Updated video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJODE7Q2KcMTHE "BEAST" OF REVELATION 13
Let's begin our investigation by considering what Daniel prophesied about "beasts" around 600 years before the Christian era. In Daniel's chapter 7 prophetic dream we find:
Daniel 7:3
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.From Revelation we understand 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.Let's see how that definition works out in this case. Daniel describes his "beasts" as....
Daniel 7:4
The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings...Daniel 7:5
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear...Daniel 7:6
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard...Daniel 7:7
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly...A little later in the chapter we find....
Daniel 7:23
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.So we learn that, at least in the context of the figurative language of a vision or dream in prophecy, a "beast" is defined as a kingdom.
"BEAST" = KINGDOMDaniel did such a good job of describing the succession of kingdoms that were to unfold in his future, that there is considerable agreement among Jewish and Christian scholars that the kingdoms represented by Daniel's lion, bear and leopard, are the successive ancient kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece, followed by the fourth "terrible" beast, that is understood to be the Roman Empire. A Google search of "Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece" even in quotes nets over 13,000 hits.
These kingdoms are detailed within the traditional continuous-historic context of prophecy. This is simply the view that bible prophecy is fulfilled steadily as the era about which it is written gradually unfolds. This is the context in which virtually all Christians and Jews understand Old Testament prophecy, and the reformers and many Christians prior to the 20th century, applied to the book of Revelation as well.
Each of Daniel's beasts conquered the whole known world in it's turn. Below are rough maps detailing the approximate extent of these successive kingdoms.
Daniel 7:4
The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings...
lion = Babylon
Daniel 7:5
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear...bear = Medo-Persia
Daniel 7:6
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard...leopard = Greece
Daniel 7:7
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly...fourth "dreadful" = The Roman Empire
The first three of Daniel's kingdom beasts reappear together in scripture only one more time - in Revelation Chapter 13 - but as a composite beast:
Revelation 13:2
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.Daniel not only defined the term "beast" for us but he also assigned a gender to it.
Daniel 7:19
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth [were of] iron, and his nails [of] brass; [which] devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;The seats of the ancient successive kingdom beasts of
lion, bear and leopard or
Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece, are occupied today by the countries of
Iraq, Iran and Syria/Lebanon. The dragon in the verse above who gives this beast/kingdom his power, and his seat, and great authority, is Satan.
While the countries in this seat today include various sects of Islam, indeed some with differences that even compel them to target for murder each other's innocent men, women and children, they are all perfectly united spiritually, by their false prophet Mohammed and his Quran. Please see the "666, Quran & Mohammed" video for more.
The kingdoms of this world have been Satan's legal possession ever since Adam's fall. Satan even offered them to Jesus, but Jesus of course refused them.
Luke 4:5
And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.Again regarding the beast ...
Revelation 13:2 ...
the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.The power that Satan gave to his Islamic kingdom "beast" for this "time of the end" is oil. His people didn't even have to develop the resource themselves. The very kingdoms that Muhammad's followers vow to conquer and subjugate to Muhammad's religion, are the same that developed, and sever, the oil for them. Western kingdoms whoring themselves out at any price for oil to keep economies going and phony money debt flowing. Even at the expense of arming Satan's kingdom against Israel, the only country in the Middle East that shares our western values of freedom, self-determination, and recognition of human rights. Please see the "Gaza" video for more on this subject.
Muslims readily identify with the seed of Ishmael which are the children of the flesh. That's why they lust after conquest and control of Satan's worldly kingdoms while blind to the kingdom of God. Yahweh's covenant is with the seed of Isaac and specifically NOT with the seed of Ishmael.
Genesis 21:10
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, [even] with Isaac.And Abraham did cast out his wife Sarah's bondwoman Hagar and her son Ishmael thereby disowning him. Seems even God Himself no longer recognized Ishmael as a son of Abraham.
Genesis 22:2
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.Paul comments on the children of the flesh as well.
Romans 9:7
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.Muhammad's Mecca based religious rituals are adopted, then adapted, pagan Arabian moon, sun, star and jinn-demon worship rituals. Muhammad's followers even prostrating themselves toward the pagan Quraish's Ka'aba, and their black stone idol, 5 times a day. Please see the videos on the "History of Mecca" and the "Hajj and Umrah" for more.
We find his seed today are as prophesied of Ishmael ...
Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.John's beast is described as "like unto a leopard" perhaps indicating that this Islamic "beast" kingdom cannot change.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.The the Islamic beast's historical record of rape, pillage and plunder of imperialistic conquest all the way up to France and Austria, as well as the evil perpetrated by Muhammad's followers all around the world today with over 16,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks just since 9-11 as meticulously logged by the folks at TheReligionOfPeace.com, by way of confirmation.
The following sketch map illustrates the seat Satan gave his Islamic kingdom "beast", and the countries that occupy that seat today.
When a Muslim confesses that Jesus Christ is the Son of God he has committed the most egregious, and only unpardonable, sin in Muhammad's stand-alone 7th century religion. This sin against Muhammad's "Allah" is known as "shirk".
However in the new covenant we understand...
1John 4:15
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.From the Quran Sura 19:88
They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!Thus Muhammad's followers are all filled with the spirit of antichrist.
1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also].All Muslims are also required to deny the sacrifice and shed blood of the Messiah, Yahshua ...
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;Surah 4:157
That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:-Thus seven hundred years after the Messiah was revealed through all of his apostles and witnesses, a lone false prophet out of the sands of the southwest Arabian desert 1200 kilometers away from the Holy Land of the prophets and patriarchs,
declared the exact opposite of the whole subject of Gospel, and the new covenant ushered in by the Messiah. Satan through his prophet Muhammad filling his followers with complete resolve as to what to
DISbelieve, while leaving a complete vacuum as to just
who DID die on the cross.
Indeed through Islam's own books Muhammad is revealed as much the direct opposite of the Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Lamb of God, as Muhammad's stand-alone 7th century religion is to Christianity, and as opposite as his "Allah" was to Yahweh.
Surah 9.30
The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth!Muhammad even ordering up his alter-ego "Allah's" curse on Yahweh's people, as if invoking some kind of voodoo incantation. It's obvious that Muhammad's "Allah" and Yahweh - the "I AM" - of scripture, cannot possibly be the same God. Please see the video "Allah Moon God?" for more.
Muslims must even reject the geographically sound scriptural account of Abraham and his family, that is evermore confirmed by archaeology, because they are taught the preposterous notion that somehow Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael wandered their way across 1200 kilometers of harsh desert from Hebron to Mecca, about 900 years before the first caravan was ever able to make the trip, and about 1,500 years before Mecca was ever established. Please see the "Ishmael, Hagar, Paran & Mecca" video for more on that subject.
Here is a map of the greatest tragedy to ever befall mankind detailing the spiritual condition of the composite leopard-bear-lion Islamic "beast" today:
The "beast's" ongoing conquests including the killing of over 2 million innocents in the Sudan alone. Following the father of lies through his prophet they must bend their minds to pretend that the history of Islamic first Jihad imperialistic conquest murder, sexual abuse of prisoners, and theft of the property of others, all the way up to France and Austria never happened. Pretend that the over 16,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks around the world by true followers of Muhammad, just since 9-11, are somehow not perfectly consistent with Islamic history and the goals and behavior of their own prophet. Please see the "Jihad" video for more on that subject.
To my Christian brothers and sisters might it be time to take a fresh look at the book of Revelation, and the identity of the false prophet mentioned therein, through the traditional continuous-historic context? Have latter day eschatologies popularized in the 20th century "church" made Islam invisible, and thus our task at hand obscured regarding not only the plight of Muhammad's sorely deceived followers, but the plight of our own brothers and sisters that the Islamic "beast" is killing and persecuting all around the world today?
To our Muslim friends, please visit the YouTube channel muslims4jesus and watch some testimonials of former Muslims who have come to know the love of the one true God Yahweh, through the Messiah, Yahshua.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
