End Times Boggle Boogie

OK I'm having nother End Times interpretive boggle. Sigh. A well known teacher of the Pre_Trib point of view said that Daniel 8 is about the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation. I've been listening to the Bgook of Daniel lately, quite a few times as a matter of fact, and it's very very clear that the Antichrist of the end times will arise out of the Roman Empire and it's Daniel 7 not Daniel 8 that has the "little horn" arising from the fourth beast which is the Roman Empire. Daniel 8 has the little horn arising out of the third beast which is Alexander's Greece, so that has to be Antiochus Epiphanes wwas the Antichrust forefunner in the time of the Mqaccabees.

He is also the subject of Daniel 11 though I've heard that chapter also applied to the final Antichrist. Well, to be clear, the very last verses of that Chapter are apparently about the final Antichrist as there is a shift from historically known actions of Antioches Epiphanes to an unknown figure that must be future, and I'm not entirely sure where that shift occurs, but most of the chapter is about Antioches IV.

I might as well comment on another interpretation from the same school of thought, which is the idea that the Harlot of Revelation 17, who is identified as "Mystery: Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots and the Abominations of the Earth: represents literal Babylon, the Babylon of Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar. I don't know how many have this view of the harlot. I would have thought that most interpret her as Roman Catholicism because she sits on the city of seven hills. But apparently some see her as a literal revived Babylon in Iraq.

The way the Roman Church keeps flying under the radar for so many CHristians continues to amaze me. They succeeded only too well at deflecting the work of the Reformers who identified the Pope as as the Antichrist. Even strong teachers like John MacArthur who exposes the Roman Church in so many of his teachings doesn't think the Pope could be the final Antichrist. It's possible he's right I suppose but I still think the evidence is overwhelming that the Reformers were right and the contemporary Church has been deceived about the Pope's role in the end times.

The four-empire statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2 as well as the four beasts of Daniel's vision, and especially the beast from the sea in Revelation 13 which combines the features of the first three beasts in Daniel, all show the essential political and religious identity of the four empires, so that the Roman Empire IS Babylon, and the current version of the Roman Empire is the Roman Catholic Church. This too was recognized by various Protestant Reformers. The EU is cdertainly an expression of it too, but the Roman Empire in a sense never completely died as the Roman Church contginued it, the Pope being fraudulently elevated above the other bishops of the Christian Church, and acquiring a political power that is contrary to the spirit of Christ. This new version of pagan Rome ruled over the "Holy Roman Empire" through the Middle Ages, and only finally lost its power to the Protestant Reformation. The fancy vestments, the odd headgear, the jewelry, the superstitious practices like the rosary and lighting of candles and so much more are all pagan religious practices that come down from Babylon. The Roman Church is the Roman Empire is Babylon the Great.

I still generally accept the framework of the Pre Trib system. We have to have a seventieth week of Daneil, and the time times and half a time fit into that time frame. I guess my main problem is that I think it's all about the Roman Church and a revived INquisition, and not some unknown political figure.

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Some Current Topics: End Times Jihad, COVID Treatment, Biden Meets Pope and Election fraud

Israeli Christian teacher Amir Tsarfati on the meaning of Jihad:



Bret and Heather talk about the importance of Vitamin D in preventing COVID (from about 20:35)



I posted this before but it fits here: a good review of the studies of hydroxychloroquine's effectivenes for COVID, by Harvey Risch, head of Yale School of Public Health who has been an advocate for HCQ since the beginning. He still consideres it to be the most effective treatment, even better than Ivermectin.



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Chris Pinto, Noise of Thunder Radio , Nov 2

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Siete Años, Entonces Tres y Medio Años, Después de que Comienza El Dia del Señor

UPDATE: Since my Spanish is probably pretty bad, that title is meant to say: Seven Years, and Then Tthree and a Half years, (the three and a half beginning in the middle of the seven, not afterward in case that's what it sounds like), these time frames occurring After the Start of the Day of the LORD. Hope that clears up any possible confusion. /update
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Most of the people who are leavintg the countries where totalitarian shackles are in the making probably have no idea they may be facing the Grand Finale of Planet Earth rather than a temprary political situation of whatever duration..

I've already seen God's hand in aspects of this situation as it's been playing out in my own personal circle, so I've come to think of this as His merciful provision for those He has chosen to be saved during the coming Tribulation. Many of course will be martyred, but some may very well be hidden away in various refuges. I don't know, it's a possibility that's all.

It's sad how many people not only don't see the end times scenario shaping up but don't even see what is happening as a problem at all, don't see the threat of being shackled. There is nevertheless a large population of people who see it coming, those mentioned in the video two posts below who are aware and being scared into making a move. Others have chosen to stay and fight as they also point OUT. so we hope and pray for their success.

I've been considering joining my family band it's still a possibility but the more I think about it the more I'm convinced I'm just not up to it physically. I could always write my blog from wherever I am after alI, I just doubt it's going to happen that way. 'm glad the Lord gave me time with them before they left. even before they knew where they would be going, or even that they would be going anywhere at all. Yes He arranged even that. He even arranged that I'd just happen to have on hand all kinds of provisions I don't normally have, that suit their tastes and needs morer than my own, though I didn't know they were coming until they were just about on my doorstep. It's always a great thrill to see God's hand in events. He also arranged that post about the statues that I had no clue I was going to write until the last minute, and I have no idea why that particular subject took priority as it did but I leave that up to Him. There are many aspects of the last days that could be discussed, He chose that one, I didn't.

Knowing His hand is guiding it all helps us to face the future with less fear, and even with the faith to "do exploits" as the KJV version o the book of Daniel says. I don't expect to be here but I write a lot of what I write for those who will be.

Come soon, Lord Jesus.

Next on the Antichrist's Agenda?

So Biden met with Pope Francis last week. Just another emblem of the destruction of America. And now I'm waiting for the Pope to "confirm a covenant with Israel" which the Antichrist is expected to do according to the book of Daqniel, which act is interpreted to be the beginning of the Great Tribulation. Perhaps the covenant Trump forged between Israel and some of the Arab nations? wait and see.

It's really breathtaking to consider how the Antichrist and his kingdom the Roman Empire, have been among us for millennia and even after the Reformation continue to go unrecognized as the evil force in the world they are. Over a billion members in what is falsely taken to be a Christian church. Combine that with the 1.9 billion Muslims which there is reason to expect to come about in the last days, and we're talking a formidable organization ruled by Satan that has been among us all this time. The tens of millions of CHristian martyrs during the Inquisition have been forgotten. Some Protestant churches even regard the RCC as just another denomination. Talk about a Great Delusion.

There are certainly Roman Catholics who follow Christ instead of the Pope, but they need to hve their eyes opened and leave the institution.

This delusion has been manufactured by Jesuits of course and huge numbers have fallen for it. Anyway it's all in place, all ready for the curtain to rise on the Seventieth Week of Daniel or the GreatTribulation. I hope the Pre Trib scenario is correct and the Chruch will be gone, but there are going to be lots of people during that horrrific period who will come to Christ in the most horrifying ways possible. As it is said in Revelation, this is the patientce and the faith of the saints. They are going to need it.l

Forboding Statues, the Image of the Beast?

Would not have expected to write a post about these statues but it seems perhaps I'm supposed to because I got such a bombardment of information about statues in a short time. Funny how that happens.

Jan Markell has mentioned that there are a number of very large statues positioned in various parts of the world that have the ability to appear as any particular person. I haven't paid a lot of attention to this so I'm afraid I can't tell you where they are or 'anything about the technology involved, or who put them up or anything. If I hear more I'll report more. She connects these statues with the Image of the Beast in Revelation 13 that the world will be required to worship or be killed. It's an interesting connection of course, definitely something to consider for those who will be going through the Tribulation period. It makes that seven-year people seed a lot closer too, that such statues are in existence.

As for my flurry of encounters with statues recently, first one of the videos of the Canadian couple in Mexico was about their visit to a very large statue of Christ that stands overlooking the city of Taxco. They name the sculptor but of course I forgot it, it's not been there very long but I forget how long etc.

It was disturbing to hear that the statue lost its head in an earthquake not long ago, and then lost its hand to a lightning strike. It's been repaired but it reminds me of the statue of the god Dagon that fell and lost its head and hand when the Ark of the Covenant was captured by the Philistines and put in Dagon's temple. The power of God caused it to fall and be broken.

But a statue of Christ? Why would God do that to such a statue? I certainly don't believe it happened by chance, God is in charge so I know it represents His displeasure. But why? Well, what else can be the explanation but that it represents a false Christ somehow or other? Represents the Antichrist. It must.

Then last night I turned on my audio Bible intending to listen to Psalms but I programmed in the wrong identifying number and got the book of Daniel instead. I decided to listen to it anyway since I havewn't heard it in quite a while. I listened until my mind started wantdering after Chapted five. It covered the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Chapter 2, which represents the four empires from Babylon to the Roman Empire, and then the statue of gold in Chapter 3 Tthat Nebuchadnezzar had set up, commanding that everyone worship it or be killed. It ws sixty cubits or ninety feet tall. The Jews refused to worship it, and Daniel's friends Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into the furnace, where they were miraculously preserved from harm.

What made me realize that I should write about statues is the fact that when I turned on the radio this morning it was into a sermon about the gold statue Nebuchadnezzar had erected. Funny little coincidence there. I don't even listen much to that Christian station these days because I don't like the styloe of music they play but I happened to set it there last night before going to sleep so when I turned it on there was the sermon about the statue in Daniel Chapter 3.

Guess God wants somebody to know about statues. The statues in the Book of Daniel are of course obvious pagan idols that we are commanded not to put before the true God in the Ten Commandments. Even the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream which is about four empires is about their pagan religions. The Beast whose image is to be constructed according to the False Prophet, described in Revelation 13, represents a man, not only an empire. It has all the features of the empires described later in Daniel, the bear, the leopard, the lion, all of which come together in the Roman Empire representedby that Beast.

I differ from the popular end times scenario in my belief that the Antichrist, which the Beast represents, is going to be a Pope, and very likely the Pope we have now. I also think the Roman Empire continued as the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages which was both a religious and a political entity, so that the current idea that the Roman empire had ceased and needs to be reinstated for the end times drama to play out is missing this whole scenario that has been in place for centuries. The popular system is expected an unknown to emerge as the world leader, but the Protestant Reforers identified the papacy as the seat of Antichrist from scripture and I see no reason to expect anyone different, especially since this current Pope took office with quite a few signs I take to be from God, which I've described in other posts. Popes were also identified as Antichrist by hundreds of Christians before the Rewformation.

But whoever the Antichrist turns out to be, the statue of Revelation 13 is to be of him and the whole world is to be commanded to worship it or be killed. All these gigantic statues mentioned by Jan Markell are probably what she says, the forerunner of the Image of the Best, or that statue of Antichrist. And the Tribuation being that close their technology will probably figure in its ability to appear to be alive, speak and so on.
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All this is to come upon the whole world, there is no part that will escape. Those who have fled to hopeful refuge in other countries aren't going to be outside its reach, unless God permits it in some cases, and since I'm hoping for some unsaved people to be saved in that time I hope they will be protected. Some people are goign to have to survive if the prophecy of the Millennium to follow is true, that it will be populated by believers who have not yet been glorified as the Raptured Church is to be. If we take the gold statue in Daniel 3 as a type of the Image of the Beast people will be commanded to worship in the Tribulation on pain of death, maybe we can also happily expect God to protect those who refuse just as He did Daniel's friendsz in the furnace.

(Although the signs I have in mind point to a Pope, a most appropraite false object of worship keeps occurring to me: the "Virtin" Mary. She is already worshipped by hundreds of millions of Catholics, prayed to and so on. and I think it was Alexander Hislop, who wrote "THE two Babylons" who thought the Beast could be "Mary." All her apparitions, the fact that Popes have sworn fealty to her, that she is worhipped by many, that even Islam reveres her, all make her a great candidtate for at least a central figure in the Great Tribulation. Perhaps the Beast I suppose. If the Pope is the False Prophet in that case? I don't know how to put together the signs but she leaps out as a prime candidate anyway.)


Yes I stioll have question about how all this is to play out but since I don't have answers I continue to MOSTLY go alone with the popular scenario.

Escape From Tyranny to Freedom

There's a growing exodus of people from western countries to places like Mexico to escape from tge increasing encroachments on personal freedom in those parts of the world. Since I've wanted to know a lot more about Mexico because I now have family who have escaped there, I keep listening to the videos of this couple the Lechmans who went there less than a year ago but are full of information about the processes involved and the experiences of being there. It's been a source of reassurance for me as I'd heard so many horror stories about Americans encountering dangerous situations in Mexico and little else. I've probably watched some thirty or forty of their videos by now. tHERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE DOING VIDEOS OF a similar nature, quite a few as a matter of fact, but this couple have the particular focus I've particularly needed to hear.

This one focuses on the fear of what's happening in the world as the reaosn for the exodus. they also applaud those who choose to stay and fight it. ""

Too Many People LIKE Government Control, That's What Makes Saving Freedom So Difficult These Days

It's been nice finding out so many attractive things about Mexico since I never knew much about the country, and this couple from Saskatoon in Canada are good guides for that purpose. They chose Mexico to move to out of quite a few other possibilities, did research on each that made up their minds for Mexico. Their first concern was climate, to avoid cold and snow like that where they came from, and extreme heat and humidity. That was an important reason they chose a place in a mountainous area.

But as they've been there for a while they are finding they're happiest with the cultural elements of Mexico, specifically the lack of overregulation which is certainly a problem in the US and Canada. As I've listened to them I've realized how much I also dislike this situation in America, how much I've disliked the mentality that sues a company for coffee that is too hot, that rewquires expensive licensing for anyone who just wants to sell something. In Mexico this couple bought tamales from a woman who made them in her kitchen and sold them on the street in front of her home. Try that here.

I even started thinking how this overregulation is part of the whole problem that is making people want to move. It can perhaps be thought of as the first stage of Communism, which is all about controlling people. So it isn't as if the current government overreach is anything new, it just got intolerable after being tolerated for decades. Of course it also has to be acknowledged that it's not quite the same thing since this is all based on lies.

The overregulation is impsed, it actually contradicts the American concept of freedom but it's managed to grow into a great choking weed by small increments that can sound reasonable in their limited context. Pushing back this current stranglehold by government is really a bigger task than it may first appear. There are decades of destruction of the American idea that make the current threat to freedom from the global level seem reasonable to at least half the country as long as they aren't exposed to the real meaning of it, which the global powers have managed to suppress only too efectively.
Ameica is certainly worth saving, but I mean the original concept of America that has been buried in so many decades of alien influences making saving it a bigger task than you might at first think.

The forces at work today are global and immensely powerful. Countries that so far have escaped their influence may not be able to for much longer. No way to know for sure, but if we are in the last days when we know the entire world is going to come under the control of the Antichrist any attempt at escape is going to be short-lived.

Anyway, this video by the Canadian couple is interesting as it shows a person who is not happy in Mexico for all the same reasons they are happy: