Seven Kings and Ten Kingdoms

Two of the most prominent prophetic books in the Bible concerning the end times are the Book of Daniel that is found in the Old Testament and the Revelation that is the Bible's final book of the New Testament.

Daniel was a Hebrew prophet who lived about 2,600 years ago. He received several visions from God that included the appearance of the Jewish Messiah, the invasion of Jerusalem by the Romans and their subsequent destruction of the Jewish Temple which occurred in 70 C.E., and events concerning the last days on earth.

The Revelation was written by the apostle John in the late 1^st Century C.E. The Revelation deals almost exclusively with the events that will occur on earth in the end times. Written in apocalyptic language, the Revelation announces the rise of a global government along with the appearance of a tyrannical world leader who will be known as the Antichrist.

Interestingly, both Daniel and John received their prophetic visions while living in exile. Daniel lived in exile initially under the Babylonians after Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., and then later under the Persians who had succeeded the Babylonians.

John lived in exile from Rome on a desolate island known as Patmos that was located in the Aegean Sea. John was sent there because he refused to renounce his faith in Jesus Christ and worship Rome's pagan gods.

Though Daniel and John lived in different eras, they both received identical visions of world events concerning the end times. Some skeptics have claimed that John's vision is so similar to Daniel's that he probably copied the prophet's recordings.

And though John's vision is similar to Daniel's, the apostle's vision contains information that isn't found in Daniel's recordings. For example, John saw the rise of a one-world religious system that was allegorized as a garishly dressed harlot that rode atop a scarlet beast that is symbolic for the coming end time global government. (Revelation 17)

What did Daniel see concerning the end time world government? He saw the rise of four beasts that were symbolic for world empires that would rise and fall before the end of time and the return of Jesus Christ.

However, the fourth beast that Daniel saw concerns the final kingdom on earth before the return of Christ. Unlike the three other kingdoms that were regional empires, the fourth kingdom will be a global empire. And according to Daniel, this kingdom will be an extremely violent one.

Here's how Daniel described the fourth kingdom: "After that, in my vision at night I looked and there before me was a fourth beast--terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns." (Daniel 7:7)

And here's how John described the coming world government: "And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns and on each head a blasphemous name. The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion." (Revelation 13:1-2)

Daniel described this global government as authoritative and violent. It will possess the absolute power to destroy those it considers its enemies. And the ten horns he described represent 10 regional kingdoms that will comprise this world government.

John ascribed animal-like qualities to this global government. He described it as a leopard. Why? Because the leopard is a predatory animal that strikes quickly and can run extremely fast. The leopard symbolizes how quickly this government will assume power and spread across the earth. The bear's feet that John described represent the brute strength of this government and the lion's mouth represents the absolute authority that this government will possess.

Though this global government will feature 10 kingdoms or nation groups, why will it have only seven rulers? Daniel revealed that the supreme ruler of this government will arise who will "subdue three kings." (Daniel 7:24)

 

Who will this supreme ruler be? He will be the Antichrist. Why will he remove three kings? Most likely because they will represent a threat to his authority. Therefore, three of the remaining seven kings will each rule two kingdoms.

Both Daniel and John also revealed that this global government will persecute true Christians and put many of them to death. (Daniel 7:25, Daniel 8:24, Revelation 13:7) What's significant about that is the fact that this world government will be partnered with a religious system that will purport to be Christian. But this will be a counterfeit Christian system that true Christians will reject. And when they do, they will be persecuted.

According to John, the world headquarters of this religious system will be located in a city surrounded by seven hills. (Revelation 17:9) There are only two cities in the world that are surrounded by seven hills; Rio de Janeiro that's located in Brazil and Rome that's located in Italy. Rome is the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. And so John's prophecy reveals that the Antichrist will be both a political figure and a religious figure, something that Daniel never revealed.

When is this world government going to appear? It's going to take several years because 193 sovereign world nations must be convinced that it is in their best interests to trade their individual sovereignty for the safety and financial security of a new world order.

Currently, the United Nations and several affiliated groups including the Club of Rome, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission are working with organizations such as the European Union, African Union, CARICOM, (Caribbean Community) the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, (SCO) ASEAN, (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) the Arab League, The Turkic Council and the Commonwealth of Independent States to design and eventually implement a new world order that will consist of 10 regional kingdoms or nation groups.

The major stumbling blocks to the formation of a new world system are manufacturing, trade, security, energy and currency. Obviously, some nations have a lot of those commodities while others have little.

And so, the greatest way to level the playing field is to drain money from wealthy nations and redistribute it across the world to lesser nations. And that's primarily being done through the deceitful schemes such as Climate-Change-Global Warming that are designed to impose punitive taxes upon wealthy nations that use a lot of fossil energy.

Climate-Change-Global Warming is nothing but a hoax that is designed to bankrupt wealthy nations such as the United States and redistribute its wealth to other nations via the U.N. Keep in mind that nations that are economically weak become subject to the influence of powerful nations and global organizations such as the U.N. The very fact that the U.S. continues to rack up colossal debt ($17 trillion) strongly suggests that this is planned to destroy America politically, militarily and economically.

Are we getting close to a world government? While we are probably at least 30 to 50 years away, it's coming. We already have a functioning World Bank, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization and a World Court. 

 

Besides Daniel and John, the ancient Hebrew prophet Isaiah, who lived during the 8^th Century B.C., also revealed that an end time world government is coming. (Isaiah 10:12-14)

Saul Mendlovitz, a member of the CFR and a director of the World Order Models Project (WOMP) said this concerning the inevitably of a global government: "It is my personal belief that there is an overwhelming surge in the direction of global polity and that a world state is emerging. Indeed, some of the policy elite are beginning to discuss a single world central bank and a single currency." Legitimizing Global Tyranny: Moving Towards World Government | Global Research

It's unknown whether Mendlovitz believes in biblical prophecy. As a member of the CFR, he probably doesn't. And yet by his actions, he and his comrades are unwittingly working toward fulfilling biblical prophecy. Indeed, we are living in prophetic times.