World Events & Bible Prophecies

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1 World Events & Bible Prophecies

2 Biblical Background Core Aspect : Israel Daniel 2 to 7 Written in Gentile Language : Aramaic Nebuchadnezzar Dream Calls for description and interpretation Daniel does it be God s revelation

3 Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar Dream

4 God s Revelation of Dream

5 World History : Is His Story in Advance Revelation of TIMELINE of 5 KINGDOMS

6 Last : One empire x 2 phases Daniel chap 7

7 TIMELINE Implication 4 empires :Time of Daniel to Jesus Christ s Kingdom Called Times of Gentiles since Babylonian era Luke 21:24New American Standard Bible (NASB) 24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

8 Who conquered the ROMANS? No one Broke into pieces Re emerge To form Revived Roman empire

9 Daniel 7 Series of Vision Creatures or Animals

10 Daniel 7 Vision of 4 Beasts Winged Lion Bear on side Leopard Terrible beast 10 heads

11 Daniel 7 Vision & Revelation Johns Vision of 4 Beasts Winged Lion Bear on side Leopard Daniel chap 8,9,11 amplifies Terrible beast 10 heads Revelation 13Living Bible (TLB) 13 And now, in my vision, I saw a strange Creature rising up out of the sea. It had seven heads and ten horns, and ten crowns upon its horns. And written on each head were blasphemous names, each one defying and insulting God. 2 This Creature looked like a leopard but had bear s feet and a lion s mouth! And the Dragon gave him his own power and throne and great authority.

12 Daniel 11: Persian empire Cyrus Cambyses Artaxerxes Darius I Hystaspes Xerxes I Artaxerxes Longimanus : ( Esther Daniel 9 ) BC BC 522 BC BC BC BC

13 Greek Empire BC Alexander the Great Daniel 11 v BC His Four generals then divided the empire Daniel 11 v 4 Macedonia & Greece Asia Minor & Thrace Syria & Babylon Egypt, Arabia & Israel Cassander Lysismachus Seleucus Ptolemy

14 Gap between OT and NT 400 years from Malachi to Matthew Silent years Yet covered in the bible In advance Daniel Chap 11 v 5 35

15 Daniel 11 : 5 35

16 OT Translated into Greek during Ptolemy Philadelphus Antiochius Epiphanes Desecrates the Jewish temple Erects Zeus statue in the holy of holies Macabeen revolt Overthrows him and to this day the redediction of the temple celebrated as Festival of HACA

17 Daniel 11 v Prophecy of The AntiChrist Holy Spirit uses this passage To go beyond him To the last world dictator 33 Labels in the OT and 13 in the New Testament He is called the AntiChrist Very attractive world leader will emerge Biblical end times and his destiny

18 Roman Empire Phase I 146 BC Rome conquers Greece 133 BC Lysimachus Kingdom falls 64 BC Seleucus Kingdom falls 44 BC Julius Caesar Assassinated 31 BC Battle of Actium Egypt falls 64 AD Nero Caesar Persecutions 284 AD Diocletian Divides x 2 legs! Daniels vision East west legs of the Roman empire 312 AD Constantine moves Roman Capital to Byzantium Called Constantinopole ( TURKEY ) 476 AD Roman empire fragments to pieces western leg /but eastern leg survives by 1000 years. Muslims run it called BYZANTINE EMPIRE but purely ROMAN

19 Roman empire: Area

20 Roman Empire Fractures into Pieces Rome religious capital Byzantine Political Capital

21 Roman Empire Fractures into Pieces

22 Scythians RUSSIANS ALL THE WAY FROM UKRAINE TO CHINA GREAT WALL OF CHINA BUILT TO KEEP THEM OUT

23 Roman Empire Fractures into Pieces

24 ROMAN EMPIRE: FRENCH Piece Rule LEGACY : ITALY AS CENTRE 1769 NAPOLEAN BORN AND BECOMES DICTATOR BATTLE 0F NILE FRENCH DEFEATED BY BRITAIN LORD NELSON BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR : 1805 LORD NELSON AGAINST FRENCH & SPAIN COMBINED WON DESTROYED NAPOLEANS DREAM 1812: NAPOLEAN FIGHTS THE RUSSIAN ( SCYTHIANS ) GOT DEFEATED AND LOST ALL ARMY 1815; NAPOLEAN DEFEATED PROJEW, EQUALITY, FREEDOM

25 ROMAN EMPIRE PIECES OTTOMAN ATTACKED RIVAL ALLIANCES WORLD WAR I : July 1914 to Nov 1918

26 ROMAN EMPIRE PIECES BRITAIN & FRANCE

27 ROMAN EMPIRE : BRITISH PIECE 1916 BRITAIN LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH HOMELAND

28 ROMAN EMPIRE PIECES : GERMAN AND RUSSIAN INFLUENCE EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR I AUSTRIAN HUNGARIAN & OTTOMAN EMPIRES DESTROYED HOST OF SMALLER STATES EMERGE RUSSIAN REVOUTION FORMATION OF SOVIET UNION :HITLER, INVASION OF POLAND, SUBDUES CZECHSLOVAKIA, WORLD WAR II BRITAIN AND FRANCE UNITE AGAINST GERMANS TO PROTECT POLAND SOVIET UNION ALSO INVADES POLAND FROM THE WEST

29 ROMAN EMPIRE PIECES: GERMAN AND THE RUSSIAN GERMANY INVADES YUGOSLAVIA GREECE INVADES USSR 1942: NAZI AT PEAK POWER USSR DEFEATS NAZI GERMANY REDUCED TO SIZE EAST AND WEST EAST GERMANY IS RUSSIAN LATIVIA AND LITHUANIA UKRAINE ESTONIA

30 ROMAN EMPIRE PIECES APRIL 1949; NATO FORMED PROTECTING EUROPE FROM RUSSIA 10 WESTERN EUROPE STATES COME TOGETHER AGAINST RUSSIA USA AND CANADA SUPPORTS EUROPE

31 May 14, 1948 MEANWHILE : STATE OF ISRAEL BORN ISAIAH 66 V 8 Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in one day or a nation be brought forth in a moment Prophecy fulfilled: God means what he says

32 May 14, 1948 STATE OF ISRAEL BORN

33 State of Israel : Amazing Prophetic Fulfillment

34 United Nations : Vehemently Against Israel

35 United Nations : Vehemently Against Israel Isaiah 2 v 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more

36 Since 2011 he has been criticising the UN for its stance on Israel the UN has long been accused of an anti Israel bias, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, used his speech at the General Assembly in September to point out that in 2015 the General Assembly passed 20 resolutions against Israel, and a grand total of three resolutions against all the other countries on the planet. Mr Trump said in September 2011 he was increasingly concerned with the UN's ploy this coming week and will monitor all events closely from Australia. He added: We must stand firm against the UN's ploy to sabotage Israel if the UN grants the PA statehood then we must immediately defund it.

37 Psalm 2 : UN Antisemitism on the Rise Move to Boycott Jewish Products

38 Israel in daily lives Computer Antivirus Mobile technology/ voice mail many in built and add on applications are Israeli developed. videos on the Internet as the platform used to upload them may be from AOL and hence from an Israeli company Video on Demand VOD

39 Israel in our daily lives

40 Israel in our daily lives: Medicine

41 Trauma and Critical Care Medicine

42 Israeli Inventions make world a safer and economical place PILLCAM Endoscopy Agriculture with less water Pythagoras Solar Babysense Mobile eye Safe driving Known for General relativity and special relativity Photoelectric effect Theory of Brownian motion Einstein field equations Bose Einstein statistics Bose Einstein condensate Gravitational wave Cosmological constant Unified field theory EPR paradox

43 Psalm 2 : UN The accomplishing Prophecy NIV 1 Why do the nations conspire[a] and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles. 4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. 8 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You will break them with a rod of iron[b]; you will dash them to pieces like pottery. 10 Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling. 12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

44 European Opinion Western Europe united politically and economically 1957 EEA ( Europen Economic Area) as a pre EU condition First members : France Germany Italy Belgium Luxemberg, Netherlands original 6 Later increases in size and power : UK Denmark, Ireland in 1973 Greece 1981, spain and portugal in 1986

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46 European Union Communism collapses in the Eastern Europe Russian influence declines 1989 Berlin Wall comes down 1989 Democracy sweeps across the eastern europe 1991 : Soviet Union collapses Independent countries emerge

47 Berlin wall collapse: 1989

48 Roman empire Pieces: Phase II World war II leaves with these fragments Now the empire begins to reemerge

49 Roman Empire Phase II 1951 : April 18 : Treaty of Paris ECSC European Coal and Steel community 6 Nation treaty( French Germany Italy Belgium Netherlands Luxemberg) Heavy industries unification MOTTO :Peace among these Pieces Economically and politically across Europe Very successful role model for any treaty later 1973; UK IRELAND DENMARK Joins

50 Roman Empire Phase II 1957 March 25 Treaties of Rome : EEC European Economic Community European Atomic Energy Community Commissioned on 1 Jan : European Parliament 1959: BeNeLux group formed 1967 merger EEC ECSC EAEC 1973 UK IRELAND Denmark jojn 1981 : Greece Joins : 10 toes? 1986: spain and portugal join 1986: Single Europe act 1990: German unification after the berlin wall collapses 1993 : Maastricht treaty replaces treaty of Rome 1995: Austria, Sweden Finland join

51 Roman Empire Phase II Copenhagen Criteria: barrier as well as overcomer 1993 The Europen Council citeria For countries to join There are about 48 countries that could join Stability of institutions guaranteeing Democracy Rule of law, human rights Respect for & protection of minorities ( Gypsies Roma) Functioning market economy Adherence to the aims political economic and monetary union

52 Roman Empire Phase II 2002 Euro : Common Currency Current Candidates 2004 Central European states Poland Hungary Czech republic Slovakia Slovenia Baltic States : Estonia Latvia Lithuania Mediterranean Islands : Cyprus, Malta

53 12 stars Madonna Catholic EU Symbol Revelation 12New International Version (NIV) The Woman and the Dragon 12 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

54 European Union European Central Bank symbol Frankfurt Germany : The Bull

55 Revelation 17 v 18 EU Parliament Emblem : Britsh issued Stamp depicting Eu Parliament Greek Two Euro Coin In Strasbourg, France, the rival parliamentary building (the one with the Tower of Babel) features a mural of a naked woman riding a beast.

56 Revelation 17 v 3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery: babylon the great the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth.

57 Revelation 17 v 18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth. New International Version (NIV)

58 Poster by the European Union

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60 The Brussels EU Parliament Building The European Union (EU) parliament, consisting of 785 members, is in Brussels, Belgium. The seat numbered 666 is never occupied. Rev 13 v 18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e] That number is 666.

61 Current European union Common foreign policy Military Currency Judiciary Potential > US : population446 million v 280 million

62 Common Currency: The Euro Roman empire dubbing

63 European Constitution & God Deleted God and Christianity from any mention Irish PM John Burton proposed Christianity but had no back up Pluralist modern Europe without any particular religion I Timothy 4 v 1 2 Timothy 3 v 1 to 8

64 European National Anthem

65 Turkey (Byzantine Roman capital) )

66 Psalm 83 Role of Saudi Arabia Role of Iran Lebanon divided over funded Terrorism Germany and France ballistic support

67 Russia and China Central Asia Russia China Uniting Common Military activity Against USA

68 Turkey and the west: Ataturk Legacy Western democracy from Islamic autocracy 1922: abolished Sultanate 1924: Abolished Caliphate, religious courts 1925: Illegal to wear Fez 1925: western calender 1926; adopted Italian penal code 1928 : Latin alphabet 1931; Metric system, women voted After world war II Turkey joined main Western institutions

69 Turkey 1945 Joins UN 1947 IMF 1949 European council 1951 NATO 1963: Associate Membership of the EU after 4 yrs of application 1987; Application for full membership of the EU Not welcome Muslim Issue : 18million now V 63 million added

70 Turkey : Prophetic Role Ezekiel 38 & 39 Meshek & Tubal Major cities of Ancient Anatolia Part of Modern Turkey Currently Pro west but can go against refocussing the Islamic east Ezekiel 38 1The word of the Lord came to me: 2 Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of[a] Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him 3 and say: This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[b] Meshek and Tubal.

71 Turkey : Prophetic Role Ezekiel 38 & 39 Russian led invasion is imminent

72 GOG MAGOG Invasion imminent Ezekiel 38, 39 Psalm 2 Battle of Armageddon Second Coming of Christ Gap between Daniel s 69 th and 70 th week ends

73 Magog Invasion? Armageddon Magog Invasion? Millennium

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75 Syria Damascus Isaiah 17 v 1 Psalm 83

76 ANTICHRIST? Roman Empire: The Eastern Leg Will an eastern leg emerge? When and where will Anti Christ Come from? Is it from the Roman empire Western leg? May be not : Micah 5: 5, 6, Isa 10 v 5 to 19 The Assyrrian? Babylonian role? Iraq war Babylon never mentioned! Coded Symbol or literal?

77 A Challenge to Christian Believers We are in a period about which Bible says more than it does about any other period of time in History. Even more than when Jesus Christ was around 1. Personally check out the Word and relevance 2. Internet ; personally check what s going on

78 Apostate Church: Ecumenical Religion Biblical Christianity becoming polluted Politically incorrect Vatican leading: Shrewd politics but disturbing Most wars in the Past were as a result of Power grabbinng bythe Vatican CHRISLAM : Vatican has endorsed Quran

79 Immorality & Wickedness, Biblical Church Adulteration Homosexual marriages; Ireland, USA, UK Homosexual ministers; USA UK LGBT Animal sex Deceivers : Cyber thefts Mt 24, 2 Thess

80 Rapid advance of the gospel North korea China Mongolia Africa Media Medical Missions

81 Strategic trends watchout! Lords Coming is very imminent World Events Rise of the EU Superstate Ecumenical religion Global Government Weapons of mass destruction Rise of Islam Struggle for Jerusalem Magog Invasion Rise of China Biotech & Global Pestilence Anti semitism on the rise American Challenge Bible Prophecies Daniel 2 v 7 Rev 13: 17, 18 Rev 13 Matthew 24 V 22 Daniel 11 Zech 12, Luke 21:7 28 Eze 38,39 Isa 49:12, Rev 16;14 Rev 6 v 8 Eze 38, 39 2 Chr 7 v 14

82 Our AIM Believe; Lord s Coming is very near be Wise I John 2 v 28, Mt 7 v 24, Rev 1 v 3 Live increasingly in the Light of Eternity Live increasingly in the light of His imminent coming Live increasingly to advance the gospel

83 Resources Koinonya House : khouse.org Home groups Studies : to study the second coming and relevant More you discuss more you study and look forward Woman rides the Beast by Dave Hunt