Just a rough draft of something I`m working on........
Four horsemen begin their ride across the stage of history. We read of them in the 6th chapter of the book of Revelation. It is interesting to note the meaning of the number 6.
Man’s coming short of spiritual perfection. It is the number of imperfection; the human number; the number of MAN as destitute of God, without God, without Christ.
It is certain that man was created on the sixth day, and thus he has the number six impressed upon him. Moreover, six days were appointed to him for his labor; while one day is associated in sovereignty with the Lord God, as His rest. Six
The serpent also was created on the sixth day.
The Sixth Commandment relates to the worst sin,—murder.
The Beasts number is triple six.
Revelation
Chapter 6
Then I watched while the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures cry out in a voice like thunder, "Come forward."
1. The meaning of the sealed scroll is in the Old Testament book of Jeremiah:
a) Jeremiah’s cousin Hanameel, decided to sell his land to Jeremiah because he figured that when Nebucadnezzar conquered them the land would be confiscated anyway.
b) While Jeremiah was in jail for giving this prophecy, the Lord told him to accept his cousin’s offer and buy the land because one day they would return and that way it would be preserved for his heirs.
(1) The court officials were called and the title deed was made out and the transaction was completed.
(2) The deed was rolled up into a scroll and sealed and could only be opened by the rightful owner!
(3) The deal was not fully consummated until the owner came forth to break the seals and claim his land.
(I) Satan is called the "god of this world" in Corinthians but he is a usurper. He doesn’t hold the title deed!
(ii) This "scroll" is the title deed to the earth!!
(iii) And the rightful owner is here to break the seals and to take possession!
I looked, and there was a white horse, and its rider had a bow. He was given a crown, and he rode forth victorious to further his victories.
When Jesus returns to the earth at Armageddon he is depicted riding a white horse. In this verse though it is the Anti Christ who is riding a white horse. The bow in his hand is not a weapon of war rather it is a piece of the simplest fabric. It is symbolic of how he will rule.........at first.
Dan 11:24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do [that] which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: [yea], and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
The European Union ( revived Roman Empire ) which he shall eventually lead has absorbed nations into itself through treaties of shared commerce and commodities to the point it has now evolved into a European super state. All done without a shot being fired. The bible predicts the Anti-Christ will come out of the revived Roman Empire.
The Treaty of Lisbon is in the process of being ratified this year (2008) with the hopes it will come into force by Jan 1, 2009. If ratified by all member states an office of president of the European Union will be created allowing the Union for the first time to have a legal presence globally. The president would be able to serve up to two 2 1/2year terms replacing the current system of each member nation having a 6 month turn at leading the Union.
I believe the crown spoken of is a lesser, but successful position the beast will hold and use as a stepping stone to the Presidency which he will assume after he makes the 7 year league/treaty with Israel. Whatever lesser position that may be it must be one that has him in the position to legally broker deals with israel as well as serving as a spokesman for Russia. I don`t believe he will be Russian, just acting for them - in their service.
Dan 11:23 And after the league [made] with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people ( 10 kings ).
The Russian armies and their allies armies are eventually destroyed upon the mountains of israel. A person who appears to be standing for them backstabs them.
Dan 11:18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause [it] to turn upon him.
Russia identified in the bible
When he broke open the second seal, I heard the second living creature cry out, "Come forward."
Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword.
Russia/Gog/Magog is the rider of the red horse. Taking peace from the earth begins with the destruction of Babylon ( USA )? In Daniel 11 The King of the North is German royalty in WWI ( the Kaiser - royal king of Germany ) and as Germany under Hitler in WWII. ( referred to as sons of the King of the North ) With the fall of Germany as a major world power under Hitler the title King of the North is once again applied to kings ( the 10 kings ) with Gog/Russia now acting as their agent under their title in Daniel 11. Russia and her allies ( Arab alliances ) are the 10 kings enforcers , but is the 10 kings with the beast in the background still who are the real power behind it all.
Northern Army described in Joel
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Joe/Joe002.html#
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The beast and the ten horns - Horns indicate kings/rulers.
The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God’s words are fulfilled. The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth (Revelation 17:16-18).
Many believe the woman who is destroyed is the USA. Read Babylon`s description in Revelations chapters 17 & 18.
Most of the 11 remaining royal houses of Europe are related through Queen Victoria. Her large brood of children were mostly married off in political alliances. Seven of the present day royal houses are of German descent. Which fits perfectly with Daniel 7:24 that shows seven kings ruling with the Beast in the last human government on earth.
One royal house has recently received absolute power disqualifying it from the list of kings who are still waiting for their crowns. They rule, but do not reign as yet. ( Constitutional monarchies ) That leaves ten, with three being upsurped by the Beast in the future leaving seven to rule with him. The Pope is a monarch as well for a total of 12 kings in Europe, but he also is an absolute monarch disqualifying him and his kingdom from the list.
Dan 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom [are] ten kings [that] shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
November 1956
During a diplomatic reception... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told
Western diplomats:
"About the capitalist states, it doesn’t depend on you whether we
(Soviet Union) exist. If you don’t like us, don’t accept our
invitations, and don’t invite us to come to see you. Whether you like
it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you."’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you
Khrushchev died on September 11th 1971 age 77
Other than the obvious, his age is significant as well. The number 7 is God’s very own number, and is associated with Divine completion and perfection. In the bible Jesus would say truly, truly ( double ) to emphasize something. Double 7`s may be emphasizing something here.
An oddity from September 11, the first anniversary - strange winds
"In truth, the sunny blueness of the eastern sky this past Wednesday was as ironic as it quickly became at 8:46 a.m. last September 11, and this week nature itself decided to take note: A high wind battered lower Manhattan all day Wednesday, and in time it tore open a gash right across the middle of the big American flag fastened to what used to be the old Bankers Trust building, on the edge of the empty block. But the flag didn’t fall. It was just ripped."
What this story fails to mention is The old Bankers Trust Building had been bought by the Deutsche Bank before 9-11. A German Bank. Just as the woman Babyon sits on the beast and is destroyed by the northen hordes loosing the kingdom of the beast ( kingdoms government comprised of the Anti Christ, the EU - ruled behind the scenes by the royal European houses.The majority being of German descent ) - so the flag is torn by a northern wind while attached to a German building.
Gog/Magog is described as a whirlwind from the north in the bible. Many believe this refers to Russia.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dh
enninger/?id=110002264
Anchors find words in the wind to describe day
Posted: Sept. 12, 2002
TV’s anchors found a common metaphor Wednesday to define the marathon coverage of the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the very air around ground
CBS’ Dan Rather labeled it as he suggested some of Wednesday’s images of ritual mourning might not pack the wallop at home that they did on the scene. He described "something biblical" in the reading of victims’ names.
"Television doesn’t do justice to this scene," he told viewers. "I don’t think you can grasp the full picture of what’s happening here.
"A north wind has blown in, down there in the pit where the names are being read, dust has settled over it like a thin, mysterious fog. But the reading of the names and the laying of the flowers goes on."
*Gog/Magog/Russia described as a whirlwind from the north in the bible.
Fox News Channel’s Linda Vester amplified that mystical theme.
"All the way to my left and all the way to my right there are TV network platforms. Everybody planned elaborately for months, and had shades and kind of roofs set up. And then all of a sudden today, the wind picked up in the most incredible way and started blowing people’s tarps off.
"We started hearing people say . . . ’This is the souls of those people lost, talking.’ "
Said Vester, "it must be a message from someone, somewhere."Tom Brokaw kept it going as NBC aired images of a huge American flag torn by the wind."There’s a hole in America’s heart today, and at ground zero, the flag flying above the ceremonies, there’s a hole in that as well as a result of what has metaphorically been described as a violent or angry wind. Other people, when there was a wind gust just as the names were beginning to be read, were calling it a spiritual wind."
It was actually a touch of Hurricane Gustav.At 8:45 a.m., Mayor Michael Bloomberg mounted a platform erected on the edge of the pit. "Again, today, we are a nation that mourns. Again, today, we take into our hearts and minds those who perished on this site a year ago," he said.
Wind roars like a jet plane
There was a brief sense of alarm in the crowd when Bloomberg delivered his opening remarks. The wind had picked up speed, and when it hit the microphones it produced a sound uncannily like that of roaring planes overhead, causing some people to look up to the skies, much like they did a year ago on the morning of the attacks.Just before 8:46, and the first scheduled moment of silence, the cold front forecasters had promised roared in. The intensity of the wind gusts were startling, I mean really intense, and very quickly a cloud of dust rose from Ground Zero, as the names of the 2,800 dead were read aloud. I heard much later that television commentators were likening the dramatic weather to an eerily Biblical sign. While that sounds like poetic liberties to me, I can tell you that the extraordinary wind arrived just before the ceremony began, and slacked off shortly after it ended. Make of that what you will.
http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher091202.a
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The wind at Ground Zero during the first memorial service, September 11, 2002
Even the secular world can sense the presence of the Divine though they may not understand it.
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. “But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” —Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president 1861-1865.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6tbt1G2PA
video of wind torn flag at ground zero 9-11-2002
screen captures from video
Mat 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
Still working on the last two horses and a full commentary on Daniel 11.
