This Article: (7 Pages)
- 1. Revelation 17: The prophecy of one... hour
- 2. The Harlot, the Horns and the... Beast leading to the One Hour
- 3. The Beast and Zion
- 4. Revelation 11: 42 months and 1260... days
- 5. Daniel 7: time & times and the... dividing of time (1260 years)
- 6. Daniel 7: The season and a time
- 7. Summary of times
3) The Beast and Zion
The Beast is a system in opposition fundamentally to Zion. Those belonging to the Beast says Mankind reigns, whereas those of Zion seek to serve Yahweh. The significant dates for the growth of the European Union match those for Israel as the two systems grow side by side.
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Zion |
Israel |
Rome |
European Union |
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June 1922-1944 |
Winston Churchill changed the view of the House of Lords to vote in the Balfour Declaration in 1922. To the House of Commons “The coming into being of a Jewish State in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective” 1944 |
Sept 19 1946 |
Winston Churchill at Zurich University 1946 “We must build a kind of United States of Europe” |
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May 14 1948 |
Declaration of the state of Israel |
March 17 1948 |
Western Union Treaty of Brussels (Became NATO in 1951) |
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Oct 29 1956 - March 1957 |
Suez invasion (leading to Six Day war) |
March 25,1957 Jan 1 1958 |
Treaty of Rome: Two treaties one forming the EEC the other for atomic energy (leading to next treaty) |
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June 5, 1967 – June 10, 1967 |
Six Day war Israel claims Jerusalem |
8 April 1965 July 1 1967 |
Brussels Merger Treaty to join the 3 previous European communities |
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1986
1987-1993 |
End of the war in Lebanon establishing the northern Border. Intifada establishing stronger control over Gaza and West bank |
Feb 17 1986 July 1, 1987 |
The Single European Act (SEA) One political entity |
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July 25 1994 Oct 26 1994 |
Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace (Only second peace treaty after that with Egypt in 1979) |
Feb 7 1992 Nov 1, 1993 |
Maastricht Treaty (Common currency) |
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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. (1 Corinthians 4:5)
This may be one of the most misunderstood passages of the Bible. Paul is notorious for long sentences of connected thoughts, and this is part of a complex wide ranging thought which lasts 2 chapters, and includes what seems opposite advice:
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. (1 Cor. 5:11-13)
Over all of history the servants of God have known the signs of the times: their times. They have seen the direction of events toward the Kingdom of God on earth replacing the kingdoms, republics and democracies of humans.
An article prompted by National DNA day April 25 celebrating the understanding of DNA.
As I was thinking to write this article, having just read Psalm 46 as I do each year on that day, on January 25th a Bible was found untouched after a tornado hit Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
We have been given many time periods to prophetic events in the Bible. Many people think it too hard, and do not make an effort to understand them. However, if they were not to be understood, why were they given? And the Bible says the wise shall understand (Daniel 12:10).
