 6 heads. Therefore, the head of the fourth beast is the seventh head (Dan. 7:2-7).

Confirming Revelation’s end time Roman Empire Beast having seven heads and ten horns is a composite of Daniel’s last beast, the same animals leading up to it are in both. But notice the order of appearance is reversed, in Daniel its lion, bear then a leopard. In Revelation its leopard, bear then a lion. This confirms they are not the same beast, and the corresponding kingdoms are different. John’s Beast rises from the sea a single kingdom, the “ten horn” version of Daniel’s fourth beast. This final form goes off into perdition, it is actually “eighth king of the seven” Rev. 17:11) which is then destroyed by the arrival of God’s kingdom.

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The beast is both Empire and the Emperor of the Revived Roman Empire. But the False Christ (Mt. 24:5) “man of sin” (2Th. 2:3-4, 8-12) rider on the white horse (Rev. 6:2) is the mouth like a lion (Rev. 13:5). Then he morphs into the “son of destruction” Antichrist (2Th. 2:4. 1 Jn. 2:18) and begins blaspheming God (Dan. 7:23. Rev. 13:5). He then receives worship (Rev. 13:8). John says the Beast’s number is the “number of a man” (Rev. 13:18). That literally is true of “Adonikam” who had 666 children and therefore the number is “of” him (Ezr. 2:13).

Like before (Rev. 13:1-8) John doesn’t pause when his focus shifts from the (2342 θηρίον) beast/kingdom to the king of it, for “the remainder of this pericope (Rev. 13:11–18), it/he is referred to only by a series of eight third-person singular verbs (Rev.13:11[2x]; Rev. 13:12[2x]; Rev. 13:13[2x]; Rev. 13:14, 16) and two occurrences of the pronoun αὐτός (Rev. 13::14, 15). This figure is elsewhere referred to as the “false prophet” (Rev. 16:13; 19:20; 20:10), which clearly conveys the role the author assigns him.-Aune, D. E. (1998). Revelation 6–16 (Vol. 52B, p. 755). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

Daniel provides the interpretive keys for Revelation. In Daniel the same beast is identified both as “king” and “kingdom” (Dan. 7:17, 23).

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Revelation 13:1 “And I stood (estathen)” is read “He stood (estathe)” if the “n” is missing.

[Revelation] 12:18 καὶ ἐστὰθη (and he stood) {B}

The reading καὶ ἐστὰθη has excellent manuscript support. Since Jesus is mentioned last in v. 17, it may be best to make explicit that the subject of the verb is the dragon, and not Jesus, as is done in NIV and TEV (similarly NRSV and FC): “And the dragon stood.” The Textus Receptus, in agreement with numerous witnesses, reads Καὶ ἐστὰθην (I stood), preceded by a full stop; that is, καὶ ἐστὰθην is connected to 13:1. This variant reading appears to have arisen when copyists changed the third person verb to the first person to agree with the following first person singular verb εἶδον (I saw). NJB follows the variant reading: “And I took my stand on the seashore.”-Omanson, R. L., & Metzger, B. M. (2006). A Textual Guide to the Greek New Testament: an adaptation of Bruce M. Metzger’s Textual commentary for the needs of translators (p. 536). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.

That unsound conclusion illustrates why I always accept the Textus Receptus as the better reading. “I stood upon the sand of the sea” is a clear allusion to Daniel’s vision (Dan. 7:2-3) that is lost completely if its Satan standing like a tourist with John on the beach. Without John’s biblical allusion to the interpretive key in Daniel the symbolism in this chapter becomes incomprehensible (Dan. 7:1-28).

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ANOTHER
allos (ἄλλος, 243) and heteros (ἕτερος, 2087) have a difference in meaning, which despite a tendency to be lost, is to be observed in numerous passages. Allos expresses a numerical difference and denotes “another of the same sort”; heteros expresses a qualitative difference and denotes “another of a different sort.”-Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., & White, W., Jr. (1996). Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Vol. 2, p. 29). Nashville, TN: T. Nelson.

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There is a special end time “week” that is seven years long (day = year) during which Antichrist and Christ battle. The “times of the Gentiles” separate Daniel’s contiguous Seventy weeks (Lk. 21:24. Dan. 9:24-26) from this end time week of the Antichrist (Dan. 9:27). Confirming it is seven years long, God’s two witnesses preach 3.5 years until killed by the ascending Beast (Rev. 11:7. Dan. 9:27). He rules an additional 3.5 years (Rev. 13:5). That totals seven years.

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Scriptural premises make this scenario likely.

Only Satan or Extraterrestrial Aliens could generate the overwhelming evidence UFOs are real. Extraterrestrials Aliens don’t exist. Therefore, Satan is generating the delusion UFOs are real.

Atheism preaching Extraterrestrials would be the most likely cause of a Universal Revolt against belief in God. While the definite article “the Apostasy” implies a “great revolt”, its the effect of events on “all called God or worshiped” (2Thess. 2:4) that requires this is a global revolt against theism.

Scripture reveals Satan is a tactician. He has reasons for what he does. Therefore, there is a reason why he has spent so much time and energy instilling belief in UFOs, which has been the only accomplishment of the phenomena so far. It follows Satan uses that “inspired delusion” [that God “sent” by lifting His restraint on spiritism (2Thess. 2:7-12. Rev. 9:1-3; 12:12)] to convince the earth join him at Armageddon to fight God (Rev. 16:13-14). The obvious interpretation of this, the “inspired BIG LIE” false prophecy deceiving the earth is a “flying frog UFO delusion.” Therefore, the most likely cause of a sudden global rejection of Theism would be the arrival of atheist preaching Extraterrestrials.

While I have not surveyed other UFO cults, I felt no need to. Satan revealed enough of his strategy to “Rael”. He redefines “Elohim” as “extraterrestrial” and overlays that upon Scripture to destroy its authority. The Satanic character of the eisegesis is evident in its following the technique Satan invented in the Garden of Eden. Cast doubt upon the meaning of God’s Word and then misdirect attention to what he is suggesting (Gen. 3:1-6. 2Th. 2:10-11).

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Bertrand Russel’s infinite regression argument is contradicted by Scripture’s representation of God as Infinite (1 Kings 8:27). That is an incompatible property pertinent to the proposition regression to something greater always occurs. Nothing greater than infinite YHWH is possible. As for “scientific atheism”, as B. Russel insisted, regression from finite creatures to something greater must occur. Logically therefore, regression continues until the infinite is met. Therefore, the “aliens” are liars. Infinite God must begin the cycle of life.

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Two Little Horns in Daniel rise with different circumstances, can these apply to the same person?

6 “After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.
7 “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
8 “I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little (02192 זְעֵיר ze`eyr Aramaic ) one (07162 קֶרֶן qeren Aramaic ), coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words. (Dan. 7:6-8 NKJ)

8 Therefore the male goat grew very great; but when he became strong, the large horn was broken, and in place of it four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came a little (04704 מִצְּעִירָה mitstse`iyrah Hebrew) horn (07161 קֶרֶן qeren Hebrew) which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land. (Dan. 8:8-9 NKJ)

Some deny Antiochus appears in the book of Daniel at all. (See WHY ANTIOCHUS IS NOT MENTIONED IN DANIEL – SAMUEL WHITEFIELD) Whitefield’s argument is unsound, circular. It assumes what he hopes to prove, that the same “little horn” symbol in Daniel 7:8; 8:9 must refer to same person. He ignored the different circumstances surrounding the appearance of both. He makes no effort to show how Daniel 11:21-35, which most believe precisely fulfilled by Antiochus, can only apply to the Antichrist.

BUT perhaps most importantly, “little horn” is spelled different in these texts. Two different languages are used. Its Aramaic in Daniel 7:8 (befitting its global application), and Hebrew in Daniel 8:9, which may imply a regional aspect not in Dan. 7:8.

While Whitefield is right, the Seleucid horn was never little compared to contemporaries, he ignored Antiochus usurped the throne, therefore was insignificant when he began. Using bribes and flattery, he stole it from the rightful heir Seleucus IV, his nephew.

But what really convinced me Whitefield is wrong, the ships of Kittim in Daniel 11:30 would not oppose the Antichrist, because he becomes the big mouth ruler of the Grecian Roman Empire (Dan. 7:19-27; Rev. 13:1-5). Therefore, the ships of Kittim (Rome, Cyprus, “from the west”) would be in his fleet supporting him. But the text says they opposed the little horn, which is precisely what history says happened to Antiochus, when the Roman emissary Popillius Laenas used them to stop Antiochus’ invasion of Egypt. Therefore, Whitefield’s argument must be incorrect.

But that does not make those who only see Antiochus in Daniel 8:9-27 correct. True his rise “toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Glorious Land” and Daniel 11:21-35 fits Antiochus well, Daniel 8:10-27; 11:36-45; 12:1-12 do not.

I suggest a third option, a synthesis where Antiochus is referred to, but a dual fulfillment where some aspects are in both but others telescopes to the Antichrist.

The “time stamp” given by the Angel Gabriel puts the “little horn” at the time of the end, not in Antiochus’ time:

15 While I, Daniel, was seeing the vision, and trying to understand it, there appeared before me one who looked like a man.
16 I heard a human voice from the middle of Ulai calling out, “Gabriel, make that man understand the vision.”
17 He came near to where I was standing, and as he came I was terrified, and fell prostrate. He said to me, “Understand, O man, that the vision refers to the time of the end.”
18 When he spoke with me, I was overcome by a deep sleep as I lay prostrate on the ground. Then he touched me and made me stand up,
19 and said, “I am going to inform you of what will happen when wrath is at an end, for it refers to the time appointed for the end.
20 “The two-horned ram that you saw signifies the kings of Media and Persia;
21 and the buck, the he-goat — the king of Greece; and the large horn on his forehead, that is the first king.
22 One was broken and four came in its stead — that means: four kingdoms will arise out of a nation, but without its power.
23 When their kingdoms are at an end, when the measure of transgression has been filled, then a king will arise, impudent and versed in intrigue. (Dan. 8:15-23 Tanakh 1985 Jewish Publication Society )

God’s wrath is completed only in the End Time (Rev. 15:1). The four kingdoms “are at an end” only when all earthly kingdoms are, in the End Time (Dan. 2:44). The full “measure of transgression” will be filled only in the End Time Apostasy (2 Thess. 2:3-4)

This should be obvious to all, Daniel would easily understand the vision (Dan. 1:17; 5:12, 14; 6:3) if it concerned the Jewish Temple and its people in the days of Antiochus. Therefore, it is elementary his total confusion (Dan. 8:27) arose because these words are sealed until events in the End Time “unseal them” (Dan. 12:9).

The revelation of the Antichrist is in stages. First he appears as “the man of sin”, then at “mid-week”, he becomes the big mouth Emperor Beast of the Grecian Roman Empire that rises in the End time, from the sea of spiritism. The Elohim Designers (fallen angels Rev. 12:7-12) insist on the creation of a world government for them to deliver world peace (1 Thess. 5:3).

Therefore, the different stages are symbolized by the different circumstances of the “little horns”. Daniel 7:8 focused on what the Antichrist does when Satan makes him the mouth of the End Time beast that rises from the sea. He humiliates three “kings” on his way up the ladder. Daniel 8:9 is focused on his rise from insignificance, before he was a king. That would be at the start of the End Time 7 year period, not at “mid-week”. He first appears as the “man of sin”. He is not insignificant 3.5 years later, when he morphs into the “Son of Perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3-4) as seen in Daniel 7:8.

The most likely reason God chose dual reference symbolism, Antiochus reveals much about the end time Antichrist. I deduce the Assyrian Antichrist Adonikam will also have an insignificant beginning like Antiochus. That he rises in the remnant of the Seleucid Empire, in the region of modern Antakya, Turkey near the ancient city of Antioch. It was once the capital of Seleucid Empire.

Insignificant ruler of a sign and wonder ministry, but spiritism energizes great signs and wonders that teach the lie Adonikam is the Christ (2 Thess. 2:9-12; Matt. 7:22-23; 1 John 2:18-24; 1 Tim. 4:1). From such humble beginnings he rises into political power to become the 666 Emperor of the Beast that rises from the sea of spiritism in Rev. 13:1-5.

So, Daniel 8:9 begins with Antiochus, but Daniel 8:10-27; 11:36-12:12) refers to the Antichrist greater fulfillment. Antiochus doesn’t reappear until Daniel 11:21-35. The telescoping to Antichrist in Daniel 11:35-36 is therefore organic and not an artificial contrivance of Bible Believers. In Daniel 8:9 the little horn referring to both Antiochus and Antichrist immediately flashes forward to events only the Antichrist can fulfill (Dan. 9:10-27). Therefore, the prophecy begins with a telescoping, so when it flashes backward and forward its “organic” to the context. Therefore, the telescoping in Daniel 11:35-36 is predictable, expected and not being superimposed. The wording “until the time of the end; because it is still for the appointed time” can be understood as marking where the telescoping mandated by Daniel 11:40, occurred.

To recap. Daniel 8:9 applies to both Antiochus and the Antichrist rising from insignificant beginnings and expanding their political sway. [1] The prophecy telescopes to Antichrist and his cosmic warfare against Christ and God’s people in Daniel 8:10ff. Daniel 7:8 begins referencing Antichrist’s “little” beginnings but its focus is on his deeds as the “Son of Perdition”. At “mid-week” Satan makes him the “mouth” of the Grecian Roman Empire Monster that rises up in Daniel 7:8 (Rev. 13:1-5), humiliating three horns kings and speaking pompous things. He claims to be above all things called God on the earth and he ordains all sacrifice and offering to them cease (Dan. 9:27). He has now morphed from the “man of lawlessness” to the “Son of Perdition” in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4.

I will treat Daniel 8:10-27 in the next post.

END NOTES
[1]As readers may have noticed, I make no apologies current events often contradict what I believe Scripture predicts. Although Islamic Extremism is on the rise in Turkey, that won’t prevent what scripture predicts for the rise of the Antichrist. Christianity will likely be permitted some freedom to operate there in that time.

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