Where are we now?

PAST

⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

 

Explanation:

In fact wars and rumors of wars have characterized the complete church era of almost 2000 years. The cause of wars is 'the empire' that wants again to reestablish itself as world dominating power since it fell in the fifth century AD.

 

For many centuries the empire was subdued by the strength of Christianity. But Christianity would lose her influence on world affairs because of her failure to remain in the words of Christ. That gave the empire the opportunity to attack her, to totally subdue her and to make her an instrument in its strategy to regain world control.

 

The revival of the empire started in 1776, with the foundation of the USA. From this newly discovered continent, it could build a worldwide dominion, under the directions of nobody else than the dragon - which is satan and the devil, the old snake. The revolutions that were instigated  and the wars that were fought since 1776 are all signs of the emerging world empire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAST

⁴⁰ 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. 

 

Explanation:

This concerns the prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar's statue, which he saw in his dream, with the head of gold, the chest and the arms of silver, the thighs of bronze and the legs of iron with feet partly of iron, partly of clay.

The dream of the statue comprises world history since the Babylonian empire: Four empires would arise, the Babylonian (Golden head), the Persian (Silver chest and arms), the Greek (Bronzen thighs) and the Roman (Iron legs).

The Roman empire was exceptionally strong and it incorporated much of the other empires. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAST

²³ “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. ²⁴ The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. 

 

Explanation:

Daniel's dream consisted of four animals that he saw coming out of the sea, a winged lion, a bear, a four-headed leopard and a terrifying fourth beast. These represent the empires of the past 2.500 years: Babylon (the lion), Persia (the bear), Greece (the leopard) and Rome (the terrifying fourth beast). It is exactly as was the case with the dream about the statue under (2). Ten horns arose from the fourth beast, the nations of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire - similar to the toes of the statue under (2). But then the story continues. From among Europe's nations another nation would arise, different from all of them, like the Roman empire differed from the preceding empires, looking more imposing than the others, as verse 20 states. This new nation would have enormous influence on earth as seen in verse 25. This new nation would subdue three of the ten nations from which it arose.

Looking at the history of the past 250 years, there is only one power in the world that came forth from the nations of Europe and that grew more imposing, gained enormous influence on earth and conquered  three of the nations of Europe, beating them into submission: The United States of America. The USA rose from European colonies. The three European nations that were subdued by the USA are Spain (in 1898, in the Spanish war), Germany (in 1918, in WW1) and England (in 1945, in WW2). That the US fought on the side of England does not blot out the fact that world domination has been taken over by the USA from the UK because of all that resulted from WW2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAST

²¹ And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

²² Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

 

Explanation:

The Greek empire was established by Alexander the Great through the conquering the Persian empire. After his death, the Greek empire was divided among four of Alexander's generals

PAST

²⁴ Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

²⁵ Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

²⁶ 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.

 

Explanation:

Around 520 BC Daniel received a vision about 70 'sevens' that are commonly understood as 70 periods of 7 years, totaling 490 years. These years would end with the salvation of God's people and the establishment of the millennial kingdom of Christ. The starting point of these years is problematic and multiple starting points have been suggested. They start at the commandment that was given to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. This aspect of 'restoration' implies self governance by the Jews under their own laws. The commandment implying this was given in the year 458/7 BC. The rebuilding would take the first 7 'sevens' or 49 years. Then it would remain in the rebuilt state for 62 'sevens', 434 years. So in total, 69 years would pass until 'Messiah the Prince', 483 years. Counting 483 years from the year 458/7 BC, one comes at the year 26 or 27 AD, the year of Jesus' baptism. He then was baptized with the oil of the Holy Spirit: ' how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power' (Acts 10:38). He then entered his public ministry as Messiah. Bible prophecy is fabulously accurate.

After his entrance upon the world scene and displaying the power of the Almighty for about three years, the Jews - jealous and afraid of losing their lucrative position - had Him crucified by the Romans in 30 AD. 'And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself' - not for Himself, it was on our behalf - for our sins.

Forty years later, in 70 AD, the Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and the temple, in this prophecy called 'the people of a prince that shall come'. Therefore, a prince is yet to come, that came forth from the Roman empire. This accords with the prophecy of Daniel 7 about the four empires, visualized as four beast, coming out of the sea. 'The prince that shall come' is the Endtime leader of the USA, the little horn that came up among the ten horns that rose from the fourth beast. The desolations that are mentioned at the end of this verse could be the yet future third world war that will be ignited by 'the abominiation of desolation', which is part of the last verse.

PAST

³⁰ For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

³¹ 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 makes desolate.

³² 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.

³³ And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

³⁴ Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

 

Explanation:

The 'him' with which this passage starts is Antioch Epiphanes IV, the Greek king (king of the North - Syria) who fought the other part of the Greek empire (king of the South - Egypt), but found another enemy in the upcoming Roman empire (ships of the Chittim), which frightened and therefore angered him. On his return to the North his attention was drawn to Jerusalem and the temple and he used the Hellenistic Jews (them that forsake the holy covenant) to strengthen his position in the Middle East and turned the Jewish temple in a temple of Zeus, in order to demonstrate his power (place the abomination that makes desolate). The faithful Jews that protested were massacred (they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days) but after 3 years (many days, 1,080 days to be exact) the faithful Jews succeeded in organizing a revolt and recapturing the temple and re-instituting the regular temple service (the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits). The 'little help' could point to the ones starting the Jewish revolt against the Greek rulers. 

 

 

PAST

PRESENT

⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

 

Explanation:

We are living in the last days before the empire will recapture total world dominance - notwithstanding the many that are foretelling a multi polar world. The aspirations of the empire are the cause of the wars we see. The empire is incorporated by the USA and its vassal states in Europe and the Middle East.

 

The 'you' that Jesus addresses, shows that his followers would experience all of this.

Jesus' remark that 'the end is still to come' shows us that the Endtime is yet to start, the last 3.5 years before his return.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESENT

⁴¹ Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. ⁴² As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. ⁴³ And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

 

Explanation:

Out of the Roman empire, ten nations would emerge, the nations of Europe. From the fall of the Roman empire, these nations were divided like the toes of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. 'And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.' A second meaning of the iron and clay is the partly strong and partly fragile nature of Europe. Governments could be very harsh but could also admit to democratic principles. This dissension and this partial weakness of Europe's nations made it possible for two great powers of the Endtime to arise: the beast out of the sea (the USA) and the beast out of the earth (Zionism). The coming up of the beast out of the sea is pictured in Daniel's dream of Daniel 7, about four beasts coming from the sea. Daniel's dream differs from Nebuchadnezzar's dream, not just in presentation but also in how it ends. The European nations are pictured as ten horns on the head of the fourth sea-beast (comparable to the ten toes). Among the ten horns a little horn comes up that eventually takes the lead. The fact that Europe was divided gave the USA, which came from the countries of Europe, the opportunity to seize world power.

PRESENT

In the explanation, given to Daniel in Daniel 7, there is no part that explicitly shows us today's situation. However, in the recounting of the dream by Daniel, he uses a sentence which can be applied to the present world:

 

²¹ As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them

 

Explanation:

Ever since Israel lost its temple with the Ark (around 600 BC) the rule over the earth was given to the empires, that would emerge. These empires stood under direct control of satan, the enemy of God and his holy people, out of which Messiah would come, the Messiah which constituted the one and only threat to satan. This resulted in much enmity of the empires against the small people of Israel.

Christ came and conquered satan. And from a certain moment in time this would result in the expelling of satan from heaven and casting him to earth. (We think this moment to be in the very recent past). From then on the empire would become totally satanic, possessed by satan and it would try to destroy the people that brought forth the Man that had meant satan's eternal damnation. All of this is the tale of Revelation 12.

Look at what is being done to the Palestinians - men, women and children - bombarded in their houses, bombarded in their hospitals, bombarded in their schools, bombarded in their mosques, ninety percent of their buildings reduced to inhabitable rubble, bombarded and shot while trying to help the injured, shot in their heads, shot in their abdomen, starved to death for months - no food, no water, no electricity, no medicine - and when packets of food finally arrive, many of them are shot while they come to collect the food at the administered distribution points.

The present situation for the Palestinians is incomprehensible in the light of all human right institutions that exist in the world. Why is the whole world incapable of stopping the ongoing genocide of innocent and defenseless people that has been going on for twenty months and which has nothing to do any longer with 'October 7' and 'hostages'? The hostages could all have been free and back with their families at the end of 2023, had their been a will to come to a solution. But that will is lacking. And that will is not only lacking with the political elite of Israel. It is especially lacking with the rulers of the United States, which delivers most of the weapons, the financial support, the political support and the diplomatic support to the small state it helped to create under the UN.

The present situation for Palestinians in Israel is an exact fulfillment of what the 'little horn' is doing to 'the people of the Most High'. 'As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them'. And it will go from bad to worse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRESENT

²³ And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

²⁴ And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

 

Explanation:

One would think this to be about the latter days of the Greek kingdoms. This is however not what the angel says, that is explaining the vision to Daniel. This is what the angel says about it:

'Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.' (verse 17)

'Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.' (verse 19)

The vision is mainly about the temple service that would be desecrated for 2,300 days. During the reign of Aniochus Epiphanus IV, the temple service was indeed defiled for 3 years, which prophetically counts as 3 x 360 = 1,080 days. So 1,220 days have yet to be fulfilled, coming very close to the duration of the Endtime, which will be 1,260 days. So, part of the vision is fulfilled in history. But part of it is yet future. It is this future part that the angel is alluding to when explaining the vision to Daniel. Therefore, the vision is about 'the time of the end'. We are very near to this time and therefore we see history moving in that direction.

'The latter day of their kingdom' would be about the remnants of the Greek culture, which are all over the Western world. For after the defeat of the Greek kingdoms in 63BC, the Roman empire adopted much of the Greek culture, which has found its way all over Europe and the USA. 

It is the 'civilization' that someone like Netanyahu is bragging about, that is fighting 'barbarism'. In the mean time, it is the West that makes itself guilty of many bloody colonial wars against all non-Western nations, slaughtering and enslaving millions in the process. The moment would come that this Western iniquity would reach its 'fullness'.

The one man on the world stage that has a very dark countenance and that knows how to manipulate world leaders in order to achieve the goals of the colonial project called 'Israel', is the already mentioned Netanyahu. The goal of this project is twofold: (1) the achievement of greater 'Israel', dominating the complete Middle East  and (2) the achievement of world dominance by the US-empire through their mighty foothold in the Middle East.

With Freemasonry as their religion, this synagogue of satan is allowed to to anything to achieve the set objectives: 'The end justifies the means', even if those means are the murder of officials and scientists together with their families, even if those means amount to a genocide of Palestinians.

Everything stated in verse 24 is part of our everyday news messages since October 7, 2023. How many political leaders, high ranking army officials, managers and warriors, in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iran, have yet been slaughtered by the small state of Israel? Even the peace negotiators are being murdered, in order for peace never to be established. For it is only through war that the empire and its attack dog in the Middle East can achieve lasting dominance.

The holy people that are to be destroyed are the Palestinians. For however far the Islam is away from the recognition of the truth about Jesus Christ, they are much closer than any Jew that rejects Him, while Christianity has lost itself by their blindly following of the demonic Jewish state. More importantly, the Palestinian people are genetically closer to the patriarchs of Israel than the Jews that came from Europe.

'And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power'- Never was this sentence more appropriate in history than when the zionist enterprise succeeded in creating the state of Israel. Ever since it was established, this state has received total support of the USA. Without the USA the state of Israel could never have been created, let alone that it could have existed for almost 80 years, while constantly harassing its original population and its neighboring countries. Since 1946, Israel received 310 billion dollars in military aid from the USA. Since October 7, 2023, it received 22 billion in military aid from the US. Through its veto-power in the UN, the US for decades has shielded Israel from any accountability for any crime it has committed since it started the land theft in Palestine - a land theft that now approaches its last stage: the total ethnic cleansing of the holy people of the Lord, the ones that have lived in the 'holy land' for thousands of years.

PRESENT

²⁷ And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: 

Explanation:

Who is 'he'? The 'he' refers two the last person that is named in the preceding verse and that is NOT Messiah as preterists would have it (those that want to see every prophecy fulfilled in the first century). The 'he' that is referred to is 'the prince that shall come',  the prince of the people that destroyed both city and sanctuary, the Romans. The 'he' that is referred to, is the future (perhaps already on the scene) heir of the Roman empire, the leader of the USA, the beast's seventh head. Placing this part in present, we believe this 'he' is the actual president of the USA, Donald Trump. Bible prophecy often sees a sequence of rulers as one. So previous administrations can be included. The 'with' in 'he will confirm/make strong the covenant with many' is not in Hebrew. So it could also be translated: 'he will make strong the covenant for many' pointing to the ones that will bear the consequences of 'the covenant'.

It is important to stress that it is not a new covenant that is made at the beginning of 'the week', which is the last period of 7 years before 'the second coming'. It is an already existing covenant that is being 'strengthened', which is being completely fulfilled 'to the t', however horrific the consequences for many. We see this in the Balfour declaration of 1917, the promise of the British government to Rothschild bankers (the backbone of the US economy) to give the European Jews 'a homeland' at the cost of those living in the promised land at that very moment. Those that were living in the promised land had lived there for thousands of years and for a great deal descended from the Israel's patriarchs and thus were the 'holy people' of God - not the European Jews of which no lineage to the old people of Israel can be established.

The covenant is not 'new' and therefore it is difficult to determine the starting point of the 'strengthening' or 'confirming' of the covenant. Looking back on the recent past, a credible starting point could very well be the installation of the present Netanyahu regime on December 29, 2022. Since then, the atrocities committed against the Palestinians - for thousands of years the original population and for a large part true Israeli's - have greatly increased. If so, we are already 2.5 years into the last week of Daniel's 70-weeks prophecy.

PRESENT

³⁵ And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

³⁶ 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.

³⁷ Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

³⁸ But in his estate shall he honor the god of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

 

Explanation:

Verse 35 - The expression 'even to the time of the end' shows us that what happened in the time of the desecration of the temple by the Greek rulers, will happen again in the Endtime. There will again be an abomination that will bring desolation and there will again be horrific persecution on the holy people. These are the days we are entering right now, with everything that is going on with the Palestinian people, the original population of the holy land, mostly of Israeli ancestry - even though no longer having the Jewish faith. That is where the 'trying' and 'purging' and 'making white' comes in, all terms to describe the harsh treatment of gold and silver refinery. This verse corresponds to Maleachi 3: 'But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years.' (Mal.3:2-4). It corresponds to Zechariah 13: 'This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’” (Zech.13:9)

What we see happening in Palestine, these days, Gaza and the West-Bank might very well be the refining process that God is going through with his people.

Verse 36 - At the same time there is a 'king', governing the holy land, that thinks a lot of himself, even to the extend that he is some sort of god, super-human, and that he can do anything he plots. The fact that he is named 'king', apart from the 'king from the North and the king of the south' that are in a constant struggle, shows us that he is very relevant for the Jewish people, but not in the way of the kings of North and South. In the Endtime, the strange situation emerges that someone would be 'king' in the holy land without having any attachment to Jewish history or Jewish faith. In other words, a deceptive ruler, faking his very origins. That is exactly what has happened with the Zionist project: the stealing of the land from the original Jewish people that have lived there for thousands of years while impersonating themselves as Jews, in order for the empire that backs it, to have a stronghold in the most strategic location on earth.

More than in any of his predecessors, that all took on Jewish names instead of their original Eastern European names, that 'king' can be seen in the person of Netanyahu (originally Mileikowski), who, for 30 years, has been instrumental in determining the course of the world empire in the Middle East. His accusations on 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'acts of terrorism' - which have proven to be fabricated lies - have brought terrible destruction over large parts of North Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and recently in Iran.

That he would 'speak marvellous things against the God of gods' might be seen in the way this man misuses the Bible and the name of God in pursuit of his goals, which is the extermination of the people of God. Using the name of God in defense of the most evil of atrocities one can think of  - bombing hospitals, schools, religious buildings, residential homes and even tents where refugees are sheltering - shutting about 2 million people off from food, water and electricity - having harmless women and children shot by drones, using AI-technology - causing hundreds of deaths by shooting at food distribution points.

The man that is called Netanyahu acts like described in Romans 3:

“Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”
¹⁴     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
¹⁶     ruin and misery mark their ways,
¹⁷ and the way of peace they do not know.”
¹⁸     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 

Acting in the most ungodly way thinkable, while saying you act according to God given directions, is the prototype of using the name of the Lord idly. 

But God will put an end to it, once everything is fulfilled: 'he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done'. This is what Jesus says and warns about: 'Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!' (Mathew 18:7)

Even the extremely bad behavior of people is taken into account in the prophetic word and has been incorporated in the eternal plans of the Lord. But one can never hide behind this fact. Man can never brush out his responsibility against divine foreknowledge. 

Verse 37 - In hearts of people like Trump and Netanyahu their is only one item of importance: they themselves. Therefore the text goes on to say: 'Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.' These people have no religion. They serve no God. They only serve their own selfish self-interest and they want to make names for themselves.

Verse 38 - Alas, sometimes one needs, in the pursuit of goals, the help of another power. That certainly is the case with the Israel of Netanyahu. Without the support of the USA, this tiny land wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Therefore there is a natural awe of Israeli citizens for the power of the US empire, by which it thrives. That is even more the case with Netanyahu, who was groomed in the USA  He is very much dependent on the decisions of the US president. That is why in the first half year of the Trump presidency, he has already visited the president for 3 times. Netanyahu will go to great lengths to ensure himself of the full support of the USA in the midst of committing a genocide. The USA leadership - president and both houses - is greatly honored with lots of wealth by the Jewish lobbyists of which Netanyahu is a big part. They receive enormous sums of monetary support, named as 'campaign contributions'. The Jewish Miriam Adelson gave Trump 100 million in order for him to follow the directions of Netanyahu. And lately Trump himself received a 'Nobel Peace Prize nomination' out of Netanyahu's hand. 'But in his estate shall he honor the god of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.'

 

PRESENT