Bible Discussion Thread

The four beasts are the four empires, Babylonian 606-538 BC, the Medo-persian 539-332 BC, the Greek, 332 BC-65 AD, the four horns were the division of the empire after the death of Alexander the Great, the last beast is the Islamic empire, Umayyad, 661-750 AD, this was the empire which destroyed Jerusalem and slaughtered Jews and Christians, they also murdered them to prevent them from making a pilgrimage into the Holy Land, which finally brought about the Crusades in 1099. This is the diverse beast which wars against the whole world, and treads on, tramples and breaks it into pieces...Daniel does not speak to the New World, only the known world at the time, the Holy Land. Not to say the US will not play a part, we will,in Revelations it says the rule of the Anti-Christ will not come about until the sun rises in the West, not to be political, but if you look at the Obama symbol, it looks like the sun rising over the symbol of the West (the American flag), some in theological circles believe he is the Mahdi spoken of in the Quran...I kind of think the sun rising in the West could mean power being that of a Western country, could be the US or not, it could mean just what it says, the sun will rise in the West literally because of a polar flip or something of that nature...I definitely believe Obama being elected is part of the Biblical prophesy if only we had the knowledge to understand how.