05_04 Many Shall Run ‘to and fro’

Document #05_04, Many Shall Run ‘to and fro’ and Knowledge shall be Increased,
gives us real prophecy interpretation, plugging in the HISTORY that fulfills the prophecy, but also ties the revived Papacy to our “time of Jacob’s trouble” that is right around the corner of the future for us. Here the Three Angel’s Messages of Revelation 14 leap into prominence. These warnings are all that will prepare us to stand, by real faith, like Daniel and his friends!

Scripture Text: Daniel 12:4

Title: Many shall run “to and fro” and knowledge shall be increased.

In the study on Daniel chapter 2, we looked at the Bible’s first earth-history-encompassing prophecy – all the way from Daniel’s time through to the Second Coming of Jesus.
The great metalic image of Babylon’s king Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, made up of a golden head, breast and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, ending in feet of iron mixed with potter’s clay, and finally 10 toes; all this illustrated kings and kingdoms down to the end of the time allotted to them, before Jesus comes.
The stone that crashed into the image and destroyed it totally, referred to the coming kingdom of Jesus, which shall never be destroyed and shall stand for eternity!

Now listen carefully. The prophecies of the latter part of Daniel, and those of all of the book of Revelation, are to be unveiled by one understanding. Here it is: From Daniel 7 through to the end of Revelation, all of these prophecies are going over the same earth-history as the metalic image, but with increased information about sections of the history that are brought into special focus. (Re-read above paragraph and apply it in all prophecy study).

Daniel 7 is the same history, as we shall look at shortly, as that of Daniel 2, using new symbolic illustrations – great “beasts” in place of each metal. New information is added, especially to do with the last of the 4 kingdoms. Daniel 8 then prophesies the time involved for the greater part of the prophecies, all the way to the Judgment hour.
Daniel 9 then explains the part to do with the Jews and the coming of Messiah. Daniel 10 introduces chapter 11, which focuses in on each successive king (and their queens, where it helps clarify who the kings are) right up through history to the Judgment hour. You can even find Cleopatra, and Antony, in their place in the prophetic history! (See Dan.11:17-19).

Remember this principle:
“Prophecy is history before it happens!”

Chapter 12 then focuses on a time prophecy for one whole section of the overall prophecy, after the time of Messiah, which leads us to “the end time”(the time, and times, and half a time).

Now here is a crucial point: there is a direct connection between the beasts of Daniel 7 and the beasts of Revelation, chapters 13, 14 and 17 (and chapter 11, as we shall see).

The “beasts” introduced in Daniel 7 are: a lion, a bear, a leopard, and a beast that was unknown to Daniel; one we speculate was probably like a dinosaur, perhaps a triceratops. (A very rhinocerous-like animal with one difference – a great shield behind its head, with 7 horns on the edge of the shield and three on its snout.)

Daniel says, in Daniel 7:17 (found by looking up the key-word “beast” in a Concordance and comparing “line with line”) that “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings which shall arise.” – four great kingdoms of all the known world (in their time).

The “beast” introduced in Revelation 13 has characteristics of all four of these beasts, including the 10 horns! It is, therefore, a “beast” which combines the main characteristics of each one in itself, and, according to Revelation 17:10, becomes a “beast” number 5, as the “beast” imagery is extended in order to focus on three more, important, though smaller and different kingdoms.

(Note well: “beast” is a key-word for comparing Scripture verses “line upon line” – Isaiah 28:9, 10 – looking for understanding of the symbols.)

Here is the main tie-in with Daniel 7. The “little horn” power, out of the head of the 4th “beast,” itself develops into a “beast” power, and shall “…wear out the saints of the Most High…and they shall be given into his hand until a time, and times and dividing of time.” – Daniel 7:25. Revelation 13’s “beast” is more information about the little horn power, using the extended “beast” imagery because he becomes such an important kingdom, diverse from all of the others, because he is (as history reveals) a king of kings.

But it is the time element that is the clincher, tying Daniel 7’s 4th beast’s “little horn power to the “beast” of Rev.13. “Power was given unto him to continue 40 and 2 months.” – Rev.13:5.
This is the same as “a time, and times, and the dividing of time,” – Dan.7:25 – as is revealed by comparing Rev.12, verse 14, with verse 6 of the same chapter. (1260 days is equal to “a time, and times, and the dividing of time,”) which was found to mean 3 1/2 years, which is also equal to 42 months!

Through a great many centuries, the length of a year was considered to be 360 days, divided into 12 months, each of 30 days.
Thus a “time,” (2) “times,” and 1/2 a “time,” was 3 1/2 years, or 1260 days, or 42 months. The time prophecy is the solid link connecting Daniel 7’s “little horn” power with Revelation 13’s “beast,” as being one and the same! Much new information is given in Revelation regarding the latter days of the 4th kingdom of Daniel 7! The Papacy became the emperor of the “Holy Roman Empire” that succeeded Pagan
Rome!
The “little horn” became the other leg, if you will, of the image in king Nebuchadnezzar’s dream!

At the end of the 1260 prophetic “days” (history reveals prophetic “days” to be literal years – confirmed by 2 Bible texts – Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34) this 5th power receives a “mortal wound;” but his mortal wound would be healed! The “time of the end,” is marked by the fall of this 5th “beast” by his “mortal wound,” (because the end of the 1260 days begins the “time of the end,” – see Dan.12:9, and v.7 of the
same chapter).

Then Revelation 17 reveals two more “beasts – Rev.17:10. Each of these, as history reveals, is without a human king, yet they also are great powers against God’s people. We will see who they are as the history is unfolded. Further information is thus given, pertinent to us, who live in the “time of the end!”

So now, let’s start over, and work our way through the prophetic “beasts,” plugging in the history which fulfilled each one.

Keep in mind the principle that applies here: “Prophecy is history before it happens!” By looking back from the “time of the end,” we can accurately name each one!

Return to Daniel Chapter 7. God says, through Daniel, that four world kingdoms would come up. It is still a fact today that since the days of Babylon, when Daniel penned his book, there have been only four world kingdoms. [The little horn power is still Rome]. Let’s look closer.

First Kingdom: Daniel 7:4 “…like a lion, and had eagle’s wings.” Who was the first world empire? Babylon, as before, but now represented by the king of beasts. Wings, in prophecy, mean speed – see Habakkuk 1:8. Babylon began to rule in 606 B.C.

Second Kingdom: 7:5 “…another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it.” Here is the second world empire, an alliance of the Medes and the Persians, with the Persians later becoming dominant “…raised up itself on one side.” The three ribs doubtless represent the three parts of Babylon’s kingdom – Babylonia, Egypt, and Lydia. Medo-Persia ruled from 538 to 331 B.C.

Third Kingdom: 7:6 “…another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl: the beast had also four heads: and dominion was given to it.” In 331 B.C., the third beast arose. It had four wings, fitly representing the double-speed swiftness of Alexander the Great, the Greek king who so quickly conquered a vast empire. The four heads represent the four temporary kingdoms after Alexander’s
death, divided by his four top generals – to the north, Lysimachus; to the south, Ptolemy; to the east, Seleucus; and to the west, Cassander. Greece ruled from 331 to 168 B.C.

Fourth Kingdom: 7:7 “…a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly…and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it: and it had ten horns.” “It had great iron teeth.” The dreadful iron kingdom was the fourth (see v.23) Rome, which ruled from 168 B.C. all the way to 476 A.D. Remember that the fourth kingdom of the great metalic image was the iron legs.

What about the 10 horns on this fourth beast? The interpretation is given in v.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.”

These 10 horns are the same as the 10 toes of the image in Daniel chapter 2.

When the original (Pagan) Roman Empire fell, it was divided into the 10 kingdoms of Europe, as the barbarian tribes from the north swept in.

These 10 tribes were the Alamanni (became Germany), the Visigoths (Spain), the Franks (France), the Suevi (Portugal), the Burgundians (Switzerland), the Anglo-Saxons (England) and the Lombards (Italy). Three no longer exist: the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Heruli. To find out why they are gone, let’s read Daniel 7, verse 8:

“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.” [On the snout of a rhinoceros-like beast, this horn uprooted 3 other horns, and would grow, like that of the rhino, into a very great horn].

Here, we need to again plug in some history. Constantine the Great, Emperor of the whole empire of Rome, had become the first Christian Emperor, becoming allied with the bishop of Rome.
In 330 A.D., He decided to move the seat of his Empire from Rome to
Constantinople, his new capital city named after himself (now Istanbul in Turkey). Rome itself then lost its prestige, and, the western empire was exposed to the barbarian tribes, who split up the western empire, making the ten toes of the image in Daniel 2; or the 10 horns of the fourth beast, in Daniel 7.

But thereafter, and here is the great increase in information, the bishop of Rome (the little horn) over the next 200 years, arose to the ascendancy, subduing all of its kings to the Christian church but three of the ten, that were of a rival religion, the followers of a priest called Arius. These three were the Vandals in North Africa, and
the Ostrogoths and Heruli in what is now Italy itself. (the three that no longer exist!)

Here’s how it happened. Justinian, the emperor in Constantinople, about to begin war against the Vandals in 533, secured the influence of the bishop of Rome against the Vandals by decreeing, in an official letter to the pope-to-be, that the bishop of Rome should be chief of the whole church body of the empire (including the bishop of Constantinople itself!) and, note well, “the corrector of heretics.”

Theodoric the Ostrogoth warred against the Heruli and destroyed their kingdom at Rome and Ravenna, and so the Ostrogoths ruled Italy till 538. Not until they were rooted out of Rome could the pope exercise the power with which he had been clothed by the emperor! In 538, under Belisarius, Justinian’s general, the Ostrogoths were so destroyed as to leave the field with numbers scarcely sufficient to preserve their identity as a people!
Thus the Gothic horn, the last of the three, was plucked up before the little horn of Daniel 7, and Arianism was removed as the threat to the universality of the Papal faith. Nothing now stood in the way of the pope to prevent his exercising the power conferred upon him 5 years earlier. Thus, also, 538 became the year when the Papacy became the “little horn” in Daniel, and later in history, “the king” – Daniel 11:36 to 39 (read this!) and also the “beast” of Revelation 13!

History reveals that Revelation 13 focuses on more information about the extent of the Papal phase of the Roman empire. (the great second leg of the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream – the Holy Roman Empire).
Extending the “beast” imagery of Daniel, it is revealed that the Papacy would receive a “mortal wound” which would end its persecutions of God’s people, and dethrone its temporal power. It received this wound in 1798, from Napoleon’s army, exactly 42 prophetic months (42 X 30 days-to-a-month = 1260 prophetic days, or 1260 literal years) after its power and authority from Justinian, the Roman emperor, was established by the defeat of the Goths in 538! (538 + 1260 = 1798!).
But, its “MORTAL WOUND” WOULD BE HEALED, over 130 years later, in 1929, when Mussolini granted the Papal States, (Vatican city in the midst of Rome) to the pope, in return for money to finance his facist movement in Italy. The Papal “head” was again a “beast” – a kingdom: truly a little one, yet today again with great power over the world!
This is the “beast” we are warned of in Revelation 14, during the “judgment hour.” v.7. We are not to worship the “beast,” nor his “image” (MARY has for ages been his image!) nor receive his “mark,” – the change of the Biblical Sabbath to Sunday (the Pagan worship “day of the sun”), neither in our forehead (there is the reasoning part of our brain) nor in our right hand, the symbol of our working.

We are instead to worship Him that made (created) heaven and earth, by keeping His Commandment (the 4th) to remember the Sabbath day (Saturday – the 7th day of the week) to keep it holy. We remember it in our forehead, and refuse to work during the Sabbath, as the 4th Commandment stipulates.

After the fall of the Papacy by its “mortal wound,” another power “is” (Rev.17:10) which is America in prophecy (Rev.13: 11 – note: another “beast”) and yet another “…is not yet come” and “…must continue a short space” – atheism under Communism, which was spawned from the writings of the French Revolution – France gave the Papacy its “mortal wound.” (See Rev.11:7 – note – another “beast” in that verse!). Thus we have the seven kings or kingdoms of Revelation 17:10, and the eighth of Rev.17, v.11, the revived Papal kingdom! LOOK OUT! – the New World Order!
We now have tremendously important information about the “time of the end” in which we live! Daniel and the Revelation are seen, as we should expect, to compliment and explain each other, “line upon line, here a little, there a little.” History “fills in the blanks!”

We thus have “a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well to take heed, as unto a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the “day star,” (Jesus) arise in your heart!” – 2 Peter 1:19.

When Jesus comes, very soon now, very probably while you and I live, will you be found to be on His side, or against Him? Today is your day to choose salvation!
Choose!

As for me and my house, I will serve the Lord Jesus.

Post Script:
Rev.17:3 describes the “eighth” “beast,” upon which a woman arrayed in purple and scarlet sits. This focuses in on the “eighth” “beast” that is of the seven (see vs.8 and 11) and the woman that is riding (thus controlling) the eighth beast. In prophecy, a church body is personified as a woman. (Compare Rev.12:1,4,5,6 with the woman of Rev. 17) Thus the vile woman of Rev. 17:3 is the fallen Papal church, which shall control the eighth kingdom, and thus shall rule all of the kingdoms of the earth once again! WATCH OUT! – the New World Order will be run by the Papacy!

This eighth “beast” has ten new horns – see Rev.17:12, 13. (Remember that there were only 8 horns left on the Roman “beast.” – 10 minus 3 = 7; + “the little horn.”) These 10 kings have received no kingdom “as yet, with the beast.” We are right there in the prophetic time-line!!

This represents all of the nations besides Europe, who “…shall give their power and strength unto the beast,” during the Judgment “hour” – to persecute those deemed “heretics” by the pope! They are not the Papal “beast’s” ten horns, who have ruled as kings (crowns on the horns back then – Rev. 13:1) but are the horns of the great red dragon of Rev. 12:3, that have no crowns. (Only the heads, all of them, are crowned.) These horns (kingdoms) are under Satan’s control, but will become kings “one hour with the “beast.” Rev. 17:12. The “woman” rides the NEW WORLD ORDER.
At the same time, AMERICA will “make an image to the beast” (Rev. 13:14), and will
“…cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” (v. 15). Also, America will begin enforcing the “mark” of the beast – Sunday worship – by a boycott (vs. 16,17).

As recently as about 1980, the Protestant church of England received pope John Paul II into Westminster Abbey, to the adoration of 4 million people come to see him. The high Anglican church now openly worships MARY, the “image of the beast!” – even here in Canada. The rest of Protestantism will not take long to
fall into line! When all of the kingdoms of the entire world become united with the Papacy – [WATCH OUT! this will be “the New World Order!” Much more on this soon, from prophecy!] – and all also worship Mary (Islam already does!) then the uncrowned kings will receive their power as kings with her (the Papal church). See the alliance of the great red dragon (with those uncrowned 10 horns), with the “beast” and its 7 horns, as well as with America (the “false prophet” who “maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men” – like Elijah did!) – this alliance is revealed in Rev.16, verses 13 and 14.

Thus the Papacy will regain her power as “the corrector of heretics!” by uniting church and state, like she did in the Dark Ages.

Again I say, whose side will you be on when Jesus returns?

“Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His Judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters (reference to Noah’s Flood – warning of the end of the world)!
…Babylon is fallen, is fallen!
…If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark;
…the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God!
(Revelation 14: 7 to 10.)

Will you be found worshipping Jesus?

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