The Revived Roman Empire, will it be the Western nations or the Muslim Eastern nations- March 13, 2009

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In the 2nd chapter of my book I explain the prophecies concerning the last days Revived Roman Empire that is to come just before Jesus returns.  In my book I gave you only one view and that was the Western view of a revived Roman Empire.  What I mean by this is, that the 10 nations Daniel and Jesus talk about just may come from the Western nations or they may come out of the Eastern nations that were in the Old Roman Empire.  The Western nations would be those nations such as the UK, Ireland, Italy, France, and so on.  The Eastern nations I will explain below.  As I said, in my 2009 book I only covered one view of the Revived Roman Empire and who the Antichrist may be and where he may come from.  

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I think because of all the scriptual evidence that points to the fact that the Antichrist may rise from a specific Muslim nation we need to pay attention to what is being said.  I for one do not want to be closed minded on this issue.  I think you are going to be just as suprised as I was to find out there is evidence that we in the West have been viewing these scriptures other than they were suppose to have been taken.  

God told the Prophect Daniel that in the last day’s knowledge would increase.  There is no doubt in my mind that the exact meaning of these prophecies will be known to all of us who study the Word of God, specially as we get closer to Lord’s second coming.  Let us all be like the

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To be honest, at the current time there are two ways you can take the meaning of this prophecy.  The first way is to regard the reborn Roman Empire as the Western part of the Old Roman Empire.  The second way to view this prophecy is that in the last days the Eastern section of the Old Roman Empire will come into play just before Christ returns.  

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What I would like you to do is take the same position as the Bereans meantioned in the books of Acts.  Notice what they did when they were taught sometime from the Word.  I quote, “As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue. ¹¹Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true” (Acts 17:10-11). I have done what the Bereans have done and checked out what the Word says about the last days revived Roman Empire.  If you read my post without going to the Word to check out what I am saying, you have placed yourself in an unhealthy spiritual position.  If you don’t examine what I am saying, what else aren’t you examining?  What I am finding out is, most Christians would rather ask someone what this or that means rather to search the meaning out themselves.  These are the types of people who are being pulled out of the faith in Christ and are lead into false religions and into cults.  I am happy when people check everything out that I am writing.  I am happy because when they research it they will find out that what I have quoted from the Word is the truth

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Now I want to cover this same prophecy and show you how in the last days it may be that the Eastern part of the Old Roman Empire may be the one we should be looking out for.  The Eastern section of the Old Roman Empire had to do with the Muslim nations such as, Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Persia, Greece, Iraq, Sudan, Ethiopia and others. 

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What you need to know is the Muslims are also looking for their Messiah to come soon. The Muslims call this Messiah the “MAHDI” which means, “The Guided one”.  He is also described as the 12^thImam and is said to be a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad.  This Imam is supposed to have divine status and by the way, he is also known as the “Hidden” Imam.  Many of you may have heard this term “MAHD” used in the news in some of the speeches given by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  “Ahmadinejad is on record as stating he believes he is to have a personal role in ushering in the age of the Mahdi. In a Nov. 16, 2005, speech in Tehran, he said he sees his main mission in life as to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance" (WorldNetDaily September 21, 2006). When you read chapter 10 from my book you will see that Iran’s President is trying to speed up the process of bringing out the Mahdi by producing nuclear weapons. 

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Where is this Mahdi?  It is believed by the Muslims that this Mahdi went into hiding as a young boy around the age of 5 sometime around the 13th Century.  The word out is that this Mahdi has been ‘in hiding’ in caves ever since but will supernaturally return just before the Day of Judgment. According to many news sources the Mahdi is hiding in a well in a dusty village of Jamkaran, which is in Iran’s holy city of Qom.  What you should realize is Jesus warned us about such things.  I quote the word of my Savior Jesus. “Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not” (Matthew 24:26).

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Ahmadinejad and as well as other Muslims teach that when he arrives he will conquer the entire world and place the world under what is known as “Sharia Law”. Muslims or anyone else who break the Sharia Law could have their heads removed.  By the way many Muslims around the world are convinced that President Ahmadinejad will fulfill his divine mission to prepare the world for the coming of the Islamic ‘savior.’  I think you should read what the Lord said the Antichrist was going to do when he comes to rule during the 7 year tribulation.  I quote, “And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time” (Daniel 7:25).

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You may be asking change what times and what laws.  Since the Antichrist comes to destroy God’s work he will also go after the Jews.  The times he will attempt to change is a reference to God’s Jewish feasts, which God put in place as, recorded in the book of Leviticus chapter 23.  These are the feasts such as Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost, and so on.  Changing the law part is a no brainier.  The Antichrist will attempt to install this strict Sharia Law and force everyone under this Islamic law.  

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This becomes very important to prophecy because in Revelation 20:4 we see that anyone who doesn’t follow the orders of the Antichrist will be beheaded.  I am telling you this because there is the possibility that the Antichrist will be a Muslim and not from Rome Italy but from one of the Middle East nations.  You will see why I mention this latter.  This Islamic Messiah is called the Imam. According to the Muslim doctrine the Imam will, appear for the final 7 years of mankind. The Imam will come on the scene to crush all oppression and restore God's law and order and make justice once again prevail.  What the Muslims see as their Messiah the Christians see as the Antichrist. 

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In order for me to explain all this I need to take you back to the image God showed Daniel in chapter 2.  I covered this image on the first page of this chapter when I began to explain the revived Roman Empire that was dealing with the Western side of the Old Roman Empire.  Nothing has changed concerning this image.  God shows Daniel what kingdoms would rule starting with the Babylonian Empire all the way up until the revived Roman Empire emerged.   The only thing that will be different here is how we take in this information concerning the Eastern side of the modern day Roman Empire and, what it means in light of where the Antichrist comes from.  The other differences will be who are the 10 horns both Daniel and Jesus speak to us about, who and what are the 7 mountains, and who are the 7 kings found in Revelation chapter 17.   

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In the image Daniel was shown by God the head is of gold and was Babylon or, what we know today as Iraq.  Look at what is going on in Iraq.  Today we see war and unrest.  In the image Daniel was shown the chest was of silver and was know to be the Medo-Persian Empire that would over take the Babylon Empire.  Today the Medo-Persian Empire of old is modern day Iran.  Look at what is going on in Iran currently.  When you read chapter 10 of my book you will learn that the President of Iran is calling for the destruction of Israel. In the image Daniel saw the belly and thighs of that image was to represent the Grecian Empire and, we see this Grecian Empire as brass in this image.  Once thing of importance here is this.  When Alexander the Great died his kingdom was split into four parts. Four Generals ruled these four parts.  The two most important parts of the divided Greek Empire are the Egyptian and Syrian parts of the kingdom.  Look at what is currently going on in Greece?  The nation is in debt and they have been rioting and are in unrest.  Next on the image is the legs, which we are told are legs of Iron which was to represent the Roman Empire. This is important.  Read what Daniel wrote about the legs of iron. I quote, “Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others” (Daniel 2:40).  Let me ask you a question?  If we claim this is the Roman Empire tell me how and when did the Roman Empire crush Iran, Iran is represented by silver?  The fact is the Old Roman Empire never crushed all the ones before it. So this still has to take place in the future.

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The Roman Empire seized to exist in the West after the Turkish Empire took it over, but continued to exist in the 10/40 window parts.  The 10/40 Window is the rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. The 10/40 Window is often called "The Resistant Belt" and includes the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.  Some of the nations in the 10/40 window are Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, West Bank (Gaza), Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and, others.  Please take notice that the nations in the 10/40 window are the same nations that show up in Daniel’s image.  Many of these nations were part of the Eastern side of the Old Roman Empire.  The final part of the image is the 10 toes that Daniel says is a mixture of Iron and clay and is the revived Roman Empire that will come back again in the last days.  As you can see from the list of nations that were part of the Eastern Roman Empire you can come up with as least 10 toes to represent this reborn modern day Eastern part of the Roman Empire that would be made up of the Muslims nations.

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These next verses are very important to understanding what is going to take place in the near future.  I quote from Daniel 2:34-35. “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.  God has informed us that in the last days the stone that is Jesus Christ is going to crush all these kingdoms all at the same time.  What is the mountain in this scripture?  It is the kingdom of God. 

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Now notice something of great importance.  If the stone, which is Christ Jesus, hits the image at the feet in the end times and they are all crushed or broken up at the same time that means what?  That means the ancient Babylonian Empire must come back as a power again in the Middle East just before Jesus comes back the second time.  As you can see by the current events going on in Iraq, which is the modern day name for Babylonian, Iraq is currently in the process of returning as a power again.    You can google the rebuilding of Iraq yourself to see if what I am telling you is the truth but, here is one recent report giving you the evidence.  I quote from the PUKmedia released on February 24, 2009.  “South Korea on Tuesday signed a US$3.55-billion deal with Iraq to help rebuild the war-torn nation and set up various forms of social infrastructure in exchange for nearly 2 billion barrels of Iraqi oil, Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.”

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In order for Christ to crush all these empires all at once Iran must also be showing signs of coming against Christ’s chosen people who are the Jews.  Anyone who has been watching the news knows that the Iranian President for the past few years has been warning Israel he is going to wipe Israel off the face of the map.  I give you the complete details to this information in chapter 10 of this book.

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Now let us take a look a Revelation chapter 17: 9  ^“And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.”  What are the seven mountains?  They are 7 kingdoms.  What rules kingdoms?  7 kings rule them.  Many people in the Western part of the world have read this verse and came to the conclusion that just because Rome has 7 mountains, that means Jesus is talking about the Antichrist coming from Rome but, is this what Christ is really pointing to?  I don’t think so and you will see why. 

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Let us now take a look at Revelation 17: 10-12. “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.  And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.”  What is Christ showing us?

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Who is writing this for us?  It is John the Apostle.  John is telling us 5 kingdoms, (Empires) have fallen in the past.  When John was writing us this information from Christ he was in the midst of the 6^th kingdom  which was the Roman Empire.  What was John showing us?  He was telling us that the Grecian Empire, the Medo-Persian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Assyria Empire, and the Egyptian Empire had already fallen away. In the last days the women in Revelation chapter 17 rides on 7 heads which shows us all the ancient empires of the past come back again because the women rides the beast with 7 heads and 7 kingdoms which are described as 7 mountains. 

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John was living during the 6^th kingdom but we are told in verse 10 one must come which will be the 7^th kingdom.  What nation hasn’t come yet?  To answer this question we just need to ask what nation came after the Roman Empire?  The 7^th kingdom was the Ottoman Empire or Turkish Empire, which was Muslim.  We must not forget that Daniel shows us that each one of these kingdoms was represented by horns. When a new stronger kingdom came up, that kingdom plucked the horn from the other weaker kingdom.

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Remember, Babylonian had a horn that was plucked by the 2^nd kingdom.  There horn was plucked up by the 3^rd kingdom. The 4^th kingdom was plucked up by the 5^th kingdom.  Now let’s not forget that the 5^th kingdom was split up into 4 parts so we see 4 horns, which were run by the 4 generals.  Then came the 6^th kingdom, which was the Roman Empire who plucked up a horn from the Grecian Empire.  Then came the Islamic Turkish kingdom who plucked a horn away from the Roman Empire. If you go back and count the number of horns you will see that there are 10 horns.   John is also telling us to watch out for the 7^th kingdom.  Why?  Read Revelation 17:11 is says, “And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.”  The beast that was and is not, means it hasn’t risen yet but it was a previous Empire either part of Grecian Empire or the Assyrian Empire.  This one kingdom to rise again will be the 8^th kingdom and was part of the 7.  In other words, the 8^th kingdom will be a revival of an Islamic Empire. 

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Now if you are not convinced that this is the case you must tell me how Jesus crushes all these empires all at once as we Him doing in Daniel 2: 44.  It does appear that the revived Roman Empire which both Daniel and John wrote about just might be the one from the Eastern part of the Old Roman Empire and, that the Antichrist won’t be coming from Rome Italy at all but rather from Syria.  When Greece was split up into the 4 parts Seleucus took over the Eastern part of the Grecian Empire, which is the areas of modern day Syria, Babylon, which is Iraq, and Persia, which is modern day Iran.  As you can see all these kingdoms are mentioned in the Daniel image was shown and, they will all be crushed at the same time when Christ returns.

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What we know for sure from Daniel chapter 7: 7-8 is that the Antichrist will rise up from the 10 horns of the Roman Empire.  This is what Daniel 7: 7-8 tells us, “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.  I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.”  In this revived Roman Empire we know four shall be the 4 kingdoms into which Alexander’s Empire was divided.  Once again those four would be Macedonia (Greece), Thrace (Asia Minor), Syria (Assyria), and Egypt, and out of one of these 4 the Antichrist will rise up from.  We know which one it will be because Daniel tells us in Daniel chapter 11: 36-45.  In these verses we see the Antichrist as “Willful King” of the North.  In Daniel 11:36-38 it says, “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.  Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnifyhimself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.”  In speaking about the Antichrist Paul in 2^nd Thessalonians 2: 3-4 says, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himselfabove all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”  We know for sure this Willful King from the North is the same Antichrist as the Apostle Paul is speaking about. In Daniel 11:37 we are told this Antichrist doesn’t “dsire of women”.  In the Western part of the world people reading this came up with the conclusion that this means the Antichrist is gay.  This is a mistake.  Since the Antichrist comes from Syria he is a Muslim.  As a Muslim man it is the norm that they do not regard women and any thing that women desire the Muslim men do not care about.  Muslim men treat women as second rate people.  The text of him not having desire of women has nothing to do with the Antichrist being a gay man.

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If Jesus has spoken to your heart, after reading this information, please receive His call to you. Ask Christ into your heart by saying the sinners pray. No one can enter Heaven without giving his or her life to Christ. Jesus is waiting for you, please do not let Him or yourself down.

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