KJV Daniel 2:43
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
The attempts at the union which you claim as a future certainty is doomed to failure. Clovis failed, Charlemagne failed, Louis 14th failed, Hitler failed, the modern EEC has failed. Europe cannot unite, even though the seed of men has made every King and Queen in Europe cousins.
I agree however there will be 10 divisions who will unite to give power to the beast, but these will be global divisions based on arbitrary administrative reasons tied to geography, not any union based on ideology or shared religion or philosophy. I think that fire a short time at the end they will unite superficially out of fear, desperately hoping the beast/Antichrist can save the world.
Yes, Charlemagne, Hitler, Napoleon et al failed because God foretold Royal Marriage (seed of men) nor Wars would succeed. However you are looking at the 10 all wrong, it means COMPLETION, but they are nor one nations as the old empires under one ruler per se, but they are many nations (10 = the complete number thereof 25-27 now) who are partly STRONG (France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece, Belgium, maybe England comes back) and partly WEAK ( Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia). So, God gave us a factoid we miss unless we think it through. Only at the very end does the E.U. vote to give their President full authority, see Rev. 17:12.
Rev. 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are
ten kings(Complete E.U.) which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings
one hour(42 Months see Rev. 18:8-10) with the beast.
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These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.(He does not Conquer Europe, he is VOTED IN).
Read Dan. 7:7-8 he arises out of the Fourth Beasts Head !! Read Dan. 8:9 he conquers towards the South, East and Israel, so in that Four Way Directional map (four generals) he can only conquer from the Northwest corridor.
He conquers from the Northwest (Cassander or Greece). He conquers South and East, as seen in Dan. 8:9 but in far more detail in Dan. 11:40-43. So, Dan. 8:9 shows he s born in Greece.
Now Daniel 7:7-8 shows his political base (Fourth Beasts Head) is the old Roman Empires base. Lets look at Rome circa 117 AD and then the modern day E.U. ADJOINED to these 9 Nations they currently have 7 Year Agreements with in the
European Neighborhood Policy (Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). By reding Dan. 11:40-43 we can see a PLAY BY PLAY of the E.U. conquering Israel and the whole Mediterranean Sea Region, except for Edom, Ammon and Moab (Petra/Bozrah area).
Can you see WHY God stated he Arises out of the Fourth Beasts Head? They will look exactly alike on a map once the E.U. conquers Israel and "THE MANY" (The whole Mediterranean Sea Region). And the E.U. currently has Agreements with all of these nations, they ran from 2007-2013 and 2014-2020, that s 7 year cycles. Look up
European Neighborhood Policy.
Now think, Greece and Rome's EMPIRES OVERLAPPED I wonder why? The Last Beast is born in Greece which is in the E.U. He has Assyrian Blood. God does nothing by chance. He makes it very hard to understand, so much so a person has to seek very, very hard.
There is no Worldwide rule by the Anti-Christ.
Ever considered the Antichrist as being a counterfeit Christian movement enforcing it's own brand of Christian morality on the world? Not a beast making the world pagan, but an Antichrist making the world "Christian" after is own image and likeness?
The Church will be gone, he will not be a FAKE Christian Org. He demands to be worshiped as God himself. Hes delusional just as Antiochus was.
The falling away in verse 3 speaks of that which all the early church fathers feared, and which they understood as being held at bay by the present rule of pagan Rome.
No it does not, Paul wrote that as the Church DEPARTS and points to vs. 1 as THAT DEPARTING. The Church of England or KJV translators changed the meaning to Falling Away. You can but what the translators put forth or what Paul put forth, that is on you. TBH, anyone who can't see the timing of the Rapture, I will not place much trust in their points of view on anything to do with Eschatology. There was no such thing as "Pagan Rome" lol. The Church of England was evil or "pagan also" then. Anytime you get men leading trying to be substitutes for God you get evil. You siding with one evil over the other is just you not paying attention to all the facts my friend. Better yet, people tend to agree with what they "WANT TO HEAR" sadly.
That Antichrist that arose, was the papacy.
I saw this coming, this is naivete sir. Both the RCC is the Beast/False Prophet and the Islamic Anti-Christ are both HEADFAKES by Satan. The Anti-Christ pattern has been given unto us. He will be a POLITICAL GENTILE RULER who conquers Israel and the Mediterranean Sea Region, all of the other six Beast Powers fits this description. Antiochus is the ARCHETYPE Anti-Christ, Jason (real name Yeshua) is the ARCHETYPE False Prophet, who was under Antiochus and betrayed his Jewish brothers.
I discounted this RCC/Pope stuff 30 plus years ago. It is rubbish.
That's not entirely correct. Since the doctrine of the secret pre-trib rapture was first espoused, Christians have discussed and debated it. It hasn't been a merry of folks just not listening. People, myself included, have looked at the topic with all seriousness, and at one time believed as you do now. More careful study of scripture and history has changed some minds.
You have been deceived by the Deceiver. All the talk means nothing, anyone who can not see the Pre Trib Rapture is not called by God unto Prophecy. PERIOD. Its that simple.
