America and Israel in Bible Prophecy

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Who are the nations of the Antichrist?
Understanding who these nations are is not as difficult as some would think. The Bible reveals to us who the nations are through prophetic study.
Our imaginations are not good enough or wise enough to figure these things out. Only God through his Word can identify who these nations are. For example: We see the Beast in Revelation 13 has a bears feet. We cannot assume that because the Russians use the bear as an emblem that this is the Russian Bear. The bear is the Medes and Persians according to scripture and today it is modern day Iran. The feet of that particular beast is Iran. So we simply must allow ourselves to be taught by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit that was sent for this purpose.
Remember; God is our instructor.

The Prophecy Begins with a Dream in Babylon
Daniel 2: 1: And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
2: Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
3: And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

Daniel then explains the dream to Nebuchnadnezzar
Daniel 2:31: Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
32: This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33: His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34: Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35: Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

During the time of these kings God would establish an everlasting kingdom.
Daniel 2: 44: And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Actually Christ will come and establish this kingdom during the reign of the Iron Legs. He will return to destroy these nations during the time of the feet and toes at the time of the end.

Daniel explains more about this dream to Nebuchadnezzar the king.
Daniel 2: 38: And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39: And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40: And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41: And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

His kingdom was established
Jesus came during the time that the Romans were ruling much of the known world at that time.
Mt:4:17: From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Mt:4:23: And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Mt:12:28: But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

Where are these Nations today?
Babylon is modern day Iraq.
The Medo-Persians are modern day Iran.
The Four nations of Alexander where Egypt, Syria, Macedonia & Thrace. Today we still have Egypt and Syria. Macedonia & Thrace is made of of Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Rome today is the capitol of Italy and is still a world power but in a different way.
All seven of these basic nations will be the embodiment of the nations of the Antichrist.

Daniel's Vision Daniel 7:
2: Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
3: And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4: The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
5: And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
6: After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
7: After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Daniel's dream is a retelling of Nebuchadnezzar's dream
God often times gives us a picture of things from several different perspectives, much in the same way that the four Gospels are given. The Gospels were written by four different men with four different views of the same truth. Just as 1^st Kings and 2^nd Kings are the same stories as 1^st Chronicles and 2^nd Chronicles. Many books in the Bible do this within the books themselves, books such as Isaiah and Revelation.
First God in Daniel gave this truth to Nebuchadnezzar through the man who was made of different metals and clay. Then through four different beasts in Daniel's dream.
There were three different reasons God did this. One was to reassure the Jews when these things began to come to pass. To prepare Israel for the coming Messiah and to give us identifying marks to help us identify the nations of the Antichrist today.

Comparing the dreams continued
Daniel 7: 6: After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
The stomach of brass and the leopard was the Grecian kingdom that followed. It consisted of 4 nations led by Alexander the Great. They were Egypt, Syria, Macedonia & Thrace. Today these people are found in Egypt, Syria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey. We saw that it had 4 heads and 4 wings. The heads stood for nations and the wings were the kings of these nations.
7: After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. The ten horns are kings or seats of authority. This symbol will remain through the rest of the Bible.
The Iron legs and the iron teeth on this terrible beast are one and the same, they are Rome. However the terrible beast itself is an embodiment of all of the nations of the Antichrist much in the same fashion as the beast in Revelation 13:1.

The Fourth Beast that Daniel saw
7: After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8: I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
The ten horns that we see on this beast are the ten kings of the nations of the Antichrist. The Antichrist will come out of one of these horns. Only the teeth of this beast is a symbol of Rome, but the ten horns are one and the same with the toes on the feet of the image of the man in Nebuchanezzar's dream.

The Beast in Revelation 13^th Chapter
By looking at this beast we are able to tell that the four beast in Daniel the 7^th Chapter are all part of the embodiment of the ten nations of the Antichrist. Only the horns on this beast are kings. The heads are nations. One of these heads is wounded, which means that one of these nations has survived a terrible defeat. Many mistakenly believe that the Antichrist is going to be killed and raised from the dead. But only the horns are kings not heads.
The mouth of a lion is Iraq.The feet of a bear is Iran.
The body of the Leopard is the Egypt, Syria, and the people from Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
Because Rome is the capital of Italy, Italy will be included in these seven nations which are the seven heads on this beast.

God will use the old nation of Babylon as an example of the seven mountains that the Harlot is sitting on.
Mountains in the Bible does not always mean literal mountains, as we are about to find out in Jer.51: 24-25.
Even though these seven Mountains do not represent the seven hills that Rome is built on. Rome is still the Harlot. The seven mountains are the seven nations or heads that are on the beast in Revelation 13:1.
Rev. 17: 18: And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
In John's day the city of Rome ruled over most of the world that John was aware of. God revealed to John who the Harlot would be, the city of Rome.

Babylon the Destroying Mountain
Jeremiah 51: 24: And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
25: Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
The seven heads in Revelation 17 that are on the scarlet colored beast that the Harlot is riding is Nations. It is the same seven nations from Daniel that are in the man and the four beasts. These heads are a constant shadow all the way through prophecy, they are Nations. Another thing to consider is that God had told Daniel that the stone that struck the image of the man in his feet would become a great mountain and fill the earth. This great mountain is God's own nation, a nation called the kingdom of God that will someday inherit the earth (Daniel 3:35.

The Image of the Beast and his mark 15: And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (The image is not literal, but a dream such as the Nazi dream of world conquest).
16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. The mark of the beast has been the cause of much speculation and is a mystery, however it will simply be the means that the Antichrist will use to identify those who are on his side.

Catholic Iron and Muslim Clay
Daniel 2:43: And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
This is the ingredient that God will use to cause the Ten Kings to turn on the Harlot and destroy her. Christianity and Islam does not mix, and cannot.
Catholics in the Muslim world are accepted as long as they don't make any waves. One of Saddam Hussein's right hand men was a Roman Catholic. They pay their tax and live in harmony. But with Protestant Christians this is not the case. They live in danger all of the time. It is very unlikely that the Catholics in America will fall for this deception because American Catholics are more independent in their thinking than those in Asia and Europe.

Muslim and Christian Today the Muslim religion is trying very hard to take over Europe, Africa, Indonesia, Australia and the South Pacific. We see them in large numbers in America, Canada and England. Their heaviest concentration is in Asia, Africa and the nations around the Mediterranean Sea. In all of these countries we see a mixture of Catholic and Muslim.
The belief of the Muslim people is that their Mahdi (messiah) will come and the (prophet) Jesus will be raised from the dead and meet him in Damascus, Syria. From there they will wage a Holy War on all Christians and Jews in the rest of the World. They basically live in peace with the Catholic Church because it does not try to convert others to Christianity. And because they have been mixed for so many centuries. We must be prepared for what is coming and one way to do this is to pray for the Salvation of America and the Nation of Israel.