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Twin Timelines

Part XXII

As we demonstrated in Part XXI of Twin Timelines, the 16^th century English Christians involved in the Fifth Monarchy movement, were devout believers who mistakenly thought they could hasten the return of Christ through their political activity. The Historicist interpretation of prophecy, which saw the 42 months (or 1260 days) of the Biblical tribulation cycle as the previous 1,260 years, had been repeatedly readjusted. This was accomplished by revising the alleged start date of the Papacy (whom the Protestants saw as Antichrist) to a later period, in order to explain why Christ had not returned – even though the supposed "1,260 year tribulation" had long since elapsed. However, after multiple dating revisions, the entire approach lost credibility.

In the mid 16^th century, militant Islam was again threatening Europe through the Moslem Turkish Empire, whose aggressions caused Christian prophecy figures to liken the Islamist threat to verses in Daniel and Revelation. Connecting the ongoing incursion of Islam to everything from the sixth vial judgment (where the Euphrates River which runs through Turkey is dried up to make way for an invasion in Revelation 16:12), to the bizarre prophecies of an invading "locust" army in Revelation 9:3, the Protestant Christians in England increasingly saw the Jews as natural allies against the Mohammedan incursion.

This is precisely what is occurring in the modern timeline, as the Trump regime, anticipating a lethal confrontation with Islamic power, is strengthening American military ties to the contemporary state of Israel.

Part XXI of Twin Timelines focused on the parallels between the Trump phenomenon, and the British efforts to transform ancient England into a holy nation which would meet with the LORD's approval at His return. Just as England was rife with conflict and Spiritual stirrings, there are many indicators a parallel transition is now underway in America. After the previous four presidents conformed to the vision of the New World Order announced by George HW Bush on September 11, 1991, the nation had Spiritually sunk to a precarious degree; but the conservative swing which is now occurring is deceptive, in that mainstream Christianity is just as deceived now as it was during the parallel period known as the Fifth Monarchy (which we covered in Part XXI).

The fact is, it will be instructive to remember what the original sequence tells us about the true nature of these prophecies. For instance, the two halves of what was previously undivided Israel (the people of Judaea in the South and Samaria in the North) had Spiritually sunk to a precarious degree, and it was the supernatural evil flowing through the former Queen Jezebel which had corrupted the entire social structure of the two houses of Israel.  

This duopoly is mirrored in modern America by the liberal left and the conservative right. Because the Northern Samaritan power was more corrupt than their Judaean counterparts, the Samaritan power was destroyed by outside enemies earlier than Jerusalem/Judaea. During the period when Jezebel retained prominence (even after her husband Ahab was removed from the equation when he was killed in battle), her political abilities enabled her to corrupt both sides of the former unified nation.

After many years of Jezebel's malicious maneuvering, she was finally destroyed by an outsider named Jehu, who the Bible says was raised up by the LORD to completely eradicate her ungodly influence. The Scripture speaks of the eradication of the "posterity" of Ahab and Jezebel (I Kings 21:21). Likewise, Jehu's contemporary Prophetic Parallel Donald Trump is currently dismantling the legacy of Barack Obama; but few realize the entire reign of Obama was surreptitiously enacted in the shadow of the concealed evil influence of Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama, for example, came to national prominence when he was selected to give the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention's formal embrace of Bill Clinton for president.

In the case of our findings in which Donald Trump is curiously associated with the Fifth Seal, an important fact which we've previously covered should be revisited. The reader will recall we've already connected the revolt against Moses in the wilderness with another Temporal Recapitulation, wherein the Apostle Paul was faced with an attempted theological revolt in Corinth from "false apostles," which recapitulated the rebellion of Korah in Numbers 16.

We then noted how the political movement known as the Fifth Monarchy in 16^th century Protestant England followed the same "script," and how the British Christian dominionists met with violent destruction, just like Korah and his followers. The Fifth Monarchy (so named because of the four kingdoms which precede the kingdom of God in Daniel 2), resonates with the Fifth Dynasty of Israelite kings established by the Israelite reformer Jehu – which returns us to Donald Trump's Fifth Presidency following the establishment of the New World Order announced by the first of four presidents (George HW Bush, seen as the White Horse) in Revelation 6. There are even more "fives" in Part XXI which all terminate at the latest rendition of the Fifth Seal, and these were addressed in our last issue of the Communique.

At this point in the still unfolding prophetic epic, we are reminded that when Daniel presents the twin quartets of kingdoms seen in Daniel 2 (Nebuchadnezzar's statue dream of four empires), and the four kingdoms in the Christian era in Daniel 7 (the lion, bear, leopard, and diverse beast kingdoms representing England, Russia, Germany, and America), the prophet never addresses the two Gentile powers which precede both sets on both sides of the cross.

In the Old Testament dream of Nebuchadnezzar, where the composite statue of gold, silver, brass, and iron is envisioned, the first of four components (the gold) is said to represent the Babylonian monarchy. As the precious metals degrade in value, the successive kingdoms of Persia (the silver), Greece (the brass), and Rome (the iron) preview the four Gentile kingdoms which will emerge. At the beginning of the book of Daniel, the setting is clearly within the royal city of Babylon, and the knowledge of what occurred before the sequences revealed in the book of Daniel is only lightly treated.

In this regard, in chapter 9, Daniel repents of the sin of "all Israel," even as his reference to Egypt indicates the two predecessor kingdoms to the quartet were widely known in his timeline.

"And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day" (Daniel 9:15).

Daniel also references the prophecies of Jeremiah, as the young prophet records how the Assyrians conquered the Israelites before Babylon enslaved Judaea:

"Israel is a scattered sheep…first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones" (Jeremiah50:17).

Thus, Egypt and Assyria are conclusively recorded in Scripture as preceding the quartet of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, which are seen in the prophecy related to the great composite statue of gold, silver, brass, and iron. Further, since these two empires are extensively described in multiple chapters of the Old Testament, the quartet cannot be seen as kingdoms one through four which interacted with Israel, but instead should be viewed as kingdoms three through six.

This computation makes the kingdom which follows the quartet in Daniel 2, the kingdom of God – the seventh in a continuous sequence.

"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).

Although the false prophets all around us have misled the believers into believing that the kingdom of God will arrive at the second coming, when an alleged "Revived Roman Empire" consisting of ten kings supposedly comes to power, these teachers are actuating yet another Prophet Parallel of the British false prophets who thought Christ was about to return to set up His king in England in the 16^th century. Nowhere in the text does it tell us the ten toes of the statue dream of Nebuchadnezzar represent ten kings – however, this faulty expectation erroneously pushes the arrival of the kingdom of God to the modern era, rather than the time of Jesus of Nazareth, when the kingdom actually arrived.

In fact, a straightforward read of Daniel 2:44 says the kingdom of God will arrive in the days of these kings – the only kings mentioned in the chapter – and that time is clearly during the term of the Roman Empire (the fourth kingdom seen in the iron legs), which is the setting for "the generation of JESUS CHRIST" (Matthew 1:1).

This means there are a vast number of believers within the body of Christ who still do not understand the nature of the kingdom of God.

Utilizing the Prophetic Parallels understanding, which the LORD has declared for close to 25 years now through the Christian Media ministry, the second set of kingdoms in Daniel 7 represents a Christian era Prophetic Parallel to the kingdoms in Daniel 2. We've long characterized many of the downright eerie links found in the Lion (the British Commonwealth and colonial era), the Bear (the 70 years of the Soviet Union and the collectivist timeline), the Nazi Third Reich (the much shorter Fascist era), and America (with elements of the previous 3 systems combined), and how they Prophetically Parallel Babylon, the Persian Union, Alexander's Greece, and the Roman Empire.

At this juncture, we must address something we've long referred to as The 6, 7, 8 Cycle, which codifies the transition from the Old Testament timeline to the New Testament timeline. In Genesis, we learned the LORD designated 6 days to work, with the 7^th "day" represented by rest – a pattern which anticipates the eternal rest in Christ, who manifests the 7^th king. Remember, with Egypt and Assyria preceding the ancient quartet, the kingdom following the kings of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome is the 7^th kingdom – foreshadowing the peace and rest found in the kingdom of God Jesus Christ.

In the 6, 7, 8 Cycle, the 6^th kingdom (Saturn worshiping Pre-Christian Rome) collides with the 7^th kingdom (the kingdom of God), and the result is the 8^th kingdom, which combines the 6^th and the 7^th. This 8^th kingdom was the Holy Roman Empire. This kingdom Prophetically Parallels ancient Egypt. As the 8^th day is actually the first day of a new week, the 8^th kingdom is actually the first kingdom in the Christian timeline. After Rome falls, Imperial Spain – dominated by Roman Catholicism – rises as the 2^nd Empire in the Christian era, in a fascinating Prophetic Parallel of the Assyrian Dominion.

Just as Assyria was miraculously devastated by the LORD as they tried to destroy Jerusalem in a massive land invasion (as described in Isaiah 37), the Imperial Spanish Armada was miraculously decimated on the high sea as they tried to extinguish Protestant England in 1588 AD (for the significance of the land and the ocean see the book and DVD The Sand and the Sea). This marks the rise of England, and the subsequent kingdoms (Russia, Germany, and America) in the quartet in Daniel 7 – and each of them features precise parallels of their ancient counterparts. For more, see the Monster DVD, and The Rise and Fall of the Romerican Empire book.

Since these facts place the Trump revolution, and the political ascendancy of the revived Jewish state of Israel in the position of the 7^th kingdom, we are now in a position to anticipate what comes next, in the Prophetic Parallel of The 6, 7, 8 Cycle, but that prediction will have to wait for another installment of Twin Timelines.

To Be Continued

-- James Lloyd