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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-23-06 09:14 AM
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14. Exhibit Number Two: Nailing the Beast
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Exhibit 2 : Nailing the Beast

Revelation 13:1-2 “And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns upon its horns, and a blasphemous name upon its heads. And the beast I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have a mortal wound, but the mortal wound had been healed.”

This beast in Revelation is based upon one that first appears in the book of Daniel:

Daniel 7: 7-8 “After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast- terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns. While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth that spoke boastfully.”

So what are we to make of all this confusing symbolism? What do the horns represent, what do the heads represent, what to the crowns represent, and what does the body represent? It's really not that difficult to figure out, now that we know who the Antichrist is.

This beast is the image of a world empire – the final world empire, and the one that gives rise to the Antichrist. Its body is likened to a leopard, because according to Victorinus, a father of the early church "“This signifies the kingdom of that time of Antichrist, and the people mingled with the variety of nations.” The spots on the leopard are representative of a multi-national, multi-racial and multi-cultural 'melting pot'.. This was once the case with Rome, and it is currently the case with the United States of America. The mouth is like a lion because Americans speak English, and the United States was once an English colony, and England has always been represented by a lion on the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom. The bear is a symbol of Russia, and the bear-like feet of the beast is symbolic of the fact that the only other superpower for forty years was the Russian bear, but now the US is walking all over what was formerly Russian territory, and it now has its ‘feet’, or military bases planted in countries that were once part of the USSR, like Uzbekistan and Kyrgistan.

It says this beast comes out of the sea, and this is a reference to the fact that the New World was discovered by navigators like Columbus. The United States came out of the sea in the sense that at the time of St. John’s vision, it was widely assumed that the only thing west of Europe and east of the orient was a lot of water and the end of the world. So the United States, as part of the 'New World', seemed from the perspective of the Biblical or ‘Old World’, to come up and literally rise out of the sea.

Daniel says this beast is different from all the previous beasts. Because unlike all the others, the American Empire isn't headquartered in Europe or the Middle East, and the United States doesn’t formally colonize and occupy other nations (at least until now), but it maintains military bases around the world, and its ships and planes and missiles are able to reach clear around the world, and this is what makes the United States an Imperial super-power.

It’s obvious that the horns represent the powerful men who have come to successively rule over this American empire. Daniel even says so quite explicitly Dan 7: 24 “the ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones. (the Antichrist)” America acquired superpower status and gained the reach of a world-class Empire when it acquired the nuclear bomb, at the very end of WWII. Since then there have been exactly ten “kings” or post-war presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, BushSr, and Clinton. The prophecy from Daniel says that after these ten presidents, there will appear another one, an arrogant “little horn”, which is the Antichrist, George W Bush Jr. It says this “little horn” is unlike any of the other ten presidents, and this is an obvious reference to the fact that Bush has no popular mandate, that he lost the popular vote, and was appointed to the office by five un-elected judges on the Supreme Court. This has never happened before in American history, and that’s what makes him so different from all his presidential predecessors – that and his arrogance, dishonesty and lust for world power.

It also says that “three of the first horns were uprooted before it.” Bush is a far-right Republican, and this is a reference to the fact that by the time Bush Jr came to office, fascist conspiracies had already uprooted and destroyed the presidencies of three previous key Democratic presidents, in this way sabotaging a more moderate course for the nation: John Kennedy, by assassination, Jimmy Carter, through the Iran hostage crisis “October Surprise” , and finally the Monica Lewinski sex impeachment. (which ultimately damaged Gore, who was part of the Clinton/Gore presidency.) In all three of these right-wing conspiracies, there was direct involvement by the Bush family.

Crowns are always associated with kingdoms, and the ten crowns on the ten horns are representative of ten kingdoms or imperial powers whose power was eventually assumed by this beast, which we now know is the United States. There were ten imperial powers over the past several hundred years which became the European heirs to the power of the Roman Empire. At one point or other the United States, the true, ultimate and final heir to the Roman Empire, has either beaten these weaker empires outright in war, or simply assumed the power and sphere of influence they once commanded in the world. These empires are/were the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, Austro-Hungarian, Byzantine/Ottoman, German /Holy Roman, Russian, Italian and French. The American beast, a descendent and former colony of these European Imperial powers, now proudly wears their crowns like scalps or trophies on his horns. This is symbolic of all the US presidents who have wielded this world-wide imperial power since WWII, when the power of European imperialism was broken..

Finally, what about those seven heads? Just as the ten crowns represent the power held by ten empires that once divided the power of Rome, the seven heads are the seven world-class empires which for a time ruled over all the known world, of which Rome was only one. These seven master empires in chronological order are Babylon (both Old and New), Egypt, Assyria, Medo-Persia, Greece or Macedonia, Rome, and finally the United States. Of course, this doesn’t include the Chinese, Inca, Mayan etc, because they were either unknown or too far removed from the Biblical world, which includes the Mediterranean world of the Middle East and Europe. This remains the critical heart of the Biblical world, even today. It doesn’t include empires like the British and Ottoman because their power was actively contested by contemporaries, and they never held the sort of ‘sole superpower’ status that once marked Rome, and currently defines the USA.

The head with a mortal wound that was healed is the Roman Empire/Nero, which seemed to have been dead for the last 1500 years, but now has been resurrected in the American Empire/Bush. All the other world-class empires were more or less continuous – whenever one was defeated the next sprang to life on its heels. In that sense, at least from the perspective of the Biblical world, there was one continuous world empire that never really seemed to die until Rome was defeated by the Christian church. This is the 'Whore Babylon' of prophecy - a premier line of world-class empires that began with Babylon and continues on with six other world class empires - the "seven mountains on which a woman sits" (Rev 17:9). A woman who keeps putting on different makeup - but it's always the same old whore. These empires not only dominate the world militarily, but economically and culturally as well. The “blasphemous name” written across the seven heads of the beast (and it says ‘name’, not ‘names’) are the seven letters B-A-B-Y-L-O-N. It says of these seven heads, that as of the time of the writing of Revelation (95 AD), that (Rev 17:10) “five have fallen (Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece), one is (Rome), the other has yet to come (USA), but when it does, he (George Bush – the Antichrist) must remain for a little while.” When the American World Empire moved into Afghanistan and Iraq in order to completely dominate and remake the middle east by force, it was a clear signal that the last World Empire, the Antichrist and the final days had arrived.

Many people have said to me that Bush can’t be the Antichrist because “the Antichrist will come from Europe” or “the Antichrist will come from the Middle East”. Yet when pressed to back up their ignorant claim, they become very confused and fall flat on their face. Very obviously, and whether we like it or not, the Biblical evidence overwhelmingly proves that the Antichrist could only come from the United States of America, and it is none other than George Walker BushJr = 666.

http://www.bushisantichrist.com/
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