Dave Watchman
Active Member
He's talking about Alexanders four generals from Daniel 8. But it's not about Alexander's four generals anymore. A gear gets shifted, and the subject matter changes. Poor Ronald, bless his heart. I wish I could help you old boys out with this. I know this one, it was revealed to me when listening to Mick Jagger sing sympathy for the Devil. This is about the Antichrist, this is about Satan falling like lightning from heaven. Sometimes the bad guys know more about this stuff than the Christians. Jesus talked about the wise manager in Luke 16:Chapter and verse for that one please.
"For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
Daniel 8 is talking about earthly kings, then the subject changes to a non-earthly king that comes from heaven, he comes from one of the four winds of heaven. "Out of one of them", the "them' is one of the four winds of heaven".
8The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.
9Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land. 10It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. 11It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the Lord; it took away the daily sacrifice from the Lord, and his sanctuary was thrown down. 12Because of rebellion, the Lord’s people a and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.
This is from the NIV which also starts a new paragraph. The four generals grew up to the four winds of heaven. Then out of one of THEM, the four winds of heaven, came another horn. This is Satan, the Antichrist. To the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land (which is west). Because out from one of them comes the little horn, the Antichrist.
This shift in the subject matter is also reinforced by direction. Now our focus has shifted to direction, toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land which is west. That means he comes from the north wind of Heaven, the dragon was cast out from "one of them". Now is the time for the god of this world to be cast out. And he was.
This means he comes from the North wind of heaven, which also means destruction. He is the Destroyer. Apollyon and and Abaddon. In Hebrew and Greek his name means Destroyer. The Son of Perdition, the Son of Destruction. Read what he does starting at verse 10. No human man ever could do that. It's the same thing as Revelation 12 when the Dragon's tail His tail knocked down a third of the angels of heaven, swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. This is talking about Satan. The Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Some think the Antichrist has to be an Assyrian. The Bible calls him the Assyrian. It's symbolic language for the king of the north, the king of destruction. It's the same thing as the drying up of the great river Euphrates. Assyria is to the north of Israel. Destruction always come from the north.
Destruction comes from the North
The drying up of the great river Euphrates is also symbolic for destruction coming from out of the north, the north wind of heaven. It's the same concept as Daniel 8's "four winds of Heaven". Out from one of them came a little horn. To the south and to the east and to the glorious land which is west. That means he came from the north. Assyria is to the north of Israel. Bad guys come from the "north".
The Euphrates river was a large natural encumbrance preventing invading armies from the north coming down into Israel. Find all the OT verses referring to Divine destruction coming down from the north. Nebuchadnezzar is a fine example of destruction which came down from the north and wiped out Jerusalem.
"For I am bringing disaster from the north, even terrible destruction." Set up the banner in Zion: come together, do not delay: for I bring evil from the north wind,
"Then the LORD said, "This means destruction will break out from the north on all .. cry, O city; Melt away, O Philistia, all of you; For smoke comes from the north, ..
"Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
"Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.
And notice during a time of restoration God removes the northerner:
“I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea,
When the Euphrates river dries up the way is made for destruction to come down from out of the north. This is Divinely mandated destruction, not a natural or man made event.
Has the Ocean lost it's way?
The sea that the composite beast rises from in Revelation 13 isn't an actual named ocean. It's like Led Zeppelin's song "The Ocean". It's where Robert Plant could look out at a crowd of thousands of people, and they just looked like a sea of people. Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean roar. I used to sing on the mountains, has the ocean lost it's way.
The angel defines the waters, the sea, as many nations, and peoples, and tongues. It's like how the people of the world will vote their political leaders into office. A sea that represents many peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. This sea symbolizes the populous and diverse regions of the world, indicating that the beast emerges from a developed and densely populated area. According to Revelation 17, "The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." This interpretation aligns with the idea that the beast originates from a region where many different groups of people reside.
This list I got from a Time Magazine page that's been removed. This is a glimpse, an example, of the composite beast in action. How the composite beast has risen from the many nations and peoples and tongues of the earth.
This is what the Dragon, the Antichrist, the King of the North, has given his power, and his throne, and his great authority to now. But this time the crowns on our present day composite beast have been moved from the seven heads, the religious authority, to the ten horns, the governmental authority of the sea beast. Who can make war with it.
A list of the first 21 nations to legalize same sex marriage:
1) The Netherlands (2000)
2) Belgium (2003)
3) Canada (2005)
4) Spain (2005)
5) South Africa (2006)
6) Norway (2009)
7) Sweden (2009)
8) Argentina (2010)
9) Iceland (2010)
10) Portugal (2010)
11) Denmark (2012)
12) Brazil (2013)
13) England and Wales (2013)
14) France (2013)
15) New Zealand (2013)
16) Uruguay (2013)
17) Luxembourg (2014)
18) Scotland (2014)
19) Finland: (signed 2015, effective 2017)
20) Ireland: (2015)
21) United States: (2015)<-------1290 Days------->Sun/Moon
21) United States: (2015)<-------1290 Days------->EofW
What you are seeing here is evidence of a feat that could not be accomplished my a single mortal man. This is the Little Horn, the Stern Faced King, Satan, rising up to the place of God's Sanctuary, the Man of Sin taking his seat in the Temple of God and claiming to be God. This is his interaction through people, and their world leaders. This is the composite beast rising from the many nations and peoples and tongues.
Peaceful Sabbath.