Andre Erasmus 10 mins LEOPARD-BEAR-LION, TIMES AND FOUR EMPIRES from behold the beast All of Revelations day=years and times were fulfilled by 1967, in the Holy Land, so we should look at the possibility that other prophecies in Revelation, like its three Beasts, might also be fulfilled there. Revelation 16:1-2 (NASB) And I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth. And the first angel went and poured out his bowl into the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image. Not for a minute does anyone believe that there will be holy angels up in Heaven pouring out an alphabet soup of trials on Earth from huge gold-rimmed alabaster bowls. Many severe trials are indeed going to come upon the Earth, but enormous bowls full? Not very likely! It is more reasonable to conclude that God is using bowl figuratively, to show us the vast quantity and severity of the trials coming upon the earth. The Biblical definition for beasts is kingdoms or empires! 1 Daniel 7 is not an end-time prophecy. Dan 8:17-19 identifies the little-horn out of the He-Goat (Greece) as the final enemy of Israel and the Church. Since Syria-Lebanon was recognized as Grecian during Johns time, the final enemy leader to come against Israel will be Moslem, probably out of the Syria-Lebanon area. 2 June 25th, 622 AD marked the turning point in Islam as Muhammad migrated (Hijra) to Yatrib (now Medina) and was declared as head of state and commander in chief of the first Islamic Umma (community of believers). Moslems start their dating from that year. Thus, according to Islam, we are in the fifteenth century not the twentieth. 3 Since it is evident that this time, times and half a time was fulfilled in 1948AD, regardless of who we wish to claim as the Little Horn of Dan 7, that person would have to be placed before 1948. Looking at history, it appears that Adolf Hitler and the German Third Reich accurately fulfill this 4th beast. Leopard-Bear-Lion Daniel 7 firmly establishes the figurative identity of the first three Middle Eastern empires that dominated the Holy Land after the fall of the Kingdom of Judah: Lion = BABYLON. Bear = MEDO-PERSIA Leopard = GREECE Nowhere in the Bible have those figurative identities been changed. Throughout Scripture, Lion remains Babylon or Iraq, Bear remains Medo-Persia or Iran, and Leopard remains Greece or Syria-Lebanon. So when we read about a beast in Revelation with those same names, we have every reason to believe the Lord is telling us of the offspring of those empires: Revelation 13:1-2 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. The False Prophet And there he is! The Leopard-Bear-Lion Beast of Revelation 13 (LBL). Notice that this one beast looks like all three of those old empires rolled into one. So what has tied the three separate Middle Eastern states of Iraq, Iran, and Syria together during the last two thirds of the Christian Era? Islam and the false prophet, Muhammad, thats what! Though they have sometimes battled each other, for thirteen centuries Iraq, Iran, Syria and associates, including Saudi Arabia, have been the home of the radical Moslems, the lair of assassins, a haven for terrorists and a roost for all who hate Israel and the Christian nations. Thats not guesswork theology, folks. The Islamic states have historically been the enemies of the West and they still are today. Furthermore, those radical Moslem states will continue to be enemies of Gods people until Jesus returns. Why? Well, notice who empowers those countries, the dragon! And Satan has always been the implacable enemy of God and of Gods children. Do not be deluded that the Moslem god, Allah, is the same as our Heavenly Father. Our Sovereign God is a God of love, a word conspicuously absent from the Koran. There may indeed be loving Moslems, but the Koran doesnt teach it. So the Leopard-Bear-Lion is Syria-Iraq-Iran, and their radical Islamic friends. But now we need to know when this beast will be in power, and to establish that, we need a little review: Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. That is 1260 days/ which is years in prophetic language. The 42 months of Rev 11:2 were explained at length in Chapter 5. They were 1278.34 years, and it was 1278.34 years from the construction of the Dome of the Rock until Jerusalem was again under Jewish control. In the prophecy of the Leopard-Bear-Lion, we again see 42 months (Rev 13:5). LBL was granted authority over Jerusalem for 42 months: Revelation 13:5 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. The Leopard-Bear-Lion also was given authority to blaspheme Gods tabernacle for 42 months, so these prophecies are clearly parallel. They are obviously about the Moslem rule of Jerusalem (688-1967AD). From the above verses we can now positively identify the Leopard-Bear-Lion beast of Revelation 13 as the Moslem states of the Middle East. LBL is not some future antichrist after all. LBL are those Islamic nations that now stand against Israel and the West. Now lets look at Rev 13:3-10 in detail. Revelation 13:3-4 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death [The battles of Tours and Vienna struck death blows against Moslem expansion into Europe that destroyed their hope of world conquest]; and his deadly wound was healed [After WW2, the western nations sent a major portion of their liquid capital into the Middle East which enabled the Moslem states to rebuild] [Remember that Bible prophecy is ethnographic - The whole world refers to the part of the planet John knew about, Johns known world. The Lord is not telling us of China, Australia, or the Americas here] : and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshiped the dragon [This verse shows that Islam is not another route to heaven -The dragon is Satan, ergo, The Moslems worship Satan] which gave power unto the beast [LBL]: and they [the Moslems] worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? [During the 1st Jihad the Moslems were indeed victorious over the weaker Christian Middle East and African states and the Eastern Roman Empire]. Revelation 13:5-6 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. [the Moslem domination of Jerusalem from 688 to 1967 is 42 months of day=years] And he [LBL, the Moslem states] opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle [The Moslems built a memorial to Muhammad on the footstool of Gods feet], and them that dwell in heaven [We dwell in the heavenlies right now, Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus.] Revelation 13:7-9 And it was given unto him [LBL] to make war with the saints, and to overcome them The 1st Jihad overwhelmed the Coptic Church which at the time covered the Middle East including North Africa, in fact, from India to Spain]: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations [remember that Bible prophecy is ethnographic, that it primarily addresses the countries that surround the Holy land]. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world [again a reference to show that Islam is not another road to Heaven]. If any man have an ear, let him hear. Revelation 13:9-10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity [during the 1st Jihad, the area controlled by the Coptic church went into captivity, including the Holy Land]: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword [the Moslem armies of the Middle Ages were defeated at Tours and Vienna, with great loss of life]. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. The beasts of Revelation appear to be a figurative picture of Satans total kingdoms on Earth, both physical and spiritual. The Leopard-Bear-Lion appears to be a VISIBLE aspect of Satans unseen spiritual kingdom in the Middle East. The Moslems who controlled the Holy Land were held together by a common religion, a spiritual unity, rather than by a common ethnicity. In Rev 13:2, the prophet John also declares the Middle East to be the seat of Satans power, and Satans throne does appear to be there. THE TEN HORNS OF LBL There is probably one more aspect of the Leopard-Bear-Lion we ought to examine. When God gave the land of Canaan to Abraham, He set the boundaries thereof: From the River of Egypt (at the southern border of the Gaza Strip) to the River Euphrates (near Damascus in Syria). That area has always been the land the Lord gave to Isaac and Jacob. The Jews know it and the Arabs know it. But ever since, the Moslems have been trying to take the land God gave to Israel: Genesis 15:18-21 The LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. Those peoples were the original inhabitants of the land. When Joshua and the Children of Israel entered Canaan in 1406BC, God commanded them to drive all those people out.1 They didnt do so. Instead, Israel enslaved the local people and put them to forced labor. When Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews captive to Babylon, he left the poorer people in the land. That would have included the descendants of those Canaanite slaves, and the descendants of those slaves have been a thorn in the side of Israel ever since. They are probably the Palestinians and they are still a thorn in the side of Israel today!2 But they are only part of the 10 horns. The ten horns of the Leopard-Bear-Lion are the Jihadists like Usama bin Laden with his al Qaeda, Yasser Arafats Hamas, the Hizbullah, the Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, the Intifada, all the militant fundamental Moslems and the nations that support them: Iraq, Syria, and Iran (in ancient times, Afghanistan bordered the Medo- Persian empire, todays Iran). Jews are being tortured and killed almost daily by terrorist Palestinians from the Gaza strip and Jericho, with the full blessing of Yasser Arafat (Late) and the surrounding Arab states. The Palestinians are trying to destroy Gods people one soul at a time and take their land one square inch at a time. May Yeshua defend Israel, for no one else will. If an Israeli kills a terrorist in self-defense it is front page in the worlds newspapers, reported as a vicious homicide. But if a Palestinian bombs a bus full of women and children, you might find it as a two inch filler, hidden on page 14 of section B - and even then, only reported as a justifiable act in a Palestinian war of liberation against their Jewish oppressors. 1 Though the Arabs are also children of Abraham through Hagar, God gave the Holy Land to the people born through Sarahs son Isaac: .Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. (Romans 9:7). 2 The name Palestinian is derived from Philistine. Those people were the worst of Davids enemies. Goliath of Gath was a Philistine. Should we be surprised by this biased journalism? Not at all. That is what we should expect from our media today, considering the influence that OPEC money and Moslem extremists now have on the economies and news agencies of the Western world. Supposedly, these Palestinians are just a poor misunderstood people who are being oppressed by their Jewish landlords, but it isnt so. The Holy Land was a sand hill until, in fulfillment of Scripture, the Jews returned and started cultivating it again: Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. The Palestinians arent interested in peaceful coexistence with Israel on any terms. A poll taken once showed 72 percent of Palestinians favor continuing the uprising, while 66 percent favor continued attacks against Israeli civilians. Andre Erasmuss photo. Andre Erasmuss photo. Andre Erasmuss photo. UnlikeUnlike ·
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