Daniel’s four beasts (Daniel 7:2-7), collectively, were four kingdoms or empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and both “legs” or segments of Rome. All of these, at some point in time, had control over the Israelites. In addition, prior to Babylon, two other kingdoms also held captive and controlled the Israelites: Egypt and Assyria. So the five “heads” or kingdoms which had fallen, as seen by John (Revelation 17:10), were: 1.Egypt, 2.Assyria, 3.Babylon, 4.Medo-Persia, and 5.Greece. The “head” or kingdom which was in power at the time John lived and wrote (described by him as “one is”—17:10) was: 6.Rome. The “head” or kingdom which was yet to come (described by John as the one which “has not yet come” but which “must remain for a little while” when it did—17:10) was: 7.the Ottoman Empire (an expansion of Turkey). Note, from the seven heads of Daniel’s four beasts section, that four of the kingdoms—Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria (Assyria)—were the sub-kingdoms into which the Grecian Empire was divided. Therefore, whichever way it is viewed, I believe the seven “heads” seen by John (Revelation 17:9) were these seven kingdoms/nations: •Egypt, •Assyria (modern-day Syria), •Babylon (modern-day Iraq), •Medo-Persia (modern-day Iran), •Greece, •Rome (modern-day Italy and/or the Vatican), and •the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey). In Revelation 13:3, it could be that the Ottoman Empire is the “head” with a “fatal wound.” If so, it may be revived as a conglomerate of nations controlled by radical Islam.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:07:15 +0000
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