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Certain events are occurring in a pattern, not simply as a list of unrelated disasters. Since 2001, there have been signs from heaven that this generation will experience major disasters in a pattern of events that are related to the signs of the Second Coming.
God sent many prophets to Israel just before the occupation by Babylon in 586 BC. Normally, there was only one or two prophets. This time there were about twelve named prophets. During the time of the prophets, God made them act out the judgments to come. He made poor Isaiah walk around naked and barefoot for three years. Jeremiah was digging into the walls and hiding his underwear. Ezekiel was told to defile himself by cooking his food over human feces. Hosea was told to marry a prostitute.
Jonah simply ran away. Wouldn't you?
Fortunately, we have the word of God in print so God does not have to resort to acting prophets. I hope.

These staged performances are God's subliminal messages. Little pictures of the judgment to come. They are designed to make you think about the possibility that the prophecies are true. They do not occur in a vacuum. They are accompanied with many signs that the real prophecy is about to be fulfilled during that generation.

Prophetic Clues and Messages
Now learn the parable from the fig tree; when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. So, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. (Matthew 24: 32-33)
Have you ever wondered if God gives the world sufficient, clear warnings about His intentions?
He does.
Do you think that the years preceding the end of the world will be filled by spectacular warnings and coincidences?
It will.
The modern society is virtually immune to signs in the heavens, natural disasters, prophets of doom ringing their door bells or sermons on hell fire and brimstone from the Church of the Holy Ghost Warriors Toe to Toe Mighty Battle with Satan.
But a series of coincidences might make them listen to the prophets so that they will make a decision for God without any overwhelming pressure.

Since the prophetic time cycles are so long, it appears that God prepares people for the fulfillment of great prophecies. This happens when the prophecy is extended into the distant future or is very important to the world. Instead of only sending prophets who would be rejected, He controls revolutionary events in a short period of time that mimics the requirements of the prophecies. These similar patterns awaken our mental connections to the real prophecies and cause us to study these great messages. This is what happened in the late eighteenth century. After the long sleep in the dark ages, students of the Bible studied the prophecies and all came to the conclusion that the papacy was an important institution.

The Pattern
The patterns are of specific types.

1. Boiler Plate Response. Some reflect the fact that God uses a specific method to deal with a problem. This is because the covenant with the earth and Israel is based on a specific contract. That contract defines what happens when it is breached and God decides that He will take action. This punitive action takes on a specific form and order of events that appears as a pattern every time it is invoked.
   These are meant to make the righteous see that God is acting on their behalf or that He is invoking the negative consequences of a broken agreement.
2. Prophetic Repetition. There are several prophecies related to the last days that appear to be repeated after the millennium or just before the Second Coming. I call this phenomenon the time dilation effect because God seems to ignore the passage of time. He considers the alien powers at both ends of the time prophecy to be the same and He describes their destiny in the same way.
   • Resurrection. This is the clearest example of the phenomenon. Some resurrection prophecies appear as one giant resurrection although they are two separate events one thousand years apart.

     The Resurrection
     Resurrection of the Righteous	Millennium	Resurrection of the wicked

   • Jerusalem. The fate of Jerusalem before the Second Coming is repeated after the Third Coming. The city is surrounded by the nations and God sends destruction. It is accompanied by a group of similar events.

     Jerusalem surrounded	Judgment (plagues)	War	God comes	Righteous Raised	1000 Years	God comes	Wicked Raised	Judgment (Final)	Jerusalem surrounded	Destruction (Armageddon)

   • The Fall of the Papacy. The papacy has two falls, the first in the French Revolution and the second at the end of time. The prophecy of Daniel 11: 40-45 and Daniel 12: 1 clearly spans hundreds of years. But, as we are living through them, it appears that the details of the first fall during the French Revolution appear to be repeating themselves now that we are approaching the second fall. No wonder the prophecies sometimes appears to merge events. This dual nature also makes these prophecies appear to be ambiguous.

     The End of an Evil Empire
     Fall of the Papacy (1798)	Time of the end	Rises to power again	Babylon Falls (Second Coming)
     Satan Falls (Second Coming)	Millennium	Satan Loosed (Rises)	Wicked Fall (Hell fire)

     This pattern also mirrors the end of Satan. He falls and rises again for a short time before his final fall.
   • The Old Testament: The Fall of Babylon. All old testament prophecies appear to blend the fall of Babylon with the last days. The puzzling aspects of these prophecies make sense when you assume that their fulfillment includes the period at the end of time.
     Others refer to this as a dual fulfillment. From God's perspective I see it as one fulfillment. One cannot help but see that in the fortunes of Saddam Hussein, God has reached back in time to punish Babylon for what it did to Israel. And as He gave the prophecy to the old prophets, one can see God reaching into the future to this place and time to describe how thoroughly He will destroy Babylon. With this you get a sense that for 2,500 years God has hated Babylon. And for 2,500 years He has been waiting to execute real revenge.
3. Mimic Prophecies. Other patterns occur because God is creating a series of notable local events that mimic the highlights of the overall prophecy. They are not the real fulfillment. These are meant to make the righteous and wicked turn to the bible as they recognize familiar themes.
   
   The mock cycles are meant for the generation that will experience the fulfillment of the prophecy. Therefore, they are bound up in significant local events and there is a danger that we have no records of these past events or of their profound significance to the people. Often, a drastic event from one of the cycles may survive in historical records but the overall pattern will be lost. Why?
   • The events are not always negative but gain their significance only because they are part of a set of events.
   • The events are meant to plant an idea in the minds of the local people. The significance might be lost to later generations.
   • Their significance among the thousands of news events might not be preserved for history. This is acceptable because what God wants is for the interpretation of the real prophecy to survive into the future. So He uses these memory devices to prompt the generation that is responsible for recognizing the real fulfillment to study the Bible.

Global and Local Interpretation. This illustrates the concept of global and local interpretation. The global interpretation are the events that are probably the ones predicted. But as the prophecy reaches fulfillment, there appears to be a cycle of local events that mirror the overall pattern.

Bible scholars have also recognized another type of global and local application of prophecy. The global interpretation in the experience of the world and the local interpretation in the experience of Israel and Christ. In this understanding, both events are prophecies in their own right. But God, in His creative ability describes them in the same way and sometimes takes steps to ensure that the similarity exists when both events happen.

Several prophecies exhibit these characteristics. They identify significant people and organizations or approaching end of a time prophecy for the generation that will experience the fulfillment.

Prophecies and Powers
Prophetic Event	Prophecy	Real Fulfillment	Mock Cycles at the End	Leader
Crucifixion	The Sanctuary	Christ, the lamb and the curse	The curses from the sanctuary three days before the crucifixion	John the Baptist
Last week in Jerusalem	Keeps the covenant for one week	Final seven years of ministry to Israel. He was killed after 3.5 years	The final seven days. He went into the bowels after 3.5 days	Jesus
1260 Years	The tyranny of the Little Horn	The rule of the papacy	The 1260 day part of the French Revolution signaled the end of the 1260 year prophecy	Martin Luther. Issac Newton and many others
2300 Years	The restoration of the sanctuary	The Judgment begins. Christ takes the government	The activities of William Miller. The formation of new governments in the world.	William Miller
New Government	Christ comes to the Ancient of Days	Christ accepts the kingdom and judgment begins	Freedom movements. Colonialism and slavery ends. Independent nations born	-
Knowledge	Knowledge increases	Prophecy and religious knowledge increases	Scientific and medical knowledge increased	-
2520 Years	The return of Babylon	The United States is Babylon the Great	Conditions at the first fall of Babylon were duplicated	Nebuchadnezzar
The seven headed beast	Wounded and healed head	The fall of the papacy in 1798 and the restoration in 1929	Failed assassination attempts on the two leaders when the seventh head was formed	Many prophets. Joel 2: 28
Mystery Babylon the Great	Last power	The United States becomes the final superpower	Took over Iraq in a pattern that was similar to the actions of Ancient Babylon
Babylon falls	Babylon falls	United States and the Papacy come to an end	Global economic collapse. Military and religious collapse. Iraq falls
Sixth plague	Babylon splits into three	United States, Papacy and Satanic forces	Iraq is splitting into Kurd, Sunni and Shia factions
The Seven Last Plagues	Seven Last Plagues	Future plagues	Annual cycles of events that have been affecting the world, the United States and Rome since 2000
The Second Coming	Second Coming of Christ		False Christs and the appearance of Satan

In several important prophecies, you will see a pattern of similarities.

• Crucifixion. The death of Christ followed a sanctuary pattern. The three days preceding His death also showed the same pattern. The final seven days of His life was a pattern of the final seven years left to Israel. The Jews had 490 years to keep the covenant. The Messiah would be killed in the middle of the last seven years. The Messiah would appeared in the last seven days to keep the covenant and was handed over to His enemies in the middle of the week.
• Rise and Fall of Babylon. The rise of Babylon the Great at the end of time was accompanied by a fall of the old Babylon (Iraq) in a pattern that mirrored Nebuchadnezzar's conquest of Israel. In the end, Babylon got the same treatment it gave to Israel two thousand five hundred and twenty years ago.
• Fall of Babylon the Great. Babylon the Great will fall in the same sequence of events in which old Babylon fell to the Persians. This means that there will be conflict with the Persian empire.
• The Last Empires. The structure and fate of the last world empires mirrors the structure and fate of the leaders of the last empire. Both president Reagan and pope John Paul II were wounded and healed in March and May of 1981. They had just completed actions that caused them to form the seventh head of the seven-headed beast in prophecy. One of those heads would be wounded and healed.
  Together they formed the seventh head. Together they were wounded and healed. Together they defeated the sixth head.

1. The Ancient Prophets
The prophets did not only foretell the future. This is the part of their duty that we covet. They were called to be actors in a great drama. This is the part of their duty that we have forgotten. The first use of this "acting out" technique was with the prophets. They not only foretold the future, they acted out the consequences. God even told Ezekiel that when he acted out the coming fulfillment that it was a "sign to the house of israel". Ezekiel 4: 3. This was not the fulfillment. It was a visual demonstration of the coming fulfillment.

• Isaiah.
  • Naked and barefoot. Isaiah 20. He was naked and barefoot for three years as a sign for Egypt and Cush. This was how Assyria would treat them.
• Jeremiah.
  • Destruction of Pride. He was told to buy linen underwear and hide the unwashed garment in a rock near the river. After many days he dug up the underwear and it was ruined. This demonstrated the destruction of their pride. (Jeremiah 13)
  • Fill with Wine. They shall be battered like drunken men (verses 12-14).
• Ezekiel. Ezekiel 4 lists the actions that he should do in the sight of the people to demonstrate the coming siege and capture by Babylon.
  • Siege. Demonstrate the siege of Jerusalem (verses 1-4).
  • Time. He lay down on his left side for 390 days to demonstrate the punishment of Israel (verse 5). Then he had to lay on his right side for forty days to demonstrate the punishment of Judah (verse 6).
  • Bondage. He was tied up for the 430 days (verse 8).
  • Defilement. He was supposed to cook his food over human dung (verse 12).
  Ezekiel 5 also lists another set of demonstrations of the destruction by Babylon.
• Hosea. He was told to marry a prostitute named Gomer to demonstrate the relationship between Israel and God (Hosea 1). The children of prostitution that they had were given names that signified God's displeasure with them.
  • Jezreel. Son. He would punish Jehu and end Israel.
  • Lo-Ruhamah. Daughter. God would no longer have compassion.
  • Lo-Ammi. Son. They were not His people and He was not their God.
  In Hosea 3, he was to love an adulteress who is loved by her husband.

2. The Crucifixion
In the crucifixion we see a pattern in the cycle of images that are positive and then increasingly get worse until He suffers the curse and the wrath of God for us at the crucifixion. Coincidentally, this is the period that Jesus described as three days in the bowels of the earth.
This is discussed in more detail in the lesson Christ and the plan of salvation. But I will show just the recurring pattern of the wrath of God during the crucifixion week.

Event	Time	Altar of Sacrifice	Laver	Table of Shewbread	Menorah	Altar of Incense	Ark of the Covenant Two Angels
Last Supper	3½ days	Passover meal eaten	Washed the feet of the disciples	Passover table with 12 disciples. Judas betrays Him	The words of Jesus	Jesus prays	12 disciples around Jesus
Gethsemane		Jesus is the Lamb of God	Sweat blood and water	Passover meal Disciples sleep	Night	Prayer	Sleeping disciples and one angel
Trial			Spit on Him	Beat Him. Broken body. Disciple denys Him	Trial at night	High priest was against Him	High priest and two false witnesses
Crucifixion			Blood and water from His side	Vinegar to drink 12 disciples gone	Darkness	God ignored His prayer	On the cross between two thieves during the darkness
Crucifixion Week		Crucifixion	Blood and water from His body	He was chewed up and spit out	Darkness	Garden of Gethsemane
Temptation	42 days	The Lamb of God	Baptism	Stone to Bread	Tempted to test God	Forty days of prayer	Worship Satan
His Life	3½ years	Crucifixion (Passover)	Baptism (Pentecost)	Chose 12 disciples	Ministry of Jesus	Forty days of temptation	Cleanses the temple (Yom Kippur)

Time in 3½ Divisions. Jesus experienced these events in time that is associated with 3½ divisions.

3. The End of 1260 Years of Papal Domination
Some of the mock fulfillments were so important, they became prophecies themselves. The French Revolution was one of those prophecies. It mimicked the 1260 year prophecy. The intense period of 1260 days during the French Revolution brought the 1260 years prophecy and the papacy to an end.

The 1260 Year Prophecy
The Dark Ages	1260 day French Revolution

Characteristic	Papal Supremacy	French Revolution	The Last Powers
Powers	Papacy	Napoleon and the French	United States and Papacy
Duration	1260 Years	1260 Days	Unknown
Dates	538-1798	November 24, 1793 to April 1797	March 2003 - Future
Symbolism	Terrible beast	Beast from the abyss	Beast, Lamb who speaks like a dragon
Persecution	Church persecuted	Government persecuted. Roman Catholic religion and Bible banned.	Mark of the beast
Religion attacked	Bible and other views banned as heresy	Christianity banned	Enforces Catholicism
Speak against God	Pope as God on earth	A prostitute was the Goddess of Reason	Makes world worship the beast
Changes times	Changed the Sabbath to Sunday	Changed the length of the week to ten days	Forces the world to worship on Sunday
Changes laws	Changes ten commandments	Declaration of the rights of man	Patriot Act, Corpus Juris and other international inquisition laws Ignores Geneva Conventions on torture
Sodom and Egypt	Immorality, false gods	Culture. Homosexuality among the French nobility. The infamous Marquis de Sade wrote a book called "120 days of Sodom". Army. French troops raped the Mameluke men when they conquered Egypt in 1798	Culture. Los Angeles is the center of global pornography. Army. USA soldiers torture and homosexual rape and humiliation of Muslim prisoners, even children. Priests. Homosexual pedophile scandal Idolatry. Worship Mary and saints
Disease	The plague kills 30% of Europe	The plague hits Napoleon's troops in Egypt	Will the USA troops fall victim to an outbreak of plagues before the seven last plagues?
Result	Papacy falls	First fall of the Papacy	Second fall of the Papacy
Text	Daniel 7-8. Revelation 12	Revelation 11, Daniel 11	Revelation 13
The "Papal Supremacy" column represents the fulfillment of the prophecy by the papacy. The "French Revolution" column represents the events at the first fall of the papacy that were a copy of the behavior of the papacy. The "Last Powers" column represents the events at the future second fall of the papacy. They duplicate the first fall under Napoleon. Look at another comparison of these movements in this lesson.

The fact that the people had no access to the Bible for so many centuries could be one reason why God chose this period of the French Revolution to vividly demonstrate the elements of the long prophecy.

Imagine knowing the prophecy in Daniel 7: 25 about the little horn "changing times" and living during a time when the length of the week was changed for the first time in history by the "little general". This must have triggered a searching of the prophecies.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time, times and the dividing of a time. (Daniel 7: 25)

United States and Revelation 11
Revelation 11 is an enlargement of the prophecy of the French Revolution in Daniel 11.
If Daniel 11 is being repeated by the United States, then perhaps Revelation 11 will also be repeated. The last column shows the similarities that we are experiencing so far.

4. The End of 2300 Years of Sanctuary Restoration

Freedom Movements

The decline of Ottomon influence. 1804 - Serb Uprising 1821 - Greece declares independence. 1826 - The Battle of Navarino. Greek revolt. 1829 - Treaty of Adrianople in the Russian-Turkish war ended influence in the Balkans The Spanish lose their colonies as many nations declare independence. 1810 - Argentina. 1811 - Paraguay, Columbia, Venezuela. 1812 - Mexico. 1817 - Chile. 1822 - Ecuador, Brazil. 1828 - Uruguay. 1836 - Texas independent from Mexico. 1846-48 - Mexican war ended with the purchase of California, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas. Other Freedom Movements. 1823 - The Monroe Doctrine. 1828 - First popular vote. 1830 - Belgium rises up against Dutch rule. 1835 - Dutch (Boers) freed from Britain. 1838 - The Underground Railroad began. 1838 - (July 2) The slave mutiny aboard the Spanish vessel the Amistad. Freedom of the People. 1833 - Emancipation Act frees British slaves. 1847 - July 27. Liberia Independent of the USA. 1863 - Emancipation proclamation in the USA. 1865 - Thirteenth Amendment ends slavery.

The last great time prophecy was the promise to restore the church and remove corruption.
The fulfillment of this event was based on an event in heaven. This does not mean that we would not have clues on earth. This is what happened in heaven.

• Judgment. He began the feast of Yom Kippur in which He would restore His church that was ravaged by centuries of idolatry. This feast ended in the freedom and the cleansing of the people.
• Change of Government. Christ took possession of the Kingdoms of the Earth. Everything now formally belongs to Him. He freed us from slavery to sin at His crucifixion. Now He makes His legal claim to the territory. At the Second Coming He will physically free the people.
• Knowledge. As part of the autumn feast, the Torah was read and people came to a knowledge of God.

So we can look for at least these patterns.

1. The Yom Kippur Elements. This feast involved a lamb, a scapegoat, banishment and the freedom of the people. The prophecies for the future during the Great Global Yom Kippur would use these exact elements to describe the end times and its players.
   • Lamb. A lamb rose up during this time. It is described in Revelation 13.
   • Goat. Satan was known as the goat demon. He will become the scapegoat. A beast rose up from the Abyss in the French Revolution (Revelation 11). It would conquer the world with its demonic ideas.
   • Freedom. Many nations declared their freedom.
2. Change of Government. The events of the day of atonement ends in freedom for the people. We know that slavery ended around this period and there were many revolts against the imperialist governments. People threw off the rule of foreign oppressors and began to rule. Likewise, in heaven there would be a formal taking of the kingdoms of the world and Christ would begin to rule (Daniel 7: 13-14).
   The first part of the nineteenth century was dominated by the attempts of Napoleon to rule the world. It also began a period when the Spanish would lose many colonies. Britain made some gains in Asia but would eventually lose its colonies in the 1960's.
   
   » The Rise of the United States. So, as the old kingdoms were losing their power and nations were gaining their freedom, the final kingdom was beginning to gain its wealth and power. America increased its territory because the warring European nations needed money. The Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803 from France. It doubled the size of the United States. Florida was purchased from Spain in the 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty. It would take the events of World Wars 1 and 2 to establish its world dominance and to heal the wounds of the old power that would align with it in the future.
3. Knowledge. The century has been characterized by an explosion in religious, prophetic and scientific knowledge. This event was also a subject of its own prophecy (Daniel 12: 4). The first inventions specifically helped the printing and distribution of information related to the knowledge of God. The Protestant revolution began.

5. The Last World Empire
Daniel describes the last empire before the Second Coming as the "King of the North".
Revelation describes the last empire as "Babylon the Great".
Coincidentally, Babylon was north of Israel. Therefore, the King of the North is Babylon the Great. We have consistently identified this empire as the combination of the United States and the Papacy.

With this identification, we will point to several distinct prophecies about this last kingdom.

1. The Seventh Head. It is the seventh head of the beast of Revelation 13 and 17. Communism was the sixth.
   Therefore, the dominant power that followed the sixth head of Communism or caused it to collapse must be the seventh.
2. The Wound. One of the seven heads was wounded and healed (Revelation 13: 3). Both leaders of this seventh head at the time of its formation received a wound that was healed in 1981. This was the year Babylon returned.
   • A Political Union. Reagan and John Paul II collaborated to end communism.
   • The Failed Assassination Attempts. This begins our mock pattern. Both leaders had a failed assassination attempt. ⁵
     God is therefore saying, the fifth head that was wounded and healed has risen again. So, at the emergence of the seventh head, He has caused another wounding and healing to demonstrate the continuity.
3. The Rise of Babylon. As Babylon the Great became the seventh head it defeated ancient Babylon (Iraq). Therefore, it inherited the rights and title of Babylon.
4. The Fall of Babylon. Iraq fell in the same sequence and pattern in which Ancient Babylon took over Israel in 605 BC. Its defeat points to the emergence of the new Babylon and then becomes a mock prophecy of the future fall of the new Babylon.
   
   The Fall of the King of the North. "He shall come to his end and no one shall help him."
   This is the fate of the king of the North and is equivalent to the sixth plague. We see a mock fulfillment of this in the futile attempts of the United States to get some "real" partners to help them with the financial and military burden that Iraq has become.

The new prophecies blend the symbols of ancient Babylon with the activities of Babylon the Great. We have just documented the similarity in their rise to power. The prophecy of the collapse uses the same imagery.

The Rise and Fall of Babylon
The Rise	The Fall
The Rise of Ancient Babylon	An Image is created for worship	60 cubits X 6 cubits	Death Penalty	Euphrates dries up	Defeated by Medo-Persian kings
The Rise of Babylon the Great	An Image is created for worship	600+60+6 666	Death Penalty	The Sixth Plague Euphrates dries up	The Seventh Plague Second Coming. The Kings from heaven.

The Fall of the Twin Towers
Here is an example of what I have been trying to explain. I received an e-mail from a man who started going back to church after the September 11 attacks. Something about the event triggered his memory of prophecy. He concluded that the event fulfills Revelation 18. These are the main points.

• Babylon Is Fallen, is Fallen. The repetition of the phrase "Is fallen" points to the fall of each of the two towers.
• Business. The twin towers were a center of commerce. The prophecy describes Babylon as a center of commerce.
• One Hour. Babylon will fall in one hour. The two towers fell within one hour at 9:58AM and 10:28AM.

I believe that he is incorrect about the fulfillment. Revelation 18 has not been fulfilled yet. When it happens it will be a global devastation for all economies and systems. But the events triggered an association which correctly identified a significant time in prophecy and he turned back to God and had started studying the scriptures. He recognized an important time and an important place and that is good enough. The disciples were also wrong about the events, but they recognized the Man and the times. That was good enough for God because He could work with them.

September 11 marked a turning point for Babylon the Great and it was an event that was worthy of prophecy. The way in which it happened is a sign of the future fall of Babylon. It triggered a political upheaval, a religious war and an economic event. Revelation 18 is a record of the second and last fall of Babylon. When it occurs, it will devastate all people, all governments, religion and economies.

Possible Candidates. Membership or Influence
#	Nation	Security Council	Economic	Other
1	United States	P-5	G-8, OAS	NATO
2	Great Britain	P-5	G-8, EU	NATO
3	France	P-5	G-8, EU	NATO
4	Russia	P-5	G-8	-
5	China	P-5	-	-
6	Germany	-	G-8, EU	NATO
7	Italy	-	G-8, EU	NATO
8	Canada	-	G-8, OAS	NATO
9	Japan	-	G-8	-
10	Catholic Church	-	EU, OAS	-
11	European Union	Member	G-8, EU	NATO
12	United Nations Secretary General	Member	-	-
Countries with the Nuclear bomb. Also India, Pakistan, Israel, and possibly North Korea and Iran. In 2005, India is trying to be one of the permanent members of the security council

The Ten Horns
The ten horns are ten kings who have not received power yet (Revelation 17: 12). They only receive power for a very short time and use it to endorse the work of the seventh head. This has to be either the ten most powerful nations in the European Union or the security council of the United Nations.

Like the French Revolution, this is a mock prophecy that becomes so important in recognizing the times that it becomes the subject of its own prophecy.
According to Daniel 2 and 7, the ten horns will emerge and take over the broken Roman empire. This occurred in 476 AD, not after 2000.
But God reuses the symbolism and says that at the very end, for a short time after the emergence of the seventh head, He will allow ten rulers to emerge. Why? Ten distinct groups appear at the beginning and at the end of the prophecy.
This is a psychological number that will make people wake up and examine all the prophecy. At this point in history, whether or not people accept that Rome broke up into ten significant nations in 476 will not be as important as recognizing that this final group of ten is working against God.
What could this be? I suspect that we will know it when we see it. But their important actions occur within two intense weeks.

6. The Middle East
The prophecy about the king of the North in Daniel 11 covers the same period of Babylon the Great but it appears to be centered on the fortunes of the nations in the middle east when Babylon the great comes to the region. The United States formed a union with Iraq in 1981 as it switched alliances from Iraq to Iran. It finally defeated and controlled Iraq in 1991 and then occupied it in 2003. I has assumed their title as the King of the North.

Daniel 11: 40-45. Daniel 12: 1		Politics	Religion
War	40 "At the end time the king of the South will collide with him [king of the north], and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, with horsemen and with many ships;	Kuwait and September 11 Attack	Civil Laws changed
Other Countries	and he will enter countries, overflow them and pass through.	Military Bases established	Concordats
Palestine	41 "He will also enter the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall;	Control	Agreement with Yassir Arafat
Jordan	but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.	Friend	Laodicea?
Egypt	42 "Then he will stretch out his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape. 43 "But he will gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt;	War with Egypt or Egyptian part of Al-Qaeda	Secularism, media, new age defeated
Libya, Ethiopia	and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his heels.	Submission	Ecumenical Alliances
Rumors	44 "But rumors from the East and from the North will disturb him, and he will go out with great wrath to destroy and annihilate many.	Opposition. Another threat	The spread of the Gospel
Israel Occupied	45 "He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain; yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.	Military Base	Leader of Jerusalem.
Persecution	1 "Now at that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.	Jerusalem surrounded	Mark of the beast Persecution
The pronoun "He" refers to the king of the North since Egypt (the King of the South) is a victim of this power in verses 42-43

Secret Plans
System	Plans
Laws	Global laws are changing to an inquisition model right under your noses
News	News organizations censor information in favor of government or business interests
Talk Shows	Political talk shows are dominated by Catholic hosts
Political Organizations	Protestant political organizations were either started by or are being supported by the Catholic church or the Moonies
On other web pages I document the take over of important political and communications organizations.

It starts with a war that was caused when the king of the north was attacked. At the time Osama attacked the world trade center on September 11, 2001 the United States was already Babylon the Great, the King of the North.

The following may be actual fulfillments not subliminal warnings. But as they are occurring, it indicates that the global preparation is also occurring. This prophecy may be the greatest set of mock fulfillments that point to the fulfillment of the preparation for a bigger war.
Since it is the last days, the enemy is making big preparations in secret that will suddenly be unleashed on the world as quickly as September 11 did. Therefore, God gives us huge signs to show us what is being planned in secret.

War with the King of the South
Egypt will cause Babylon the Great to go to war in the Middle East. Osama Bin Laden is of Saudi and Yemen Origin. He has an Egyptian wife and helped establish resistance movements in Egypt and is a hero in that country. Many of the September 11 hijackers were Egyptian. Saudi Arabia is South of Israel and Iraq. Most of the hijackers were Saudi. His chief operations officer and mastermind of the terrorist plans is an Egyptian doctor named Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

• Chariots. All the vehicles. Hummers, tanks and Jeeps.
• Horsemen. It is even interesting that we had to use the cavalry in this war because of the Afghan terrain and their ancient technology.
• Ships. The war was conducted by missiles launched from ships in the Arabian gulf.

Other countries
The table on the right shows that we have established military bases in most of the other countries. On December 15, 2003 and earlier that year, we threatened Syria with sanctions. Only the region of Egypt, Ethiopia and Palestine need to be conquered. Oddly enough, these are the countries that are specifically named in prophecy as having a specific fate. The other countries were simply "overflowed and passed through". All these have military bases.

Countries	Year	Control
Iraq	1991	War. 14 bases
Afghanistan	2003	War
Libya	2003	Submitted
Afghanistan Pakistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Kuwait Qatar Turkey	before 2001	Military bases
Saudi Arabia UAE Oman Bahrain Yemen	before 1991	Military bases
Syria Iran	2003	Threat
Djibouti Somalia	before 2003?	Military Base
Ethiopia Eritrea	2007	War began with USA support
Sudan		Talking?
Egypt		Military Base, torture
Gaza		Enemy
West Bank	2005	Enemy. Free from Israel
Lebanon	2005	Free from Syria
Jordan		Friend
Israel		Friend. Base

Update (March 1, 2005). The people of Lebanon have caused the Syrian controlled government to resign. After the assassination of their former president, Rafik Hariri, was linked to Syria. The United States and France sponsored U.N. Resolution 1559 which required the removal of Syrian forces from Lebanon. Mr. Hariri supported this plan.

Beautiful Land (Israel, Palestine)
Religion will be set up in Israel. The United States already has great influence over Israel. We might have to go there to maintain peace. If Osama cannot get to his American targets and Iraq fights for their own stability and do not cooperate with his efforts, then he will be forced to take out his rage on the one place that Islam hates. That is Israel.

The Future of Jerusalem
With the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the United Nations resolution 181, Part III allows an international solution for the government of Jerusalem if peace cannot be negotiated.

On February 15, 2000, Yassir Arafat signed an agreement with Pope John Paul II to have a world capital solution under this resolution with the Pope as the head and the United Nations as the military force.

22 July 2003 - Shimon Peres signals his agreement with a "World Capital" solution with the Secretary General as the mayor.

At the end of time, Israel will be a source of irritation to the surrounding nations and they will surround it. After a thousand Jews were killed by suicide bombers in the last three years, Israel took several unpopular steps.
They built a wall to isolate the citizens of West Bank and Gaza.
The founder of Hamas, Sheikh Yassin, was assassinated on March 22, 2004. This will boil the pot.

The Role of Iran, Syria and Iraq.
For many reasons Iran is the probable fulfillment of the source of the rumors from the north and east in a real or mock fulfillment.
Look at the other symbols about the role of Persia (Iran). While all prophetic images of the succession of world conquerors have a very negative image, it is not the same for Medo-Persia. Many prophetic images depict the Medo-Persian empire in a positive role in the rescue of God's people. Cyrus is a representative of Christ. The Ram is the representative of Christ who is defeated by the goat kingdoms of Greece and Rome (Daniel 8). Persia rebuilt the temple. Babylon and Rome destroyed it. Greece corrupted its priests. Revelation 16: 12 shows how the kings from the east rescue the church from Babylon the Great by drying up the Euphrates. This is the same role as Cyrus the Great who conquered Babylon by drying up that river.

Muslim Prophecy The Great Satan. The United States is the great satan who will attack the Muslim nations with the Jews. The war will be in Afghanistan, Baghdad and Syria! But Islam will be victorious in the Battle of Qa'im. It seems as if the Muslims lured us into battle in places mentioned by their prophecies. The prophecies also require all the faithful to join the battle when they see a certain sign. Armageddon in Iran. In June 2005, I wrote another article on myths and legends and I came across another prophecy which is startling because of the implications it will have if the people believe it. This prophecy says that the final battle between good and evil will be fought in the holy nation of Iran. Evil will lose. The religion of Zoroaster was the religion of the Persians before they were conquered by Islam. If they believe that Zoroaster is one of the succession of prophets sent by god, then they will turn to the prophecy because it converges with the Muslim prophecy and the Christian prophecies. Combine those prophecies with religious zeal and we have a formidable psychological operation on our hands. If this continues, the United States will start to battle prophecy with prophecy. A religious war of words will ensue. This means that Adventist interpretations like mine will become very unpopular in the war effort. It will lead to charges of treason and the predicted persecution.

So, in keeping with our theme in this article, is it possible that we will go to war with Iran and be defeated. And, will this war and Iran liberate the persecuted church by diverting the attention of the powers to this conflict? And will the Euphrates river play a role in the victory of Iran? If so, then Iran might seize control of the two dams built in Turkey and it might also control the flow of oil from Iraq. The Euphrates will play a strategic role during the war.

Update: January 2005. Journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the United States is making plans to attack Iran believing that the people will rise up and help the United States to secure their liberty. Iran called it a "lunatic plan". The inaugural speech articulated a new policy in which the United States promises to expand freedom into all the world and liberate all the oppressed. All these plans are doomed to fail. I strongly believe that this war will happen even though it looks utterly stupid to contemplate such an action at this moment. We will probably have a draft.
Other reporters and the prime minister of Iraq mention a "proxy war" between the USA and Iran that has been occurring.

Update: February 2005. Syria and Iran announced that they have made a pact to protect each other from the growing threat of the United States. Syria seems to be also stirring up problems by assassinating the former president of Lebanon and terrorist bombings in Israel. At least, the western media is blaming them for these incidences. We can never know what is truth anymore as people create reasons to go to war and create events to fulfill their prophecy.

Comes to an end without Help
This means that the King of the North will lose the war and his friends will abandon him or they will offer no real help. This event parallels another event in Revelation 17: 16-17. In Revelation 17 the same period is chronicled, but the religious nature of the power is shown there while the military nature is highlighted in Daniel 11: 40-45.
In Revelation 17: 16, an alliance breaks up and hostilities break out between the partners. In verse 17 we see that God has "put it in their hearts to execute His purpose". God used the same language with Pharaoh when He claimed to "harden his heart".
So George is on a "mission from God" that he strongly feels is the will of God. Napoleon was on the same mission when he decided to conquer Egypt. Both were diverted by God to fulfill His prophecy. But did God make them go against their free will?. No! God said that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. So we conclude that God took responsibility only because He did not help Pharaoh to make the right decision. He let him do what his proud heart wanted to do all along.
Bush claimed to ask his higher father for strength and courage, but he did not ask him what to do. Maybe he should have. So we now have two patterns of an end without help.

1. End of War. After the war was declared to be over, the president was begging the allies it insulted for financial help.
2. End of Coalition Government. On June 28, 2004 formal sovereign power was handed back to Iraq. Now, no one is fooled into thinking that the American occupation and control is over or that Iraq will see a dramatic drop in violence. Two days before, at a NATO meeting in Turkey they still refused to send troops to help. It only promised to train soldiers. So we have come to the first formal, if not practical end, and no one will help us.
3. Other Pleas for Help. In February 2005, a visit to the European nations obtained pledges of support that total four million dollars for one year. France pledged one trainer. The war costs the United States five billion dollars each day. Truly, no one will help.
4. End of Occupation. What will happen at this end? It is now estimated that we will be there 100 years.

With this event, one is tempted to think that this part of the prophecy is complete. It fits so perfectly. But I am tempted to think that it is just a sign that has the exact characteristics of the real fulfillment. This is because I believe it parallels Revelation 17: 16 and we have not seen the extra details of that prophecy.
The next event is the time of distress.

When Jerusalem is Surrounded by Armies

Rescued From Persecution
Growth		Jerusalem	Forced Worship	Persecution	Defeat
Rome		Cestius surrounds Jerusalem (66 AD) Christians escape		Roman persecution	The temple is destroyed in 70 AD
The Rise of Ancient Babylon		Siege of Jerusalem Battle of Meggido	An Image is created for worship 60 cubits X 6 cubits	Death Penalty	Euphrates dries up
The Rise of Babylon the Great		Economic warfare	An Image is created for worship 600+60+6 = 666	Death Penalty	The Sixth Plague Battle of Armageddon Euphrates dries up
The King of the North		Enters Jerusalem		Time of Trouble	Sky rolls up
1	Napoleon	Enters Palestine in 1799		Napoleonic wars	1844 Judgment begins
2	USA and Papacy	Enters Palestine		Mark of the Beast	Second Coming
The Fall of Satan		Siege of the New Jerusalem		Battle of Armageddon	Lake of fire

You should also read the other interpretation of this prophecy. It demonstrates that God is repeating the prophecy for both falls of the papacy.

Patterns After a Persecution
"But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. (Matthew 24: 29-30)
This statement also reflects another prophetic pattern that occurs after the persecution of the righteous.

Persecution		Earthquake	Sun Darkened	Bloody Moon	Falling Stars	God Comes
1	Exodus	Earthquake. Numbers 16: 32	Darkness	Blood in the Nile	Plague of hail	Sinai
2	Crucifixion (31)	Earthquake	Darkness	Death	Satan judged and falls like lightning from heaven. (Revelation 12: 9; Luke 10: 18)	Resurrection and Pentecost
3	Papal (538-1798)	Lisbon Earthquake November 1, 1755	Dark day May 19, 1780	Blood moon May 19, 1780	Leonid Meteor Shower. November 12, 1833	Judgment begins 1844. Daniel 7: 9, 13
4	Mark of the Beast	Seventh plague	Fifth plague	Fifth plague	Sixth plague	Seventh plague

Governments: The Making of Babylon

Rebuilding the Tower of Babel
European Union Poster Many Tongues, One Voice	"Tower of Babel" Painting by Pieter Breugel

There are many other signs that certain groups are embracing the symbols of prophecy that are assigned to them. As I read this I wondered if the church or the European Union cares about the appearance of fulfilling prophecy. But Revelation 17 says that God will put it in their minds to accomplish His purposes. The European Union will be controlled by the church. The woman, also known as Babylon, will ride the beast.

• United States: Military Babylon. The country has conquered and occupied Iraq.
• Europe: Rebuilding the Tower of Babel. Babylon emerged from the ashes of the tower of Babel. This building was created to defy God. The new European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France was designed to specifically look like the unfinished tower as envisioned in the painting of Dutch artist Pieter Breugel.
  This imagery was created in a new poster promoting the union. It had the slogan, "Europe, many tongues, one voice", against a background of the Tower of Babel.
• Woman Rides a Beast. Revelation 17 shows the church controlling the governments of the world as a woman riding a beast with seven heads and ten horns. Europe is depicted as one of the powers that is controlled.
  Outside the Council of Ministers office building in Brussels is a statue of the goddess Europa riding a bull. Inside the building is a huge painting of the woman riding the beast. The Strasbourg building also has a mural of a naked woman riding a beast. The image also appears on coins and stamps.
  
  But remember, in the prophecy it is the woman that is Babylon. Not the beast. So we see the two powers that form Babylon are associated with Babylon. The United States has conquered and occupied Iraq. The church is controlling Europe and they happen to choose the tower of Babel and a woman riding a beast as some of their symbols.
• 666. Although it seems impossible and self-destructive, somehow this number will start to surface and be assigned to the right people. There are over 666 seats in the parliament. I wonder if they will make this chair vacant? Ironically, it would represent the unseen power that is really controlling Europe.

Summary
God describes the final churches as being asleep, blind and preoccupied with unimportant things. The real fulfillments are occurring in secret, and God's way of showing us these hidden developments is to surround us with the noise of the prophetic symbols in nature. All nature is warning us that prophecies are being fulfilled because the powers that are at war with God are on a campaign to convince you that economic, political and religious events that are occurring are for your benefit. Many of these signs started occurring since 1981 when Babylon officially returned.

Nature	-	AIDS	Ozone hole	Red Tide	Locusts		Global warming			Weird weather. Natural disaster trend			Locusts Drought	Polar ice melts and Ozone hole grows
Year	1980	1981	1985	1986	1987	1989	1990	1991	1993	1995	2001	2003	2004	2042	2044-69
Political	Christian politics		Antichrist Movement	Virgin Mary appearances		Communism falls. Al Qaeda begins		Iraq war	EU Sunday laws		Al Qaeda attacks	Iraq war	Church Politics	No Social Security	No oil
• 1979. The year of annual famines begin. • 1980. The Christian right decides to influence politics. • 1981. The first case of AIDS. • 1986. Red tide appears in the ocean and grows every year, threatening larger areas. It reached China in 1998. • 1986. Virgin Mary appearances increases dramatically. • 1985. Scientists discover a hole in the ozone layer at the south pole. The size peaks in early September. The biannual "Jesus Seminars" by biblical scholars in Berkley resurrect the work of Albert Schweitzer in "The Quest for the Historical Jesus". They meet to compare notes and have rejected the existence of Jesus, the resurrection, the miracles and have declared the stories a myth. • 1990's. Global warming • 1995. Global storms and disasters intensify. Unprecedented trend of natural disasters reaches Europe. Record tornado and hurricane seasons in the United States. In 2003 and 2004 over 500 tornadoes occurred in one month. • 1993. European Union passes Sunday Laws that were fully adopted by 2003. • 1996. The coral reefs in Florida decreased by 40% between 1996 and 2001. They declined by one third in 1997 and 1998 alone! • 2001. Al Qaeda attacks the United States. • 2004. Religious victory in politics. • 2004. Great Earthquake. December 26 Asian earthquake and tsunamis kills 227,754+, 14,000 missing														Jesus comes to destroy those who destroy the earth. And the nations were angry, and Your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should give reward to Your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and those who fear Your Name, small and great; and should destroy those who destroy the earth. Revelation 11: 18
I hope Jesus returns during this period. Perhaps the warning of Jesus that He will come at a time we do not expect means that He will come before the time we anticipate our own end.
• 2018. Medicare will become insolvent. • 2020. The glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro will be gone. They have melted 80% since 1912. • 2042. The Social Security system will become insolvent. • 2050. Fossil fuel energy sources depleted. • 2050. Global population reaches 9.3 billion. • 2060. Water supply reaches a critical stage even in the United States. • 2090. The glaciers of the North Pole will be gone

In the past, the realization that a prophecy is being fulfilled was useful, but there was not much harm in coming to this conclusion years later. It is enough that God would inspire some leaders to recognize the times.

However, this time it is not useful for us to recognize what is happening after the Second Coming. Therefore, God must want all of us to recognize what is about to occur so that we can make a decision. One of His methods is these mock signs.

I believe that the occupation of Jerusalem will be our last physical sign to act, to take a risk and do the work of God. I believe that the coming of the Holy Spirit according to Joel 2: 28-29 is the first sign that we should go out in the Spirit and power of God. I have evidence that this is happening now.
Remember, the only reliable sign that the Second Coming is near is the spread of the gospel, not natural disasters.

God describes the final events as a woman in labor who is about to give birth. Events increase rapidly until the child is delivered. Our events have been proceeding rapidly since 1991. Daniel 11: 40-45 is being rapidly fulfilled. Mock events are overlapping actual fulfillments. The only clear mock events that remain are the seven last plagues which terminate with the actual Second Coming. The world is being gently warned that it is being judged. There is only one reason for this. We are the generation that will see the Second Coming.