the beast out of the sea or its image to be killed. He also causes all people to receive the mark of the beast in their right hand or in their forehead. The Quran says that the Islamic people will create this beast that comes out of the earth: "And when the Word is fulfilled against them (the unjust), we shall produce from the earth a beast to (face) them: He will speak to them, for that mankind did not believe with assurance in Our Signs." --Quran, sura 27 (An-Naml), ayat 82
The key to understanding the Book of Revelation is in recognizing that all of the future prophecies within its pages are consistent with similar end-time prophecies offered by the prophets of the Hebrew Bible and the prophecies of Immanuel. Elohim's plans for the future of mankind have not changed since the time of Adam and Eve. The one thing that has changed is the perspective of the authors who wrote down those prophecies and the different world views held by their first readers, for whom their prophecies and warnings were directed.
Enoch lived before the Great Deluge called Noah's flood, yet he is mentioned by three of the New Testament writers. One of his end-time prophecies is restated in the Book of Jude. David and his son, Solomon, lived around 3,000 years ago and wrote about the coming of the Messiah at the end of time. They were followed by Elijah, Job, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.
Daniel and Ezekiel, lived during the beginning of the reign of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel's interpretation of the great statue in the king's dream gives a synopsis of all of the great empires that would follow the Babylonian Empire until the return of Immanuel, when the last remaining vestiges of the same system of political and economic corruption that has persisted throughout the ages will finally be destroyed, and Elohim's kingdom on Earth is finally established.
Daniel's visions and prophecies during the first year of King Belshazzar's reign in Chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel are vital in understanding the Book of Revelation. Daniel describes not one, but four beasts that ...came up from the sea. Each is followed by the next in time and each represent the same empires noted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream... Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. The last one, the Roman Empire, was described as having ten horns, just like John's description of the same beast.
By the time John wrote his letters to the churches of Asia Minor, the first three "beasts" in Daniel's prophecy (Babylon, Persia, and Greece) had already come and gone. The systems instituted by the Roman Empire will continue in one form or another until the return of Immanuel.
Before the final phase in the life of this "Roman" beast begins, three of its ten horns are plucked up by the roots , and a little horn grows out of the wound on its head which has eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool.
His throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him.
Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame...
One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." --Daniel 7:9-14
These dreams and visions grieved and troubled Daniel. From the text it becomes
The key to understanding the Book of Revelation is in recognizing that all of the future prophecies within its pages are consistent with similar end-time prophecies offered by the prophets of the Hebrew Bible and the prophecies of Immanuel. Elohim's plans for the future of mankind have not changed since the time of Adam and Eve. The one thing that has changed is the perspective of the authors who wrote down those prophecies and the different world views held by their first readers, for whom their prophecies and warnings were directed.
Enoch lived before the Great Deluge called Noah's flood, yet he is mentioned by three of the New Testament writers. One of his end-time prophecies is restated in the Book of Jude. David and his son, Solomon, lived around 3,000 years ago and wrote about the coming of the Messiah at the end of time. They were followed by Elijah, Job, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.
Daniel and Ezekiel, lived during the beginning of the reign of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel's interpretation of the great statue in the king's dream gives a synopsis of all of the great empires that would follow the Babylonian Empire until the return of Immanuel, when the last remaining vestiges of the same system of political and economic corruption that has persisted throughout the ages will finally be destroyed, and Elohim's kingdom on Earth is finally established.
Daniel's visions and prophecies during the first year of King Belshazzar's reign in Chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel are vital in understanding the Book of Revelation. Daniel describes not one, but four beasts that ...came up from the sea. Each is followed by the next in time and each represent the same empires noted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream... Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. The last one, the Roman Empire, was described as having ten horns, just like John's description of the same beast.
By the time John wrote his letters to the churches of Asia Minor, the first three "beasts" in Daniel's prophecy (Babylon, Persia, and Greece) had already come and gone. The systems instituted by the Roman Empire will continue in one form or another until the return of Immanuel.
Before the final phase in the life of this "Roman" beast begins, three of its ten horns are plucked up by the roots , and a little horn grows out of the wound on its head which has eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool.
His throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him.
Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame...
One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." --Daniel 7:9-14
These dreams and visions grieved and troubled Daniel. From the text it becomes
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