Bible Prophecy & the United Nations Security Council: Understanding the End Times

The Bible contains prophecies about the end times.

The United Nations Security Council is compared to the final world empire.

Daniel's prophecies are a key part of understanding the end times.

The Bible describes a series of empires that will precede the kingdom of heaven.

The Bible is a Christian. The Bible is a Christian. The Bible is a Christian. The Bible is a Christian. The Bible is a Christian. The Bible is a Christian. The Bible is a Christian. One of the problems in teaching Bible prophecy is that it usually involves comparing a lot of different passages of Scripture, more Scriptures than one can cover in a single sermon, in order to reach a significant conclusion as to how all those scriptures relate to one another. Apart from a seminar type setting, it is not easy for any preacher to hold both the people and the thoughts together well enough that the audience can remember what they heard one week after they return to hear more the next week. So what I'm going to try with this video is to give you, the viewer, all the various pieces for one general area of prophecy and let you do some of your own thinking with regard to putting them all together. In other words, I'll zip through a lot of stuff, listing it all, and I will tell you which chapters they come from and then I'm going to trust you and trust my explanation in this video to be able to go through and read it all slowly and in detail, and finish up fully convinced that an important revelation is coming through in all of it. A consistent, relevant, and very logical revelation about what is happening in the world at this very moment. It won't be easy, and it will still take some time to get through even what I'm going to show you now, but it is doable if you will put in some of the effort and not make me do all of your thinking for you. Are you ready? Okay, let's get started. What I want to compare are some fairly basic concepts about the various empires of man throughout history as they are represented in both the book of Daniel and the Revelation. I personally think that Daniel's prophecies are the most overpowering evidence for divine inspiration in the entire Old Testament, and hopefully you'll have some idea about why I feel that way after you have watched this video. The main chapters I'll be looking at are the 7th chapter of Daniel and the 13th chapter of the Revelation, but I'll start first with something from the 2nd chapter of Daniel. Daniel lived during the time of the Babylonian Empire. He was more or less a slave to the Babylonian king. The king had had a dream and he couldn't remember it, but he knew that it was very important. So, like with Joseph in Egypt, God revealed to Daniel what the dream was and God also gave him a prophetic interpretation for the dream. The king had dreamt about a huge statue of himself. The head, at least, which was made of gold, was this Babylonian king, King Nebuchadnezzar. The arms and chests were made of silver, the stomach and thighs were of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet and toes were made of iron mixed with clay. Eventually, a stone, a very special stone, hit the feet of the image and totally pulverized it, smashed it to dust, and then the stone grew into a mountain that the Bible says filled the whole earth. Daniel said that the various parts of the statue, made of different metals, represented succeeding kingdoms after the Babylonian Empire. The value of the metals in each kingdom would become progressively less, suggesting that the history of the human race as God sees it is not becoming more and more noble over the centuries , but actually that the world has gradually become less and less in tune with what God originally intended for us as a species. Daniel made special reference to the legs of iron, and then the feet and toes made of iron mixed with clay. the last kingdom before the kingdom of heaven comes. He said the iron kingdom would be very strong. The kingdom that was to come after it would also be strong like iron but it would have mixed in with it what Daniel called partly broken components represented by the clay But then one day this amazing kingdom from heaven will come out of nowhere a stone not made by any human being, and it will destroy everything that the statue represented leading to the establishment of heavenly rule all over the world. Now, for a quick summary of how this image is generally interpreted. The Babylonian Empire at the top of the image is obvious, but it was predicting that Nebuchadnezzar's empire would eventually be replaced by the Medo-Persian Empire, an alliance symbolized by the two arms of the image. That empire, in turn, would be replaced by the Greek Empire, which is represented by the brass stomach and thighs. The very strong iron legs were to be the Roman Empire, which eventually divided into East and West, thus the two legs. And then there is the final world empire, an empire which is the subject of this video. That is, a mix of strong countries and weak countries finishing with ten toes. Okay, I've mainly included this story, because it sets the scene of what we'll read in the 7th chapter of Daniel. Along with the revelation in the New Testament, Daniel gives us a picture of all the kingdoms of man referred to as beasts or animals, in contrast to the coming peaceful and eternal kingdom of our God, our Creator, the Maker of heaven and earth. But don't forget about that last empire, the mixture of iron and clay, ending in ten toes. So now let's turn over to chapter 7. In this chapter, Daniel has a dream, and in his dream he sees four different animals. One animal is a lion with eagle wings. Daniel sees the wings plucked off the lion, at which point the lion stops being an animal, and it turns into a man. The next animal is a bear with three ribs in its mouth. The third is a leopard with the wings of a chicken. He says that this animal, the leopard with chicken wings, which has four different heads at one time or another, ends up being given dominion of some sort. But all of these animals are dwarfed by comparison to a fourth creature, which is different to all the others. It has iron teeth and brass claws. It is exceedingly strong, and it goes on a rampage, devouring and breaking and stamping with its feet. At this point, the dream zooms in for a close-up of the ten horns on the head of this final beast. Another little horn appears among these horns, and it uproots three other horns in the process. This horn, Daniel discovers, is actually a man who says some shocking things. But then the scene changes to a day of judgment by God, the Ancient of Days. This horn, this amazing man, is destroyed and burned with fire. And someone called the Son of Man is appointed to rule forever over a new heavenly kingdom. and we are told that the saint of the Most High will possess this final kingdom of God forever and ever. Someone standing beside Daniel in the dream offers to interpret the dream for him. Daniel is particularly drawn to the fourth animal and the mystery of those ten horns and the horn that destroyed three other horns in order to gain power over all the rest. In particular, in verse 21, he notices that this world leader makes war against the saints of the Most High, and the evil leader actually prevails against them. Saints everywhere are tormented by this evil world leader for a period of three and a half years, a time of great testing after which God will destroy both the leader and his kingdom Okay so there you have some more pieces I won go into detail on them because I want to shift forward now all the way up to the time when John wrote the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Some people say that the prophecies of Daniel were fulfilled by the time Jesus arrived, but John's revelation suggests otherwise. He saw an application of much that Daniel wrote about, but he saw it as yet to come in human history. We take it up in the 13th chapter of the Revelation. In John's vision, he sees much the same animals, but they are all combined as one this time. There may have been some symbolism in those animals throughout history, but the symbolism all comes together in the last empire. This animal is a conglomerate of a leopard, a bear and a lion, but there is also a dragon giving it power. Remember in Daniel's dream? The lion had eagle wings which were plucked, and the leopard had chicken wings. These wings are not mentioned in the Revelation. This final animal is also described as having seven heads and ten horns. Remember that Daniel's fourth animal also had ten horns. All of this is described in the first ten verses of the 13th chapter of the Revelation. There is an obvious similarity in the particular animals which are described in the two accounts, and I want to look at that now. As I noted in my comments on the second chapter of Daniel, these two books are concerned with the overall political history of the human race. The focus is primarily on what are known as the Holy Lands, plus parts of Europe and Asia. So what I am suggesting in this video is that whether or not these creatures have some historical symbolism leading up to the Roman Empire I think they are also telling us something about the Final World Empire an empire which is on our doorstep at this particular time in history. and I want to suggest that what they are illustrating in great detail is the United Nations Security Council and its unique structure. The Security Council is the working end of that great body of nations. It is the part of that world body which makes all the real decisions that affect the world today. The Council is composed of five permanent members and ten rotating members. The permanent members are the United States, England, Russia, China and France. The ten rotating members are taken from all the other countries of the world. Control of the Council rests largely in the hands of the five permanent members. Two of them are Communists and three are Democracies . In order for the communist members to control the council, they would need to control or subdue those other three members in one way or another. Now, let's look at each of these five countries in animal terms. England is traditionally represented as a lion, and the United States, which grew out of England, is traditionally represented as an eagle. Russia is traditionally represented as a bear, China is traditionally represented as a dragon, and France is traditionally represented as a male chicken, a rooster. Can you see the similarities? Could this bee explain the way merely as a string of amazing coincidences? Let us look closer. The bear, in Daniel's dream, has three ribs in its mouth. The Revelation beast, much like the golden image of Nebuchadnezzar, is seen as having had seven heads. I would suggest that these are seven major Western empires throughout Bible history Egyptian Assyrian Babylonian Persian Greek Roman and then one last world empire one which is different from all the others marked by a committee of ten different nations or kingdoms with a dragon controlling it all According to Daniel, that last head had ten horns on it, and one little horn sprang up and took control by subduing three other kings or kingdoms. Could these be the three countries which stand in the way of total communist control over the world? The United States, England and France? In Daniel's dream, there is specific mention of the eagle wings being plucked from the lion, and when that happens, the lion itself disappears. It turns into just another human, no longer an animal, meaning that it is no longer a kingdom. Now, without support from either the US or England, France would then be no different to all the other countries of the world. just a reflection of the relative powerlessness of the rest of the world. Daniel saw the wings of a fowl on the back of a leopard, but John, in the Revelation, just refers to a leopard with no special reference to the fowl. Nevertheless, that leopard makes up the bulk of the final beast, and so we need to give it careful consideration. So who or what is it? Bear in mind that another name for a black leopard is a panther. They are the same animal, just different colors. Today's world would associate a leopard with Africa, and a panther in particular we would associate with black power. But could this animal eventually represent all of the world outside of the two great superpowers? That is one of the two points I have made in reference to these two chapters that is not patently obvious at this point in history. For this interpretation to work, we must assume that the symbol of a leopard or panther will eventually extend to represent the rest of the world outside the superpowers. If this happened, however, France would certainly be closer to the rest of the world in its role globally than it would be to the other superpowers on the United Nations Security Council. and I am suggesting that this is why the chicken wings are left out along with the eagle wings. One other fairly significant weakness in what I am saying relates to these three horns which are attacked by the bear in Daniel 7 verse 5, and by the little horn in Daniel 7 verse 8. In the King James translation of Daniel 7 verse 8, the three horns which are subdued by the little horn appear to be three of the ten horns, or the rotating members of the Security Council, if, in fact, they are referring to the UN Security Council at all. Whereas what I am saying is that they are the three permanent democratic members of the United Nations Security Council, that is, America, England and France. They will need to be silenced in order to give the two communist powers total control of the world. Remember this with prophecy. It only gradually becomes clear. It is written in that way. All of this has not happened yet, and there are probably bits of information which I and other Bible expositors are still missing. So it's quite possible that a translator made an assumption about where the three subdued horns would come from in Daniel 7 verse 8, and that assumption caused them to make a translating error. For now, I would encourage you to read through those chapters, noting the various details, but also following the description of things that happened to determine whether there is fairly clear consistency in what I have just said about all three of these chapters Daniel 2, Daniel 7, and the Revelation chapter 13. I'll leave it there. If you found this video helpful, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up. and if you haven't already subscribed to the channel, please do so. We're having some problems from forces which are trying to silence us here, so we never know from one day to the next how much longer we will be able to keep broadcasting this way. So please feel free to copy what you see here and share it everywhere that you can think of. Thank you for your support. God bless you. Thank you.

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