THE MYSTERY UNRAVEIL (PART ONE)

The power of prophecy as explained has brought this issue unto mind. it is a very complicated issue. but thanks to the God of Daniel the revealer of all secrets to those who fear his holy name. the mysteries behind the beasts and the likes is going to be unraveil in due time.these are the necessary menu i will like you to add to your memory. this is the beast in revelation 13 whose meaning would be explained in details.now let's go to the unraveilment intoto.from the begining of the creation, it was stated in theword of the most high God that God made the heaven and the earth. but is that all?
from the chronology of God's work i discovered the true meaning of the book of revelation.

what do beast mean as indicated in the prophetic scriptures? Rivers, Oceans, and Seas? what does mountain signifies according to the apocalypsis?

Here lies the purpose of creating this blog to reach out to the world concerning the unraveilment of the mysteries immemorials.

As a christian, do you still believe the scriptures the way they were written, thereby interpreting it the way it comes? I think you need to have the deeper meaning of the world of God especially all these terms.

So, i invite you to join me in an adventure into the world of mysteries as we are set to unleash the mysteries altogether.

It was not known then, because the time has not ripe for it to be revealed but here is the time for its unraveilment according to the words of the angel which says:"...for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end"(Dan. 12: 9).
here lies the time of the end, for the veil upon the mysteries had been tored into pieces, therefore, it is time you get to know what MENE really means in relation to the world and its game player GOD.

Indeed: "this matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will..."(Dan. 4:17).

THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH
this is a very vital part to know about our planet. The purpose of bringing this to mind is to create bitter(if the anglophones permit me to use it) awareness.

We shall expose this together by Visiting the mysteric part of the word of God.

Daniel was a great prophet whose revelation explained in details all we could ever called the 'MENES OF THE EARTH' when he wrote while explaining Nebuchadnessar's dream: "thou, o King, sawest, and behold a great image, this great image, whose brigtness was excellent, stood before thee and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay"(Dan. 2:31-33).This was a great exposition which shall be explained successively. but before we reveal the meaning of this, i will like to unveil from the scratch the kingdoms of the earth.

THE FIRST KINGDOM
the first kingdom upon the surface of the earth were simploid but mysterious.it was like a worm(wormoid) arising out of the earth. however it is quite mysterious indeed. when it appeared, it looks helpless and so meek, but its fruit were quite disasterous. what could this be? this is no other than the tower of babel. it looks so small to be recognised in history but it was indeed the pioneer kingdom in the development of our planet. in its time it was built almost to the topmost heaven to indicate its dreams to quickly rule the world and indeed in its time it did so temporarily until it was stopped by the divine creator. this was later sent packing but it was not extinct, as it still reappears in our world. in other words it was cysted. it was recorded of it in this form:"And the whole earth was of one alanguage, and of one speech.And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of aShinar; and they dwelt there.And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and aslime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth"(Gen. 11: 1-4).
As we all know, in the Geographic classification of lithospheric succession, Plain is the starter. so this kingdom was a PLAIN.
however, the fear of this kingdom was:'...lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth' and so the heaven consolidated on their fear to scatter them (to read more on what you should fear most, click here.

This kingdom appeared as a worm for it was void of manpower facilities. but, God sent it packing by tackling its fear. this was recorded of in this form: " And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do" (Vv. 5-6).

Do you see the power of Unity now? Unity is the strongest among all the problems that could pose a lot of treat to heaven's aim at destroying anything. and that was why David was inspired to put it in this form: "behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"(Ps. 133:1).

this became also the fears of the heavens, for they knew that the only way to conquer Babel is to destroy first the spirit of Unity in them. So, they declared Jihad on it when they said:"Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city"(Gen. 11: 7-8)

this kingdom was given a red card though not extinct as it still appeared in many of our modern kingdoms. This was the embryology of the first kingdom.

THE SECOND KINGDOM EXPLAINED
THE second kingdom was a dogoid (dog like) kingdom. it appears as twins, it has two horns of almost the same height and they were on the same head. IT was recorded of it in this form:"And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake bunleavened bread, and they did eat.But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door"(Gen. 19: 1-9). this kingdom was indeed a wore. their culture were HOMOSEXUALISM. they were valleyoid (valley like) kingdom which rule over nations in their time, even over the plains.

This sin of theirs was of high rank. God approved positive times Negative not positive vs positive, Neither Negative vs Negative.

To cut the already known story short, the heaven declaired war on them. this dogoid was also sent packing like the wormoid although it too was not sent into perdition, its judgment was recorded of in this form: "Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground"(Vv.19: 24-25).

this kingdom also came back to show itself in our world.

THE THIRD KINGDOM(FIRST MOUNTAIN) EXPLAINED
THE THIRD KINGDOM on the surface of the earth was a MOUNTAIN. it was the first mountain.

THIS KINGDOM was a TIGEROID kingdom. so fierce indeed, so aggressive in nature, so terrifying and full of wars. when i say Tigeroid, i means tiger-like. this was no other than the EGYPTIAN empire. they remains the first modern kingdom, the first mountain in the history of the world, the first world power and the first world, they were also the dawn of war weapons and spiritualism in advanced. this kingdom conquered a lot of kingdoms, in fact they rule over all the earth in their time. This was no other than the Egyptian kingdom, the first to be called an EMPIRE.

in its time the heaven was challenged to raise more kingdoms for the purpose of breeding his children. they feed nations as recorded: "and all countries came into Egypt for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands"(Gen. 41: 57).they also enslaved the israelites for 400years.

Their war power was first unleashed at the chasing of the israelites as recorded: "And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and ball the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them"(Ex. 14:5-7). they were the first kingdom to show their war power in history as this. HERE IS THE FIRST KING IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE PROPHECIES.

In the reign of the last Ramessid king the High Priest of Amon usurped the throne and ruled as openly supreme; the Empire became a stagnant theocracy in which architecture and superstition flourished, and every other element in the national life decayed and Thus begun the conquest of Egypt. The prosperity of the country had come in part from its strategic place on the main line of Mediterranean trade; its metals and wealth had given it mastery over Libya on the west, and over Phoenicia, Syria and Palestine on the north and east.
Egypt was a land of so much gold, silver and all other wealthy materials to the extent that almost all their idols were made of all these metals and materials.
The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians included a system of mathematics, quarrying, surveying and construction techniques that facilitated the building of monumental pyramids, temples, obelisks, faience and glass technology, a practical and effective system of medicine, new forms of literature, irrigation systems and agricultural production techniques, and the earliest known peace treaty.Egypt left a lasting legacy: art and architecture were copied and antiquities paraded around the world, and monumental ruins have inspired the imaginations of tourists and writers for centuries. A newfound respect for antiquities and excavations in the early modern period led to the scientific investigation of Egyptian civilization and a greater appreciation of its cultural legacy for Egypt and the world.

Stunning advances in architecture, art, and technology were made during the Old Kingdom, fueled by the increased agricultural productivity made possible by a well developed central administration.Under the direction of the vizier, state officials collected taxes, coordinated irrigation projects to improve crop yield, drafted peasants to work on construction projects, and established a justice system to maintain peace and order.With the surplus resources made available by a productive and stable economy, the state was able to sponsor construction of colossal monuments and to commission exceptional works of art from the royal workshops. The pyramids built by Djoser, Khufu, and their descendants are the most memorable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization, and power of the pharaohs that controlled it.


But as times goes by Egypt began to lose his power. they were first weakened by the most high when they revolt against the children of israel, the host of pharaoh were sent packing from the surface of the earth causing the kingdom to become more weakened. that encounter was recorded of in Ex.14: 1-28.
Secondly they were weakened the more at the appearance of their rival, i mean the fourth kingdom which happened to be the second mountain and the second world power. who could this be, you may ask? it shall be explain in details. also we need to know the reason why Egypt was the only kingdom that remain out of all those ancient kingdoms.

THE FOURTH KINGDOM(THE SECOND MOUNTAIN) EXPLAINED
The fourth kingdom upon the earth was the Assyrian Empire. They were the second mountain, the second world power and the SECOND KING IN PROPHECIES.

Assyria or Asshur, occupied the Tigris Valley to the north of the Babylonia. Its centre lay on the left banks of the Tigris, where the great city of Nineveh stood, opposite Mosul.

It was recorded of their valiancy in this form: "Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my Hand? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king od Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?"(Isa. 36: 19; 37: 13). these are the Captives of the Assyrian Empire under their then Great King Sennacherib.

In its time, Assyria outshine the Egyptian Empire. The first strong Assyrian state was formed in the late Bronze Age in the wake of the decline of the Mitanni, a confederation of tribes living along the upper reaches of the Tigris River. In the fourteenth century B.C.E., Ashururballit led his people in an expansion westward, during which they came to control the upper arch of the Fertile Crescent for approximately a century. The Assyrians ran up against the power of Aram (situated in modern-day Syria), which blocked their access to western trade routes. Still, the early success coupled with the continued fighting against Aram made the Assyrian army strong and experienced, able to defend itself and mount major raids far to the south and west. With this powerful military, Assyria dominated the Near East in 900 B.C.E. Assyrian Empire was cited in the scripture: " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of aEden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches"(Ezek. 31: 3-13).

Initially, the Assyrians’ main objective was to expand to the Mediterranean coast in order to control the major trade routes of ancient times. Assyrian armies finally overcame the resistance of nations led by Aram, and they captured the major city of Damascus in 732 B.C.E. Old Testament accounts tell of Assyrian attacks into Samaria and Judah, and fighting against the Egyptians. Assyria established empire status under the leadership of Sargon II (722–705 B.C.E.), who named himself after the Sumerian leader Sargon the Great, the first well-known conqueror. Sargon II’s son Sennacherib maintained the lands his father had conquered, and raided Asia Minor after 700 B.C.E. Sennacherib established control over Phoenician towns on the Mediterranean coast all the way to the Egyptian frontier. In 703 Merodach-Baladan II again seized power in Babylon, and though Sennacherib quickly put down the revolt, resistance continued for the next 13 years. Sennacherib campaigned to the north, taking tribute from the Medes, then west, defeating the Egyptians at the Battle of Elteqeh in 701. Next it was Judah’s turn and Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem. But when King Hezekiah paid tribute, the Assyrians choke off the siege (See 715–640). In 689, Babylon revolted again, with Elamite assistance, but was sacked and burnt to the ground. Sennacherib transformed Nineveh, on the east bank of the Tigris, into a city of unparalleled splendor, and it remained the Assyrian capital until the end of the empire. In the 7th century, the population of Mesopotamia reached a height (until modern times) of around 2 million inhabitants. Sennacherib’s eldest son had died before him, so he designated his youngest son Esarhaddon as heir. This led to a revolt by his older sons, and the king’s assassination.

The last of the great emperors was Esarhaddon (681–668 B.C.E.), who came to the throne by murdering his father, Sennacherib. To secure his frontiers, Esarhaddon coupled diplomacy with warfare. He entered into agreements with the Medes to the east and the Cimmerians to the north, but also invaded Egypt, a nation seemingly always in rebellion against the Assyrian demands for tribute. By the end of Esarhaddon’s reign, Assyrian territory stretched from the Persian Gulf across the Fertile Crescent and halfway down the Nile in Egypt. The Assyrians were the first people to institutionalize cruelty to control the lands they acquired. Towns destroyed in battle were left in ruins as an example to other possible foes. Ashurnasipal bragged, “I caused great slaughter. I destroyed, I demolished, I burned. I took their warriors prisoner and impaled them on stakes before their cities. . . . I flayed the nobles, as many as had rebelled, and spread their skins out on the piles [of dead bodies]. . . . Many of the captives I burned in a fire. Many I took alive; from some I cut off their hands to the wrist, from others I cut off their noses, ears and fingers; I put out the eyes of many soldiers. I burnt their young men and women to death.” This boast was not just Ashurnasipal’s; every leader acted in the same fashion. It is not surprising that they had to deal with constant rebellion; they certainly inspired no loyalty from their subjects. they were the first to add cavalry to their army, which often proved the decisive factor in their victories. Assyria was the first state, but certainly not the last, to build its society around the armed forces. They established what may be called the first true empire, because whereas most previous warriors campaigned mainly for loot and tribute, the Assyrians established political control by appointing governors in conquered lands. Had they had the statesmanship skills to match their military prowess, they could not only have lasted longer as an empire, but they would also have had an even greater impact on the progress of ancient society and culture. Assurbanipal was the last of the Assyrian kings. More of a scholar than a warrior, he let his generals punish the rebellious while he established a large library at Nineveh.

however, Assyria never gave Egypt the kind of defeat that could wipe them off. I mean they were not able to send them to extinction.

THE MODERN KINGDOMS
THE FIFTH KINGDOM EXPLAINED (THE THIRD MOUNTAIN)
Daniel explained further:"Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this ahead of gold" (Dan 2: 37-38). This was the fifth kingdom upon the surface of the earth. it was also the third mountain, the third world power and THE THIRD KING IN PROPHECIES.

in the time of this kingdom, Assyria were given thorough defeat. The Assyrian Empire collapsed quickly. which could this kingdom then be? it was no other than the CHALDEAN MONARCHY BABYLONIAN EMPIRE. Babylon is Akkadian "babilani" which means 'the Gate of God(s)' and it became the capital of the land of Babylonia. Babylonia was a long, narrow country about 40 miles wide at its widest point and having an area of about 8,000 square miles. It was bordered on the north by Assyria, on the east by Elam, on the south and west by the Arabian desert, and on the southeast by the Persian Gulf. Around 2000 BC Hammurapi emerged as the ruler of Babylonia. He expanded the borders of the Empire and organized its laws into a written system, also known as the Code of Hammurapi. Around 626 BC, Babylonian independence was finally won from Assyria by Nabopolassar. Under his leadership, Babylonia again became the dominant imperial power in the Near East and thus entered into her "golden age." In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II, the son of Nabopolassar, became ruler and reigned for 44 years. Under him the Babylonian Empire reached its greatest strength. Using the treasures which he took from other nations, Nebuchadnezzar built Babylon, the capital city of Babylonia, into one of the leading cities of the world. The famous hanging gardens of Babylon were known to the Greeks as one of the seven wonders of the world. Nebuchadnessar's might was explained: "the tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it ws meat for all; under which the beast s og the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation. it is thou, o king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth" (Dan. 4: 20-22).

The gold as used to describe this kingdom symbolises richness and great wealth. it also signifies a well behaved and cordinated kingdom. this kingdom was later described in one of Daniel's visions as this: " Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings" (Dan. 7: 2-4a). Lion as we all know symbolizes Dominion and Pride. Now the Lion had eagle's wings. Eagle is the most powerful of all the birds and it symbolizes great strength. This was always the attribute of God himself.

This was the kingdom that as prophesied by Ezekiel would subdue the power of Egypt in a fatal way as recorded:"And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord"(Ezek. 30:24-26) "and the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that i am the lord: because he hath said, the river is mine, and i have made it...No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it..."(Ezek. 29"9-11).

Egypt was subdued indeed but was never destroyed. and that was why we still have a country bearing that Name today. this was the same Egypt of then only that they were not ruling as then. why? God said: "...at the end of forty years will i gather the Egyptians from the people wither they were scattered. and i will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation and they shall be there A BASE KINGDOM"(Ezek. 29: 13-14). the prophecy furthered: "It (Egypt) shall be the BASEST OF THE KINGDOMS, neither shall it exalt itself ANY MORE above the nations for i will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations"(Ezek. 29: 15).

Yes Egypt today is an ordinary nation, its dominion had been taken away only that its life was prolonged.

Assyria was also not left out in the defeat. Ashurbanipal attacked Egypt indeed and, in two campaigns (667–666 and 664–663), defeated Pharaoh Taharka and his son Tenuatamun and extended Assyrian power as far south as Thebes (747–656). But in 652, Shamash-shuma-ukin tried to overthrow his brother with Elamite help, and civil war raged until 648, when Shamash-shuma-ukin finally surrendered in Babylon. Susa was taken and sacked in 639, but the civil wars had revealed Assyria’s weakness to its enemies.

There was apparently a revolt on Ashurbanipal’s death, and his son Ashur-etil-ilani (626BCE) ruled only a few months.The usurper, Sin-shum-lishar (626BCE), also kept the throne only a short period. At this point, the Chaldean Nabopolassar declared himself king of Babylon. Sin-shar-ishkun (626–612), another son of Ashurbanipal,took back the throne of Assyria and stabilized the internal situation. Soon, however, Cyaxares, king of the Medes, and the Babylonian king, Nabopolassar, joined forces to attack Assyria. After a protracted struggle,Nineveh fell in 612BCE and was completely destroyed. An Assyrian noble, Ashur-uballit II (611–609) proclaimed himself king at Harran in Syria. The Babylonians took Harran in 610, however, and an attempt by the Assyrians, now allied to the Egyptians, to retake the city fell through. All these two kingdoms (Egypt and Assyria) were swallowed to either become a city, town, province or states in Babylon.The babylonia was also qualified as Head of the modern kingdom. So, as we all know, in head lies the brain and all the active sense organs. This symbolises intelligence. Throughout the long period of Babylonia history, the Babylonians achieved a high level of civilization that made an impact on the whole known world. Sumerian culture was its basis, which later Babylonians regarded as traditional. In the area of religion, the Sumerians already had a system of gods, each with a main temple in each city. The chief gods were Anu, god of heaven; Enlil, god of the air; and Enki or Ea, god of the sea. Others were Shamash, the sungod; Sin, the moon-god; Ishtar, goddess of love and war; and Adad, the storm-god. The Amorites promoted the god Marduk at the city of Babylon, so that he became the chief god of the Babylonian religion, starting around 1100 BC.

Babylonian literature was mainly dominated by mythology and legends. Among these was a creation myth written to glorify their god Marduk. According to this myth, Marduk created heaven and earth from the corpse of the goddess Tiamat. Another work was the Gilgamesh Epic, a flood story written about 2000 BC. Scientific literature of the Babylonians included treatises on astronomy, mathematics, medicine, chemistry, botany, and nature. with all these one would conclude that, the Babylonian Empire was the fountain of knowledge for all the subsequent kingdoms.

Traditionally the history of Babylonia has been broken down into three major periods:
The Old Babylonian Period (2000-1595 BC),
The Middle Babylonian Period (1595-1000 BC) and
The Neo-Babylonian Period (1000-539 BC).

all these gave birth to another set of vision. Daniel furthered: "...i behold till the wings thereof were plucked and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it"(Dan.7: 4b). what could this mean? ABASEMENT.

When Nebuchadnessar heard from Daniel's interpretation to his dream that he was the head of gold, he took it to his head and that lead him to make a golden image as described:"Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon"(Dan. 3:1). Daniel describing him as the head of gold and as a king of kings was the propelling force for him to develop that mentality of sharing glory with God, " Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up"(V.2) and to compound his woes, he made a decree:"... To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up" (Vv. 4-7).

He shared Glory with God although he doesn't know yet the kind of God he was dealing with, and so, God himself decided to reveal his true nature unto him by teaching him a vital lesson. God said: "i am the Lord, that is my name: and my glory will i not give to another, neither my praise to graven images"(Isa. 42:8).

As a result of the wings that Nebuchadnezzar developed, God dethroned him according to the vision which says: "... I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him"(Dan. 4: 10-16).

His wings was indeed plucked up b the fulfilment of this prophecy, as recorded,"All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built afor the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws"(Vv. 28, 33).And to show that this was indeed the chaldean head, the Lion after his wings plucked up was made to walk on the earth, so also Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom was not cut off but weakened as recorded:"And whereas they commanded to leae the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee..."(V.26).

We also need to know what the sea as used in the prophetic scriptures signifies in comparation to the earth. but first, let's go and dig the rest of the kingdoms till we reach our target.

THE SIXTH KINGDOM EXPLAINED(THE FOURTH MOUNTAIN)
Daniel continued his explanation of the mysteries when he said: "And after thee shall shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass; which shallbear rule over allthe earth"(Dan. 2: 39). this happened to be the ante to two other Visions which are the same in meaning, though divers as seen.

In Daniel chapter 7, The vision furthered:"And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh"(V.5). Now this gave rise to another set of vision which goes thus:"In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the ariver of Ulai. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great"(Dan. 8: 1-4).
all these vision are the same. wait a minute! kingdoms rising and falling, what do they stand to achieve? and why was it that all the beasts rose up out of the sea? all these shall be unleash subsequently.

Now, what could this three visions represent? it was described with these characteristics:
1)it is a kingdom of silver
2)it is a chest and arm (combination of two kingdoms)
3)it is a bear-like kingdom

4)it is a ram; also with two horns as (2). One horn is higher than the other just as the arms remains higher than the chest.

What could this mean? A kingdom of silver. What does silver represent? Beauty. infact, extreme beauty. also, a bear as we all know is an animal that looks so gentle but too aggressive infront of any attacks. in fact, for anaconda to kill a mature bear, it requires special skill. also, a ram too from the muslim world, represent a weapon of honour as well as an aggressive animal with much strength and perseverance through which it subdued another of its kind to acclaim domination and also make the owner proud.

Which then could this kingdom be? this was a kingdom described in this form:"Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from INDIA even unto ETHIOPIA, over an HUNDRED AND SEVEN AND TWENTY provinces:),Where were WHITE, GREEN, and BLUE, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and PURPLE to SILVERED rings and pillars of marble: THE BEDS WERE OF GOLD AND SILVER, upon a pavement of RED, and BLUE, and WHITE, and BLACK, marble. And THEY GAVE THEM DRINK IN VESSELS OF GOLD,(the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king"(Esther 1: 1, 6-7). WHOW!!! WHAT A KINGDOM.
THIS WAS INDEED A BEAUTIFUL KINGDOM WORTHY TO BE CLASSIFIED AS SILVER AS WE ALL KNOW, GOLD IS THE MOST COSTLY THING; SILVER, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING AND DIAMOND, THE MOST PRECIOUS THING.

which could this kingdom be? An Angel rescued us:"the ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of MEDIA and PERSIA"(Dan.8: 20). this kingdom was neither OSAMA BIN LADEN AND SADAM MUSSEIN as many termed it especially the source from the already closed site of an author saying what God does not direct him to say, i mean www.bushisantichrist.com. at least i am not the angel who gave the answer in a simple way. you see, the scripture is not just to be interpret according to our present condition or the way the present looks, the mysteric part of God's words should be from thorough research, both scriptural and natural occurences.

Now, the kingdom described as having two horns and that one is higher than the other whereas the taller came last, means that one of these two kingdoms had been in exi stence, only that it wasn't effective until its co-power jointed to it.

Of the two main Indo-European tribes moving south into Iran, it is at first the Medes who play the dominant role. With a capital at Ecbatana (modern Hamadan), they establish themselves as powerful neighbours of Assyria. In 612 they combine with Babylon to sack the Assyrian capital at Nineveh. Their spoils are northern Assyria and much of Anatolia, where the Halys river becomes the border between themselves and Lydia.

The Medes already control much of Iran including Fars, in the southwest. This is the heartland of the Parsa or Persians, whose king is a vassal of the Medes. The balance between the Medes and the Persians rapidly changes after Cyrus II becomes king of the Persians in 559 BC. He rebels against the Medes in 553. Three years later he captures their king and their capital city, Ecbatana. He then presses west to secure and expand his new empire. He seizes the Lydian capital, Sardis, in 546, together with Croesus, its famously rich king. His armies then continue west to dominate the Greek cities of Ionia, extending his power to the shores of the Aegean.

Babylon and Mesopotamia fall to him next, in 539. The basis of the first Persian empire (the Achaemenid empire) has been set in place within a mere eleven years of Cyrus defeating the Medes. He has earned his title 'the Great'.

Cyrus is a politician as well as a conqueror. He presents himself as liberator of Babylon, releasing the people from the yoke of an unpopular king, and he is received as such. He makes a point of respecting the Babylonian religion. He allows the Jews to return from their Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem, and encourages the rebuilding of their Temple.

Persian empire was the higher although it came up last as recorded:"thus saith Cyrus, king of persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the lord of heaven given to me;..."(2 Chro. 36: 23, Ezra1: 2). the persian were lifted up by the God of the heavens, but the medes raised itself up to fulfill that which was said that:'it raised up itself on on side'.

in the time of this co-kingdom, Babylon fell through and was swallowed to be first a province and later a capital of one the medo-persian cities.
Daniel furthered: "...and it had three ribs in the mounth of it between the teeth of it..."(Dan.7: 5). this indicate that the empire is unable to swallow some kingdoms, even though it defeated all these kingdoms, it was unable to claim it as its own. which could these three ribs be? one of them was Egypt. the other being Babylon and the last being the Tyre and Sidon.

it was Cyrus who united the medes and persians, conquered babylon by diverting its protective river, Euphrates in 538BCE. it was also this Cyrus that founded the Persian Empire which extend from Afganistan to the meditterranean, including Asia Minor. its capitals were Persepolis, Babylon, Susa or Shushan, and Ecbatana or Achmetha. Judea was a subject province to the Persian Empire from 530 till 334BCE, when it passed along with the other province into the hands of Alexander the Great.

Media was a country between the caspian sea and Elam, bounded by mount Zagros on the west and perthia on the east. It was at one time a tributary province of the Assyrian empire, but shook off the yoke in the reign of Assurbanipal, and the Media king Cyaxares joined with the overthrew of Nineveh. Cyrus, by his defeat of Astyages(550BCE), gained possession of Media which he united with the Persian kingdom.

THE SEVENTH KINGDOM(FIFTH MOUNTAIN) EXPLAINED
Daniel exposed further:" After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it"(Dan.7: 6). this kingdom was later seeing as:"And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes"Dan 8:5). which could this kingdom be? in Daniel chapter seven, it was recorded of it to have four heads, it rose out from the sea, in Daniel chapter two, it was a kingdom of belly and thigh of bronze, and in Daniel chapter eight, it was a kingdom described as a he-goat. also as a kingdom represented with leopard, it means that it belongs to the cat family and signifies great strength, dominion and pride.

Let's look at this character vividly: a kingdom risen out from the sea doesn't mean that it emanate indeed from the sea. this is where the meaninbg of sea in the prophetic scriptures would be made known. Let me ask you; who are the sea as refered to in the prophetic scriptures? the Bible answered: " And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues"(Rev. 17: 15). so simple. FROM THE SEA means from the world while from the earth means from MEN"S creativity, inspiration, creation and/or ideas. what do i mean? MEN are the earth as we are all made from the earth. and this gave us a clue to interpreting that beast from the earth in the book of Revelation chapter eighteen. Now the kingdom being described as a kingdom of Bronze means that it was a third ordered kingdom, it was also the down of advanced culture and Industrialization. Now the kingdom being described as a he-goat means that it was a kingdom of high rate of infatuation and adulteries or perhaps the kingdom in which such is legalized.

those are the first clue and with these we arrived at a suitable answer. the Angel answered Daniel in responce to his zealously to know the real meaning of that he-goat when he said:"And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king"(Dan.8: 21). look at how it was described. it has a pioneer, who was the first king and here we arrived at the answers. THIS WAS NO OTHER KINGDOM THAN WHAT THE ANGEL CALLED IT: I MEAN THE GREECIAN EMPIRE. this kingdom was ruled by alexander the great as recorded of him in the book of the maccabees: "After Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came from the land of Kittim, had defeated Darius, king of the Persians and the Medes, he succeeded him as king. (He had previously become king of Greece.) He fought many battles, conquered strongholds, and put to death the kings of the earth.He advanced to the ends of the earth, and plundered many nations. When the earth became quiet before him, he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up.He gathered a very strong army and ruled over countries, nations, and princes, and they became tributary to him"(1 Maccabees 1: 1-4).
Alexander the Great (Alexander III), king of Macedonia, overthrew the Persian Empire, carried Macedonian arms to India, and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world of territorial kingdoms. Already in his lifetime the subject of fabulous stories, he later became the hero of a full-scale legend bearing only the sketchiest resemblance to his historical career.
He was born in 356 BC at Pella in Macedonia, the son of Philip II and Olympias (daughter of King Neoptolemus of Epirus). From age 13 to 16 he was taught by Aristotle, who inspired him with an interest in philosophy, medicine, and scientific investigation; but he was later to advance beyond his teacher's narrow precept that non-Greeks should be treated as slaves.

Left in charge of Macedonia in 340 during Philip's attack on Byzantium, Alexander defeated the Maedi, a Thracian people; two years later he commanded the left wing at the Battle of Chaeronea, in which Philip defeated the allied Greek states, and displayed personal courage in breaking the Sacred Band of Thebes. A year later Philip divorced Olympias; and, after a quarrel at a feast held to celebrate his father's new marriage, Alexander and his mother fled to Epirus, and Alexander later went to Illyria. Shortly afterward, father and son were reconciled and Alexander returned; but his position as heir was jeopardized.

In 336, however, on Philip's assassination, Alexander, acclaimed by the army, succeeded without opposition. He at once executed the princes of Lyncestis, alleged to be behind Philip's murder, along with all possible rivals and the whole of the faction opposed to him.

He then marched south, recovered a wavering Thessaly, and at an assembly of the Greek League at Corinth was appointed generalissimo for the forthcoming invasion of Asia, already planned and initiated by Philip.

Returning to Macedonia by way of Delphi (where the Pythian priestess acclaimed him "invincible"), he advanced into Thrace in spring 335 and, after forcing the Shipka Pass and crushing the Triballi, crossed the Danube to disperse the Getae; turning west, he then defeated and shattered a coalition of Illyrians who had invaded Macedonia.

Meanwhile, a rumor of his death had precipitated a revolt of Theban democrats; other Greek states favored Thebes, and the Athenians, urged on by Remoistens, voted help. In 14 days Alexander marched 240 miles from Pelion (near modern Korçë, Albania) in Illyria to Thebes. When the Thebans refused to surrender, he made an entry and razed their city to the ground, sparing only temples and Pindar's house; 6,000 were killed and all survivors sold into slavery. The other Greek states were cowed by this severity, and Alexander could afford to treat Athens leniently. Macedonian garrisons were left in Corinth, Chalcis, and the Cadmea (the citadel of Thebes).

From his accession Alexander had set his mind on the Persian expedition. He had grown up to the idea. Moreover, he needed the wealth of Persia if he was to maintain the army built by Philip and pay off the 500 talents he owed.

The exploits of the Ten Thousand, Greek soldiers of fortune, and of Agesilaus of Sparta, in successfully campaigning in Persian territory had revealed the vulnerability of the Persian Empire.

With a good cavalry force Alexander could expect to defeat any Persian army. In spring 334 he crossed the Dardanelles, leaving Antipater, who had already faithfully served his father, as his deputy in Europe with over 13,000 men; he himself commanded about 30,000 foot and over 5,000 cavalry, of whom nearly 14,000 were Macedonians and about 7,000 allies sent by the greeek league.

Alexander's second in command was Parmenio, who had secured a foothold in Asia Minor during Philip's lifetime; many of his family and supporters were entrenched in positions of responsibility. The army was accompanied by surveyors, engineers, architects, scientists, court officials, and historians; from the outset Alexander seems to have envisaged an unlimited operation.

After visiting Ilium (Troy), a romantic gesture inspired by Homer, he confronted his first Persian army, led by three satraps, at the Granicus (modern Kocabas) River, near the Sea of Marmara (May/June 334).

The Persian plan to tempt Alexander across the river and kill him in the melee almost succeeded; but the Persian line broke, and Alexander's victory was complete. Darius' Greek mercenaries were largely massacred, but 2,000 survivors were sent back to Macedonia in chains.

This victory exposed western Asia Minor to the Macedonians, and most cities hastened to open their gates. The tyrants were expelled and (in contrast to Macedonian policy in Greece) democracies were installed. Alexander thus underlined his Panhellenic policy, already symbolized in the sending of 300 panoplies (sets of armor) taken at the Granicus as an offering dedicated to Athena at Athens by "Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks (except the Spartans) from the barbarians who inhabit Asia." (This formula, cited by the Greek historian Arrian in his history of Alexander's campaigns, is noteworthy for its omission of any reference to Macedonia.) But the cities remained de facto under Alexander, and his appointment of Calas as satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia reflected his claim to succeed the Great King of Persia.
When Miletus, encouraged by the proximity of the Persian fleet, resisted, Alexander took it by assault; but, refusing a naval battle, he disbanded his own costly navy and announced that he would "defeat the Persian fleet on land," by occupying the coastal cities. In Caria, Halicarnassus resisted and was stormed; but Ada, the widow and sister of the satrap Idrieus, adopted Alexander as her son and, after expelling her brother Pixodarus, Alexander restored her to her satrapy. Some parts of Caria held out, however, until 332.

In winter 334-333 Alexander conquered western Asia Minor, subduing the hill tribes of Lycia and Pisidia; and in spring 333 he advanced along the coastal road to Perga, passing the cliffs of Mt. Climax, thanks to a fortunate change of wind. The fall in the level of the sea was interpreted as a mark of divine favor by Alexander's flatterers, including the historian Callisthenes.

At Gordium in Phrygia, tradition records his cutting of the Gordian knot, which could only be loosed by the man who was to rule Asia; but this story may be apocryphal or at least distorted. At this point Alexander benefited from the sudden death of Memnon, the competent Greek commander of the Persian fleet.

From Gordium he pushed on to Ancyra (modern Ankara) and thence south through Cappadocia and the Cilician Gates (modern Külek Bogazi); a fever held him up for a time in Cilicia. Meanwhile, Darius with his Grand Army had advanced northward on the eastern side of Mt. Amanus. Intelligence on both sides was faulty, and Alexander was already encamped by Myriandrus (near modern Iskenderun, Turkey) when he learned that Darius was astride his line of communications at Issus, north of Alexander's position (autumn 333). Turning, Alexander found Darius drawn up along the Pinarus River. In the battle that followed, Alexander won a decisive victory. The struggle turned into a Persian rout and Darius fled, leaving his family in Alexander's hands; the women were treated with chivalrous care.

From Issus Alexander marched south into Syria and Phoenicia, his object being to isolate the Persian fleet from its bases and so to destroy it as an effective fighting force. The Phoenician cities Marathus and Aradus came over quietly, and Parmenio was sent ahead to secure Damascus and its rich booty, including Darius' war chest.

In reply to a letter from Darius offering peace, Alexander replied arrogantly, recapitulating the historic wrongs of Greece and demanding unconditional surrender to himself as lord of Asia. After taking Byblos (modern Jubayl) and Sidon (Arabic Sayda), he met with a check at Tyre, where he was refused entry into the island city. He thereupon prepared to use all methods of siegecraft to take it, but the Tyrians resisted, holding out for seven months. In the meantime (winter 333-332) the Persians had counterattacked by land in Asia Minor--where they were defeated by Antigonus, the satrap of Greater Phrygia--and by sea, recapturing a number of cities and islands.

While the siege of Tyre was in progress, Darius sent a new offer: he would pay a huge ransom of 10,000 talents for his family and cede all his lands west of the Euphrates. "I would accept," Parmenio is reported to have said, "were I Alexander"; "I too," was the famous retort, "were I Parmenio."
The storming of Tyre in July 332 was Alexander's greatest military achievement; it was attended with great carnage and the sale of the women and children into slavery. Leaving Parmenio in Syria, Alexander advanced south without opposition until he reached Gaza on its high mound; there bitter resistance halted him for two months, and he sustained a serious shoulder wound during a sortie. There is no basis for the tradition that he turned aside to visit Jerusalem.

In November 332 he reached Egypt. The people welcomed him as their deliverer, and the Persian satrap Mazaces wisely surrendered. At Memphis Alexander sacrificed to Apis, the Greek term for Hapi, the sacred Egyptian bull, and was crowned with the traditional double crown of the pharaohs; the native priests were placated and their religion encouraged.

He spent the winter organizing Egypt, where he employed Egyptian governors, keeping the army under a separate Macedonian command. He founded the city of Alexandria near the western arm of the Nile on a fine site between the sea and Lake Mareotis, protected by the island of Pharos, and had it laid out by the Rhodian architect Deinocrates. He is also said to have sent an expedition to discover the causes of the flooding of the Nile.

From Alexandria he marched along the coast to Paraetonium and from there inland to visit the celebrated oracle of the god Amon (at Siwah); the difficult journey was later embroidered with flattering legends. On his reaching the oracle in its oasis, the priest gave him the traditional salutation of a pharaoh, as son of Amon; Alexander consulted the god on the success of his expedition but revealed the reply to no one. Later the incident was to contribute to the story that he was the son of Zeus and, thus, to his "deification." In spring 331 he returned to Tyre, appointed a Macedonian satrap for Syria, and prepared to advance into Mesopotamia. His conquest of Egypt had completed his control of the whole eastern Mediterranean coast.

In July 331 Alexander was at Thapsacus on the Euphrates. Instead of taking the direct route down the river to Babylon, he made across northern Mesopotamia toward the Tigris, and Darius, learning of this move from an advance force sent under Mazaeus to the Euphrates crossing, marched up the Tigris to oppose him. The decisive battle of the war was fought on the plain of Gaugamela between Nineveh and Arbela. Alexander pursued the defeated Persian forces for 35 miles to Arbela, but Darius escaped with his Bactrian cavalry and Greek mercenaries into Media.

Alexander now occupied Babylon, city and province; Mazaeus, who surrendered it, was confirmed as satrap in conjunction with a Macedonian troop commander, and quite exceptionally was granted the right to coin. As in Egypt, the local priesthood was encouraged. Susa, the capital, also surrendered, releasing huge treasures amounting to 50,000 gold talents; here Alexander established Darius' family in comfort. Crushing the mountain tribe of the Ouxians, he now pressed on over the Zagros range into Persia proper and, successfully turning the Pass of the Persian Gates, held by the satrap Ariobarzanes, he entered Persepolis and Pasargadae.

At Persepolis he ceremonially burned down the palace of Xerxes, as a symbol that the Panhellenic war of revenge was at an end; for such seems the probable significance of an act that tradition later explained as a drunken frolic inspired by Thaïs, an Athenian courtesan. In spring 330 Alexander marched north into Media and occupied its capital Ecbatana. The Thessalians and Greek allies were sent home; henceforward he was waging a purely personal war.

As Mazaeus' appointment indicated, Alexander's views on the empire were changing. He had come to envisage a joint ruling people consisting of Macedonians and Persians, and this served to augment the misunderstanding that now arose between him and his people. Before continuing his pursuit of Darius, who had retreated into Bactria, he assembled all the Persian treasure and entrusted it to Harpalus, who was to hold it at Ecbatana as chief treasurer. Parmenio was also left behind in Media to control communications; the presence of this older man had perhaps become irksome.

In midsummer 330 Alexander set out for the eastern provinces at a high speed via Rhagae (modern Rayy, near Tehran) and the Caspian Gates, where he learned that Bessus, the satrap of Bactria, had deposed Darius. After a skirmish near modern Shahrud, the usurper had Darius stabbed and left him to die. Alexander sent his body for burial with due honors in the royal tombs at persepolis.

Darius' death left no obstacle to Alexander's claim to be Great King, and a Rhodian inscription of this year (330) calls him "lord of Asia"--i.e., of the Persian Empire; soon afterward his Asian coins carry the title of king.
Crossing the Elburz Mountains to the Caspian, he seized Zadracarta in Hyrcania and received the submission of a group of satraps and Persian notables, some of whom he confirmed in their offices; in a diversion westward, perhaps to modern Amol, he reduced the Mardi, a mountain people who inhabited the Elburz Mountains. He also accepted the surrender of Darius' Greek mercenaries.

His advance eastward was now rapid. In Aria he reduced Satibarzanes, who had offered submission only to revolt, and he founded Alexandria of the Arians (modern Herat). At Phrada in Drangiana (either near modern Nad-e 'Ali in Seistan or farther north at Farah), he at last took steps to destroy Parmenio and his family. Philotas, Parmenio's son, commander of the elite Companion cavalry, was implicated in an alleged plot against Alexander's life, condemned by the army, and executed; and a secret message was sent to Cleander, Parmenio's second in command, who obediently assassinated him.

This ruthless action excited widespread horror but strengthened Alexander's position relative to his critics and those whom he regarded as his father's men. All Parmenio's adherents were now eliminated and men close to Alexander promoted. The Companion cavalry was reorganized in two sections, each containing four squadrons (now known as hipparchies); one group was commanded by Alexander's oldest friend, Hephaestion, the other by Cleitus, an older man. From Phrada, Alexander pressed on during the winter of 330-329 up the valley of the Helmand River, through Arachosia, and over the mountains past the site of modern Kabul into the country of the Paropamisadae, where he founded Alexandria by the Caucasus.

Bessus was now in Bactria raising a national revolt in the eastern satrapies with the usurped title of Great King. Crossing the Hindu Kush northward over the Khawak Pass (11,650 feet), Alexander brought his army, despite food shortages, to Drapsaca (sometimes identified with modern Banu [Andarab], probably farther north at Qunduz); outflanked, Bessus fled beyond the Oxus (modern Amu Darya), and Alexander, marching west to Bactra-Zariaspa (modern Balkh [Wazirabad] in Afghanistan), appointed loyal satraps in Bactria and Aria. Crossing the Oxus, he sent his general Ptolemy in pursuit of Bessus, who had meanwhile been overthrown by the Sogdian Spitamenes. Bessus was captured, flogged, and sent to Bactra, where he was later mutilated after the Persian manner (losing his nose and ears); in due course he was publicly executed at Ecbatana.

From Maracanda (modern Samarkand) Alexander advanced by way of Cyropolis to the Jaxartes (modern Syrdarya), the boundary of the Persian Empire. There he broke the opposition of the Scythian nomads by his use of catapults and, after defeating them in a battle on the north bank of the river, pursued them into the interior.
On the site of modern Leninabad (Khojent) on the Jaxartes, he founded a city, Alexandria Eschate, "the farthest." Meanwhile, Spitamenes had raised all Sogdiana in revolt behind him, bringing in the Massagetai, a people of the Shaka confederacy. It took Alexander until the autumn of 328 to crush the most determined opponent he encountered in his campaigns. Later in the same year he attacked Oxyartes and the remaining barons who held out in the hills of Paraetacene (modern Tadzhikistan); volunteers seized the crag on which Oxyartes had his stronghold, and among the captives was his daughter, Roxana. In reconciliation Alexander married her, and the rest of his opponents were either won over or crushed.

An incident that occurred at Maracanda widened the breach between Alexander and many of his Macedonians. He murdered Cleitus, one of his most trusted commanders, in a drunken quarrel; but his excessive display of remorse led the army to pass a decree convicting Cleitus posthumously of treason. The event marked a step in Alexander's progress toward Eastern absolutism, and this growing attitude found its outward expression in his use of Persian royal dress.

Shortly afterward, at Bactra, he attempted to impose the Persian court ceremonial, involving prostration (proskynesis), on the Greeks and Macedonians too; but to them this custom, habitual for Persians entering the king's presence, implied an act of worship and was intolerable before a man. Even Callisthenes, historian and nephew of Aristotle, whose ostentatious flattery had perhaps encouraged Alexander to see himself in the role of a god, refused to abase himself.

Macedonian laughter caused the experiment to founder, and Alexander abandoned it. Shortly afterward, however, Callisthenes was held to be privy to a conspiracy among the royal pages and was executed (or died in prison; accounts vary); resentment of this action alienated sympathy from Alexander within the Peripatetic school of philosophers, with which Callisthenes had close connections.

In early summer 327 Alexander left Bactria with a reinforced army under a reorganized command. If Plutarch's figure of 120,000 men has any reality, however, it must include all kinds of auxiliary services, together with muleteers, camel drivers, medical corps, peddlers, entertainers, women, and children; the fighting strength perhaps stood at about 35,000.

Recrossing the Hindu Kush, probably by Bamian and the Ghorband Valley, Alexander divided his forces. Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, was sent through the Khyber Pass, while he himself led the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north. His advance through Swat and Gandhara was marked by the storming of the almost impregnable pinnacle of Aornos, the modern Pir-Sar, a few miles west of the Indus and north of the Buner River, an impressive feat of siegecraft.

In spring 326, crossing the Indus near Attock, Alexander entered Taxila, whose ruler, Taxiles, furnished elephants and troops in return for aid against his rival Porus, who ruled the lands between the Hydaspes (modern Jhelum) and the Acesines (modern Chenab). In June Alexander fought his last great battle on the left bank of the Hydaspes. He founded two cities there, Alexandria Nicaea (to celebrate his victory) and Bucephala (named after his horse Bucephalus, which died there); and Porus became his ally.

How much Alexander knew of India beyond the Hyphasis (probably the modern Beas) is uncertain; there is no conclusive proof that he had heard of the Ganges. But he was anxious to press on farther, and he had advanced to the Hyphasis when his army mutinied, refusing to go farther in the tropical rain; they were weary in body and spirit, and Coenus, one of Alexander's four chief marshals, acted as their spokesman. On finding the army adamant, Alexander agreed to turn back.

On the Hyphasis he erected 12 altars to the 12 Olympian gods, and on the Hydaspes he built a fleet of 800 to 1,000 ships. Leaving Porus, he then proceeded down the river and into the Indus, with half his forces on shipboard and half marching in three columns down the two banks. The fleet was commanded by Nearchus, and Alexander's own captain was Onesicritus; both later wrote accounts of the campaign. The march was attended with much fighting and heavy, pitiless slaughter; at the storming of one town of the Malli near the Hydraotes (Ravi) River, Alexander received a severe wound which left him weakened.

On reaching Patala, located at the head of the Indus delta, he built a harbour and docks and explored both arms of the Indus, which probably then ran into the Rann of Kutch. He planned to lead part of his forces back by land, while the rest in perhaps 100 to 150 ships under the command of Nearchus, a Cretan with naval experience, made a voyage of exploration along the Persian Gulf. Local opposition led Nearchus to set sail in September (325), and he was held up for three weeks until he could pick up the northeast monsoon in late October. In September Alexander too set out along the coast through Gedrosia (modern Baluchistan), but he was soon compelled by mountainous country to turn inland, thus failing in his project to establish food depots for the fleet.

Craterus, a high-ranking officer, already had been sent off with the baggage and siege train, the elephants, and the sick and wounded, together with three battalions of the phalanx, by way of the Mulla Pass, Quetta, and Kandahar into the Helmand Valley; from there he was to march through Drangiana to rejoin the main army on the Amanis (modern Minab) River in Carmania. Alexander's march through Gedrosia proved disastrous; waterless desert and shortage of food and fuel caused great suffering, and many, especially women and children, perished in a sudden monsoon flood while encamped in a wadi. At length, at the Amanis, he was rejoined by Nearchus and the fleet, which also had suffered losses.

ALEXANDER won all the wars he encountered in a stylish ways. he was not killed in war, his death was recorded in this form:"After this he fell sick and perceived that he was dying.So he summoned his most honored officers, who had been brought up with him from youth, and divided his kingdom among them while he was still alive"(1 Maccabees 1: 5-6). HERE IS THE FIFTH KING IN PROPHECIES.

Alexander's kingdom was indeed divided into four which gave birth to the four heads on the leopard. ALEXANDER WAS THAT GREAT NOTABLE HORN ON THE HE-GOAT IN DANIEL CHAPTER EIGHT.But to confirm that these two visions are the same, Daniel furthered: "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven"(Dan.8: 8). an angel furthered in this form:"And now will i shew thee the truth, behold there shall stand up yet three kings in persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. and a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. And when he shall stand up, his KINGDOM SHALL BE BROKEN, AND SHALL BE DIVIDED TOWARD THE FOUR WINDS OF FHEAVEN; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those"(Dan.11: 1-3)

ALEXANDER CONQUERS the medo-persian empire indeed as prophecied:" And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand"(Dan.8: 6-7)
who are those four heads on the leopards in accordance with the four horns that replaced the notable horns at the fall of Alexander the great? they were explained as followed: seleucus Nicator, Cassander, Ptolemy and Lysimachus. these were the generals of Alexander. they divided his enormous empire into four regions(1) Egypt, (2) Macedonia and Greece, (3) Thrace and Western Asia, and (4) Syria and all territory east to the Indus River. These are the four heads of Alexander’s “leopard” kingdom and the four notable horns in Daniel chapter eight.
SELEUCUS
Seleucus I (surnamed for later generations Nicator, a .k.a. Seleucus Victor) (358 BCE–281 BCE), was a Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great. In the Wars of the Diadochi that took place after Alexander's death, Seleucus established the Seleucid dynasty and the Seleucid Empire. His kingdom would be one of the last hold outs of Alexander's former empire to Roman rule. They were only outlived by the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt by roughly 34 years. Seleucus ruled from India to the major part of Asia minor.In the year 305 BC Seleucus I Nicator went to India and apparently occupied territory as far as the Indus river. Seleucus acquired Mesopotamia, Armenia, 'Seleucid' Cappadocia, Persis, Parthia, Bactria, Arabia, Tapouria, Sogdia, Arachosia, Hyrcania, and other adjacent peoples that had been subdued by Alexander, as far as the river Indus, so that the boundaries of his empire were the most extensive in Asia after that of Alexander. The whole region from Phrygia to the Indus was subject to Seleucus. He crossed the Indus and waged war with Sandrocottus, king of the Indians, who dwelt on the banks of that stream, until they came to an understanding with each other and contracted a marriage relationship. few princes have ever lived with so great a passion for the building of cities. He is reputed to have built in all nine Seleucias, sixteen Antiochs, and six Laodiceas. Seleucus now held the whole of Alexander's conquests excepting Egypt in his hands, and moved to take possession of Macedonia and Thrace. He intended to leave Asia to Antiochus and content himself for the remainder of his days with the Macedonian kingdom in its old limits. He had, however, hardly crossed into the Chersonese when he was assassinated by Ptolemy Keraunos near Lysimachia (281 BC
here lies the chart of the kingdom succession.TO READ FULL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SELEUCUS; CLICK HERE!

LYSIMACHUS
Lysimachus (360 BCE - 281 BCE) was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. "successor") of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus ("king") in 306 BCE, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia. he was appointed to the government of Thrace and the Chersonese.
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CASSANDER
Cassander (350 - 297 BC), King of Macedon (305 - 297 BC), was a son of Antipater, and founder of the short-lived Antipatrid dynasty. He took over greece and macedonia. Cassander’s dynasty did not live much beyond his death, with his son Philip dying of natural causes, and his other sons Alexander and Antipater becoming involved in a destructive dynastic struggle along with their mother. When Alexander was ousted as joint king by his brother, Demetrius I took up Alexander's appeal for aid and ousted Antipater, killed Alexander, and established the Antigonid dynasty. The remaining Antipatrids such as Antipater Etesias would prove unable to re-establish the Antipatrids on the throne.
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PTOLEMY SOTER
Ptolemy I Soter (Ptolemy the Savior367 BC—ca.283 BC) was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt (323 BC—283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. In 305/4 BC he took the title of king. Ptolemy's first goal was to hold Egypt securely, and his second was to secure control in the outlying areas. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE!!!
he was succeeded by Ptolemy Keraunos.

Now Daniel furthered: "And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land"(Dan.8: 9). who could this be? let's Analysed it together: out of all the four heads, from the seleucidae came forth another devil-in-man. it was recorded in this form from the record of the maccabees:"From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks"(1 Maccabees 1: 10). Now antiochus was from the seleucidae.

He was so cruel in his time in fact, he was the cruelest of all the ancient kings. his cruelty life began when he sent a letter to the israelites with this content as recorded:"And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land,to forbid burnt offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane sabbaths and feasts, to defile the sanctuary and the priests,to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and unclean animals, and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, so that they should forget the law and change all the ordinances. "And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die."(1 Macc. 1: 44-50). it was like a dream to the israelites, only to see that the decree was implemented in a cruel way. Around November/December, he began to implement all his tactics; he first cast down the altars, burn the books of laws of the lord, kill many israelites who refused to deny his/her God:"Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege upon the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding cities of Judah,and burned incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets. The books of the law which they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire. Where the book of the covenant was found in the possession of any one, or if any one adhered to the law, the decree of the king condemned him to death"(Vv. 54-57).

what stunned me most was the killing of more than one thousand israelites on the sabbath day as a result of their refusal to obey the king's order:"Then many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to dwell there,
they, their sons, their wives, and their cattle, because evils pressed heavily upon them. And it was reported to the king's officers, and to the troops in Jerusalem the city of David, that men who had rejected the king's command had gone down to the hiding places in the wilderness.Many pursued them, and overtook them; they encamped opposite them and prepared for battle against them on the sabbath day. And they said to them, "Enough of this! Come out and do what the king commands, and you will live." But they said, "We will not come out, nor will we do what the king commands and so profane the sabbath day." Then the enemy hastened to attack them. But they did not answer them or hurl a stone at them or block up their hiding places, for they said, "Let us all die in our innocence; heaven and earth testify for us that you are killing us unjustly." So they attacked them on the sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and cattle, to the number of a thousand persons"(1 Macc.2: 29-38). also "... two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These women they publicly paraded about the city, with their babies hung at their breasts, then hurled them down headlong from the wall.Others who had assembled in the caves near by, to observe the seventh day secretly, were betrayed to Philip and were all burned together, because their piety kept them from defending themselves, in view of their regard for that most holy day"(2 Macc. 6: 10-11)
and the murder of seven children belonging to the same mother, all in one day as a result of due reluctancy in obeying the king's order to eat swine as recorded:"
It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine's flesh.One of them, acting as their spokesman, said, "What do you intend to ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers."The king fell into a rage, and gave orders that pans and caldrons be heated. These were heated immediately, and he commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on. When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying,"The Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song which bore witness against the people to their faces, when he said, `And he will have compassion on his servants.'"
After the first brother had died in this way, they brought forward the second for their sport. They tore off the skin of his head with the hair, and asked him, "Will you eat rather than have your body punished limb by limb?" He replied in the language of his fathers, and said to them, "No." Therefore he in turn underwent tortures as the first brother had done. And when he was at his last breath, he said, "You accursed wretch, you dismiss us from this present life, but the King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws." After him, the third was the victim of their sport. When it was demanded, he quickly put out his tongue and courageously stretched forth his hands,
and said nobly, "I got these from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again." As a result the king himself and those with him were astonished at the young man's spirit, for he regarded his sufferings as nothing. When he too had died, they maltreated and tortured the fourth in the same way. And when he was near death, he said, "One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. But for you there will be no resurrection to life!" Next they brought forward the fifth and maltreated him. But he looked at the king, and said, "Because you have authority among men, mortal though you are, you do what you please. But do not think that God has forsaken our people. Keep on, and see how his mighty power will torture you and your descendants!" After him they brought forward the sixth. And when he was about to die, he said, "Do not deceive yourself in vain. For we are suffering these things on our own account, because of our sins against our own God. Therefore astounding things have happened. But do not think that you will go unpunished for having tried to fight against God!" The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. She encouraged each of them in the language of their fathers. Filled with a noble spirit, she fired her woman's reasoning with a man's courage, and said to them, "I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws." Antiochus felt that he was being treated with contempt, and he was suspicious of her reproachful tone. The youngest brother being still alive, Antiochus not only appealed to him in words, but promised with oaths that he would make him rich and enviable if he would turn from the ways of his fathers, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs. Since the young man would not listen to him at all, the king called the mother to him and urged her to advise the youth to save himself.After much urging on his part, she undertook to persuade her son. But, leaning close to him, she spoke in their native tongue as follows, deriding the cruel tyrant: "My son, have pity on me. I carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you for three years, and have reared you and brought you up to this point in your life, and have taken care of you. I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed. Thus also mankind comes into being.Do not fear this butcher, but prove worthy of your brothers. Accept death, so that in God's mercy I may get you back again with your brothers."While she was still speaking, the young man said, "What are you waiting for? I will not obey the king's command, but I obey the command of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses. But you, who have contrived all sorts of evil against the Hebrews, will certainly not escape the hands of God. For we are suffering because of our own sins.And if our living Lord is angry for a little while, to rebuke and discipline us, he will again be reconciled with his own servants. But you, unholy wretch, you most defiled of all men, do not be elated in vain and puffed up by uncertain hopes, when you raise your hand against the children of heaven. You have not yet escaped the judgment of the almighty, all-seeing God. For our brothers after enduring a brief suffering have drunk of everflowing life under God's covenant; but you, by the judgment of God, will receive just punishment for your arrogance. I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our fathers, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by afflictions and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God,and through me and my brothers to bring to an end the wrath of the Almighty which has justly fallen on our whole nation." The king fell into a rage, and handled him worse than the others, being exasperated at his scorn. So he died in his integrity, putting his whole trust in the Lord. Last of all, the mother died, after her sons. Let this be enough, then, about the eating of sacrifices and the extreme tortures"(2 Macc. 7: 1-42). also, "When the priests of the temple of Nanea had set out the treasures and Antiochus had come with a few men inside the wall of the sacred precinct, they closed the temple as soon as he entered it. Opening the secret door in the ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the leader and his men, and dismembered them and cut off their heads and threw them to the people outside"(2Macc. 2:15-16)


Antiochus brought a god of the foreign nation set it up in the temple of the most high God.To be specific, he resumed the construction of the temple of Zeus in Athens.He also made contributions to the temple of Zeus in Olympia. He built a temple forJupiter Capitolinus at Antioch. He contributed in some way to the building or rebuilding of the temple of Apollo at Daphne. The imposition of the edict of 167B.C. This was the fulfilment of Daniel 11: 38 which says he shall honour a god of fortresses who was not recognized by his own ancestors. Several suggestions concerning the identity of this god are Akraios,Zeus Olympios Capitolinus, Kronos-Helios, Mars, or BaalShamem-Melcarth.

ALL these happened on the 15th of the month of chislev which runs between 15th November till 15th December, in other words, it is on the 30th of November that that occurence happens.PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE FOR IT WAS THE DATE WHEN THE DAILY SACRIFICE WAS TAKEN AWAY AND THE ABOMINATION THAT MAKETH DESOLATE SET UP. I MEAN 15TH NOVEMBER, 606BCE.

HOWEVER, according to the prophecy that"And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand"(Dan. 8: 25). yes, Antiochus through his policy cause a lot of evil behaviour in the land and through his haughtiness wage battle against the most high by the matyrdom of his people. and to confirm that this was antiochus indeed, 'he was broken without hand'; meaning: he was not kill in war or by any sword or by poison, but he was struck by divine means as recorded:"About that time, as it happened, Antiochus had retreated in disorder from the region of Persia.
For he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temples and control the city. Therefore the people rushed to the rescue with arms, and Antiochus and his men were defeated, with the result that Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants and beat a shameful retreat. While he was in Ecbatana, news came to him of what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timothy.Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight; so he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven rode with him! For in his arrogance he said, "When I get there I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews." But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he ceased speaking he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp internal tortures and that very justly, for he had tortured the bowels of others with many and strange inflictions.Yet he did not in any way stop his insolence, but was even more filled with arrogance, breathing fire in his rage against the Jews, and giving orders to hasten the journey. And so it came about that he fell out of his chariot as it was rushing along, and the fall was so hard as to torture every limb of his body. Thus he who had just been thinking that he could command the waves of the sea, in his superhuman arrogance, and imagining that he could weigh the high mountains in a balance, was brought down to earth and carried in a litter, making the power of God manifest to all.And so the ungodly man's body swarmed with worms, and while he was still living in anguish and pain, his flesh rotted away, and because of his stench the whole army felt revulsion at his decay.Because of his intolerable stench no one was able to carry the man who a little while before had thought that he could touch the stars of heaven. Then it was that, broken in spirit, he began to lose much of his arrogance and to come to his senses under the scourge of God, for he was tortured with pain every moment. But when his sufferings did not in any way abate, for the judgment of God had justly come upon him, he gave up all hope for himself and wrote to the Jews the following letter, in the form of a supplication... So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the more intense suffering, such as he had inflicted on others, came to the end of his life by a most pitiable fate, among the mountains in a strange land"(2 Macc.9:1-11, 18,28).

THE EIGHT KINGDOM(THE SIXTH MOUNTAIN) EXPLAINED
DANIEL furthered his exposition while explaining Nebuchadnessar's dream. he said:" And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay"(Dan.2: 40-43). This kingdom was the same as daniel 7:"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things"(Dan.7: 7-8). NOTE that the ten horns on this fourth beast is the same as the ten toes on the two legs on Nebuchanessar's dreamt images.

WHICH COULD THIS KINGDOM BE? FIRST IT WAS DESCRIBED AS A KINGDOM OF IRON AND THEN MIXTURE OF IRON AND CLAY. IT WAS ALSO DESCRIBED AS THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL THE KINGDOMS EVER EXISTED. WHAT KINGDOM ON EARTH COULD BE AS MIGHTY AS THIS?

AN ANGEL GAVE US A CLUE WHEN HE SAID:"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.And there are seven kings: FIVE ARE FALLEN, and ONE IS, and the OTHER IS NOT YET COME; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition"(Rev. 17: 8-11).

and here we got the answer. there are seven kings(MOUNTAINS). FIVE HAVE FALLEN. THE FIVE THAT ARE FALLEN ARE AS FOLLOWS: EGYPT, WHICH HAPPEN TO BE THE FIRST, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, GREECIA OR GREECIA-MACEDONIAN. THESE ARE THE FIVE THAT HAVE FALLEN.now the angel continued saying:'and ONE IS'. the one that is was the kingdom that was existing when John was receiving that vision and that was the ROMAN EMPIRE. THEY WERE THE EIGHT KINGDOM ON THE SURFACE OF THIS EARTH, THE SIXTH MOUNTAIN, THE SIXTH WORLD POWER AND THE SIXTH WORLD.

their ascension was described in the record of maccabees as followed:"... they were very strong. Men told him of their wars and of the brave deeds which they were doing among the Gauls, how they had defeated them and forced them to pay tribute,and what they had done in the land of Spain to get control of the silver and gold mines there,and how they had gained control of the whole region by their planning and patience, even though the place was far distant from them. They also subdued the kings who came against them from the ends of the earth, until they crushed them and inflicted great disaster upon them; the rest paid them tribute every year. Philip, and Perseus king of the Macedonians, and the others who rose up against them, they crushed in battle and conquered. They also defeated Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight against them with a hundred and twenty elephants and with cavalry and chariots and a very large army. He was crushed by them; they took him alive and decreed that he and those who should reign after him should pay a heavy tribute and give hostages and surrender some of their best provinces,the country of India and Media and Lydia. These they took from him and gave to Eumenes the king. The Greeks planned to come and destroy them,but this became known to them, and they sent a general against the Greeks and attacked them. Many of them were wounded and fell, and the Romans took captive their wives and children; they plundered them, conquered the land, tore down their strongholds, and enslaved them to this day.
The remaining kingdoms and islands, as many as ever opposed them, they destroyed and enslaved; but with their friends and those who rely on them they have kept friendship. They have subdued kings far and near, and as many as have heard of their fame have feared them. Those whom they wish to help and to make kings, they make kings, and those whom they wish they depose; and they have been greatly exalted.
Yet for all this not one of them has put on a crown or worn purple as a mark of pride,but they have built for themselves a senate chamber, and every day three hundred and twenty senators constantly deliberate concerning the people, to govern them well.They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them"(1 Macc.8: 2-16). they were such a co-ordinated kingdom.

the roman empire ruled from hispani(Spain) via Gaul(france) to the utmost part of Europe. italy, austria, morocco, egypt, turkey, great britain, germany, romania, hungary were all part of the empire.
Augustus Romulus was the main head and virtually the founder of its empire. in fact one could say that the roman empire derived their name from Romulus.

After conquering northern Hispania, Augustus' ambitions were to secure the natural borders of the rivers Danube and Elbe. The first goal required conquering Illyria, Moesia, and Pannonia. The second objective required the conquest of Germania.

The Roman conquests south of the Danube were endangered by the Great Illyrian Revolt. It required a full-scale campaign, but ultimately the Roman army managed to crush the Illyrian tribes.

The second campaign was checked by the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, and the Rhine was hastily secured by the regrouping legions. Several retaliatory raids were later launched against the Germanic tribes; the raids continued during the initial rule of Tiberius, who in the end judged them simply too costly. The rivers Rhine and Danube became the northern borders of the empire and were kept by most of the succeeding emperors until the conquests of Trajan.

Caligula added Mauretania by murdering its local king, Ptolemy of Mauretania who was Caligula's cousin, as he was visiting Rome. This led to a local revolt which was only suppressed during the rule of Claudius.

Several major expansions were realized under the rule of Claudius. Thracia, Noricum, Pamphylia, and Lycia were annexed under various circumstances. The annexation of Mauretania, begun under Caligula, was completed and divided into two new imperial provinces. He also started the invasion and conquest of Britannia.

In 117, during the reign of Trajan, the empire reached its territorial height. The Nabataean kingdom was annexed becoming the province of Arabia Petraea, and under Trajan's personal command the legions conquered Dacia. Later he invaded Parthia and established the provinces of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria.

Only two years later, Trajan's successor Hadrian returned the last two provinces to Parthia, and placed a greater focus and effort in the defence and fortification of the borders.

Antoninus Pius managed to gain some territories of southern Caledonia (modern Scotland) but these gains were later abandoned.

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NOW seeing that the beast has ten horns on his head and ten toes from the Nebuchadnessar's dream. one may wonder what those ten horns signified.
these are indeed the ten major kingdoms that form the Empire. these are:HISPANOL(SPAIN), GAUL(FRANCE), AUSTRIA, ITALY, AEGYPTUS(EGYPT), TURKEY, BELGIUM, GREECIA, GREAT BRITAIN, CRETE. NOW IT WAS WRITTEN THAT:"I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things"(Dan.7: 8).

who could this horn be? many said it was the turkish empire as a result of their killings of the saint during the seleucidae era.
but looking at this very well, it was stated that on this horn lies eyes like that of a man and a mouth speaking great things. this indeed signifies a complete head. Now, in the head lies the brain which is the site of great intelligence. this little horn indeed must be a kingdom of great intelligence. turkey do not qualify for this as they were not as intelligence as the other kingdoms in the empire.

who could this be? shall we say it was Great britain as a result of their intelligence and great conquest in Europe? or shall we say it was Germany? these two nations exhibited almost the same properties as a signification of that little horn.

LET'S analyse each nation accordingly. i would have go for the Great britain if not that they were part of the empire. this was because they were the most intelligence among that empire. from the matyrdom of william tyndale when he was condemned by virtue of the Emperor Decree , made in the Assembly at Augsburgh and upon the same brought forth to the place of Execution, was there tied to the Stake, and then strangled first by the Hangman, and afterwards with fire consumed in the morning, at the Town of Filford, A.D. 1536; crying thus at the stake with a fervent zeal, and a loud voice, "Lord open the king of England's eyes." although the order was from england, the execution takes place in germany.

also, the germans conquers rome in succession from the invasion of Rome through which they displace many great nation of their position in the empire. THAT LITTLE HORN DO NOT START THE EMPIRE WITH THEM, BUT TOOK THE EMPIRE BY FORCE.

IN ITS TIME, GERMANY DEFEAT FRANCE WHICH HAPPENS TO BE THE MAJOR RIVAL, THEY WEAKENED GREAT BRITAIN, DEFEAT POLAND, AUSTRIA AND DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, RUSSIA WAS NOT LEFT OUT. GERMANY IS THIS LITTLE HORN. THEY WERE QUITE INTELLIGENT TOO.

NOW WHO ARE THOSE HORNS DISPLACED OF THEIR POSITION? THEY DISPLACE AUSTRIA, TURKEY AND THEY OUTSHINE EGYPT. THEY NEVER DISPLACE FRANCE, ALTHOUGH THEY DEFEAT THEM MANY TIMES.

GERMANIC TRIBE WHO TOOK OVER THE EMPIRE
Alemanni (260AD)-- The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes. Although several tribes put their military forces under the joint command of two leaders for the duration of a campaign, the different peoples generally found it difficult to combine, and they had nothing that could be called a central government. The Romans were displaced from the Agri Decumates by the Alemanni c. 260. (The Agri Decumates is a name given by the ancient Roman historian Tacitus to the Black Forest and adjoining areas of southwestern Germany between the Rhine, Danube, and Main Rivers.) The Alemanni occupied that region, and late in the 5th century they expanded into Alsace and northern Switzerland, thus making those regions German speaking. In 496 they were conquered by Clovis and incorporated into his Frankish dominions. The people continued to exist, yet under Merovingian rule. Originally pagan, they were converted to Christianity by Columbanus in the early 7th century. As that was the Celtic, and not the Catholic, form of Christianity, they were referred to as "Arians" by the Catholics. Between the years 718 and 732, by the efforts of Boniface, a Catholic monk from England, the Alemanni were brought under papal control.

Suevi (411AD)--Moved west across Gaul around the year 406. Considered to be Arian. Became Catholic around the year 555 (Some sources say 575). Absorbed into the Visigoth kingdom about 585.
Visigoths(415AD)--Spain Arian. Entered Roman territory around 395. Sacked Rome in 410. Established a large kingdom in Spain and Gaul in 415. Driven from Gaul in 508. Became Catholic in 587. In 621 they gained possession of the entire Spanish peninsula. Overthrown by the Moslems in 711.

Vandals(429AD)--Entered Roman territory in 409, settling in Spain. Crossed into Africa in 429. Took Carthage in 439. Captured and sacked Rome in 455. Destroyed by Justinian's general, Belisarius, in 534.

Franks(429AD) --France First entered Roman territory in 358. In 486 Clovis destroyed the last vestige of Roman power in Gaul. They were pagan, but Clovis was converted to Catholicism in 496, the first of the barbarians to do so. Clovis established a powerful kingdom by conquering several other German kingdoms. In 561 the kingdom was divided into four parts, three of which, after 567, were off-and-on-again separately ruled: Neustria, Austrasia, and Burgundy.

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Burgundians(443AD)--Burgundy First appeared in Roman territory in 412. Arian. It appears that the king converted to Catholicism about the year 520. The kingdom fell to the Franks in 532 or 534. Now a part of France.

Angles, Saxons, Jutes(450AD)--Britain These groups were pagan until Catholicism, which, introduced in 597, was established by the Synod of Whitby in 664. The Anglo-Saxon kingdom was conquered by the Normans in 1066.

Heruli(476AD)--Rome The Heruli were German auxiliary troops in Rome who mutinied on August 23, 476, bringing to an end the Western Roman imperial line. Was it really a Herulian kingdom, or simply a Herulian king who played an important role in Western civilization? As a people group they hold no major significance; but their leader, Odoacer, stands out distinctly in history. They were Arian. When Odoacer was killed by Theodoric in 493, we hear no more about the Heruli.

Ostrogoths(493AD)--Rome Arrived in 456. Came to power in Rome in 493 when Theodoric killed Odoacer. Arian. Belisarius expelled them from Rome in 538. Their kingdom came to an end in 553.

Lombards(568AD)--Italy A Suevian group who moved into Italy in 568. Arian. The changeover to Catholicism took place between 588 and 662. They lasted as a kingdom until 774.

Frisians(Native)--A portion of the Netherlands Sources conflict with each other as to whether their territory was ever under Roman jurisdiction. If it was, the Romans, not the Frisians, were the invaders. This is not an example of a barbarian group migrating into Roman territory. It is also questioned whether or not they ever formed a self-contained political, cultural, or ethnic unit which might be called a "kingdom." Descendants of this people group still exist there today. The Frisians were pagan until forced to become Catholic in 750.

Thuringians(500AD)--Germany They first appeared sometime after c. 350. They were conquered by the Huns near the middle of the 5th century. But by the beginning of the 6th century the Thuringians had an extensive kingdom from the Elbe to the Danube, outside the territory proper of the old Roman Empire. In 531 they were attacked by the Franks and the Saxons. The northern part of their kingdom was taken by the Saxons, and the southern part became Frankish territory. If occupying territory within the boundaries of the old Roman Empire is a qualification for being one of the ten horns, the Thuringians probably would not qualify. Some maps of the Roman Empire, however, do include what might have been the southern portion of Thuringia.

Bavarians(639AD)--Bavaria-Austria Appear to have come on the scene too late to be one of the orginal ten horns. Possibly Catholic by the time they achieved independence. Incorporated into Charlemagne's dominions in 788.


THE NINTH KINGDOM(THE SEVENTH MOUNTAIN)
NOW the angel in revelation 17 furthered and said 'and the other is yet to come'. who is this other that is yet to come? this may sound so strange to all, it was indeed the seventh mountain that was being referred to. this was no other than the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THEY WERE THE NEXT MOST POWERFUL NATION AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. as the angel said, they were going to continue for a short time. they were not layed emphasis upon much due to the fact that they were not AFRO-EURO-ASIAN COUNTRY.

THEY WERE THE SEVENTH KING IN PROPHECY.

THE TENTH (AND LAST) KINGDOM AND MOUNTAIN EXPLAINED
HERE IS WHERE WE ARE GOING!!! HERE IS THE PLACE I WANT YOU TO TAKE FULL COGNISANCE OF. ONE MAY WONDER: IS THERE GOING TO BE ANOTHER KINGDOM AFTER THE UNITED STATES? THIS MAY SOUND SO SURPRISING, HOWEVER, THE ANSWER REMAIN YES.

what i want you to notice is the Vision in the book of revelation 13. john wrote:"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having SEVEN HEADS and TEN HORNS, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.And the beast which I saw was like unto A LEOPARD, and his feet were as the feet of A BEAR, and his mouth as the mouth of A LION: and the dragon gave him his apower, and his seat, and great authority"(Rev. 13: 1-2). uhhh! this is the greatest of all mysteries unveil before your eyes today.

john furthered:"And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition"(Rev. 17: 11). the vision said that it was(meaning: it has existed before). also, it is of the seven, in other word it is no new kingdom and it was even almost the same as those of before. the vision now said:'it goeth into perdition' here lies the end of all the kingdoms striving with God's people. in other word, the appearance of this kingdom again means the appearance of its complete annihilation.

LET'S GO BACK TO THE EXPOSITION OF DANIEL. HOW MANY HEADS DO ALL THE BEAST THAT DANIEL SAW HAS: SEVEN. HOW? LET'S COUNT IT TOGETHER:
THE LION HAS ONE HEAD
THE LEOPARD HAS FOUR HEADS
THE BEAR HAS ONE HEAD WHILE
THE FOURTH BEAST HAS ONE HEAD.
LET'S DO SIMPLE ARITHMETIC HERE:
1+4+1+1=7.
HERE IS THE FIRST EXPOSITION.

THE SECOND EXPOSITION LIES IN THE FACT THAT ALL THE BEAST THAT DANIEL SAW HAS THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE:
LION
BEAR AND LEOPARD. THESE ARE THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEAST THAT JOHN SAW AS HE HAD WRITTEN:
THE BEAST WAS LIKE A LEOPARD(REMEMBER THAT THE LEOPARD IS GREECIAN-MACEDONIAN EMPIRE AS EXPLAINED ABOVE),
FEET OF BEAR, AND
MOUTH AS LION.

THIS SHOWS THAT THEY WERE SIMPLY THE SAME THING.
NOW FROM THE DREAM OF NEBUCHADNESSAR, THE HEAD, CHEST AND ARMS, BELLY AND THIGH, AND LEGS WERE NOT SHOWN TO BE BROKEN INDIVIDUALLY BY THE CUTTED MOUNTAIN, BUT WHEN THEY EXIST TOGETHER AS ONE, FORMING A COMPLETE BODY, THAT WAS WHEN IT WAS SHOWN THAT A ROCK SMASHED IT.

HERE LIES THE TENTH KINGDOM. WHEN JOHN SAW THAT VISION, IT WAS THE HEAD WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS THAT FIRST SHOWN UP FROM THE SEA. BUT AS WE HAVE EXPOSED ABOVE, THAT HEAD WITH TEN HORNS ARE THE ROMAN EMPIRE, SO THEY ARE GOING TO RISE FIRST. NOW THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST SHOWN UP AND HAS THE CHARACTER OF LION WHICH MEANS THAT AFTER THE RESURRECTION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE TOO WILL RISE UP. THIS THEN FOLLOWED BY THE APPEARANCE OF THE LEOPARD-LIKE BODY, WHICH INDICATES THAT THE GREECIAN-MACEDONIAN EMPIRE IS GOING TO RESURRECT AGAIN AND ROSE UP AFTER THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE, ALL THESE THEN FOLLOWED BY THE FEET AS OF BEAR, THIS IMPLIES THAT THE MEDO-PERSIAN IS GOING TO RESURRECT LAST. ALL THESE CONSTITUTE THE TEN KINGDOM AND THEY WERE SIMPLY THE COMBINATION OF EUROPE AND ASIA. ALTHOUGH EUROPE WILL FIRST OF ALL RESURRECT OF WHICH THEY WERE GATHERING THEIR ASS UP AGAIN THROUGH THE NEWLY FORMED EUROPEAN UNION.HOWEVER, AT THE LATTER PART OF THEIR KINGDOM, THE ASIAN WILL SURELY JOIN THEM AND THEY AS ONE WILL WANT TO RULE THE WORLD TOGETHER.

IT IS WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER AS ONE, THAT AS RECORDED BY DANIEL:"Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces TOGETHER(not individually), and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth"(Dan 2:34). this is a very great exposition. it is then that the kingdom of this earth will be done.
AMERICA IS GOING TO LOSE POWER, PROBABLY VERY SOON, NO BODY KNOWS THE TIME INDEED, BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT IT IS GOING TO COME TO PASS.

THE TEN HORN ON THE EIGHT MOUNTAIN
john furthered:"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast"(Rev. 17: 12-13). what could these mean?
this coming kingdom after the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is going to be comprised at the later hour of ten major kingdoms co-joining together to form one. who are these kingdoms or who could they be? the surety answer are: GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY, ITALY, FRANCE, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, BELGIUM(LUXEMBUG WITH DENMARK AS ONE), AUSTRIA(WITH SWITZERLAND AS ONE), TURKEY AND EGYPT. seeing Egypt you may wonder, can an African country join them? the answer remains yes! why? it was because, Egypt was originally part of the former roman empire and the modified HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. all these as one will surely come back, submit their dominion to an emperoroid(emperor-like). this empire is likely going to be ruled by a muslim. why? watch out SOON FOR THE PART TWO!!!

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND WHAT IT CONVEYED. THE TIME THAT JESUS COULD COME BACK, AND THE COMPLETE UNRAVEILMENT OF ALL THE MYSTERIES IN RELATION TO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE END. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO GET THE BOOK: "THE MYSTERY UNRAVEIL" BY BAMGOLD(to be publish soon!!!) so watch out!!!

HERE LIES THE PURPOSE OF BRINGING THIS TO MIND. IN 2005, MY HEART BEGAN THE QUEST FOR MYSTERIC KNOWLEDGE AND GOD OPEN MY HEART TO DIFFERS UNDERSTANDING THROUGH ALL MY RESEARCHES.

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and i say: ONE LOVE MY PEOPLE!!!

BAMGOLD