Now we go almost 300 years from the first empire, to 336 BC, the Copper Empire, Alexander the Great’s empire. Alexander the Great is quite a marvelous kind of man, he is about 19 years old, his father is Philip of Macedonia. Philip is uniting all of Greece. Somebody assassinates Philip, and Alexander takes over the Greek army at 19 years old. This young Alexander believes that he is a god. His mother was a worshiper in the temple of Diana and the day that he was born lightning struck the temple of Diana, Alexander believes that he is going to have a short, but glorious life. He has stirred up all of Greece to go with him, and has gathered about 40,000 men. The Greeks were already mad at the Persians because a hundred years earlier one of the Persian rulers had invaded Greece and was not totally successful. The Greeks were holding a grudge and wanted to settle the score.

 

Alexander the Great in 13 short turbulent years conquered his known world all the way to India, and this man was great and fearsome, he was brilliant. There is a little story about Alexander the Great that when he was travailing through the country conquering, he sent word to Jerusalem and said he wanted some help from them, he wanted some troops to join him in overthrowing the Persians. They replied and said we have a good relationship with the Persians, and we are not going to break our covenants with them.

 

So Alexander went to Jerusalem to destroy it for their lack of fear, and when he got there the High Priest came out in his royal robes and met him. And when Alexander saw the priest he just saluted him. Alexander's generals wanted to know why did he saluted him instead of destroying him. Alexander said I saw this man in a dream and in the dream he was going to show me how to conquer the world. So he honored him and the High Priest opened the book of Daniel and showed Alexander his life story that was written before he was born.

 

 

 

When you see what, the Bible says about Alexander you will know that God must certainly know the future. It says he will live a short time that when he dies he will not leave his kingdom to his posterity, but that four others would take the kingdom and divide the kingdom up into four, the Bible tells the whole story about 400 years before Alexander was even born. The four headed leopard with the four wings represents the Greek empire, and these animals all represent the way these men that rule fight their battles. The lion is massive, powerful, skill and speed. The bear is different he just uses brute strength, when the Iran and Iraq fought their seven-year war, they fought like the Persians did in human waves, if you have 40,000 enemy then send a million to fight them, it is exactly what the Persians did to fight Alexander the Great, King Darius fights against Alexander like the Leopard with speed and before you know what attacked you, it is over.

 

 

The reason this Leopard has four heads and four wings are because Alexander is going to die and four generals will divide his kingdom into what is called the four Hellenistic states.

 

 

 

Now we go to the ram and he goat that Daniel saw in collision. The he goat is Greece coming with great anger, and that is just the way Alexander came and defeated the ram just like in Daniel's vision

 

When Alexander’s kingdom was founded, it was this big compared to the United States, it was a really good size piece of property.

 

 

So Alexander true to history and prophecy as revealed in the scripture, at thirty-three years of age, after a very hard riotous life, Alexander grew sick and died. And the kingdom was not left to posterity but was divided by four generals that will take his kingdom, and this is where the prophecy says there was one horn on the goat and it was broken off and four grew out where the one was. Now something else happens where the four horns grew out, out of one of the horns grows a little horn and the little horn is the Antichrist. This is giving us one of our big clues to where he is coming from. The little horn is the Antichrist and our clue is that he has to come out of one of the places where Alexander the Great ruled.

 

(Daniel 8:8-9) Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.

 

 

These are the four generals who will be symbolized by the horns Lysimachus (Asia Minor), Cassander (Macedonia and Greece), Ptolemy (Egypt and Palestine), Seleucus (Mesopotamia and Syria). Our artist puts the little horn coming out of Syria and he is right to put it there. Do you know how Sherlock Holmes does his sleuthing by deductive reasoning? Let’s see if we can identify the place where the Antichrist might come from by eliminating the places where he cannot come from.

 

This is Seleucus one of the generals, this is him styled as a god.

This is Ptolemy, you know the story about Ptolemy, he is a Greek that goes over to Egypt and establishes a line of 
Greek -Pharaohs of which Cleopatra is the last of that line. 

 

Cleopatra

 When Cleopatra, Mark Anthony, and Octavian's story comes about, Octavian conquered Egypt it was the fulfillment of one of the prophecies in the book of Daniel. The Bible said the great iron beast ate all of the other beasts, which Greece was one of the empires ate up by the beast, and Egypt was considered to be part of that Greek empire. Cleopatra died and fulfilled that prophecy because she was the last of the Ptolemy blood line.

Cleopatra

 A prophecy found in Daniel 7:7, After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 19-23 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

Mark Anthony and Octavian

 

This is Lysimachus, Cassander is not photogenic, But I do have Antiochus Ephiphinees and he is in Chapter 11 in the book of Daniel in the lineage of the Antichrist, he is the king that pollutes the temple that is rebuilt after the Jews return home from Babylon, he is the man that offers the idol in the temple and causes the revolt of the Maccabees. He is the one that many people believe is the Antichrist and that would mean we are living in eternity right now. I am disappointed if that is true.

 

 

Our exercise now is to find the Antichrist, find out where he is coming from. We have gone through these images in the Book of Daniel to show you the Antichrist's connection to world powers, we are told that he comes from one of the places ruled by Alexander the Great, Asia Minor, Macedonia and Greece, Egypt and Palestine, or Mesopotamia and Syria, the Antichrist can't come from Rome, because Alexander never ruled Rome. And I don't think the Alexander ever ruled over Arkansas, so that lets Bill Clinton off the hook. He has to come from this region, so he can't be one of the Hapsburg who ruled over in Germany, He can't be Juan Carlos of Spain, He can't be Gorbachev in Russia. It is an awful big territory to come out of but I think that we can narrow it down. The Antichrist is the King of the North (Read in Daniel 11)and the King of Egypt is the King of the South, and the King of the North as the Antichrist invades Egypt on more than one occasion and gets control of everything that they have, and you are invading that country then you are not ruling that country. If Egypt is invaded by Antichrist is the Antichrist coming from the Ptolemy (Egypt) kingdom? No!

 

 

The Antichrist is going to be rising amongst the ten kings, which is the united Roman empire, he is amongst them and diverse from them that is different from them, he rises up and pulls three of them from their position and takes control of the whole Roman Empire. If you are one of the ten kings that are forming the United Roman Empire, you will not produce the Antichrist. Greece is an essential part of the ten kingdoms, eliminating the Antichrist from coming from the kingdom of Cassandra.

 

 

Next if you are mentioned as a Russian ally invading Israel (mentioned in Ezekiel Chapter 38 and 39) you will not be producing the Antichrist because you are on the opposite side of war. One of the Allies of the Russian Military Alliance when they invade Israel is called Beth Togarmah. Beth Togarmah is Turkey, Turkey takes up this area, it takes over half of Seleucus' empire and almost all of Lysimachus' empire and there is very little doubt that what is left of those kingdoms will produce the Antichrist. What we have left that is not canceled out by other Bible prophecy, understand that Bible never contradicts itself, it is never in conflict with itself, it is a very neatly planned puzzle and every piece fits right together where it belongs and it has to be perfect will produce the Antichrist.

 

This leaves us only the part of Seleucus' empire that is not already canceled out by scripture, the Antichrist must come from here, and we will eliminate some more nations and try to narrow it down closer to where this Antichrist will come from. He cannot come from Israel because he is must come from outside of Israel making a peace treaty with them, he is not in that city ruling or reigning or anything of the sort in that city until the middle of the Tribulation period and the only way he can do that is to betray them and break the covenant with them so he is not from Israel itself. He is also not from Jordan and the reason that we know that is because the Bible has this prophecy Daniel 11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. Who are they?

 

Edom is the descendant from Esau, in, and this area is the ancient city called Petra it was the old Edomite capital city. This is where the Jews are going to escape into during the second half of the Tribulation period. Amon and the Moabites are the two sons of Lot and his daughters. You remember the story? Lot’s daughters thought everyone was dead and that their father was the only one left alive. They were certain that the fire and brimstone had killed everyone and that those not killed would be afraid of them. They got Lot drunk and got him to impregnate both of them. Each will give birth to a son, Amon was one of the sons and Moab was the other son. Out of them came these tribes of people and they are the people of Jordan. Amon city the capital of Jordan, takes its name from one of the sons. The peace treaty between Jordan and Israel have already resulted in a bridge being built that will aid in the escape for the Jews in the middle of the Tribulation period. I think because King Hussein of Jordan made the treaty with Israel may be the reason why that land will escape having the Antichrist in control of them. Because when that Jewish’s military has to flee because of the occupation, their presence is going to make Jordan's defenses so much stronger than they were before. So we eliminate them.

We are also told that coming with Russia will be Persia and Persia is Iran, Iran will not produce the Antichrist. Syria is also a Russian ally and will probably will not produce the Antichrist and since they control Lebanon, Lebanon will probably not produce the Antichrist. It leaves us only one block of land that is not eliminated, Iraq and Kuwait that are all that is left. The Antichrist must come from a place where you can rightfully call him a Babylonian because he is called a Babylonian in Isaiah 14:4, he must come from a place where he can be called an Assyrian because he is called an Assyrian in Isaiah10: 5-12, Assyria no longer existed at the time of this prophecy, the reference is to Antichrist. Assyria and Babylon ruled the same area, the area of Iraq and Kuwait. He has to come from a place where the Roman empire ruled because they are his people and he is connected with them. He has to come from one of the four corners of the Greek empire all those empires and names and titles have to fit the Antichrist.

Another prophecy says the Antichrist is "mighty with a small people." Daniel 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.

I am not prone to prophesying, I am allergic to having rocks thrown at me if I should be wrong. There are times that I make an educated guess at how a prophecy may come to pass. Understand that this is not a prophecy, it is merely a looking at the news, the geography, the political situation, and what the Bible says. What I am suggesting is a possibility, nothing more.

This is how it could be. A prince in the region, possibly Kuwait, probably Iraq, sees a possible de stabilization of America due to breakdowns in economy and military. Perhaps there will be a change in political will. America has been their chief protector of the region. This prince could say if we are going to survive the danger presented by our neighbors, we better get a way to guarantee peace in this region. , Saudi Arabia, Kuwaitis, and the New Iraq are dependant on the West for their lifestyle. This is what the Antichrist can do, as a prince he can tell his nation, that he has a plan for peace, a plan that will guarantee that they will become the rulers of the world.

What is his plan? He may inform those who power comes from, that he is going to go to three of the "Ten Kings" and make them a deal that will pull them out of their union (EU) and form a new union. We will make our own four headed, four-winged leopard! Who will be the three kings to persuade? This is my guess as to who would be chosen, and I am pick Greece, Rome, and France. Why? You want Greece because if you get Greece you get the Aegean Sea, it has more oil in it and you can bottle up the Russians. Why do you want Rome? I get the Pope, which is enough reason. I am going to get him on my side and he will help will give me some extra leverage. Later in our text we are going to see how the false prophet makes a god out of the Antichrist. The final pope is the false prophet. Next I want France, why France? Because she is cheap, easy to be had, she will make a deal behind the back for a price. She is nuclear power. That would make me nuclear. I will be cutting Europe in half.  Old Rome will be divided.

 

This scenario may provide some insight as to how Russia and Germany become allies in Ezekiel 38: & 39: text. This is when Russia invades Israel. It may be the power play that plucks the three kings out of their union that unhooks Germany from her European Union moorings. There are currently more than ten nations in the United Europe right now, so there needs to be some movement that will allow for the "Ten" for the prophecy to be fulfilled. Some countries will need to drop out or at least lose their autonomy. We will need to watch the countries of Europe as they merge or break away from the Union. If I were the prince I would take these three and make a union with me. My area of the world is getting dangerous, and I need to find a way to get the balance of power shifted in my direction. Becoming a regional superpower that the four nations could create can become the balance of power.

 

The three nations are going to ask, "What are we going to get out of this arrangement?" The answer would be, I will give you all of the oil that you want for next to nothing, the second thing I have a few billion dollars that I need to invest some place, and if you will go along with me I will invest my money in your banks and factories. Not only that, I want some planes, some aircraft carriers, some submarines, some nuclear bombs. I am going to stimulate your economy so that we are all going to be very wealthy. I'll promise you something else if you do this. I have already been talking to the Israelis. They seem willing to sign a seven-year treaty. Bring them into an alliance will help us to dominate the region.

It may be possible that this Prince could be of mixed blood, half Jewish and half Arab. The reason I am throwing this in is because the Jews are not going to accept the Antichrist as the Messiah, unless he is of Jewish blood, and there has to be someone to bridge the gap between the Arab and the Jew. There have been people who have a mixed bloodline before, do you remember Queen Esther? It is speculated that she would have had children with the king and the children would be half Jewish and half Persian. It is very possible that she had a son that was half Persian and half Jewish by the name Artaxerxes Longimus who had sympathy on the Jews and let Nehemiah go back home. Wouldn't it be possible that there are another half Jew and half Arab out there? He will convince the Ten Kings that he has swayed the Jews to join him in an alliance, with the guarantee of peace. If the Jews join them, look at the economic value, the food value, look at the technological value, and the military value, that would come from having an alliance with the Jews. It would guarantee that the others seven nations in the EU will want to join the Antichrist's charmed circle.


It seems to me that there might be another twist in the Jews accepting the Antichrist. Abraham had two sons. One, Isaac, he is the son of promise. His other son was the son of the bond woman Hagar.  His name is Ishmael. Ishmael is the father of the Arab people. Jesus said, John 5:43 "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." That would be the ultimate rejection of Jesus to accept the "son of the bond woman." So perhaps the Antichrist needs no Jewish blood, maybe blood of any sorts coming from Abraham will do

 But what if these nations decide to resist him? A man like that could say I am going to shut my oil off, I am going to pull my investments out of your countries, this will cause high unemployment, rapid inflation, their governments will fall. Do you think the rulers of today's world are willing to lose their jobs over principle? No, they will compromise and make a deal with the devil to stay in power. Now it doesn't stop there, we will see that the Antichrist will rule all ten nations, when these three agree and he has authority over them, the other seven will go right along with the program. The Antichrist ends up with all ten nations under his power, and when that happens the Roman Empire with its final emperor will have arrived.

 

  Events may not happen exactly like I have laid it out, but can you see how it could? All of the forces that it will take to bring the Antichrist are circulating, forming. Why haven't they all come together as of yet? For one simple reason, the first seal hasn't been broken yet. That seal can't be broken until the Rapture takes place. Once we are out of here, it's all set up and ready, the players are aligning themselves at this time. The forces are playing the game right now. For all we know this very moment there is a prince headed for these nations. He could be in his plane on his way to make a deal.

Here is a possible Antichrist, Sharif Ali bin Al Hussein. Before we give his background there is some background information concerning the Antichrist.
A THRONE FOR THE ANTICHRIST - (Isa 14:4-6 KJV) That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! {5} The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. {6} He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

The Antichrist is called the King of Babylon. Babylon is the ancient name of Iraq. You might say that the Antichrist will be the King of Iraq. The USA has fought a war to remove the current ruler Saddam Hussein. Now Iraq has no ruler, but that problem is about to be solved. But plans are already being made to bring a new government to power. Could we be watching the door open up for the man of sin?

Before the demise of Saddam Hussein there were several opposition parties that wanted to take over the country. One of these parties is called the Constitutional Monarchy headed by Sharif Ali bin Al Hussein who is the crowned prince of the last Monarchy of Iraq. He wants to form the government.

 

 Taken from a newspaper article: Sharif Ali bin Al Hussein –––– next in line to the Iraqi throne and leader of the Constitutional Monarchy Movement –––– today completed a 3-day long relationship-building mission with top US government officials and the Iraqi-American community in Washington, D.C., USA.

Sharif Ali is a cousin to the late King Faisal II, his father is Sharif Al Hussein bin Ali, whose father was Prince of Mecca until 1908 and uncle to King Faisal I, and his mother is Princess Badia, daughter of King Ali bin Hussein I and aunt of the late King Faisal II.

Born in Baghdad in 1956, Sharif Ali escaped execution at the age of two, seeking refuge in Saudi Arabia. He later moved to London, England where he received some Masters Degree in Economics. He still lives in London today.

Sharif Ali, who is next in line for the throne, oversees the Constitutional Monarchy Movement. The 42-year-old Sharif Ali maintains an office in London promoting free parliamentary elections in Iraq. Sharif Ali sees himself playing the role of a unifying leader among the often-splintered opposition and eventually a ruler over a British-style parliament.

Sharif Ali is committed to pursuing closer relations with key US officials and plans on returning to the United States early next year to work with the 106th Congress and the State Department in developing permanent solutions to Saddam Hussein''s dictatorship. End of article.
 

This man has some very interesting characteristics.

He is a direct descendant of Ishmael, He is a direct descendant of Abraham, He is also the direct descendant of Mohammed, and his great-grandfather was the Prince of Mecca and was in charge of guarding the Muslim Holy site. He is born of the Hashemite bloodline and is related to the Hussein family that rules Jordan. If this guy stands up with the blood of the prophet, the blood of Ishmael, and Abraham in his veins and says, "Allah has told me that he is tired of all of the bloodshed and suffering. There must be peace among his children!" It is going to be the Americans and the European Union that give him his crown and power. If those powers allow a man to take Saddam''s place he will have to guarantee that he will establish a Democracy, and he must bring peace to the Middle East. This man is going to step up and say he is for a Constitutional Monarchy. He will be the Monarch, he will rule over New Babylon, with the backing of the United States and Europe. He will have great influence upon the Arab nations around him. He now controls all of Iraq's oil and that influence can affect the economies of all of the other oil kingdoms. He now has this powerful military force that has brought him into power. Before the USA leaves that country it will rebuild that nation, the oil wells will work, the economy is going to burst forth, modern weapons are going to be there, and he will have the backing of the Roman Empire. He is going to go to be able to impose the peace on Israel. The Jews will be glad and thrilled to death for it, and the Palestinians won''t like it a bit but they will sign it. And then in an underground move make a league with Russia. When Russia realizes that they are being left out of the Antichrist peace plan, they will get their own alliance. They will invade Israel and when they invade Israel the second seal is broken.


Is this man the Antichrist? We will have to wait and see. But you can see how easy he could be and how short the time may be. This I can tell you as I type Sharif Ali bin Al Hussein is in Iraq maneuvering for the job.

 

Enough of that side bar, let us go back to the statue and dreams. We will come to an end of fulfilled prophecy with the Roman Empire 200 BC. The Roman Empire is next and extends all the way down into two legs and becomes the ten toes. This is the beast that is clothed in iron, and it is iron and steel that made the Roman empire with its legions able to devour everything in its path. No African nation has ever gone outside of Africa to make an empire, neither have the Orientals gone out of their regions to make an empire. The Romans have colonized the entire world. The Europeans trace most of their history back to the Roman culture, Roman language, Roman architecture. And according to scripture the Romans would devour the whole earth. The Antichrist is going to control the Roman beast. Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

 

The new Roman Empire intends to conquer the entire world. Now that the Antichrist is in control of the ten kings, he will make a peace treaty with Israel leading the world to think it has finally seen an end the Israeli / Arab conflict. They will think they finally have peace in the region. The Bible says that 1Th 5:3 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. Almost immediately after signing the peace treaty destruction will be coming to the world. The Nation of Israel will rejoice in the fact that they finally have their hope. They are about to get a wake-up call.

 

 

There is something rebellious and sinful about man. The only way that you can have true peace is through the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ. We constantly try to find a way to fill our needs without Jesus Christ. Jesus is generally the last one that we turn to for our needs. We often as believers are guilty of going to see a doctor first when we are sick, rather than praying first. The world is guilty because they are in rebellion to Christ, they are trying to solve the peace problem with guns and human wisdom. If they would just do what the Bible said to do, even if they didn't want to personally serve Christ, just give Jerusalem back to the Jews, letting the rest of the people go somewhere else, it would save a lot of blood shed. But this won't happen because there is rebellion in man and the devil is standing on his shoulder like a parrot whispering in his ear "rebel." As long as Israel as a nation is not calling on Christ, the devil feels that he still has time. When these events take place, a false Peace has been accomplished, the temple has been rebuilt or probably is being rebuilt and with today's technology the Temple could be up in days. The sacrifice of animals will be reinstated. The Two witnesses that will be killed in Jerusalem are starting their ministry (we will see them shortly and learn who they are). The 144,000 are getting sealed by God (Next Chapter). The Bride of Christ has been Raptured (The Church). Everything is in place for the gate of the second horse to open.

 

The part in the king’s dream where the rock comes down breaking the statue and grounds it up into dust, but the rock is not hewn by mans hands, is the Lord Jesus Christ returning and destroying the Antichrist's kingdom.

 

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