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The Image of The Beast

There is no doubt that AI is being used in nefarious ways, and will no doubt be used in some form via the beast system, were you cannot buy or sell and so forth.

I am doing a course in computer science right now, one part was on AI, although it was a very short section.

And they put parameters within the AI functions, and feed it all kinds of info, which can be used in many different ways, it can be used in a good way and nefarious ways, but be careful, and do not fully depend on it.

Now concerning the image of beast, people say all kinds of things about it, some think it might be some hologram that speaks, and I was thinking along those lines, but now I am thinking differently.

Now we know that Ai can be used to produce things, especially videos, images and so on, and then there is this thing called project Bluebeam, which can make things appear in the sky, and I think these technologies will no doubt be used in a deceptive way in the last days..

But here is what the word says concerning the image:

Rev 13:14-15
(14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
(15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Now this 2nd beast of Revelation 13, was doing miracles before the first beast.

Who is this beast ?

Rev 19:20
(20) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

He is known as the false prophet.

What shall this false prophet have ?

Rev 16:13-14
(13) And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
(14) For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.


He shall have an unclean spirit of a frog, which the bible shows that these unclean spirits are spirits of devils, that work miracles.

What shall the false prophet do ?

Rev 13:15
(15) And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

He shall give life to the image of the beast, so can the image be an actual statue ?

And could through evil spirit miracles (lying wonders), the false prophet cause the image to speak, because devils can also do miracles, not to the same degree as God, but to one degree or another it seems so, and there is proof all around us of lying wonders, deceitful wonders.

And even today men still get images erected of themselves and seek some form of worship (which is evil) such as Kim Jong Un.

Project Blue Beam was never proven to have existed. However, AI has been used to sway elections worldwide using deepfake videos of political leaders, dead and alive (rest of world). Project Blue Brain is 100% verified, real and public knowledge. When human labor is completely replaced, it will mean extinction.

In the 1960s-70s, John Calhoun conducted the famous Universe 25 mouse experiments, and he called the result the second death, or Death Squared. He placed mice in a closed environment where he fed them and put the into apartments. It was made like a utopia. However, things quickly broke down. The mice could not express their natural motives. Normally, stronger mice kick out the weaker mice. That is, the alpha mice fight off the beta mice, and the betas leave to mice colony to form a different colony if they survive. This could not happen in the experiment.

When the alpha mice would fight off the betas, they had nowhere to go. They pooled in the center of the experiment, and Calhoun called them the Dropouts. They grew in number, and eventually started fighting back the alpha mice. Normally the alphas would have no problem fighting them off, except their numbers were too high. They led many futile raids against the alpha mice which eventually drove the alphas insane. The alpha mice started to become homosexual and violent. They would rape both female and other male mice. The female cohorts of the alphas stopped caring about their children. Then more mutations began to form.

Strange mutations appeared. Gender roles reversed. The male mice became depressed and docile, and the female mice became aggressive and began to take control. The mice stopped breeding. The last generation of mice was called the Beautiful Ones, because all they did was groom themselves all day. Eventually, the mice went extinct, and Calhoun called this the Second Death or Death Squared (Calhoun 1973).

Since the experiment people have wondered what this means to humans and declining birth rates. It is not hard to see similarities. The Industrial Revolution at first caused a spike in population, and then declining birth rates. Labor is replaced by machines, and automation, and AI might replace the rest of human labor. This will put humans in a position like the mice, where they just get fed. AI and automation will take care of all production, and humans will be put on a Universal Income. This sounds like a utopia, but upon closer inspection, will lead to strange mutations and extinction. This is where God's curse on Adam, that he will have to work hard all day to eat, will look like a blessing (Genesis 3:16-18).

Calhoun, John B. 1973. "Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population," Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 66, (1973): 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/00359157730661P202

Melchor, Annie. 2024. "Universe 25 Experiment," The Scientist, May 27. https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941

rest of world. "2024 AI Elections Tracker," Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker
 
Project Blue Beam was never proven to have existed. However, AI has been used to sway elections worldwide using deepfake videos of political leaders, dead and alive (rest of world). Project Blue Brain is 100% verified, real and public knowledge. When human labor is completely replaced, it will mean extinction.

In the 1960s-70s, John Calhoun conducted the famous Universe 25 mouse experiments, and he called the result the second death, or Death Squared. He placed mice in a closed environment where he fed them and put the into apartments. It was made like a utopia. However, things quickly broke down. The mice could not express their natural motives. Normally, stronger mice kick out the weaker mice. That is, the alpha mice fight off the beta mice, and the betas leave to mice colony to form a different colony if they survive. This could not happen in the experiment.

When the alpha mice would fight off the betas, they had nowhere to go. They pooled in the center of the experiment, and Calhoun called them the Dropouts. They grew in number, and eventually started fighting back the alpha mice. Normally the alphas would have no problem fighting them off, except their numbers were too high. They led many futile raids against the alpha mice which eventually drove the alphas insane. The alpha mice started to become homosexual and violent. They would rape both female and other male mice. The female cohorts of the alphas stopped caring about their children. Then more mutations began to form.

Strange mutations appeared. Gender roles reversed. The male mice became depressed and docile, and the female mice became aggressive and began to take control. The mice stopped breeding. The last generation of mice was called the Beautiful Ones, because all they did was groom themselves all day. Eventually, the mice went extinct, and Calhoun called this the Second Death or Death Squared (Calhoun 1973).

Since the experiment people have wondered what this means to humans and declining birth rates. It is not hard to see similarities. The Industrial Revolution at first caused a spike in population, and then declining birth rates. Labor is replaced by machines, and automation, and AI might replace the rest of human labor. This will put humans in a position like the mice, where they just get fed. AI and automation will take care of all production, and humans will be put on a Universal Income. This sounds like a utopia, but upon closer inspection, will lead to strange mutations and extinction. This is where God's curse on Adam, that he will have to work hard all day to eat, will look like a blessing (Genesis 3:16-18).

Calhoun, John B. 1973. "Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population," Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 66, (1973): 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/00359157730661P202

Melchor, Annie. 2024. "Universe 25 Experiment," The Scientist, May 27. https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941

rest of world. "2024 AI Elections Tracker," Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker
May Jesus fill us with his humor

Humans they're always trying to copy us rats and mice I don't get it I really don't. Us rats we have the brain the size of a peanut, and we use 100% of our brains what is the excuse that the humans have using only what 3%.

At least we rats know who God is and we worship God too by living our daily lives. We do what we were created to do. Cause women to scream, cause Farmers to have gray hair, cause humans to blame history on us. Oh I'm sorry that's not what we do that's what humans do, react. Humans constantly react to everything. They are such "drama queen!!!" Yes we rats, we live as God intended we just live.
 
AI and automation will take care of all production, and humans will be put on a Universal Income.
Yep for sure that is the plan, and many more and more are being put out of a job as a result, it is a selfish system, the love of money, it is not a caring system, were you actually truly care about people's welfare in every way. Like you said they will make it look like a utopia, but there is big deception in this, depend on the government, that is what they want, and of course it is a control mechanism.
 
May Jesus fill us with his love and wisdom

It took me a long time to figure out what it was talking about, but it came to me when President George Bush Senior made a comment. He stated something about the way people think being a sea change. It dawned on me that the Beast that comes from the sea is actually a sea change.

A Sea Change, as it's known as, is a change that affects the world. Much the way that covid did.

The covid virus caused two different things to take place at the same time. Even though it was accidentally released, it showed the world that mankind is developing things such as that. It also caused a worldwide panic. I think for the most part that the fear of the covid virus was worse than the public virus itself.

So the Beast of the Sea, is a sea change. And I think that this type of sea change that is being talked about in Revelations, because it is referred to as a beast. Tells me that this particular type of sea change is against God.

I don't know what the second least is exactly.

But then again the Lord only shares with me everything that is up to the end of my time. At least in the details.
Have you looked more closely to the symbolism of these beasts ?
 
Have you looked more closely to the symbolism of these beasts ?
May Jesus fill us with his love and wisdom

Like I said, the visions I have of everything ends at my death. It ends when the Two Witnesses die. Everything else is pretty clear in my mind up to that point.
 
Rev 13:1-2
(1) 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.
(2) 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 power, and his seat, and great authority.

So this beast rises up out of the sea, but what does he rise up as ?
 
Rev 13:1-2
(1) 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.
(2) 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 power, and his seat, and great authority.

So this beast rises up out of the sea, but what does he rise up as ?
May Jesus fill us with his love and wisdom

When you read this part of scripture, you should be filled with the Holy Spirit to discern it. It is obviously not meant for everyone to understand.

The feet of a bear can represent that it has strength. The mouth of a lion and represent that it is loud and has authority to it. The fact that is represented as a leopard can mean that it changes. I'm sure you've heard the term changing your spots like a leopard. Meaning that it's true identity is clouded behind the falsehood that it shows.

I'm going to tell you this from my own personal experience, that in exercising a demon from a person often you'll have other demons that will block your vision if you're looking at them spiritually they will try to hide what is truly strong inside of that person as far as the type of Darkness that is inside of them. It gives a false illusion of the true Darkness that is there to be removed. I've encountered it a number of times where I at one point I was not the one in charge of the exorcism. And he the priest who was doing the exorcism relied on another person who could see spiritually and yet had a limitation as they only looked from the forward angle. The person could only discern one spirit inside of the one who was being exercised. But because of the way that I have learned to do it you don't look from just straight on you look from every angle and then so doing I could see three spirits inside of the one being exercised.

Going back to the leopard concept so it has spots that Shimmer and hides its true strength.

We see a variety of things going on in the world today. I don't know if you know this or not but I am a Catholic. Can I tell you this because I know for a fact that the person who sits on the throne of Peter who claims to be the leader of our church, is not.

Lord told me that he had rejected Leo as soon as he took the title. I know the circumstances around Leo in the first place and that is that the Cardinals who are supposed to pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance on who is to become the next leader of the Catholic Church, they did not do this. In fact this guy Leo was chosen by Francis the previous leader of the church who had also Fallen.

God told me a few years ago while Francis was still full that he had rejected Francis. I'm not going to get into all of the details about Francis but I know for sure that he was rejected by God. It was confirmed by a number of others who also have gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Francis told the Cardinals that he wanted Leo to succeed him. And that's how Leo became the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Catholic Mystics from long ago predicted that there would be two anti-Popes in a row preceding God's judgments.

The one who sits on the throne of Peter now, Leo has the Devil in him. Every time I look at him spiritually I can see Satan inside of him. I do not know if he is the Antichrist, in fact I'm not really sure that he is I think that is someone else. But that's just my guessing. Either way all of our churches and all the individuals who wish to be close to God are going to be in a great peril coming soon. And the Catholic church and all the other churches are going to be in the same boat. This is one of the reasons why the Catholics need to learn to forgive the Protestants and the Protestants need to learn to forgive the Catholics and get over it already.

I can tell you quite plainly, when I go to Jerusalem I am going to come down so hard on the Christians that cannot forgive your brothers and sisters. I will bring God's Wrath down like you have no idea. It will be worse for the Christians or those who call themselves Christians that have not been able to forgive each other than it is for the rest of the world.

I am so fed up with the hypocrisy of Christians.

Sorry, but I'm going to leave it here for you to ponder. I'm not yelling at you but I get so tired of all the hypocrisy that comes out of the mouths of Christians that should know better than what they are saying. They preach about the god of love and forgiveness but they themselves cannot even do it. They can't even forgive the pagans let alone the other brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Love is the key. Love is the only way to God
 
Now there are revised versions of things at times, in the bible, and we can see symbolism concerning a bear, lion and leopard in Daniel, and even ten horns in Daniel, the bible reveals itself.
 
A Sea Change, as it's known as, is a change that affects the world. Much the way that covid did.

The covid virus caused two different things to take place at the same time. Even though it was accidentally released, it showed the world that mankind is developing things such as that. It also caused a worldwide panic. I think for the most part that the fear of the covid virus was worse than the public virus itself.

So the Beast of the Sea, is a sea change. And I think that this type of sea change that is being talked about in Revelations, because it is referred to as a beast. Tells me that this particular type of sea change is against God.
Well it is true that there are things being done against God, but here is it really referring to a sea change, and if so, how is this beast rising up out of this sea change, or could the sea refer to a sea of people, and this beast is rising up out a sea of people ? ? ?
 
Rev 13:1-2
(1) 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.
(2) 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 power, and his seat, and great authority.

Notice that this beast, once he comes out of the sea, he comes out with certain features.
 
Rev 13:1-2
(1) 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.
(2) 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 power, and his seat, and great authority.

Notice that this beast, once he comes out of the sea, he comes out with certain features.
May Jesus fill us with his love and wisdom

Let me give you some examples of sea changes. Other than the physical type which would be like 9/11 and covid how it affected the whole world. There are other types like for instance when Darwin came along. Before Darwin much of the thinking was all religion, but when Darwin came along it changed everything it was a sea change because of how many people it affected affected the whole world.

When the Renaissance came. That itself was a sea change. For good or bad it was a sea change.

The Protestant Reformation that was a sea change for good or bad however you want to look at it it's still a sea change because it affects the vast number of people and the way people think

So is he changed is not limited to a physical thing that changes things like covid, it's more of a way of thinking from people. Or a change of heart so to speak

So when we see the Beast coming up out of the sea, the sea is the thought the way people think. If you listen to the Scripture it talks about how when the water flows one way or the other way that's the way people think, or the movement of the spirit.

In this case you have coming out of common thought becoming primary thought. So the way everybody's thinking is changing and it changes dramatically quickly. Those crowns that are being talked about in those different aspects and they all have blasphemy written on their foreheads. Let's go back a few years and look at how America changed so dramatically when Biden was in office. It was like overnight that the thinking went from normal men and women to multitude of sexes. You had all the transgender stuff going on that could be one figurehead with blasphemy across the brow, then you had another one and another one and another one these are all like figureheads and all of them with blasphemy written on their forehead. And this includes the argument of tone from people just arguing for the sake of arguing but not even having a purpose for their argument.

I know that God allowed President Biden to become president. He allowed the false election to take place. And I think that through what God allowed that we got to see just how bad it really is. And God is showing us a Prelude of what's to come. Because I know that President Trump is God's president just like America is God's country.

I know that might sound a little odd but there's no way in the world that this country should exist and yet it does. And here you have President Trump who was basically a Democrat before even taking office the first time yet God put it on his heart to be president. He had no real reason to become president. But yes you can see he has a great love for the country and it is growing what he was even in the beginning of his first campaign is nothing to who he is now. He may be probably the greatest president this country has ever seen, if the news media would actually tell the truth.

But what we saw during the time of Biden is a Prelude of what's coming. Once Trump is gone, I don't know if JD Vance can actually keep the momentum going. Because he's going to have to worry about his family and their safety. Trump is going all out. He cares about his family but he doesn't care about the rest of it he cares about the country and he's put the country before even his own safety.
 
Well of the first beast of Revelation 13, it says this:

Rev 13:5-6
(5) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
(6) And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And this matches with this:

2Th 2:3-4
(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

So there is this one that shall exalt himself above all that is called God, he is known as the man of sin, which he shall sit in the temple .

And also in Revelations 13, it says this:


Rev 13:18
(18) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

So 666 points to a man (singular), a man.

And this no doubt points to the Antichrist.

So the first beast points to the antichrist, but also it shows that he will have some type of coalition with the 10 horns, and the 6 other heads, for he (the antichrist), is one of the heads, specifically the leopard head that has a mouth of a lion.

And all of these animal parts point to some aspect, via what it says in Daniel, and in Daniel the leopard pointed to the Grecian empire, the bear pointed to the Persian empire, the lion pointed to the Babylonian empire, and the horns have something to do with Rome.

But in the aspect of the Antichrist, all of them in some manner point to some aspect of these empires, but for the most part (especially horns and leopard heads) to a revised form of say the Roman empire (via the horns), and the Grecian empire (via the heads), to were they will exist in a modern day, but revised form .

Now there is obviously a reason why it says that this beast rises up out of the sea, could in some manner, this rising, be referring to the how the actual Antichrist shall rise ?

Could it be referring to the rising of the Antichrist ?
 
And the feet of a bear, does have some relevance to Persia (which I will not get into right just yet), and the mouth of a lion some aspect to Babylon, specifically the Antichrist shall have the mouth of a lion, and in like manner to say Nebuchadnezzar, he shall have a similar boldness, and speak with authority sort of like Nebuchadnezzar, but just worse, so he will have some similar characteristics as say Nebuchadnezzar.

Dan 3:10-13
(10) Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
(11) And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
(12) There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
(13) Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.

He shall have a rage and fury likened unto Nebuchadnezzar, but only worse, so in a similar manner, the Antichrist's mouth shall be as a lion, he shall speak with authority.
 
Rev 13:1-2
(1) 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.
(2) 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 power, and his seat, and great authority.

I believe that the Antichrist rises up exactly in the way the image proclaims, it starts with the feet of a bear, and goes from there, and the bear in Daniel points to Persia, could the Antichrist have something to do with Persia ?
 
The mosque in Medina features 10 minarets (spires), which stand 104 meters tall. A possible reflection of the 10 horned beast.
I would rather stick to the symbolism in the bible, which shows ten horns on the fourth beast of Daniel, which pointed to the Roman empire.

Some things are Islamic, other things have to do with Rome, it is not all one or all the other, even though in the 10, there could possibly involve both European, some Islamic and maybe other nations, which were within the Roman empire territory, but God knows about that.
 
Do you think all things are Islamic, or should we stick to what the word reveals about the symbolism via leopards, and the ten horns and so on ?

We really need to stick to what God reveals, otherwise we just make up stuff.

Here is what it says about the second beast:

Rev 13:11
(11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

What kind of beast is this ?
 
Correctly identifying this beast isn't easy. The probabilities are strange since both Turkey and Iran are ancient Empires, and Damascus Syria is the oldest inhabited city on earth. Not to mention two of the world's greatest powers mixed in.

Strange circumstances. My top candidate for this beast is the return of Saddam. But I in no way am saying HE IS the man of sin or king of the north because there are other likely candidates from Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. It's just that Saddam fits it to the tee since he believed he was the God of resurrection and re-incarnation of Nebuchadnezzar.
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A Crescent moon that looks like two horns has a prayer room in it overlooking the Kaaba in a clock tower at Mecca that has ten spires and seven entrances?

One theory is that this clock will mark the end time and start of "kayamat" or judgement day which has been prophesied in the Quran as a time when Mehdi will lead the fight against Dajjal (or the anti-christ).

This is the only place in the New Testament where a bear is mentioned.
His feet were as the feet of a bear...

Feet could represent mobility and a bear can symbolize strength. Russia is symbolized by a bear. If we consider "the feet of the bear" as the southern parts of the former Soviet Union, we see the countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq. Any of these could be "the feet of the bear." These countries are all Islamic and some are nuclear powers.

...and his mouth as the mouth of a lion:
The mouth is the organ of speech so the lion is likely figurative of the evils taught in Islam's Koran.

3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

I consider these heads to be people and not kingdoms. So one of these seven kings will die and then return. The two possible candidates for this is Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden. Personally I think Saddam.

4 And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

The people from this empire will bow to Allah who they believe to be their messiah but is actually possessed by Satan the dragon. This is a unification of sorts in the Arab Middle East. Once they unite they will feel as powerful as the nations of the West.\par

Some of the experts believe this man or "anti-christ" is a Jew. John Hagee actually believes that John 5:43 and Daniel 11:37 indicates that this man will be a homosexual Jew! How ridiculous! Hagee claims the following passage indicates he's a homosexual! The verse actually supports an Islamic anti-christ since women are looked down upon as second class citizens in Islam.

Daniel 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women,

Things to note: Former Soviet countries.


Belarus had 81 single warhead missiles stationed on its territory after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. They were all transferred to Russia by 1996. In May 1992, Belarus acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.[55]

Kazakhstan inherited 1,400 nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union and transferred them all to Russia by 1995. Kazakhstan has since acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.[56]
Ukraine has acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ukraine inherited about 5,000 nuclear weapons when it became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991, making its nuclear arsenal the third-largest in the world.[57] By 1996, Ukraine had voluntarily disposed of all nuclear weapons within its territory, transferring them to Russia.[58]

Over 1000 of these nukes are unaccounted for. Bin Laden used his money to buy some of them and paid nuclear scientist to develop suitcase size weapons. So some of these weapons are now in the hands of terrorist.
May Jesus fill us with his love and wisdom

Well considering that everyone and their brother has misunderstood the breaking of the first seal. It doesn't surprise me that understanding the rest of Revelations can also become misunderstood as well.
 
The correct sequence of kingdoms in Daniel 2 predates the one that claims Rome is the legs of iron. It goes back to the time of Josephus which is...
Babylon = Head of Gold
Mede's = Arms of silver
Persian' s = Thighs of brass
Greeks = Legs of iron.
Dan 2:38-41
(38) 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 head of gold.
(39) And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
(40) 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.
(41) 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.

It speaks of four kingdoms here, and you are right on the head of gold which points to Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian empire.

The meaning of this statue, is very similar to the meanings of the 4 beasts in Daniel 7.

Notice that in the statue, there are toes, which obviously are ten toes.

Let us look at the similarities, with the beasts of Daniel 7.

Dan 7:3-7
(3) And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
(4) The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld 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.
(5) 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.
(6) 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.
(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.

What does the word say these beasts are ?

Dan 7:17
(17) These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Dan 7:23
(23) Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

So the 4 beasts refer to 4 kings with successive kingdoms.

The successive kingdoms that literally followed each other were:

1. Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian empire.
2. Cyrus, and the Persian empire.
3. Alexander the great, and the Grecian empire.
4. Caesar Augustus, and the Roman empire.

In the statue, there are ten toes, and in the 4th beast there are 10 horns, in the statue the are legs of iron, in the 4th beast there are teeth of iron, they all match.

In fact the 2nd beast, pointed to the Medo-Persian empire.
Here is a bit of history:

(Medo-Persian conflict - Wikipedia)

(...Cyrus the Great led the Persians to victory over the Medes, resulting in the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire, which incorporated both Median and Persian territories. However, they did not form a kingdom together; rather, the Medes were subjugated by the Persians.)

And here are more things to consider:

Dan 8:20-21
(20) The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.
(21) And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

When these 4 world kingdoms were formed, it was Babylon, Persia, Grecia, and Rome, Media was not on it's own one of these kingdoms.

What did Alexander the great conquer ? It was the Medo-Persian empire.
 
Medo was not a successive world empire in this list, Cyrus conquered it , and incorporated it into his empire, which became a world wide empire of sort.

The bible even say this:

Dan 11:2-4
(2) 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.
(3) And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
(4) And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; 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.

Who was a king that had conquered the known world, to were after his death his kingdom was split in 4 ?

Alexander the great, which is the king in verse 3.

Well what about the 3rd beast of Daniel 7 ?

Daniel 7:6
(6) 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.

Hmmm, 4 wings, 4 heads, and in Daniel 11 4, 4 winds of heaven, hmmm it sure sounds, by comparing scripture with scripture that the 3rd beast of Daniel 7, is Greece.
 
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