Time is an element that resides throughout the Bible, as for example in the Bible book of Genesis, in which God divides his preparation of the earth for human habitation into 6 "creative" days, and then the 7th "creative" was God's "rest (or sabbath) day".(Gen c
1 and 2, whereby each "creative" day is about 7,000 years long)
Then at Genesis 15, God (whose personal name is Jehovah) lays out a timeline for Abraham's descendants to inherit the land of Canaan.(Gen 15:13, that began with 19 year old Egyptian Ishmael mocking 5 year old Isaac in 1913 B.C.E., Gen 21:8, 9 and was completed when the Israelites left Egypt in 1513 B.C.E. and fulfilled the 400 years decreed)
Then moving forward to the time of Daniel, around 605 B.C.E., whereby Daniel explains the meaning of the "immense image" of a man that Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream and that has deep meaning for our time.(Dan 2:1,31)
This dream, caused by Jehovah God, unveils a time line of political kingdoms or world powers that personally affects his people, starting with the Babylonian dynasty of kings (as the "head of gold"), meandering through Medo-Persia (as the chests and arms of sliver), on to Greece (as the abdomen and thighs of copper), next Rome (as the legs of iron), and then finally "the feet.....partly of iron and partly of clay".(Dan 2:32,33)
The "feet.....partly of iron and partly of clay" brings the lineage of political governments that has a deep impact on Jehovah's people to our time frame. What "kingdom" or political government is derived from the dissolution of the Roman Empire that is now the 7th and final political world power ?(see Rev 17:9, 10, whereby the apostle John is told that of "seven kings: Five have fallen (Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece), one is (Rome) and the other has not yet arrived")
The dual combination of Britain-America, for Britain was once a colony of Rome from 43 C.E. to 410 C.E., when Rome pulled out of Britain.(Roman soldiers established the community of Londonium that is now called London)
This last political world power has some of the remnants of Rome or "iron" like characteristics of being strong, but is also "partly clay" that does not stick to "iron", being "mixed with the people", causing it to succumb to the unstable whims or views of the people.(Dan 2:41-43)
But at Daniel 2:44, it identifies that a non-political government or one '
not made with hands' of a human (Dan 2:34) is created by Jehovah God, saying: "In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms and it alone will stand forever".
Thus, when was God's Kingdom established or "set up" ? Not while Jesus was on the earth, while Rome was the dominant world power, but far into the future when the final political world power would be ruling. Jesus told his disciples an illustration about this, for they were asking whether the Kingdom would be restored right then.(Luke 19:11)
He said: "A man of noble birth traveled to a distant land to secure kingly power for himself and to return".(Luke 19:12) So when did Jesus, as the "man of noble birth.....secure kingly power" ? Revelation 6 gives us clues, saying that a "white horse" had a rider on it that had a bow and "a crown was given him".(Rev 6:2)
But immediately upon this rider on the "white horse" receiving "a crown" or "kingly power", there comes forth "a fiery-colored horse.....that was granted to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another and he was given a great sword".(Rev 6:4)
When was "peace taken from the earth", causing global conflict for the first time in history ? In 1914 with the outbreak of World War I on July 28 of that year. It was in that year when Jesus secured "kingly power" and has been reigning over his loyal people ever since.
But soon, this heavenly government will take decisive action to "crush" not only the 7th political world power of Britain-America, but all political governments and their supporters.(Rev 19:19-21) But before their demise, they have an assignment to accomplish in which Jehovah causes them to come to hate all the religions of the world, given the name of Babylon the Great and rightly called a "prostitute" that has engaged in "sexual immorality" with the "kings of the earth".(Rev 17:1,2,5), so that they are completely destroyed at the behest of the "eighth king", the United Nations.(Rev 17:16,17; 18:8)
Who will survive this "great tribulation" ? Revelation 7 says that a "great crowd", those who are "waving palm branches" with their hands, seeking genuine peace with Jehovah God, the "one faith" that pleases God.(Eph 4:5; Rev 7:9) These are the ones who have ' called on the name of Jehovah in order to be saved '.(Rom 10:13, Joel 2:32)
