Who is the 7th king? Who is the 8th king? Who are the 3 horns that get uprooted by the 11th horn? Is the great city, Babylon, that rules over the kings of the earth a literal city or figurative of something? Who or what is the beast coming out of the earth?
Easy:
1. Gold, Babylon
2. Silver, Medo/Persia
3. Bronze, Greece
4. Iron, Rome
-- Clay, "Divided Kingdom"
-- 5. Lion/Eagle, U.K./U.S.
-- 6. Bear, Russia
-- 7. Leopard (actually a TIGER), China
-- 8. "Dreadful, United Nations -- "was and is not" because it's a PAPER entity with NO Populous, NO Geography, NO Army, etc.
Secondly:
The Babylon Empire was “the first true metropolis in western history, a business as well as an administrative center”[1] -- the prototype of governments as we see them to this day. The Babylonians controlled trade and commerce across western Asia, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, building highways, legislating business, and beautifying the capital.[2]
[1] John B. Christopher and Robert Lee Wolf, A History of Civilization, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967, p. 35
[2] Will Durant, Story of Civilization: Part II, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1954, pp. 223-224
Even the Creators of Superman were astute enough to recognize, -- where the
Metropolis Model transitioned from Babylon, to ~Alexandria, to ~Rome, to ~Paris, to ~London, to
NYC, and will finally end up in Jerusalem, --
they called NYC "METROPOLIS" and where he worked "THE DAILY PLANET".
And where the Metropolis model was the first to sponsor an AMUSEMENT PARK, -- the Hanging Gardens --, so too we see Sports Venues. Plus this Metropolis model not only regulates Macro-Commerce, it even attempts to regulate the size of dispensed sugary carbonated beverages.
Thirdly:
In case you missed the obvious, the "eleventh" little horn is the U.N. which has an accompanying TEN HORNS:
Current PERMANENT Membership in the Security Council
1. U.S. -- ONE of Three, which includes the U.K., because our two nations are so close that they even share nuclear weapons
2. U.K.
3. France
4. Russia -- TWO of Three
5. China -- THREE of Three
NOMINATED to PERMANENT Membership in the Security Council*
6. Germany, Economic Power
7. Japan, Economic Power
8. Brazil, Regional representative for S. America
9. Nigeria, Regional representative for Africa
10. India, Regional representative for the Near East
*
“The Road To Reform: Towards A New Clarity,”
U.N. Chronicle, UMI, Vol. 30, Issue 4, December 1993, pp. 45-46
As I said,
EASY because it's OBVIOUS! :)
Bobby Jo
PS And PLEASE THROW MORE. We can't learn unless we ASK, -- but MAKE SURE YOU
VALIDATE EVERYTHING PEOPLE SAY, because a LOT of people make stuff up (LIE).
NOW BACK TO THE REGULAR PROGRAMMING! :)