World History in Advance – Daniel and Revelation’s Roadtrip to Armageddon

RoadTrip to Armageddon = The Daniel/Revelation RoadMap

Daniel and Revelation World History in Advance – Roadmap to Armageddon

Why is the book of Daniel so important?

The book of Daniel names names and establishes important dates. Daniel’s prophecy gives Jehovah’s people historic reference to know where we are definitely in the march of world powers to the conclusion indicated in Daniel and the further details in the book of Revelation concerning Armageddon.

Therefore Daniel’s history in advance was written so we can obtain a timeline to Armageddon since Babylon. Daniel starts of in the real-time history of the third world power in bible history, that is the Babylonian kingdom. These world powers are noted in the bible because each one of them had a direct influence on world events of their time in relation to God’s people from the Israel of the Mosaic Covenant to the spiritual “Israel of God” of the New Covenant. (Gal6:15-16)

Biblical World Powers

These world powers of the bible are as follows:

1. Egypt (1943-1513 BCE) – (Head/King/Kingdom 1)

2. Assyria (740 BCE) – (Head/King/Kingdom 2)

3. Babylon (607 BCE) – (Head/King/Kingdom 3)

4. Medo-Persia (537 BCE) – (Head/King/Kingdom 4)

5. Greece (332 BCE) – (Head/King/Kingdom 5)

6. Rome (30 BCE) – (Head/King/Kingdom 6)

7. Anglo-America (UK/US) (1914) – (Head/King/Kingdom 7)

Road Map to God’s Kingdom

This successive progression of rival sovereignties (1-7) also leads to a very important development and place in global history – The mysterious 8th King of Revelation 17:10-11 and the Har-Magedon global situation and “gathering” of nations to the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” prophesied at Revelation 16:13-16; Har-Magedon. As Jesus Christ indicated, referring to Daniel’s prophecy, God has an “appointed time of the nations” which expired as a time God noted would be 7 times, a time period equaling 7 “times/years” of lunar years – 7 times 360 “days”, or 2520 years. (Luke21:24; Dan4:32)

This would be 2520 years of rival demon led human rulership until the rightful King of God, Jesus Christ would be “given the Kingdom”. (Compare Dan2:36-38 with Daniel 4:17 to the finality: Dan7:17-27)

Therefore Daniel explicitly provides a prophetic timeline of world history in advance from Babylon being “given the Kingdom” to the the time “in the days of those kings” when God would “set up” a Kingdom that would crush ALL these rival rulerships permanently and forever. (1Cor15:28; Dan2:44; Rev11:15-18)

Therefore Jesus Christ referred to Daniel as the prophet by name who would “seal” the times leading to these things. (Dan9:24) Those truly coming to see, and believing God’s word is the truth are therefore very interested in exactly where we are in this inevitable “crushing and putting an END to ALL these kingdoms” which God has promised and SWORN will take place through Christ’s Kingdom, the pulverizing striking “stone” of Daniel 2:44.

So how does Daniel’s prophecy aid enlightenment for God’s servants of this dynamic development in reliable world history all the way to today?

Daniel’s Mileposts to the Destination

Daniel’s inspired record provides historic benchmarks with well known times and names of the world powers of Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece. By this recorded continuum the historical timeline from 607 BCE is now founded with reliably known and well recorded world history – this ties directly into Revelation’s “seven headed wildbeast” world historic continuum repeated there for the prophetic purpose of ascertaining the season of God’s Kingdom final conquest.

This reliable progression of Daniel leads from Babylon to the Roman 6th world power and to the Anglo-American partnership of the United States of America and Britain to form the 7th world power of bible history in this continuum leading to war with God. From the 7th UK/US power system is the foundation and “breath” of the 8th King of bible history the United Nations. (Rev13:11-15; Rev17:3; Rev17:12-18)

Now we know absolutely every “king” in this prophecy:

***(Revelation 17:10-11) ..there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does arrive he must remain a short while. 11 And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth king, but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction.

As already noted above we know the seven kings times and identities most definitely. Now the 8th King of the United Nations is also very easy to ascertain from biblical and world history – it is the needed “rack” into which all the national “pool balls” are collected for the big big “break” of God on the Armageddon “pool table”.

Daniel’s World Time Seals

Prophetic Historical Benchmark 1

The “Dreadful Image” of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

This prophetic and historic symbolic “dreadful image” of Daniel 2 provides a continuum of world powers leading to the destruction of them all, from Babylon to the Anglo-American world power system to remain a “short while”. (Rev17:11); This image starts off with the Babylonian world power “given the kingdom” when it terminated Jerusalem’s line of God’s kings in David’s lineage with the destruction of King Zedekiah and Jerusalem in 607 BCE. There is our benchmark provided by both biblical prophetic history and world history. From that 607 BCE benchmark the “appointed times of the nations”, as Jesus indicated would expire, can be determined (Just add 2520 years to the expiration date of the “appointed times of the gentiles”). This is also why Jesus noted this fact, and the significance of Daniel’s prophecy. (Matt24:15; compare Luke21:24)

Not only does Daniel’s prophecy provide the exact details of the conquest of Jerusalem’s time and the beginning of the “trampling of Jerusalem” by the dethronement of the last Judean King Zedekiah (607 BCE), it also provides the 7 times of 2520 years from 607 BCE that led EXACTLY to the year 1914 in which not only is God’s Kingdom “set up”, but also the Anglo-American 7th world power was officially united for World War 1 also in 1914. Coincidence? From this world power development the basic formation of the the 8th King embryo, the League of  Nations in 1919 is easily traced to the UK/US governmental and global  planners in that system’s founding.

Daniel’s timely benchmark from God is accurate, thousands of years in advance!

Prophetic Historical Benchmark 2

The Four Beasts from the Sea

Daniel chapter seven now goes into further historic detail concerning this continuum of world powers leading to Har-Magedon symbolized in the “dreadful image” of Daniel 2. This is also the first time in the bible that “beasts” are used to symbolize human kingdoms in progressions through history for definite prophetic reference. This prepares God’s people to ascertain the meanings of the wildbeasts of Revelation; (Rev1:1). Revelation’s successive “world powers” are also depicted as predatory “wildbeasts”, and these symbols also contain all of the previously identified world powers of Daniel’s prophecy – as well as Egypt and Assyria. Daniel therefore initiates and ties together all of the bible’s continuum of world power history to Revelation. This continuum of prophecy is divine information leading reliably to the “last days” CONCURRENT with the Kingdom of Christ in it’s heavenly founding and authority (1914) and Armageddon as the global “place” of the “war of the great day of God the Almighty” which that Kingdom will battle at to end “great tribulation. (Rev16:13-16; Rev 19:19-21; Matt24:22; 2Thess1:6)

The “four  huge beasts coming out of the sea” in Daniel, depict the four world powers of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. As with the “feet” of the image of Daniel 2, the Rome beast provides the fundamental base complex of national management and extended empire that the British and American world powers would also capitalize on with extending focus on global imperial domination. The fourth beast of Daniel 7 is rightly described as “different” than the rest.

From these four beasts, the lion-like Babylon (1), the bear-like Medo-Persia (2), the leopard-like Greece (4), and the “different” beast of Rome (4) is easily ascertained in this history from God. Also all of these kingdoms have noted secular histories in the time continuum leading to the final world powers of the 7th and 8th co-existing “kingships” of Revelation 13 and 17. This relates these kingdoms in time perfectly developing into the final scarlet wildbeast as the 8th King (1945), a global conglomeration of all the nations into a world governmental system of Revelation 17:3′s scarlet colored wildbeast; also the “image of the wildbeast” of Revelation13:11-15 the United Nations from the predecessor League of Nations (1919).

The Revelation 13:11 wildbeast with two horns lamb-like in appearance is easily identified now as the UK and US “kings” in the Anglo-American world power officially united in 1914, who engineered, that is “gave breath to” the “image of the wildbeast” which is the United Nations global sovereignty forming now to a maturity in the world scene.

Prophetic Historical Benchmark 3

Kings of the North and South

In Daniel chapter 11 we have the world famous prophetically outlined conflict of the “King of the North” and King of the South” which provides further historic evidence affirming the prophecies timeframe.

Special Note: Please appreciate that Daniel chapter 2′s image is a very simplified symbolic picture leading to the Kingdom of God’s final conquest over an approximate specific time period since 607 BCE. Daniel chapter 7 is a more detailed description of some of the features of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome as world powers pictured first in the Daniel 2 “image”. Daniel chapter 11 is an even more detailed description of the power histories that came after Babylon’s fall (539 BCE) leading even to the UK and US world power systems. This ascending prophetic and historic detail is for God’s people to understand without doubt, by three inspired testimonies in Daniel that Revelation’s prophetic continuum to the climax event of divine war is certain and reliable in not just biblical prophecy but backed by world histories in many nations as well since that time to today continuous. So this continuing dynamic prophecy is alive and in process of completing very soon.

Medo-Persian and Greece Named

In Daniel chapter 8, the angel provides two more historic nominal benchmarks to solidly identify all the beasts of Daniel in history. By the direct identification of Babylon, we also have identified and given to Daniel by name the two world powers that would come after Babylon, namely Medo-Persia and Greece. (Dan8:20 (Media and Persia); Dan8:21 (Greece); These identities greatly aid the accuracy of the prophetic significance of Revelation chapter 13′s seven headed wildbeast and exactly where we are “en route” to Armageddon.

 

Other Interesting Truths Revealed by God through Daniel

Daniel ties history and prophecy directly to Revelation chapter 13 and 17 as seen. Yet also, other truths are also revealed tying all Revelation 13 through 17 together such as the identity of the “holy ones” of Daniel 7:13-27 with the 144000 of Revelation chapter 7 and 14. Daniel also affirms the reality of demon angelic guidance as demon princely influence over these kingdoms as noted in Daniel 10:12,20. This has obvious connection to the demon guidance of the “gathering of the nations” to God’s war at Har-Magedon shown at Rev16:13-16. (Compare with Eph6:12 and Matt12:26) This all originates in guidance from the Satan the seven headed dragon as seen in Revelation chapters 12 and 13, and the “throne of the wildbeast” as the dragon’s authority that Satan gives to world powers. (Rev13:2; Rev 16:10; Luke4:5-8)

Revelation 13 in Light of Daniel Chapters 2, 7, 8, and 11

Since we know Babylon was the third world power of seven world powers identified in the bible for this purpose, Babylon is symbolized in the gold head of the image of Daniel 2 for reference through history back to 607 BCE.  Further we see the lion-like first beast of Daniel chapter 7 is also Babylon (3). Going back in time we can easily identify Assyria (2) and Egypt (1) as the world powers that preceded Babylon (3). By that we have the first three heads of the seven headed wildbeast “from the sea” of Revelation 13:1.   So for the wildbeast of Revelation 13:1, the fourth head is Medo-Persia, the fifth is Greece, the sixth is Rome and the seventh head is the current world power of the United States and Britain’s Anglo-American union.

From this the world government envisioned and engineered by the Anglo-American global elite power system (1914) of this 7th world power is obviously the United Nations (1945) from it’s League of Nations (1919) roots; The 8th King. This is all Satan has and there is no more. We do not have to be prophets to see this road trip to Armageddon is about at the end of the road.

God’s National Road Map to Armageddon

Let us revisit Revelation 17:10-11:

***(Revelation 17:10-11) ..there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is (Rome at the time John wrote Revelation), the other has not yet arrived (UK/US), but when he does arrive he must remain a short while. 11 And the wild beast that was (LON) but is not, it is also itself an eighth king (UN), but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction. (Dan2:44)

We see that there is a “short while” for the 7th and 8th Kings. We also logically can see the image of Daniel chapter 2 is terminated by the striking of the “feet of iron and clay” of the image (UK/US), which came after the “legs of iron” which was Rome, that followed the Grecian “belly and thighs” of copper, which followed the Medo-Persian “breast and arms” of silver, which followed Babylon, the “head” of gold. So it is a continuum like a road trip to Armageddon. Revelation concludes the Daniel certainty that this is where these kingdoms ALL are headed in their living and fragmentary existence.

***(Daniel 2:32-35) As regards that image, its head was of good gold (3- Babylon), its breasts and its arms were of silver (4- Medo-Persia), its belly and its thighs were of copper (5- Greece), 33 its legs were of iron (6- Rome), its feet were partly of iron and partly of molded clay (7- UK/US). 34 You kept on looking until a stone was cut out not by hands (Christ’s Kingdom), and it struck the image on its feet of iron and of molded clay and crushed them. 35 At that time (God’s war at Armageddon) the iron, the molded clay, the copper, the silver and the gold were, all together, crushed and became like the chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away so that no trace at all was found of them.

***(Daniel 2:44-45) . . .“And in the days of those (7) kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite; 45 forasmuch as you beheld that out of the mountain a stone was cut not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the copper, the molded clay, the silver and the gold. The grand God himself has made known to the king what is to occur after this. And the dream is reliable, and the interpretation of it is trustworthy.”

Interestingly, God, in 1914 at the conclusion of the “appointed times of the nations” did “set up” a Kingdom in heaven prior to the first rise of the 8th King League of Nations in 1919. So “in the days of those [seven] kings” this Kingdom has come to pass as prophesied. It is also recognized by Jehovah’s people as the “great sign seen in heaven” at the Kingdom birth of Revelation 12, and as the “Kingdom of the World” passing to Jesus Christ and Jehovah’s Kingly Authority of that Kingdom of Christ at Revelation 11:15-18. This has and will also continue to be marked by Satan’s “woe to the earth” of Revelation 12:12 as Satan continues to intensify the human “woe” to “great tribulation”.

Interestingly as well, Revelation 12′s Kingdom founding event of “now have come to pass the authority of God’s Christ” resulted in Satan being removed from heaven, and hurled to earth. In like manner he will also be removed from earth and hurled into the abyss (Rev20:1-3) as the final stage of God’s Kingdom takes earth as noted in the Revelation 11:15-18 grand sequence of final conquest:

***(Revelation 11:15-18) . . .And the seventh angel blew his trumpet. And loud voices occurred in heaven, saying: “The kingdom of the world did become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will rule as king forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders who were seated before God upon their thrones fell upon their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying: “We thank you, Jehovah God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and begun ruling as king. 18 But the nations became wrathful, and your own wrath came, and the appointed time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the holy ones and to those fearing your name, the small and the great, and to bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”

Is it any wonder the nations become wrathful with this kind of guidance?

***(Revelation 12:10-12) And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, BECAUSE the accuser of our brothers has been hurled down… 12 On this account be glad, YOU heavens and YOU who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to YOU, having great anger, knowing he has a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.”

We easily see Satan is also wrathful, also has a “short period” of time, as does his 7th and 8th Kings of rival sovereigns on planet earth. It is also no wonder that from these grand developments in heaven, affecting earth with “woe” from Satan and the demons, we also have the final “gathering” of the nations by demons into opposition against this Kingdom of God progressing today:

***(Revelation 16:13-16) And I saw three unclean inspired expressions… come out of the mouth of the dragon… wild beast and… false prophet. 14 They are… expressions inspired by demons and perform signs, and they go forth to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty…. 16 And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Har–Magedon.

Location Location Location

And now we know the final destination of this continuum for Adamic and demon guided human kingdoms. The whole “dreadful image” itself, of Daniel 2, is a sampling of the “united gathering” of all these kingdoms in one “dreadful image” from the third “king” onward. This is obvious and also seen in the fact that the one “scarlet wildbeast” is also the 8th King, a whole “King” composed of all the global national parts of the rebellious “world” symbolized in this progression of seven world powers from Egypt (1) to the Anglo-American world power (7) all part of the scarlet wildbeast comprising the 8th world power; a global sovereign system of all nations (8). These are symbols of massive international collective, a very related uniting development overall in “image”, with the same ingredients, same purpose, and same destiny; destruction by God’s Kingdom.

We also now can see where the “dreadful image” of Daniel is located, where it’s feet are ACTUALLY standing when the “stone” strikes it, it’s “place” is Armageddon. Note also in Joel this “place” is also revealed as the great “global bullseye” of God’s holy angels who confront a “kingdom collective” also seen as a full “gathering of the nations” to this particular “location”, a worldwide global “place”, a “situation” of divine final “war of the great day of God the Almighty”:

***(Joel 3:9-12) 9 “Proclaim this, YOU people, among the nations, ‘Sanctify war! Arouse the powerful men! Let them draw near! Let them come up, all the men of war! 10 Beat YOUR plowshares into swords and YOUR pruning shears into lances. As for the weak one, let him say: “I am a powerful man.” 11 Lend YOUR aid and come, all YOU nations round about, and COLLECT YOURSELVES TOGETHER.’”

TO THAT PLACE, O Jehovah, bring your powerful ones down.

12 “Let the nations be aroused and come up to the low plain of Jehoshaphat; for there I shall sit in order to judge ALL the nations round about.

Rack ‘Em Up!

It appears as if this “racking of the nations” like so many pool balls and bowling pins is also a theme revisited again and again in the bible as regards mankind’s rebel national consolidation into a one governmental world rulership attempt at the time God’s Kingdom defines super-power universally for these clay pots:

***(Zephaniah 3:8) Therefore keep yourselves in expectation of me, is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘till the day of my rising up to [the] prey, for my judicial decision is to GATHER NATIONS, for me to COLLECT TOGETHER KINGDOMS, in order to pour out upon them my denunciation, all my burning anger; for by the fire of my zeal ALL THE EARTH will be devoured.

***(Zechariah 14:2-5) And I shall certainly GATHER ALL THE NATIONS against Jerusalem for the war… And Jehovah my God will certainly come, ALL THE HOLY ONES being with him.

***(Zechariah 12:8-9) In that day Jehovah will be a defense around the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the one that is stumbling among them must become in that day like David, and the house of David like God, like Jehovah’s angel before them. 9 And it must occur in that day that I shall seek to annihilate ALL THE NATIONS that are coming against Jerusalem.

***(Psalm 2:1-2) Why have the nations been in tumult And the national groups themselves kept muttering an empty thing?  2 The kings of earth take their stand And high officials themselves have MASSED TOGETHER AS ONE Against Jehovah and against his anointed one..

Is this just all a strange coincidence of events?

No. This is the well traced end of the world of rival sovereignties opposed to God’s Kingdom. We are for God’s Kingdom, or we are temporary:

***(1 John 2:15-17) Do not be loving either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; 16 because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world. 17 Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever.

***(Revelation 14:9-12) . . .And another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the wild beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand, 10 he will also drink of the wine of the anger of God that is poured out undiluted into the cup of his wrath… they have no rest, those who worship the wild beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name. 12 Here is where it means endurance for the holy ones, those who observe the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”

***(Revelation 19:19-21) . . .And I saw the wild beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage the war with the one seated on the horse and with his army. 20 And the wild beast was caught, and along with it the false prophet that performed in front of it the signs with which he misled those who received the mark of the wild beast and those who render worship to its image. While still alive, they both were hurled into the fiery lake that burns with sulphur. 21 But the rest were killed off with the long sword of the one seated on the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth. And all the birds were filled from the fleshy parts of them.

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Daniel and Revelation’s Roadtrip to Armageddon
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God’s Kingdom Reading

Daniel’s Prophecy
http://www.jw-media.org/rus/publications/dp_e.pdf

What Christ’s Coming Will Accomplish
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20070315/article_02.htm

God’s Kingdom
What Is It?
When Will It Come?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20080101/article_01.htm

What Is God’s Kingdom?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/bh/article_08.htm

What Is the Truth About God?
Does God really care about you?
What is God like?
Does he have a name?
Is it possible to get close to God?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/bh/article_01.htm

Identifying the Only True God
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19990208/article_03.htm

Who Is Jesus Christ?
What is Jesus’ special role?
Where did he come from?
What kind of person was he?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/bh/article_04.htm

What Does the Bible Say About God and Jesus?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/ti/article_05.htm

RoadTrip to Armageddon = The Daniel/Revelation RoadMap
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