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Twin Timelines

Part XXVII

One of the more interesting aspects of the Twin Timelines phenomena, is how the "script" which we've found is recapitulated in different timelines, also serves to forecast crucial prophetic truth. The Apostle Paul said as much when he stated that the things which happened to Israel in the Old Covenant period, actually occurred as a warning to those who live in the time of the New Covenant of JESUS CHRIST.

"All these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the [age] are come" (I Corinthians 10:11).

In recent chapters dealing with the prophecies of the Little Horn, we've shown how the imagery of a Little Horn written in the ancient book of Daniel, was used to predict how the Jews would be opposed by a power which was able to "cast down" some of the host of heaven. However, since the epic visions concerning the Little Horn were written as an admonition to the Christians (as Paul stated), but the details of the sequence of events related to the "horn" were specified to occur after the reign of the Grecian conqueror Alexander the Great (but before the rise of the Roman Empire), the fulfillment of at least some of the Little Horn prophecies must have occurred before the Christian era.

Because the above verse in Corinthians specifically stated that the events in Israel's history must apply to the Christian believers the Apostle Paul was addressing in Corinth, the conclusion that some type of dual fulfillment is in view is inescapable. Moreover, when we view the context of the two arrivals of the Little Horn as described in the 7^th and the 8^th chapters of Daniel, the Twin Timelines perspective is again confirmed.

When the Little Horn shows up in the Old Testament timeline, the Scripture pinpoints its arrival shortly after the Grecian dominion of Alexander the Great – who is imaged as a prominent horn on the head of an allegorical male goat – implodes.

"Now that [great horn] being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power" (Daniel 8:22).

Previous chapters of Twin Timelines have already addressed the well established historical fact concerning how the Grecian kingdom of Alexander was divided between four of his generals at his death – and one of them was the Syrian dominion which hosted the arrival of the Old Testament era Little Horn. 

"And out of one of them came forth a little horn which waxed exceeding great" (Daniel 8:9).

The revelation that the kingdoms found in Daniel 7 – the Lion, the Bear, the Leopard, and the Diverse fourth beast – are Christian era parallels of the ancient quartet of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, is critical at this juncture. As we've repeatedly stated for several decades, the Lion is the British Empire, and the Bear describes the Soviet Union. As the third kingdom in the ancient set is Greece, and that kingdom is Prophetically Paralleled by Nazi Germany imaged as the Leopard, few have noticed that when Adolph Hitler's "great horn was broken" (Daniel 8:8), the entire world watched as four generals ruled Germany after the war.

History records how the Nazi power was defeated by the Allies – and their effort was spearheaded by four Allied military forces which closed in on Berlin as the war concluded. As most know, they were America, Russia, England, and France. Further, the post-war occupation of Germany was administered by the Allies, who divided Germany into four regions which were managed by four Zone Commanders. A formal document detailing this structure was entitled The Quadripartitite Agreement, and it remained in force for years after the war.

Incredibly, while the Word of God poignantly states that the four generals who succeeded Alexander in the ancient timeline did not experience the same breadth of power as their former leader -- as the text states their rule was "not [as great as] his power" (Daniel 8:22) – because they opposed Hitler's rendition of the "great horn," the four generals who conquered Nazi Germany did not rule "in his power" either.   

Just as the transition from the third kingdom of Greece to the fourth kingdom of Rome in the Old Testament era quartet of kingdoms was characterized by intrigue and political complexity, the period which elapsed after Nazi Germany was defeated was equally complicated. Immediately following World War II, the formation of the international world order engineered by America was sharply accelerated. We've previously explored how the 12 month period encompassing the second half of 1947, and the first half of 1948 saw so many important developments that the transition indicates this was the time period in which the "restrainer" was removed (see II Thessalonians 2:8 for details), and the beginning of the long prophesied timeline commonly referred to as the end times commenced.

In this regard, the post-war population explosion, colloquially known as the Baby Boom, was yet another striking Prophetic Parallel recapitulating Noah's time, "when men began to multiply on the face of the earth" (Genesis 6:1).

Although many prophecy students recognize that JESUS CHRIST stated the circumstances of the last generation would Prophetically Parallel the days of Noah, the connection related to the population explosion is usually overlooked.

"And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man" (Luke 17:26).

It is at this juncture that we find the two portraits of the twin incarnations of the Little Horn converge. As the Little Horn is closely associated with the Antichrist power, and the modern manifestation of the Little Horn emerges out of one of the four allies which conquered the German power (when the "great horn" was broken), we find additional support for the identification of America as the locale which hosts the emergence of the Little Horn.

Further, because we've long concluded that America is the fourth beast of Daniel 7 – as the culmination of the Lion, Bear, Leopard, and Diverse fourth beast set of the contemporary quartet of England, Russia, Germany, and America – we conclude that America is seen in both prophetic sequences. However, the identification of America is found in the Temporal Recapitulation of the original 4 kingdoms in Daniel 2 – the composite statue of Nebuchadnezzar's famous dream. To illustrate this, we note the description of the kingdoms in Daniel 8 obviously belongs to the ancient timeline, as the text itself is self documenting with the identification of the ram as Persia, and the rough goat as Greece.

"The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia" (Daniel 8:20, 21).

In the original list of kingdoms back in Daniel 2, where the statue dream of Nebuchadnezzar imaged Babylon as the head of gold (and the subsequent kingdoms of Persia in the silver arms and Greece in the brass belly) we saw the iron legs of Rome which followed the Grecian dominion. We further recognized the Lion, Bear, Leopard, and Diverse beast kingdoms of Daniel 7 cannot be the same as Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, for the text pointedly specifies the statue kingdoms are destroyed.

"Then was the iron…the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them" (Daniel 2:35).

Conversely, the first three of the four beast kingdoms in Daniel 7 successively lose their pre-eminence, but their kingdoms are allowed to continue.

"They had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time" (Daniel 7:12).

Their lives are "prolonged" because they are assimilated into the world order of America. As the arrival of the Antichrist power is depicted in Revelation (and the sequence which culminates in the end of the age is inaugurated), we see the emblems of Daniel's vision of these kingdoms incorporated into the final beast kingdom.

"And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion" (Revelation 13:2).

The Prophetic Parallels embedded in the two quartets of kingdoms – Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome in the Old Testament era set in Daniel 2, and England, Russia, Germany, and America in the New Testament era set in Daniel 7 – indicate a kind of resonance exists in the characteristics of the kingdoms emerging in the Twin Timelines. For instance, Greece is among the poorest of nations in our time, but its Prophetic Parallel Germany, is the wealthiest. During World War II, the Nazis occupied certain Grecian isles, etc. There are many similar connections, and they have been extensively documented in the author's work The Rise And Fall Of The Romerican Empire.

Because these prophecies are so important (to say nothing of their complexity), we'll restate how they both place America in the role of the beast empire, which is inextricably intertwined with the Little Horn power – which can only be the modern state of Israel.  

The Old Testament era quartet of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome is depicted in Daniel 2 through the dream of a great composite statue made of gold, silver, brass and iron. The New Testament era quartet of England, Russia, Germany, and America is depicted in Daniel 7 through the vision of four beasts that come up from the sea – and these Christian era kingdoms Prophetically Parallel Daniel 2's quartet with strikingly precise characteristics.

Daniel 8 goes into considerable detail about Persia and Greece (imaged as two of the four kingdoms in Daniel 2). Chapter 8 goes on to predict that the king of Greece (who was obviously Alexander the Great) will abruptly die, and his dominion will be divided by four of his generals. Subsequent historical accounts tell us that two of those four kingdoms (Syria and Egypt) warred over Jerusalem in the 2^nd and 3^rd century BC, with Syria finally gaining the upper hand.

The Scripture tells us that "out of one of them came forth a little horn" (Daniel 8:9) and this entity corrupts some of those who were redeemed under the Old Covenant. It is essential that we see this prophecy is set before the Roman Empire, as the Syrian Dynasty of Antiochus fulfilled the prediction of a power that causes the Old Testament saints of the LORD to be "cast down" from their heavenly position.

Recognizing that the kingdoms of Persia and Greece (and the four-fold division of Greece at the death of Alexander) Prophetically Parallel the New Testament era kingdoms of Russia and Germany, we perceive the four fold division of Germany after World War II also parallels the four fold division of Greece. Modern history widely documents that two of those four kingdoms (Russia and America) engaged in a Cold War in our time, with America finally gaining the upper hand. Since the text tells us that "out of one them came forth a little horn" (Daniel 8:9), and it is obvious that America hosted the contemporary rebirth of the political state of Israel, the facts point directly to Israel's identification with the Little Horn.  

The resurrection of the state of Israel was the direct result of lengthy political activities, in which the New York based United Nations general assembly voted to partition the land of Palestine, in order to provide a homeland for the Jewish people. In short, the "out of one of them" phrase in the modern timeline decisively points to America – and the Little Horn that "came forth" was obviously Israel. But that's only part of the story.

The portrait of the Little Horn which is found in Daniel's 7^th chapter points even more conclusively at America as the Beast power – and Israel as the Little Horn. With the allegorical Lion as the British Commonwealth, and the proverbial Bear as the lumbering power that was the Soviet Union, the speed and agility of the Leopard personify the blitzkrieg offensives of the Nazi military excursion. Certainly the American Empire is "diverse" from the other beasts (Daniel 7:7), as our government was built around the unique system of a constitutional Republic. This provides yet another dimension of the parallel between Rome and America, as the Roman power was originally a republic (with a senate) as well.

I have previously noted the profound role reversal when comparing the chronology related to the ancient quartet with the modern quartet. In antiquity, Daniel coherently showed that Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome were followed by the kingdom of God in JESUS CHRIST.

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever" (Daniel 2:44).

On the other side of the cross, the Christian era quartet is followed by the opposite of the kingdom of God, as this is the sequential position where we find the introduction of the Little Horn – obviously an imagery associated with Antichrist.

"I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them" (Daniel 7:21).

When Daniel sees the fourth beast of the Christian era quartet, it is within this sequence that we find an additional element that further confirms the identity of the Little Horn as the modern state of Israel. When the prophet first saw the fourth beast, the Scripture tells us it had Ten Horns – and the Little Horn came up among them. The text tells us Daniel queried "one of them that stood by" (presumably an angel in Daniel 7:16), because he wanted to understand what he was seeing – and he specifically asked about the fourth beast, the Ten Horns, and the Little Horn.

"Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast…and of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other [horn] which came up" (Daniel 7:19, 20).

However, the answer he received will have to wait for the next installment of the Communique, and our multi-part probe of the Twin Timelines.  

----- James Lloyd