Islam in Bible Prophecy pt. 11 The Beasts

To most, the Islamic End time’s thesis represents something new. Modern end times beliefs are not old school in nature. Modern interpreters have fallen into western thought patterns. Many old scholars believed the system spoken of was Islamic. Not only is it correct to Assume that the Church would gain greater clarity as the day draws nearer (2 peter 1:19) but the truth is that what we are presenting here is nothing new at all. Since the earliest day of Islamic conquest, early church leaders saw it fulfill the role of Antichrist. Many great Jewish and Christian commentators saw Islam as this.
The traditional western interpretation correctly sees ancient  empires, yet misses their dual fulfillment.

-Lion-animal representing Babylon
-Bear-Medo Persian. Bear arose on one side, Persia not Media. Iran is rising, but Media or Kurdistan is not.
-Leopard-clear reference to alexander the great.

Everyone is waiting for Europe to rise, but they are a group of TOOTHLESS people.

This country described as Iron represents Ruthlessness. Are we the only ones saying Islam is the beast. Hardly!
This is not presenting a private interpretation, Revelation 17 gives us insight into the identification of the 11th horn, the final antichrist empire. At time is was written 5 empires already fallen. This concludes 8 horns.

Time that it was written, 5 empires had already fallen.
1-Egyptian empire (1 horn)
2-Assyrian (1 horn)
3-Babylonian (1 horn)
4-Persian (1 horn)
5-Greek (4horns)
6-Roman (1 horn)
7-Islamic (1 horn) Beat by the west, Revived as the 8th kingdom and 11th horn
TOTAL-11 horns and 8 kingdoms
Note: Alexander’s empire broke into 4 kingdoms Daniel 2/7

The 4th Kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and the beast correlate. In both cases it is specific element of Iron that is highlighted. Both Kingdoms are said to crush 3 empires that came before them. In Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, iron will crush the others. In Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns.”

We are clearly dealing with the same kingdom. The reason to see  both as the same is because of the decline of both. Both kingdoms are destroyed utterly and completely upon Christ’s return.

The rock in the dream is the Kingdom of God. Daniel 2:34-35 “Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”

Notice 3 empires and the fourth are broken at same time. Likewise
Daniel 7:11-12 “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. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.” Many have misinterpreted this verse that  after 4th beast is destroyed the others will be allowed to go on for a bit.  In other words, while the first three empires each lived on in the empires that followed them, the death of the 4th would be utterly complete when Christ returns.

This 4th empire would not gradually decay and those preceding, nor would it be absorbed. When Cyrus took Babylon, citizens and culture lived under medo-persian and so on

Note about Rome…. Roman experienced a very slow death. As such, it is can not be said –as Preterists claim- that the fourth beast, which would be utterly and decisively destroyed, could find its ultimate fulfillment in the historic Roman Empire. Not just the last, but all 4 destroyed.

The Final Empire will encompass previous 3. Daniel 7:26-27 “But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy [it] unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.”


VISION OF THE 4 BEASTS

Each Beast comes out of the sea “peoples and nations”

Daniel 7:4-7 “The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.  After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns.”

Bronze nails point to a Grecian not a Roman Antichrist

Textual evidence Nails of Bronze, Bronze represents Greece, and the 10 toes are of the 3rd metal component. Grecian empire was Middle Eastern, not European.  Many legs of iron represents the Roman empire, they don’t make connection that legs extend out of the bronze thighs. Which is Grecian. Compare the Ottoman to Greece and they are nearly identical.  Greece went all the way to India. Rome barely made it to the Euphrates.

Viewing the Iron. We cannot isolate it by itself, bronze is in it. Daniel 7:7 "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns."

These are the same ten horns we have already seen in Revelation 17 all these defeated by little horn. Ruler of the entire 4th Kingdom

Daniel 7:8 “I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” 7:11 “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.”

The 4th Kingdom from Dan 2 and 7 are the same. The 4th beast is the Islamic empire initiated by Mohammed in the 7th century



Examination of thre dream by Daniel. Daniel 2:31-35 “Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness [was] excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof [was] terrible. This image's head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
-If the statue represents ancient Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Greco-Roman; than why do we see all these destroyed? If Daniel 2 speaks of history how does messiah destroy them? He crushed all at same time verse 34. If the 4th metal Iron is Rome, did Rome crush what was ancient Babylon? NO!
 
The Roman and Babylonian empires did not really overlap. Did Rome ever overtake Babylon (Iraq) or Persia (Iran)? No! So if Rome fell many of the other empires would be left unscathed. Yet the text is clear; when the 4th is destroyed it will crush all the others as well.