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Verse 12: We have been talking about the seven "heads" of
this "beast"--Justinian, Charlemagne, Otto, Charles, Napoleon,
Mussolini, were the SIX! The "ten horns" are part of the seventh
"head" perhaps now in the election of a new Pope, coming. These
ten horns are not described as successive kingdoms, one after the
other--but as ten literal contemporaneous kings. But, as of the
time of division--1935 to now--they have not yet received their
kingdoms. But they are to receive power as kings, for just a very
short period--perhaps three and one-half or more years.
They are to be ten heads-of-state over ten European nations,
temporarily united as a "United States of Europe." They are
symbolized in Daniel 2 as the ten toes, of iron and miry
clay--which will not mix, and therefore shall be short-lived!
Definitely, however, they shall last for at least two and one-
half years of the three and one-half years of the "Great
Tribulation"--which they will instigate. And also the very brief
period of "THE DAY OF THE LORD" which is the central theme of the
whole book of Revelation This latter could be up to one year at the
end of the "Great Tribulation."
But they will give all their military and monetary power to
the central ruler over the TEN--the coming European leader--one I
may already know.
These ten, with their leader, will fight against Christ at His
coming--but He will END their rule. This places the whole
seventeenth chapter "beast" as shortly before Christ's coming.
Now to pick up the thread of our story from the beginning--
from the creation of Adam. The six-thousand-year sentence God
placed on the world from Adam is ready very soon to expire.
The ten-tribed kingdom of Israel, taken to Assyria as slaves
721-718 B.C. had, with the ancient Assyrians, migrated into Europe
within a hundred years--by or before Judah's captivity by Babylon
604-585 B.C. The Assyrians are the Germans of today.
Ephraim-Manasseh settled in the British Isles. The tribe of
Reuben settled in France. Dan may have settled in Ireland--or
Denmark, or both. Others of the ten tribes settled in Western
Europe--Holland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium.
Meanwhile, a contingent of Judah (Jews) had gone back to
Jerusalem and Judea to build the second temple, 70 years after
Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Solomon's temple. Other parts of Judah
had migrated to such countries as Russia, Poland, and many Balkan
countries. Many Jews from those countries have been returning to
modern Israel since 1948.
But Jews were living in Judea when Jesus was born. Gentiles
of the Babylonian Mystery religion had been in the area of Samaria
north of Jerusalem.
Jesus sent His twelve original apostles to "the lost sheep of