Waar staan we nu?

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, as was prophesied in Revelation 17:16.

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 ten toes of the statue under (2). But where the dream of Daniel 2 stops at the ten toes,  it continues in the dream of Daniel 7. From among Europe's nations another nation would arise, different from all of them, like the Roman empire differed from the preceding empires. It would start as 'a little horn' but evolve into a nation 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 started small It rose from European colonies. But it grew into a devastating world power. 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 1944, 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. The core reasons are the disastrous financial consequences for Britain 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. The 70 'weeks' 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, that would hold on to the end of 'the war' could refer to the crushing down of the second Jewish uprising in 132-135 AD, which ended in the expulsions of Jews from the region of Jerusalem for some years.

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

^{4a '}But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end...'

⁵ Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank.

^{6 '}And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

^7a And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by Him that lives for ever...'

¹³ But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Explanation:

Daniel was in conversation with one of God's angels, who gives a very detailed account of large world conflicts that would come to pass during the 2,600 years that would follow. Most of this has already slipped into the past and the predictions have shown to be eerily accurate. But some of it is still future. From Daniel 11:36 onward we find ourselves in the present world situation of a very tight and mutual toxic relation between the US-empire and its Middle Eastern proxy Israel. This toxic relationship will lead the world into the third and last world war that will enable the US-empire to gain total control of the Middle East by taking out Iran. From then on the fate of humanity is sealed. In order to never let power slip away again, a reign of total tyranny will be implemented. If it was not for the return of Jesus Christ, this tyranny in the form of a totalitarian digital prison, guarded by the most terrifying robots, would be humanity 's eternal doom.

A central question that Daniel heard asking by two other angels, that joined the conversation was about the duration of 'these wonders'. What are 'these wonders'? The angel is referring to what was said earlier in the chapter, which concerns the  following future events: '

(1) And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of thy people...

(2) ...there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation...

(3) ...at that time thy people shall be delivered...

(4) ... many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake...'

These 'wonders' are all part of the future. The Endtime will be horrific but also wonderful on God's part. We discuss these wonders under the head of 'future'.

The last verse, 13, concerns Daniel. He would die but stand up in the last of days, in the 'time of the End'. The Endtime is the time of resurrection. It is the day of the Lord, in which He will do unprecedented wonders.

PAST

The following parts of Revelation have slipped into the past:

1. Six of the church-phases

The first 6 churches of Revelation chapters 2 and 3. These 6 churches, from Ephesus to Philadelphia, describe church history from 30 AD until 1870:

(1)   Ephesus:

Apostolic period 

Pentecost – AD 100

(2)   Smyrna:

Persecution under Roman emperors:

AD 100 – 313

(3)   Pergamon:

Early Catholic church from Constantine

AD 313 – 590

(4)   Thyatira:

The Roman Catholic Middle Ages:

AD 590 – 1517

(5)   Sardis:

Protestantism:

1517 – 1795

(6)  Philadelphia:

The missionary communities:

1795 – 1870

2.   Parts of Revelation 17:

The woman upon the beast

(1)    Revelation 17:1-7 - The woman =

The powerfull churches of the state, especilly Roman Catholicism that ruled Europe for at least a 1,000 years during the Middle Ages. The protestant churches also had strong bonds with the governments. The woman on the beast coincides with the above church phases (3), (4) and (5).

(2)    Revelation 17:9, 10 - The beast 

The seven heads of the beast are seven past stages of world empire, consisting of four successive empires - some with different parts or stages:

A (1) The Babylonian empire

B ( 2) The Median empire 

     (3) The Persian empire

C (4) The Ptolemy empire - (Greek)

    (5) The Seleucid empire - (Greek)

D (6) The Roman empire

     (7) US empire until civil war (1861)

'Five heads/kings are fallen' The beast is older than the woman - 5 of its stages had already shifted into the past

'One is now' - Rome, the empire while Revelation was written but also the empire that became subject to the reign of the church. Therefore, the 7 heads are also 7 hills, the 7 hills of Rome.

'One is yet to come and to stay a little while' - Since 1776, the USA made a quick rise to enormous power, at least in its hemisphere (Monroe Doctrine)

(3)   Revelation 17:15,16

The woman is seen as seated on the waters - they symbolize the 'peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues' of Europe that were subjected to the rule of the RC church for many centuries.

Verse 16 shows that church domination would end because of 'the ten horns' -  the beast's influence through deeply rooted societies in Europe that would constitute its governments. New governmental powers coming from ancient roots brought about the downfall of the church, starting at the 1789 French Revolution

(4)   Revelation 17:18

The last verse encompasses both past, present and future.

Past (1): In the time of John, it was the city of Rome, that governed all 'kings of the earth'. all Roman colonies in which people considered themselves proud citizens of the empire

Past (2): In the time of the RC Church, it was the pope that governed all the kingdoms of Europe and instructed their kings.

3.  Parts of Revelation 13

The two beasts of the Endtime

Revelation 13 is one of the most ill understood chapters in the Bible. Many have heard of 'the number of the beast', 666 but few if any know how to place this number in its right perspective.

Important is the notion that, like Revelation 12, 14, 17 and 18, it is one of the in-between chapters, giving background information on the main story (the 7 seals, the 7 trumpets, the 7 vials) and that it shows a long historical development, not just the last 7 or 3.5 years of history, as many presume.

(1)   Revelation 13:1-4

The rise of the beast since 1776

13:1 - The rise of the USA from old imperial powers, its roots seen as its 7 heads, from which it is governed - the linking pins are the secret societies that were behind the US-foundation, for a great part in cooperation with French networks that led the fall of the R.C. Church from 1789 onward.

13:2 - The USA acquiring the base of its power by cheating and murdering the Indians and purchasing 'Louisiana' (then about a third of present USA) from Napoleontic France. From the unseen world, it was 'the dragon', satan, that gave the USA its power.

13:3 - The 4 years of civil war came as a death blow to 'the seventh head', the young US republic, cutting it almost in two, weakening it, dividing it like the European powers.

13:4 - The wound was healed and the earth 'wondered after the beast'- The United States succeeded in remaining united and could grow towards its full potential; to an earth-encompassing empire.

The second beast is almost completely described in the 'present tense' - pointing to its usual behavior from the moment it came into existence. These parts of Revelation 13 are therefore put in 'the present'.

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. Its goal to 'prevent the rise of rival powers all over the globe' and the means with which it tries to achieve it, is lined out in many US-policy papers.

The wars in the Middle East since 9/11 had to accomplish this but they didn't. Instead China and Russia became much more formidable powers. Somehow this was induced by the USA itself, through its policy of globalization since 1995, with huge capital exports from the USA. The goal was to make China dependent on the USA but that didn't succeed, which has become cristal clear by 2013. Since then the cold war on BRICS intensified.

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 'wars and rumors of wars' are not part of 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.' So the first meaning of the 'iron and clay' feet and toes is the division that would characterize the nations of Europe. And indeed, 

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.

Both the internal division of Europe and its wavering policies gave the opportunity to two great powers of the Endtime to arise: the beast out of the sea (the USA) and the beast out of the earth (Zionism). In two worldwars that were concentrated on the European continent, the USA has taken control of world power and Israel has been brought into existence.

Europe would remain internally divided toward the very end, even under the EU-banner. The EU has been nothing but a collective servitude to US-interests.

The rise of the USA from the nations of Europe is seen in a dream, God gave Daniel, which is described in Daniel 7 (see below).

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 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 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 its 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 heir of the Roman empire, the leader of the USA, the beast's seventh head. Perhaps he is already on the scene. 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 or to 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 'covenant' 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. But then we would already have entered the Endtime in June 2026, at the midst of the week, after 3.5 years, with the 'abomination of desolation', which is not the case. Therefore we now assess the start of 'the week' during which th covenant would be made heavy to have started on October 7, 2023 - with the genocide on the Palestinians. 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 almost 3 years into the last week of Daniel's 70-weeks prophecy (writing this in August 2026).

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 them, 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 there 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. This exactly corresponds to the text of our prophecy: '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.'

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^{4b '...}many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.'

^7c ...and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people...'

¹⁰ Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Explanation:

Since the church stage of Philadelphia, many Christians started to study Bible prophecy again and to discover the future for the holy people, the people of the old covenant, with which the Lord made a new covenant, based on the cross of Jesus, still hidden from their sight until they will have acknowledged Him as their Lord and Savior.

Alas, where God's Spirit is working, satan, still the prince of this world, will start to destroy it. The newly discovered meaning of prophecy on the restoration of God's people wat hijacked by Zionism, which led to a tsunami of well trained and armed armies into the holy land. These armies called themselves European Jews, and received full support from the US-empire to purge most of the land from its rightful owners. Thousands of them were killed and the remaining  ones were driven into refugee camps, where they remain till this day. This is in part the meaning of 'many shall run to and fro'. The running to and fro concerns Daniel's people and Daniel's land and it has in fact been going on since the Jews were expelled by Nebuchadnezzar. Jews became a scattered people of whom some returned while some did not. The expulsion of Jews from their land after the Jewish wars against the Romans (70 AD and 135 AD) is often exaggerated. Many Jews had left their long before and even thereafter, Jews also left their land voluntarily or remained away voluntarily, having built up an existence elsewhere. That is, till Zionism came along and through great conflicts (WWI and II) drove the European Jews toward the holy land in order to create a powerbase in the most strategic region of the world.

But it is not the European Jews that are most direct in line of the old covenant people of Israel. It is the so called 'Arab muslim population', the Palestinians, that have been expelled from their land that are the true Jews. They came under severe and constant threat from the Nakba of 1948 and ever since. The last bastion of Palestine power is East Jerusalem with the Haram Al Sharif. That power will also be broken by the invaders, in their obedience to the US-empire: 

'...and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people...'

This is what is transpiring in real time. The Palestinian people are being crushed within their refugee camps, where they fled in 1948. The attack on their life and freedom has been going on since 1948 but has gone into high gear since October 7, 2023. Then the apartheid changed into a genocide, not only in Gaza but also on the West-Bank. Therefore, we consider the start of the genocide on October 7, 2023 the start of Daniel's 70th week, when 'he' the Roman emperor in the figure of the US-president started to make the covenant heavy/mighty for one week. Netanyahu is no independent actor. He was educated in the USA, trained in the USA had his first jobs in the USA and once in Israel, was catapulted into the highest ranks of government by the USA. And the USA is not an independent outburst of history. It has very narrow ties with secret societies and mighty families that went all back to the former Roman empire.

Once the Al Aqsa Mosque will be desecrated and come under control of the state of Israel and the empire, everything will seem to be lost for the Palestinians. 

While events are progressing toward the accomplishment 'to scatter the power of the holy people' the contrasts within society become more pronounced.

'Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly'.

This is what is evident all around the world. On one hand: people acting extremely wicked - on the other hand: people that abhor each and every kind of wrongdoing and that are speaking out against it. This is what we also see at the end of the book of Revelation, where it states: 'He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.' (Rev.22:11).

'...and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.'

The meaning of Daniel's prophecy will remain hidden for the wicked, those that collude with the empire in order to have a good life, no matter the evil they have to endorse to or even to commit. Because of their little understanding of Bible prophecy, many Christians are deluded by Zionism, the experiment in the Middle East called 'Israel'. They might even not be aware of the atrocities which Israel is committing, let alone see anything about the intentions of both the empire and its Middle-eastern proxy. They think they have to endorse and defend everything that 'Israel' is doing because it is 'God's chosen people', while they know nothing about the true nature of the state of Israel. The wise however will understand, those that have their eyes open and see what is happening and that listen to the voice of their conscience and that are enlightened by God's Spirit and that search to understand prophecy to shed light upon the dark matters of this world. The Lord has warned for the time of the End with the parable of the five wise and the five foolish virgins. The difference lays in the oil of the Spirit, being either present or absent. (Mathew 25:1-13).

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The following parts of Revelation are being played out now:

1. The last stage of the church

The last stage of church history, seen in Laodicea:

(7)  Laodicea:

Modernism and ecumenical churches:

1870 – till the Rapture

2. The last phase of empire

(1)  Revelation 17:8 and 11

The rise of the USA in its last stage is:

(1) out of the abyss. This happened through worldwars I and II - a true abyss of unprecedented human suffering - during which the USA defeated the two foremost European powers, Germany and Great Britain and rose to world dominance. Those in charge of it knew they were reviving the old Roman empire. Therefore we find Roman symbolism all over the USA. The rise to full global control however still awaits the future opening of the 'pit of the abyss', which will mobilize demons of old. Therefore, this verse also fits future events.

(2) The USA is also 'the eighth' out of 'the seven. The USA is steered by powers that are deeply rooted in the old empires. It is seen in Revelation 13 as the beast out of the sea with seven heads.

(2)   Revelation 17:13, 17, 18

The ten horns, representing ten European national powers, that came from the Roman empire, would give their power and strength unto the beast. Since WWII Europe has become a series of vassals to the US-empire, giving in to all of its demands, even while these were non-sensical, contrary to their citizens' interests or inhumane, as in the case of the Iraq invasion, in the case of decoupling from Russian energy, in the case of more than doubling NATO military spending and in the case of shielding and supporting Israel while it is committing genocide. They have given their kingdom to 'the beast' (Rev.17:17). That is why Revelation 17 can end with verse 18 as 'the great city that governs the kings of the earth'. The USA has taken the world power over from the RC Church, which long ago had taken over the Roman empire.

3. The first beast - Revelation 13

(1)   'And there was given unto him a mouth

speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.' (Revelation 13:5)

The 42 months are yet future be we could be seeing the beginning of a mouth 'speaking great things' and being on the verge of 'blasphemies' in the actions of the president of the USA since the start of 2025. Never has there been a president that was so openly in his endeavors and his indulgencies as Donald Trump, no longer hiding behind lofty pretenses of 'democracy' and 'human rights'. It suits an empire in decline that starts shouting at its vassals to do more for its preservation. The seeming decline will however turn into victory once the 42 months will start.

4. The second beast

(1)   The rise of the second beast

13:11 - The second beast, rising from the earth, the Eurasian continent, having two horns, speaking like a dragon is Zionism, which has two spheres of influence: the USA and Israel. Israel likes to play the victim card ('like a lamb') and never stops accusing others of its own behavior (speaking like the dragon).

13:12 - Zionist Israel is not just a US-vassal like many other states. It has found schemes and ways to influence the exercise of US power - 'it exercises the power of the first beast in its presence' - for Zionism is at the frontrows in Washington DC.

Being dependent on the US, the enormous Zionist influence in the information space (newspaper, radio, television, film, Internet) has pictured a very lofty image of the USA, the first beast.

13:13 - The signs, wonders or miracles  stand for the technological advancement, leading to aviation and to bombs - therefore: bringing down fire from heaven on earth. Much was driven by Jewish scientists, especially the atomic bomb.

13:14 - Deceiving the world by its miracles to make an image of the first beast - The enormous rise in technology, specifially the atomic bomb, was an important trigger to come to a digital copy of everything that consitutes the empire by which 'the beast' wil be able to fully control humanity.

13:16-18 - Money is largely in the hands of Zionists, the Rothschild central bankers. From the beginning they searched for a means to mold the monetary system into a global control tool, which will require a token in the body

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