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Part XXVIII

In Part XXVII of Twin Timelines, we established the identity of the fourth beast of Daniel 7 as America – the empire which succeeded the British Commonwealth (the Lion kingdom), the Soviet Union (the Bear kingdom), and Nazi Germany (the Leopard kingdom). Further, since the beast kingdoms of Daniel 7 lost their dominions, but were allowed to continue to exist for an unspecified period, they are sharply contrasted with their parallel Old Testament era kingdoms which were never to rise again.

"Then was [Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome] broken to 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).

Not only does this verse eliminate the fraud of the so-called "Revived Roman Empire" (which is supposedly reinstituted in modern times as a ten king confederation), it also destroys the theory of an Islamic Antichrist, as that concept is also linked to the Eastern branch of the original Roman Empire. Indeed, the False Prophets who promote a Moslem Anti-Messiah all base their flawed prophetic calculations on the idea the original Islamic kingdom was the seventh empire, following Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome.

The Islamic Antichrist concept says the return of Islam in the modern era is identified in Revelation as the mysterious eighth head, which is alleged to be a resurrected version of the seventh empire mentioned in the last book of the Bible.

"And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come…And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition" (Revelation 17:10).

Many prophecy figures have embraced the Islamic Antichrist scenario, which is typified by the Israel First group WorldNet Daily. One of the key theorists honored by WND is Joel Richardson, the creative force behind multiple books, videos, and writing alleging Islam is central to Bible prophecy. Richardson (and many others) claim the seventh empire in prophecy must be Islam – thereby militating that the eighth "head" of Revelation describes a revived form of Islam headed by the alleged Islamic Antichrist.

"The only empire that fulfills the patterns necessary to be considered the seventh empire is the [Moslem] Turkish/Ottoman Empire" (The Islamic Antichrist, Joel Richardson, page 96, emphasis mine).

The problem, as usual, centers on a misunderstanding of the genuine Kingdom of God. Oddly enough, those who put forth the Moslem Antichrist system (including Joel Richardson, former Moslem Walid Shoebat, and others), accurately recognize the Biblically revealed chronology of the six Old Testament era kingdoms of the world as Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. However, the prophet Daniel plainly indicates that after the last four kingdoms (Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome) have come to pre-eminence, the next kingdom to rise is clearly the Kingdom of God, which is conclusively computed to be the seventh kingdom:

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44).

Thus, the effort to make the original Islamic Caliphate into the seventh kingdom is fatally flawed, as the Mohammedan advance was decisively stopped in 732 AD by Christian forces in France – thus it can hardly be said that kingdom will "never be destroyed." The point is, Daniel's prophecy points directly to the heavenly kingdom of God, established by JESUS CHRIST, which is eternal – to say nothing of the fact it arrived "in the days of these kings."

Although the idea of the misinterpreted Scriptures concerning the beast power is mistakenly associated with Islam, the religious menace of Islam, is indeed prominent in Bible prophecy. Moreover, the Twin Timelines phenomenon, in which various historical cycles recur as if later generations are following an invisible "script," does include an Islamic dimension.

Islam, and the nations it has impacted, shows up in the power structure Scripture describes as Ten Kings. Contrary to the myth of a European superstate (the so called Revived Roman Empire comprised of ten kingdoms), this cluster of kingdoms is not the beast itself, but it is aligned with the beast kingdom.

"And the ten horns which thou sawest [on the head of the beast] are Ten Kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast" (Revelation 17:12).

This is an important distinction, as aberrant prophecy doctrine has long asserted this Ten King federation – which is imaged as ten horns which are on the head of the beast – somehow forms the beast itself. The False Prophets of 7^th Day Adventism, for example, have consistently missed the fact the Scriptures explicitly state the power of the beast is related to its attributes which include "the feet of a bear" (Revelation 13:2), as well as the "mouth of a lion" and the characteristics of "a leopard" – emblems of the very same beast empires which preceded the fourth beast seen in the writings of the prophet Daniel.

Revelation tells us that, at some point in the chronological development of the already established beast kingdom, these Ten Kings add their collective power to that of the beast kingdom.

"For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast" (Revelation 17:17).

This is simply an astonishing prophetic word, as this has already occurred, and very, very few believers are aware of the details. The Ten Kings Are Ten Arab Powers, which are linked together because of their hatred of the Lamb of God, as well as the body of Christ, and the contemporary state of Israel.

"These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast" (Revelation 17:13).

Most people are aware of the connection between the Arab sheikhdoms which export oil to the entire world, but very few are cognizant of the complexities of the industrial world's reliance upon carbon fuels. A probe of the subject of the history of oil invariably reveals a bewildering array of identities, trade groups, and political and religious factionalism, indicating the history of oil and its role in transportation, economics, industry, and war is a very sophisticated subject.  

When the Cold War was still raging between the Soviet Union and America, in a Temporal Recapitulation of the Old Testament era conflict between Syria and Egypt, the economic power of the Arab control of oil became crucial. Familiar names such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates began to be associated with the legendary wealth of Texas oil barons. As the then backward Bedouins embarked on a crash course of modernization made possible by the new found revenue of oil, the Arabs began to view the Western dependency on petroleum as a weapon which could be used to influence nations that did not share their ancient animosity towards Jews and the young state of Israel.

"These shall hate the whore…." (Revelation 17:16).

After an Arab coalition of armies was handed a humiliating defeat in 1967 – in a war in which Israeli forces trounced the aggressors in only 6 days – the Arab nations sought to regroup with even more powerful military hardware largely purchased from Russia. Simultaneously, more extreme Moslem states urged the oil sheikhdoms to use their economic leverage to coerce America and her allies to cease support for Israel. By 1973, the Islamic oil producers were ready to try again militarily, and they agreed to rally their nations behind Syria and Egypt, whose armies were to lead the way in a surprise attack on the Jewish state. Neither Egypt nor Syria were oil exporters, nor members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), but Islamic honour was at stake.

The Moslem militias caught Israel by surprise, even as OPEC simultaneously reduced oil exports to the USA, Europe, and Japan in co-ordination with the war effort. After it became evident the Jews were unable to quickly repel the invasion as they did in the 6 day war in 1967, and it became clear the Russians were steadily resupplying the Arab armies, Israel was in real trouble. As the war dragged on, Washington was reluctant to intervene and resupply Israel with desperately needed war material (including fuel derived from the dwindling oil supply) as America's economy still depended on the Arab oil – to say nothing of the threat of a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union, which raised the very real possibility of World War III waged with nuclear weapons.

Then President Richard Nixon, distracted by the Watergate scandal, his imminent impeachment, and the hugely unpopular war in Vietnam, planned to fly in supplies to Israel under cover of darkness, but logistical difficulties exposed the effort, and American planes with supplies inadvertently arrived in broad daylight. The Arab oil sheikhdoms were furious. They were already angry, as fellow OPEC member Iran broke ranks with their plan, when the non-Arab Shah of Iran opportunistically grabbed a portion of the market share the Arabs had sacrificed by the oil embargo.

Traditional rivals with Saudi Arabia, many still fail to realize the Iranians are not Arab, as their ethnic heritage is Indo-European. As the Israeli military then made significant progress in battle (with the Egyptians eventually finding themselves completely surrounded by Israeli forces) and, as the Arabs saw their oil revenues plummeting, Russian pilots were positioned to intervene and defend the Moslem armies they had armed. Russia was about to directly fight the Israelis, but in an extremely tense series of communications between America and Moscow, a cease fire was called.

As the tensions slowly diminished, the Arab oil kings knew that radical Islamic governments would continue to urge them to use their oil as a weapon, and this pressure had been applied repeatedly; but aggressive Moslem nations such as Algeria, Yemen, Egypt, Syria and others do not export oil – so the lost revenues would not affect them. The Arab oil kings had been adamantly urged by radical Islamists to use their oil as a weapon against Israel ever since the 6 day war in 1967 – and the pressure to use oil as a weapon continued to increase. Thus, in 1968, they formed an exclusively Arab cartel within OPEC to deal with the problem.

"In January 1968 they formed the Organization Of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) with the object of insulating the production and sale of oil from politics. Membership of the new organization was confined to Arab countries whose principal export was oil, a requirement which operated to shut out those with radical governments" (Arabia, The Gulf, And The West, JB Kelly, 1980, page 329).

The Scriptures tell us that three of the Ten King's agenda of hatred directed towards the Little Horn was thwarted, even as the imagery in the Scriptures detailing what Daniel sees describes three of the ten as "plucked up."

"Then I would know the truth ….of the ten horns that were in [the Beast's] head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell" (Daniel 7:19,20).

However, when heaven's messenger explains what Daniel was seeing, the language is nuanced, as the prophet is told the Little Horn will "subdue" three of the Ten Kings. While "plucked up" (as used in Daniel 7:8) sounds like a physical destruction (as in revolution, assassination, or some other overt form of neutralization), the term subdue (as used in Daniel 7:24) is quite consistent with attributes from the False Prophet side of the Spirit of Antichrist, whose power is to capture, lure, or beguile.

"The ten horns are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall rise after them; and he shall subdue three kings" (Daniel 7:24).

Christian Media has expended a considerable amount of time and effort articulating how the attributes of the hemispheric half of the Beast – known as the False Prophet -- are characterized by allure, temptation, and the ability to take captive those "who dwell on the earth" (Revelation 13:14). The Scriptures demonstrate how that wicked Spirit, which represents Hell (a place of captivity), is able to ensnare the world through their own desires, which ignites a progression that ultimately results in the Death inherent in the Spirit of Antichrist.

This mystical process shows the Spiritual presence known as Antichrist (representing Death) and False Prophet (representing Deception) are two symbiotic Spiritual projections emanating out of the Dragon. Revelation describes them in the following terms:

"He that leadeth into captivity [and] he that killeth with the sword" (Revelation 13:10).

Because the three founders of the Ten King alliance valued their wealth more than they desired the destruction of the Jewish state, the Scriptures reduce the end result to the word subdue. The fact is, in order to protect their massive oil revenue from the political fanaticism found in Islamic states which reviled Israel, when the three most conservative oil states founded OAPEC to close out the radicals (as well as non-Arab oil producers in OPEC), they also reserved a veto power over the membership.

"As an additional precaution, it was also laid down that membership should be dependent upon the approval of the three founding members, a condition which served to keep the refractory Iraqis out" (Arabia, The Gulf, And The West, JB Kelly, page 329).

Thus, the three founding members of the Ten King oil cartel of OAPEC, protected their enormous wealth from other Arab oil producers who consistently pushed to use the oil embargo as a weapon against Israel and her friends. Further, since those three states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Libya insisted on that membership proviso (which also served to isolate the ambitions of Iraq), Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait – and the subsequent adamant effort by George HW Bush to rescue the oil producer, comes into a sharper focus.

By 1973, the drive to force OAPEC to use oil as a weapon had become irresistible; as Egypt and Syria finally convinced the Ten Kings of OAPEC they would be able to overcome the Jewish state – if the oil sheiks were to cooperate with their plan. Ironically, OAPEC (which had originally been structured to resist the Islamic push to use oil for political gain) had become fully weaponized. The subsequent Yom Kippur war (launched on October 6, 1973 - which was the Jewish holy day) almost succeeded.

After the cease fire of the Yom Kippur war, the Ten King OAPEC Arab cartel continued to lose some of their enormous oil revenues to Iran, their fellow oil exporter in OPEC. Islamic factions (led by the Ayatollahs) would shortly overthrow the Shah (who was dying of cancer), but the damage to the Arab finances was already done. Clearly committed to Israel, America's cards were on the table. Still stinging from the debacle, but anxious to mend fences with the USA, the Arabs negotiated a secret deal with America. President Nixon dispatched a high level financial expert to negotiate a new deal, which remained a secret for over 40 years.  

By 1974, oil prices had quadrupled, and both America and the Arabs were hoping to resume their earlier cordial relationship. On the Arab side, a year after the war, Saudi King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received US Treasury Secretary William Simon who was secretly dispatched by President Nixon. 

"The basic framework [of the new deal] was strikingly simple. The U.S. would buy oil from Saudi Arabia and provide the kingdom military aid and equipment. In return, the Saudis would plow billions of their petrodollar revenue back into Treasuries and finance America's spending" (The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia's 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret, Andrea Wong, Bloomberg).

As the largest Arab oil exporter, Saudi Arabia led the way for the Ten Kings of OAPEC. Agreeing to the condition that a massive amount of Arab oil money would find its way into the American financial system, the Arabs insisted on total secrecy because of concerns their fellow Moslems would harshly criticize them, perhaps fueling Islamic revolutionary movements claiming the crown's wealth was finding its way into Jewish hands.

As part of the deal, the Arabs required all oil purchases be conducted in dollars – a stupendous stipulation which, in effect, made America the money changer of the entire world for oil transactions. The economic clout associated with this condition reaffirmed the United States as the premier destination for all international transactions – and the power, authority, and prestige vested in our monetary systems were ensured for decades to come.

At this juncture, it's instructive to note the identification of the Ten Kings with OAPEC was made public in 1992 – yet the Christian prophecy establishment systematically ignored the truth. Writing on the same subject, my first published prophecy book Beyond Babylon, stated the following:

"While many people have heard of OPEC, The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, few individuals realize that the Arab oil states have formed their own Organization of Arab petroleum Exporting Countries, OAPEC, within OPEC" 

"In 1973, shortly before the Egyptian army invaded Israel provoking the Yom Kippur war, all ten foreign ministers of the Arab oil countries (OAPEC) met to discuss the possible use of oil as a weapon to change America policy" (Beyond Babylon, James Lloyd, 1992, page 87).

Even though I shouted it from the housetops on international shortwave radio, satellite radio, four national speaking tours, significant volumes of direct mail, and every media interview I could obtain, the establishment continues to this very day to regurgitate the fictional scenario which impedes the truth of the identities presented in the present work. To put it another way, it is self evident that the fix is in.

"These [Ten Kings] have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled" (Revelation 17:13, 17).

----- James Lloyd

To Be Continued