We have seen already, that the "beast from the sea" has seven heads and ten horns.
A "head" equals a "mountain" and equals a "King". (Angel) These are dominions.
The heads rule from 600 BC until our present age. A gallery of ancestors.
The first 6 heads have been easily understood: these are angels, who perform the rule over the nations, where the head of the Greeks has been realized by 4 angels. As a fourfold they conveyed to the Greeks a highly differentiated, cultural identity.
How about the 7th head? How is it arranged? Also the question of the ten horns is still open. Horns are human rulers. Who are they?
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Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a statue. Daniel interprets his dream. (Chap. 2)
31 "You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! The great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you, and its form was awesome.
32 "This image's head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
33 "its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
34 "You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
35 " Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
36 "This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.
37 "You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength and glory;
38 "and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them unto your hand, and has made you ruler of them all - you are this head of gold.
39 "But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.
40 "And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break into pieces and crush all the others.
44 "And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 "Inasmuch as you saw the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold - the
great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain and the interpretation is sure."
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As we can see, this statue represents the kingdoms of the antique world, which are:
1. The Chaldean,
2. the Medes and Persian
3. the Greeks, until the empire of Alexander and the Diadochi,
4. the Romans.
In Verse 31 Nebuchadnezzar sees the statue upright, that means, that the historical process has finished, and also that the time of the Romans has come to an end.
That means: The time of the 6th head has come to an end.
We are now in the year 1453. A new time begins. The historians name this time the "Renaissance". This means the "rebirth of the antique".
And this is exactly what Nebuchadnezzar has seen in his dream for our time. This picture is to understand as a wholeness, so let's add its elements to a wholeness.
Such a wholeness is represented by the demonic angels of the kingdoms:
1.) The angel of the Chaldean,
2.) the angel of the Medes and Persians,
3.) the fourfold of angels of the Greeks and the
4.) the angel of the Romans.
So: The spiritual guidance of the demonic angels in our days is realized by seven angels. They do not represent a sevenfold. They are designed as a fourfold in a fourfold.
The characteristic of points 1 to 4 is the succession. So Daniel describes the sequence of the world empires.
If we add now these elements to a wholeness then we get the characteristic of a cyclical occurrence in a four-stroke manner.
1.) The Chaldean, the head: Reflecting, describing.
2.) The Medes-Persians, breast and arms: Sensibility and association.
3.) The Greeks, stomach and thighs: Idea and Design.
4.) The Romans, legs and feet: Management and infrastructure.
An example from the drama of Else Lasker-Schüler "Arthur Aronimus und his Fathers".
There: The "dramatic person".
1.) The person reflects the occurrence.
2.) Then associations are added, comments.
3.) They summarize to an idea.
4.) The idea leads the person to act.
Now it continues with point 1.)
Another example: A company.
1.) The annual report is presented.
2.) Comments are made, suggestions.
3.) The comments summarize to ideas.
4.) The ideas direct the process of the production.
Now it continues with point 1.)
Let's come to the conclusion: The statue is a 4in4 manifold. A cyclical fourfold is inserted by a stratified fourfold.
This now is the shape of the 7th head.
The spiritual guidance of the 7th head of the "Beast from the Sea" generates the
"Man of Modern Era", a masterpiece.
He disposes of the great spiritual capacity like the Greeks before Alexander, and furthermore he disposes of the capability, to transform the ideas.
The "Man of Modern Era" receives a spiritual guidance, which enables him to do great things: He discovers America, he discovers the perspective, he discovers the matter, the electricity, he learns to fly, he builds atomic bombs, an internet, he flies to the moon, he designs a legal system, he experiences the "Enlightenment", he establishes the union of the nations, the Uno, - who could name all the achievements of our time?
But all rests upon demonic sources. The "Man of Modern Era" suspects nothing of this. He thinks, that these are his abilities, on which his success is based. And: Which divinity should he offer his adoration?
The "Man of the Modern Era" has a far greater capacity to his disposal, than any deity could give him.
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The dream of Nebuchadnezzar ends with the perdition of the 7th head. A stone comes and destroys the statue.
This is the extinction of the 7th head and therefore the extinction of the "Beast from the Sea".
We know already, that the Beast stays in the abyss for a while, until it will be reborn again, and so it becomes the "Beast from the Abyss".
And so something peculiar happens: Essentially angels cannot die. They are spiritual beings.
In Psalm 82 God speaks in a congregation to the angels, who as divinities serve the nations - but rather careless:
6. I said: "You are gods.
And all of you are children of the Most High.
7. But you shall die like men.
And fall like one of the princes."
Those seven angels will die one day, and they will be banned into the realm of death.
What we are here interested in is the fact, that the "Beast from the Sea" with its 7th head vanishes from earth - for a certain time. And so vanishes also the satanic influence on mankind.
Now there is peace on earth. This time lies before the time of the apocalypse, when the "Beast from the Abyss" will be reborn again.
This time is not to confuse with the Millennium, when Jesus Christ reigns on earth.
But "peace on earth" is not simply there, when there is no influence of Satan, therefore the Spirit of God dwells on earth.
Also says the dream of Nebuchadnezzar: "God erects his dominion on earth."
Dan 2,35: ... And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Now, how can a mountain fill the whole earth? A mountain can do this - when
"mountain" = "dominion".
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Three great themes open up now:
1.) Who is that Woman on the Beast?
2.) Who are those ten horns, who will kill that Woman.
3.) Which peacetime begins then?
What is written in the Bible?
8. Feb. 2015, deFrohna.