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THE ROMAN EMPIRE TODAY

MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS AGO, GOD GAVE HIS SERVANT DANIEL .... A VISION OF THE FUTURE

WE RECOGNIZE HIS VISION TODAY AS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PROPHETIC INSIGHT EVER REVEALED TO MANKIND.

DANIELS PROPHESY IS FOUND IN THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE SAME BOOK THAT BEARS HIS NAME.

1. A KING HAD A DREAM

ACTUALLY THE FIRST REVELATION THAT GOD GAVE TO US CAME THROUGH A HEATHEN KING NAMED NEBUCHADNEZZAR.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS KING OF BABYLON

AND ONE NIGHT HE HAD A DREAM. 

HE KNEW IT WAS AN IMPORTANT DREAM, BUT IN THE MORNING HE COULDN'T REMEMBER ANY OF IT.

THIS IS HOW IT ALL HAPPENED.

THE KING CALLED IN HIS TOP OF THE LINE "WISE MEN"  AND ASKED THEM TO INTERPRET HIS DREAM.

THEY SAID, OK KING.  TELL US THE DREAM AND WE'LL INTERPRET IT FOR YOU.

BUT THE KING HAD FORGOTTEN THE DREAM AND SO HE DEMANDED THAT THEY TELL HIM THE DREAM

AND ALSO GIVE THE INTERPRETATION.

WHEN THEY COULDN'T DO IT, NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS ENRAGED AND DECIDED TO HAVE EVERY WISE MAN IN THE KINGDOM KILLED.

BEFORE LONG THE EXECUTIONER ARRIVED AT DANIEL'S HOUSE AND WAS ABOUT TO TAKE HIM AND HIS THREE FRIENDS INTO CUSTODY,

WHEN DANIEL ASKED WHY THE KING HAD ISSUED SUCH A HARSH DECREE.

AFTER THE SITUATION WAS EXPLAINED TO HIM,

DANIEL WENT TO THE KING AND ASKED FOR SOME TIME

SO THAT HE COULD FIND THE INTERPRETATION FOR HIM.

THAT NIGHT AS DANIEL AND HIS THREE FRIENDS WERE PRAYING,

GOD REVEALED THE MYSTERY TO DANIEL IN A VISION.

THE NEXT DAY, DANIEL WENT BEFORE THE KING AND EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT NO ONE COULD DO WHAT THE KING HAD DEMANDED,

BUT THERE IS A GOD IN HEAVEN WHO REVEALS SECRETS, AND HE HAS SHOWN THE KING WHAT WILL BE IN THE LATTER DAYS.

THEN DANIEL TOLD THE KING WHAT HE HAD DREAMED.

Daniel 2:31-33 (NIV)

31 “You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance.

32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.

DANIEL THEN BEGAN TO EXPLAIN TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR,

WHAT HIS DREAM MEANT.

IT WAS ABOUT FOUR KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD.

2. THE FOUR WORLD EMPIRES

DANIEL EXPLAINED TO THE KING THAT THE STATUE REPRESENTED FOUR SUCCESSIVE GENTILE WORLD POWERS THAT WOULD RULE OVER ISRAEL IN THE DAYS AHEAD.

THE FIRST EMPIRE,

REPRESENTED BY THE STATUE'S HEAD OF GOLD

WAS NEBUCHADNEZZARS OWN KINGDOM OF BABYLON.

IT WAS KIND OF APPROPRIATE THAT THE HEAD REPRESENTING BABYLON WAS GOLD, BECAUSE THEIR CHIEF Idol/god WAS MARDUK.

MARDUK WAS A GOLDEN STATUE SEATED ON A GOLDEN THRONE BEFORE A GOLDEN TABLE AND A GOLDEN ALTAR.

SO RIGHT ALONG WITH THE PRESTIGE OF BEING THE HEAD OF THE STATUE,

NEBUCHADNEZZAR WOULD HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM WITH BEING REPRESENTATED BY A GOLDEN HEAD.

THE SECOND WORLD EMPIRE REVEALED IN THE KING'S DREAM IS REPRESENTED BY THE IMAGE'S CHEST OF SILVER FROM WHICH TWO SILVER ARMS EMERGED.

THIS WAS THE MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE THAT CONQUERED BABYLON IN 539 BC.

LATER ON IN DANIEL 5:28 WE RE TOLD THAT THIS SECOND KINGDOM WOULD BE A DUAL MONARCHY OF THE MEDES AND THE PERSIANS.

THE THIRD WORLD EMPIRE REVEALED WITHIN THE IMAGE IS REPRESENTED BY ITS BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRONZE.

DANIEL TOLD THE KING THAT THIS ONE WOULD BE A KINGDOM OF BRONZE WHICH WILL RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH.

THIS WAS THE EMPIRE OF GREECE,

THE KINGDOM OF PHILLIP OF MACEDON

AND HIS FAMOUS SON ALEXANDER THE GREAT.

DANIEL SPECIFICALLY NAMES GREECE IN DANIEL 8:21

AS THE THIRD KINGDOM.

IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT THIS THIRD KINGDOM IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE BRONZE MIDSECTION OF THE STATUE. 

ALEXANDER'S SOLDIERS ARMORED THEMSELVES IN BRONZE AND BRASS HELMETS AND BREASTPLATES,

AND CARRIED BRONZE AND BRASS SHIELDS AND SWORDS.

THE FORTH EMPIRE DISPLAYED IN THE IMAGE IS SYMBOLIZED BY IT'S LEGS OF IRON.

DANIEL DESCRIBES THIS EMPIRE AS STRONG AS IRON, INASMUCH AS IRON BREAKS IN PIECES AND SHATTERS EVERYTHING.

AND JUST LIKE IRON, THIS KINGDOM WILL BREAK IN PIECES AND CRUSH ALL THE OTHER KINGDOMS.

HISTORY SHOWS US CLEARLY THAT ROME

IS THE FORTH KINGDOM.

HISTORIANS OFTEN USE IRON AS AN ADJECTIVE WHEN CHARACTERIZING THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

ROME'S IRON HAND

ROME'S IRON GRIP

ROME'S IRON RULE

ROME'S IRON FIST

ROME'S IRON HEEL

AND ROME'S IRON LEGIONS.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE CAME INTO EXISTENCE FIFTY YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, AND IT CONTINUED IN POWER THROUGHOUT THE LORD'S MINISTRY AND WAY BEYOND.

THE FACT THAT ROME IS REPRESENTED BY TWO IRON LEGS IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT.

IN AD 395 THE ROMAN EMPIRE SPLIT INTO TWO POLITICAL AREAS OF RULE.

THE LATIN SPEAKING WEST WITH ITS CAPITAL IN ROME.

AND THE GREEK SPEAKING EAST WITH ITS CAPITAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

BUT ACTUALLY THIS SPLITTING OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE INTO TWO POLITICAL UNITS WAS NOT THE LAST DIVISION OF THIS KINGDOM.

THE FEET AND TOES WERE COMPOSED OF BOTH IRON AND BAKED CLAY.

ALTHOUGH THEY WERE POSITIONED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STATUE, THE FEET AND TOES WERE HIGHLY IMPORTANT,

BECAUSE DANIEL SAID AS MUCH ABOUT THEM AS HE HAD ABOUT ALL THE OTHER PARTS COMBINED.

Daniel 2:41-43 (NIV)

41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

 

ACORDING TO DANIEL, THERE IS GOING TO BE

YET ANOTHER DIVISION IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

NOT A DIVISION OF TWO, BUT A DIVISION OF TEN

AS SYMBOLIZED BY THE TEN TOES.

DANIEL IS SAYING THAT THERE IS COMING A TIME WHEN THE ROMAN EMPIRE WILL CONSIST OF

TEN KINGDOMS OR TEN LEADERS.

WHEN WE LOOK BACKWARD INTO HISTORY, WE CAN FIND NOTHING THAT EVEN REMOTELY CORRESPONDS TO A TENFOLD ROMAN COALITION.

THEREFORE THIS FINAL FEET AND TOES STAGE OF THE ROMAN KINGDOM IS YET TO COME

AND IS YET TO PERFORM ITS PRESCRIBED ROLE

IN HUMAN HISTORY.

THERE'S ONE MORE PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT WE'RE GIVEN THAT HELPS US UNDERSTAND

THE TIMING OF THESE EVENTS.

WE'RE TOLD THAT THIS FINAL FORM OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE WILL BE HERE ON EARTH WHEN GOD RETURNS TO SET UP HIS EARTHLY KINGDOM.

Daniel 2:44 (NIV)

44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

DANIEL HAD A DREAM TOO.

THE BOOK OF DANIEL ISN'T ONLY ABOUT THIS KINGS DREAM.

THE BOOK OF DANIEL CONTINUES ON TO OTHER VISIONS THAT GOD GAVE DIRECTLY TO DANIEL.

IN THE VISION, THAT'S FOUND IN DANIEL 7:3  DANIEL SAW

A POWERFUL WIND STIRRING THE OCEAN, AND FOUR GREAT BEASTS COMING UP FROM THE SEA.

THESE FOUR BEASTS REPRESENT THE SAME FOUR GENTILE KINGDOMS THAT WERE DEPICTED IN NEBUCHADNEZZARS DREAM.

IN THE FIRST DREAM,

THE KINGDOMS ARE SHOWN AS GLEAMING, METALIC, MAJESTIC, IMPRESSIVE, GIGANTIC AND OVERWHELMING.

THEY ARE SHOWN THROUGH THE EYE OF MANKIND.

IN THE SECOND VISION,

THE KINGDOMS ARE SHOWN AS SAVAGE BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE, SLASHING AND ATTACKING ONE ANOTHER

AND FIGHTING TO THE DEATH.

THEY ARE SHOWN THROUGH THE EYE OF GOD

TO BE DESTRUCTIVE, DIVISIVE, ANGRY AND CRUEL.

SO WHY DID GOD CHOOSE THIS PARTICULAR TIME IN HISTORY TO REVEAL SO GREAT A PROPHECY?

1. BABYLON WAS THE FIRST WORLD EMPIRE.

2. IF YOU HAD BEEN AN EXILED JEW DURING THIS TIME, YOU MIGHT HAVE WONDERED, "IS GOD FINISHED WITH US?  ARE WE TO BE PUT IN THE SHELF FOREVER?"

THROUGH THESE TWO VISIONS, GOD ASSURED HIS BELEAGUERED PEOPLE: 

THAT THIS ISN'T THE END, THERE IS A TIMECOMING IN THE FUTURE WHEN I WILL ONCE AGAIN BE INVOLVED WITH YOU AS A NATION.

TODAY MOST OF WHAT WAS REVEALED TO DANIEL

IN THESE DREAMS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.

BUT NOT ALL OF IT.

THREE KINGDOMS HAVE COME AND GONE.

AND THE FOURTH ONE HAS MADE IT'S APPEARANCE IN HISTORY.

BUT GOD REVEALED TO DANIEL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FOURTH KINGDOM.

IN Daniel 7:7 (NIV)

7 “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.

 

Daniel 7:23-25 (NIV)

23 “He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.

24 The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings.

25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.

WE KNOW THAT THIS TEN-KINGDOM PROPHECY OF DANIEL IS STILL IN THE FUTURE

BECAUSE NOT ONLY HAS THERE NEVER BEEN A TEN LEADER FORM OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,

BUT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A KINGDOM THAT WAS SUDDENLY CRUSHED.

ACCORDING TO DANIEL 2, THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN ITS FINAL FORM WILL EXPEERIENCE SUDDEN DESTRUCTION.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF JESUS' DAY ENDED GRADUALLY OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES.

THE WESTERN PART COMING TO AN END IN 476 AD

AND THE EASTERN PART ENDING IN 1453.

THEREFORE WE MUST CONCLUDE THAT SOME FORM OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE MUST EMERGE IN THE END TIMES

JUST BEFORE JESUS CHRIST COMES BACK

TO RULE OVER THE EARTH.

THE REBIRTH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

THE FUTURE ROMAN EMPIRE THAT DANIEL PROPHESIED 2,500 YEARS AGO WILL TAKE THE FORM OF A CONFEDERATION OF TEN WORLD LEADERS.

AND IT WILL ENCOMPASS THE SAME TERRITORY AS THE HISTORIC ROMAN EMPIRE.

WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT CONFEDERATION TAKING SHAPE RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES, TODAY.

IT STARTED AS EARLY AS 1930 WHEN THE FRENCH STATESMAN ARISTIDE BRIAND TRIED TO GET 26 NATIONS TO FORM A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

NOTHING CAME OF HIS ATTEMPT AT THAT TIME

BUT THE IDEA HAD BEEN PUT FORTH.

AFTER WWII IN 1946 (THE VERY YEAR I WAS BORN BY THE WAY) 

WINSTON CHURCHILL FORCEFULLY ASSERTED

THAT THE TRAGEDY OF EUROPE COULD ONLY BE SOLVED IF THE ISSUES OF ANCIENT NATIONALISM AND SOVEREIGNTY

COULD GIVE WAY TO A SENSE OF EUROPEAN NATIONAL GROUPING. 

HE SAID THAT THE PATH TO EUROPEAN PEACE

AND PROSPERITY ON THE WORLD STAGE WAS CLEAR: 

WE MUST BUILD A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.

THE BENELUX CONFERENCE IN 1948 HELD IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEW ORGANIZATION TO UNITE THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

AT FIRST THERE WERE ONLY THREE NATIONS IN THIS ORGANIZATION, THE NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG AND BELGIUM.

THEN IN 1951 THE TREATY OF PARIS WAS SIGNED, ADDING THREE MORE MEMBERS, GERMANY, FRANCE AND ITALY.

ON MARCH 25, 1957 THE TREATY OF ROME WAS SIGNED CREATING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, ALSO CALLED THE COMMON MARKET.

1973 SAW ENGLAND, IRELAND AND DENMARK JOIN THE EEC.

AND IN 1981 GREECE JOINED

MAKING IT A TEN-NATION CONFEDERATION.

THEN ON JANUARY 1, 1986 SPAIN AND PORTUGAL CAME INTO THE UNION EXCEEDING THE 10 MAMBER MARK.

NOW TODAY THERE ARE 27 NATIONS IN THE EEC

PROBABLY MEANING THAT THERE IS STILL MORE CHANGES THAT NEED TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE

BEFORE WE SEE A TEN KING CONFEDERATION.

IN DECEMBER OF 1992 THE ECONOMIC BORDERS WERE LIFTED BETWEEN THE MEMBER NATIONS

AND A COMMON PASSPORT WAS ISSUED TO TRAVELERS.

IN 2002, EIGHTY BILLION COINS WERE PRODUCED FOR USE IN THE TWELVE PARTICIPATING NATIONS OF THE EUROZONE;

INTRODUCING A NEW MONETARY UNIT CALLED THE EURO.

MANY EXPERTS ARE SAYING THAT WITHIN FIVE YEARS THE EURO MAY ACTUALLY REPLACE THE US DOLLAR AS THE WORLDS STANDARD CURRENCY.

GRADUALLY AND YET STEADILY THE NATIONS OF EUROPE HAVE COME TOGETHER, CREATING A MODERN REPLICA OF THE ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE.

MANY PEOPLE TODAY CONSIDER THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE TO BE THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL

POLITICAL FORCE IN THE WORLD TODAY.

THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT

AT THE PRESENT TIME, THE EU GOVERNMENT IS ORGANIZED INTO 3 BODIES.

1. THE PARLIAMENT

2. THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

3. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

THE PARLIAMENT IS CONSIDERED THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ELECT THE 785 PARLIAMENTARY MEMBERS.

THE COUNCIL IS CONSIDERED THE VOICE OF THE

MEMBER STATES.  THE COUNCIL CURRENTLY HAS

27 MEMBERS WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE

THE HEADS OF THEIR OWN NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS.

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONSISTS OF 27 COMMISSIONERS WHOSE TASKS ARE TO DRAFT NEW LAWS AND IMPLEMENT POLICIES.

AS WE TRACK THESE DEVELOPMENTS TOWARD

EVER-INCREASING UNITY

AND MORE CENTRALIZED POWER AMONG THE EUROPEAN NATIONS,

WE CAN SEE A NEW EMPIRE IN THE MAKING.

TURNING BACK TO DANIEL FOR FURTHER ENLIGHTENMENT WE READ ABOUT THE TWO MATERIALS OF

BAKED CLAY AND IRON.

THE BEST INTERPRETATION OF THIS UNSTABLE MIX IS THAT THE COMBINATION OF CLAY AND IRON

REPRESENTS THE DIVERSE RACIAL, RELIGIOUS , AND POLITICAL ELEMENTS

THAT WILL COMPRISE THIS FORM OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

WHILE THE EU HAS GREAT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CLOUT,

THE CULTURES AND LANGUAGES OF ITS VARIOUS COUNTRIES ARE INCREDIBLY DIVERSE

IT CAN'T HOLD TOGETHER ANY MORE THAN IRON AND CLAY CAN UNLESS UNITY IS IMPOSED BY

AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL LEADER.

THE NEED FOR RENEWED VIGILANCE

THERE ARE THREE THINGS IN PARTICULAR

THAT WILL EMERGE FROM OUR STUDY

THAT SHOULD INCREASE OUR VIGILANCE.

          1. THE CONSOLIDATION OF WORLD POWER.

SINCE THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A NATION THAT HAS HELD POWER OVER THE WHOLE KNOWN WORLD.

BUT IN THE FUTURE THERE WILL BE A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THE WORLD WILL BE UNIFIED UNDER ONE DOMINANT LEADER.

THE FOURTH BEAST SHALL BE A FOURTH KINGDOM ON EARTH, WHICH SHALL....DEVOUR THE WHOLE EARTH, TRAMPLE IT AND BREAK IT INTO PIECES. 

THE TEN HORNS ARE TEN KINGS WHO SHALL ARISE FROM THIS KINGDOM.

THE FOURTH BEAST REPRESENTS THE FOURTH SUCCESSIVE KINGDOM AFTER BABYLON, WHICH HISTORY IDENTIFIES AS THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

BUT SINCE ROME HAS NEVER BEEN RULED BY TEN KINGS AT THE SAME TIME

WE KNOW THAT THESE TEN KINGS ARE YET TO ARRIVE ON THE WORLD STAGE.

THE CONCENTRATION OF POWER IN THE EUROPEAN UNION SIGNALS THE BEGINNING OF THIS NEW WORLD ORDER.

          2. THE COMING OF THE ONE WORLD LEADER.

 

ACCORDING TO DANIEL'S PROPHESY, A SUPREME LEADER WILL RISE FROM AMONG THE TEN-LEADER CONFEDERACY IN EUROPE.

BUT HE'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST ONES AND HE'S GOING TO SUBDUE THREE OF THE FIRST KINGS.

HE'S GOING TO SPEAK POMPOUS WORDS AGAINST GOD.

HE'S GOING TO PERSECUTE THE SAINTS OF GOD.

HE'S GOING TO TRY TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS.

DANIEL 7:24-25

THIS SUPREME LEADER IS GOING TO BE THE ANTICHRIST.

ARNO FROESE SAYS

THE NEW EUROPEAN POWER STRUCTURE WILL FULFILL THE PROPHETIC PREDICTIONS THAT TELL US OF A ONE WORLD SYSTEM THAT IS GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED.

ONCE IT'S ESTABLISHED, IT WILL FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE ANTICHRIST.

PAUL-HENRY SPAAK, THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MADE THIS STATEMENT.

WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER COMMITTEE.  WE HAVE TOO MANY ALREADY. 

WHAT WE WANT IS A MAN OF SUFFICIENT STATURE TO HOLD THE ALLEGIANCE OF ALL PEOPLE,

AND TO LIFT US OUT OF THE ECONOMIC MORASS INTO WHICH WE ARE SINKING.

SEND US SUCH A MAN AND BE HE GOD OR DEVIL, AND WE WILL RECEIVE HIM.

THE EUROPEAN UNION IS THE KINDLING AWAITING THE SPARK OF THE ANTICHRIST TO INFLAME THE WORLD WITH UNPRECEDENTED EVIL.

          3. THE CONDITION FOR THE TREATY WITH ISRAEL

IN THE 9TH CHAPTER OF DANIEL'S PROPHESY,

HE TELLS US OF A TREATY THAT WILL BE SIGNED BETWEEN HIS PEOPLE AND THE WORLD LEADER

WHO WILL LEAD -- THIS ROMAN EMPIRE.

Daniel 9:27 (NIV)
27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

ISRAEL WILL SIGN A TREATY WITH THE ANTICHRIST, AND THIS TREATY WILL BE WRITTEN TO LAST FOR SEVEN YEARS.

BUT AFTER ONLY 3 1/2 OF THOSE YEARS

THE TREATY WILL BE BROKEN,

AND THE COUNTDOWN TO ARMAGEDDON WILL BEGIN.

HEEDING THE WARNING

THE STAGE IS SET IN EUROPE FOR THESE EVENTS TO HAPPEN.

1. ISRAEL IS BACK IN HER LAND.

2. OIL IS CONCENTRATING MONEY AND WORLD FOCUS ON THE MIDDLE EAST.

3. THE NATIONS OF THE ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE ARE REUNIFYING.

I THINK THAT ANY HONEST PERSON MUST ADMIT THAT SOMETHING BIG IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE WORLD.

THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL SHOW US WHAT IT IS.

THE PROPHETIC CLOCK IS MOVING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT.

CLOSE:

 

IT'S TIME FOR US TO WAKE OUT OF OUR SLEEP

AND REALIZE THAT THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO CONTINUE GOING ON

AS THEY ARE TODAY.

THE SIGNS OF DANIEL

SHOW US THAT THINGS ARE COMING TO A HEAD.

THE QUESTION IS ARE YOU PREPARED TO STAND BEFORE GOD?

HAVE YOU ACCEPTED HIS OFFER OF SALVATION?

ARE YOUR CO-WORKERS AND FRIENDS PREPARED TO STAND BEFORE GOD?

THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY WILL SOON BE GONE.

DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE

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