Chapter 6

(Rev 6:1 KJV) And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

John sees Jesus open the first seal of the book and he hears a noise like thunder, and one of the beasts takes John and points to a prophetical time window, so that John can see the events that will take place some two thousand years later, the events that are seen will happen on this earth not long from now.



Rev 6:2 KJV) And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

When John looks through the window he sees a White Horse. There are going to be four horses that ride, White, Red, Black, and Pale. When they come, they don't take a turn around the track and relay to the other one and then the next one comes out. The first seal breaks and the first horse is released, then we will see shortly after the next one is released and so on. As we look at the horses that are released, they have a causative affect. The White horse causes the Red horse to go into motion, the Red triggers the Black horse, and the Black horse ultimately causes the Pale horse to ride. They are all on the track at the same time. If you talk to the Seventh Day Adventist, they will tell you that these events were set into motion along time ago. That the white horse is Jesus and he rode for a thousand years, then that Red horse was Attila the Hun. The horses are not things in the past but are yet in the near future.

 

Our first rider out, it is the White Horse. Some today will tell you that White Horse rider is Jesus Christ to bring great revival on the earth. Let me ask you something, didn't you just see Jesus in heaven breaking the first seal? Jesus is not down on the earth riding this horse. Many of the charismatic crowd have a song that they sing in their churches about Christ riding through the land right now, with a fire in His eye, they are singing about the wrong rider, this first rider is the Antichrist. The Antichrist has fire in his eyes and he is riding through the earth right now. And he is just hoping the Lord will get out of his way and let him get to work of doing his dirty deal. This white horse rider is not Jesus Christ.

Jesus is not going to come back to this physical earth again until the Jewish Nation recognizes Him as Lord and Messiah. They must lift their voice and say Mt 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Do you know how I know that? Jesus said He would return, and He always keeps His word. Jesus said you'll not see me again until you (that is Israel) say that. The question is asked, doesn't Jesus come back at the Rapture? When the Rapture of the church happens Jesus doesn't come back to the physical earth, Jesus comes to the sky above the earth, and removes us from the earth taking us home, Jesus doesn't touch this earth at this time, Jesus is not the rider of the white horse riding here. Jesus is in heaven when the seal is broken, and He is still in heaven when the next seal is broken, He is still in heaven when the third seal is broken, He is still in heaven when that Marriage Supper of the Lamb takes place, He will be serving us at that supper. He is not on earth, He is up in heaven. This rider is the Antichrist!

We are about to see some things about this rider that are obvious contrasts to Jesus. This man is coming out of the stable with a bow but an empty arrow quiver. When we first see him, he doesn't have a crown (which meant he has no authority or power), somebody gives him a crown, and they give him arrows for his bow (Arrows will be the weapons used to conquer), or else he wouldn't be able to conquer at all. He has to have somebody give him power and weapons to complete his task. We know who is going to give him this power. The scripture tells us it will be ten kings who join together to revive the Roman Empire. Once that first seal is broken one of his first acts is to go to Jerusalem and make a seven-year peace treaty with Israel. Daniel 9:26 teaches us about the Antichrist and the 70 weeks’ prophecy. (go to chart). 

(Dan 9:26 KJV) 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.

What this scripture is referring to is Jesus’ first coming to the earth. When we read the words "to be cut off" it is a reference to Jesus being crucified for our sins. We can look back in history and Bible study and see this means that Jesus was crucified for our sins. The statement "the people of the prince" is a reference to the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire will destroy Jerusalem and its temple in 70 AD. The people of the Roman Empire would experience a splintering into separated, independent nations. At the time of the Antichrist the Roman Empire will come back together and empower the Antichrist. From the time 70 AD until the coming of the Antichrist, Jerusalem will experience turmoil. History has seen two temples destroyed and history anxiously awaits the building of the third temple which will take place right around the time the Antichrist gives Jerusalem the seven-year peace treaty.

If we look in Daniel 9:27, we will see that the Antichrist is called the prince of the covenant. (Dan 9:27 KJV) 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.

The prince of the covenant takes away the daily sacrifice in the place of desolation. The week reference is the final week of judgment upon Israel which is the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy which also is the Tribulation period. (Dan 11:31-32 KJV) And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. These scriptures point to the Antichrist making a seven-year peace treaty with Israel. This is what starts the seven-year tribulation period, but in the middle of the tribulation period he will betray his word to the Jews. He will go into the temple and stop the sacrifice, set up the abomination that works desolation, then an idol (which is the image of the Antichrist) will be set up in the Temple that is alive. People will be forced to worship the Antichrist and his image. They will then be forced to receive a mark (there will be more detail in future text). He will then begin a great persecution of Israel.

 I know what you are thinking, "is Bill Clinton the Antichrist?" No, but he may know him. But his peace process will help the Antichrist come to power. Bill Clinton's actions and policies have allowed events to line up in such a way it is now possible for the events of the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy or the Tribulation to find their fulfillment. There has probably been no other human being that has made as many decisions that will cause as many humans to die as this man but in all fairness to him, I don't think he has a choice. Bill Clinton is a total puppet to the men that are reviving the Roman Empire over in Europe. This Antichrist is going to be the head of a revival of the Roman Empire, at the time he is making a deal with Israel for seven years.

The Antichrist is able to come at this time because he and those that support him have been working behind the scenes orchestrating events that will bring about the United States of Europe Have you ever seen those European License plates that say EU? Europe United is what that means.

 

 

We now have passed the year 2000 and the people of Europe are pushing, pushing, pushing for unity. The Euro Dollar is finally out, common borders are being setup, transportation is allowed to flow back and forth, they are talking about how they want one military force with a European head, with talks about NATO and how it will be affected. They are pushing for a common European defense. This picture was taken back when the EU was the EC but now look how it has grown and pulled in so many others. This is the beginning phase of a revival of the old Roman Empire into a new Roman Empire. The Antichrist is going to become the head of this revived Roman Empire, and he is going to have a False Prophet to help him pull the whole thing off. One of the biggest movers and shakers for a one world government and a revived Roman Empire is the Pope in office right now, Pope John Paul. The Pope has a vision of Europe united in dignity and human rights. If you have followed what this Pope is presenting to the world, you will remember that he invoked a vision of a united Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Urals based on a common Christian Heritage. That common Christian heritage is Catholicism, it will be a Holy Roman Catholic Empire.

 

Even Israel wants to join the circle and be a part of the EU, here is a picture of Europe's charmed circle with the star of David trying to enter in and be a part of that group of nations.

 

So now we have some facts about the Antichrist established. He will make a peace treaty with Israel and he will be the leader of final Roman Empire and it will be from their authority (EU) that he will receive his crown and his arrows, and the power to be able to force this peace on the middle East. There will also be a couple of other things that go on, one I expect a new rebuilt temple on the temple mount in Jerusalem, Either just before, or right as, or right after that peace treaty has been signed. Because there will have to be a three and a half year period where witnesses can cry out against it, and there will have to be a three and a half year period where there is a sacrifice in it. The three and half year of sacrifices have to be ended by the Antichrist when he enters into the temple, so there has to be a temple and this one of the things that is going to bring Israel to the table. This world will be so excited when they see the 7-year peace treaty signed, but I remind you what the bible says in (1 Th 5:3 KJV) For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. When the Antichrist signs the treaty the world is just within a few months of a global nuclear war. Sudden destruction will come upon them.

 

Some people want to miss the Rapture. Some people want the Rapture to happen in the middle of the Tribulation period because they have mistakenly heard that the first three and half years of the Tribulation will be peace and won't be that bad. If you believe that you just might be here for some of the Tribulation, you will want to read on. You don't want to go through any of the Tribulation period. The Lord has made sure to let us know about the Rapture and the immediate danger that follows, He said it is going to be like the days of Noah, Noah went up and the flood came. It is going to be like Lot. Lot went out the fire fell. God always tied the destruction to be immediately after the evacuation. So I don't think it will be very many months after the Antichrist makes this treaty until Russia invades Israel and the response to that will be nuclear. So you don't want to be around for any of that destruction, and you don't want to hang out with anybody that believes that, under their influence you might just be left behind to face it.

We want to learn a little bit more about the Antichrist, so we are going to go back to the book of Daniel, and we are going to look at this man called Nebuchadnezzar a likeness of him found on a stone cameo.

 

Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful king on the earth during his reign. He was absolute ruler and god of Babylon. One night as he is sleeping and has a dream about a colossus statue. It has head of gold, shoulder of silver, a belly of brass, legs of iron, and the iron legs turn into a mixture of iron and clay that end at ten toes. When the dream comes to this point a rock hued out of the mountain, but not by mans hands, comes from outer space and smacks the toes and the whole image falls. When the whole image falls that rock grinds up that statue until it becomes dust and powder. The wind blows the dust and powder away, and the rock grows until it is a great mountain that fills the whole earth. The Ancients were very superstitious and they felt that dreams were a message from the gods and the kings always kept a lot of wise men around to interpret the dreams. These wise men were not really wise men at all, they were the Psychic Friend’s Network of their day, they were Astrologers, Necromancers, they would read the bumps on your head, read your palms, read the tea leaves, shake the chicken bone, fortune tellers, horoscope readers, and these wise men were a dime a dozen.

 

Nebuchadnezzar's armies had gone into Jerusalem and brought back slaves. They brought the best that Israel had and they are believed to be of noble blood. Amongst these that were brought back are four very notable men that will play a big part in the book of Daniel, one of them was Daniel. The other three Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were known as the three Hebrew children. These four men were outstanding young men. The king felt that these men should be trained up in the ways and wisdom of Babylon. They would then be considered among the wise men of Babylon.
When Nebuchadnezzar had this dream, he immediately wanted to know the meaning. But he had a problem, he couldn't remember the dream enough to relay it to the wise men for the interpretation. (I will paraphrase the story, but it can be found in the Book of Daniel) He knew he had the dream, and it upset him, but he couldn't remember it. So he called up all his wise men and he said to them, "I had a dream and I want you tell me the dream and what it means."
The wise men all wanted the king to tell them the dream, and the king said, "no, if I tell you the dream you will just make something up, I know you, I want the real interpretation." These workers of evil are like the ones that perfected today's Psychic Friends Network, they use the same tricks today as they did some 4,000 years ago. They ask questions and feed off of the questions until you believe. This king understood the deceptive tricks of the wise men, so he tells them, "you tell me the dream and give me the interpretation." They said "we can't." Then the king said, "If you don’t then I am going to have you all executed." Daniel felt that God would give him the dream, and so after he prayed to God, he told the man in charge of appointments to take him to the king. Daniel proclaimed, "I can tell him what the dream means."
The wise men are hoping against hope that Daniel has the interpretation of this dream so that they are not executed. Daniel is brought before the king and says, "did you have this dream?" Excitedly the king agrees that the dream that Daniel is presenting to him is in fact the dream that he had. Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar that the dream is from the Hebrew God and what the dream meant.
Daniel tells him what the dream means. Daniel will reveal that the statue represents the four great kingdoms that will come to this world and have the greatest influence over the whole world. Daniel is going to tell the king that his kingdom is the beginning of the dream, and then Daniel will give us a great advance history lesson from his time up until the time you and I live in right now.
This history lesson is especially important concerning the nation of Israel and the middle east. Prophecy paints the future.

 

Later on Daniel will have his own dream, He will dream of a lion with eagles wings, then he dreams about a bear that lifts himself up on one side and has three ribs in his mouth, then he dreams of a leopard with four heads, then he dreams of a terrible beast that has ten horns, it is iron and it is devouring all of the beasts that came before. We will see how all of this ties in with the kings dream and brings it all together.

 

As we look at each one of these visions, we will see kingdoms to come from Daniel’s standpoint. We have the advantage because we can look at the dream from the future, we able to compare it to our world’s past history. We are able to see how everything was fulfilled to the smallest detail. All that remains is the final stage of the final kingdom. We will see how these different animals of Daniel's dream correspond with the different empires that are represented by the statue in the kings dream. With each dream we are given more detail so that we can see more clearly the prophetic picture being painted for us. God puts a lot of different puzzle pieces for us in the Bible. This done so that we can understand what is going to happen in our futures, and why it is so important to be obedient to God's word.

 

One more thing that we will be drawing from as we find out where the Antichrist is, and who the Antichrist is, is Daniel's vision of a ram with one horn larger than the other. The ram is stamping out the earth and nothing can stand in front of it, and suddenly a goat with one big notable horn sticking out of his forehead coming from the West with great anger, whose feet are not even touching the ground, comes and collides with the ram. No one can help the ram, and the ram dies. When we get into Revelation 13, we will see another animal that has the mouth of a lion, the feet of a bear, the body of a leopard and it has ten horns. What do all of these animals of Daniel and Revelation along with this statue in the king’s dream mean?

 

Now what all these animals represented is just one thing, the four powers are going to be on this earth up until the time of the Antichrist. God uses all of these animals to give us some information. The gold head on the statue in the king’s dream, and the Lion with the Eagles wings in Daniel's dream, represent the Babylonian Empire.

The Silver shoulders of the statue of the king's dream, and the bear of Daniel's dream, along with the two horned ram in Daniel's vision is the Medo -Persian Empire. The bronze belly of the statue of the king's dream, and the leopard of Daniel's dream, and the single horned goat of Daniels' vision is Greek Empire. The iron, and iron and clay mixed legs of the king's dream and the ten-horned beast of Daniel's dream is Rome. The final form of the Rome Empire being the ten-toes of the statue. The ten toes represented ten kings that give their authority to the Antichrist. The ten toed part is still yet to happen, this will be the Revived Roman Empire. This is the only part of the dream left to be fulfilled in Bible Prophecy. Daniel starts his interpretation of the dream and tells Nebuchadnezzar thou art the head of gold. As we look at the statue from top to bottom take notice that the empire's metal goes from richer and a finer quality down to a poor quality of metal, but as the quality of the empire and metal goes down its strength increases.

Babylon represented by the gold head. King Nebuchadnezzar was probably the most powerful man that lived on the earth. There have been other men that are powerful, but usually they are just the puppets, and there is someone you don't know about pulling the strings behind the scene. No one could pull the rug out from Nebuchadnezzar. Even during his bought with insanity, when he was acting like an animal out in the field. The people were afraid to touch him, because the ancients believed that if a man was deranged in that way, he might be touched of the gods or be a god himself.

 

 

 

Daniel is going to do something that you just don't do to an "all-powerful ruler" like Nebuchadnezzar, unless you want your head cut off. Nebuchadnezzar believed he was the reincarnation of Nimrod. He was trying to rebuild Babylon to its full glory. This was in Babylon 606 BC. Daniel is going to do a thing that takes a lot of courage. He is going to tell Nebuchadnezzar that there will be a ruler and a different kingdom after him and that his reign is going to end. This was crazy, you just didn't tell that kind of thing to this kind of king, you say "Oh king, live forever, your dynasty forever."

 

 

So now in 536 BC we are going to meet the dual empire of the Medes and Persians. The Medes and Persians are two groups of people. The Medes were the first of these people, then came the Persians, one horn rises up above the other one, The Persians become the most powerful faction of the two, and it is now called the Medo-Persian Empire. If you want to know where Persia was at that time it was where Iran is today and that is why that land is called the Persian Gulf. Here we have a bear, the three ribs in its mouth represent three powers that the bear overcame to become a powerful empire, they were Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt. This bear is said to devour much flesh and this was the Persian empire on the rise.

 

 

 

Here is our Persian ruler King Darius of Persia this is the last Babylonian ruler that will see fulfillment of Bible Prophecy.

 

  

This man here is going to receive an e-mail from God, his name is Belshazzar. While He is having a feast, Babylon is being besieged by the Persians. Belshazzar feels secure, Babylon is a great and mighty city, it has a river running through it, it has food for years, nobody can conquer it. This king didn't realize that someone had rerouted the river and somebody forgot to close the iron gate under the wall that was meant to keep out the enemy if the water was low. While this king is throwing this big drunken orgy using the precious cups, bowls and utensils that were stolen from the Temple of God in Jerusalem, a hand appeared writhing a message on the wall. This shock Belshazzar, it would scare anyone to get a message like that. The king sends for Daniel, and Daniel tells him what the message written on the wall means. Daniel tells the king "you thought you were a god, but God has put you on the scales, and God is the counter weight and you have been found wanting, and this night your kingdom is departed from thee and given to another." (By the way this story is where we get the common phrase "The handwriting is on the wall") So that night the great Babylonian Empire fell just like it was prophesied in the dream.

 

 

There is a prophecy in Isaiah 45:1-2 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

This is a prophecy stating that the gate would be left open, this was given 100 years before it happened. And the Persians took Babylon without a fight. This is a historical fact. It is such a fact that when Sadam Heisuin was talking about how he wanted to send the scuds to Israel, it is because he says that it was a Jew that left that gate open and caused the glory of Babylon to be destroyed. Sadam wanted to pay the Jews back. People of the Middle East hold a grudge for a really long time.

 

Now we have the Persian empire and it is everything that you see within the red outline, everything that is yellow is the Greek Empire. It is a good sized empire. Now we are in the silver area of the statue and the Persian ruler is not nearly as powerful as Nebuchadnezzar was. We know this because in Daniel 6:1-24 one of the king's leaders conned the king into making a special law because they didn't want Daniel there, and they knew this was a law that Daniel would have to break. They had Daniel thrown into a lion’s den for breaking that law. King Darius didn't want Daniel put in the Lion's den, but the presidents that deceived into making a law that the king could not rescind the command to put Daniel in the lion's den. The Persian law was that the king’s word was law, so much that once spoken even he could retract it. If that had been Nebuchadnezzar, he would have done what he wanted to do. With Nebuchadnezzar, it is a stronger empire, a stronger metal.

 This is crowned Prince Xerxes standing behind his father king Darius.

 

 

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