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Déjà vu In Bible Prophecy
Part XXVI
In our last installment of Double Double: Déjà vu In
Bible Prophecy, we completed the inclusion of each of the various
components which indicate the entire panorama of earthly kingdoms form a
mystical pattern of 666.
Moreover, because this is an elaborate subject encompassing
centuries of history, the somewhat sophisticated computation bears repeating.
Double Double has shown three
distinctive phases in world history, by examining the kingdoms which were
prophesied to rise and fall in the Scriptures. In what could be categorized as
“sets” of six kingdoms, in what is already a complex
equation, the study is further complicated by the fact that in each of the
three sets of dominions, the text only articulates the details of the last four
of each set.
Each of the aforementioned three “sets” of six
dominions have been documented in the books of Daniel and Revelation,
and each of the three occurred in separate timelines – with the
similarities between each suggesting a supernatural source that identifies the
power functioning behind the scenes.
Christian Media’s earliest probe of this
subject was published in the early 1990’s in an essay entitled Prophetic
Parallels and Role Reversals, so the present exposition is based on decades
of prophetic revelation. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the majority
of those interested in Bible Prophecy have failed to respond positively to the
breakthrough understanding.
However, the truth of the matter remains the truth,
regardless of who has ears to hear, and so we continue to propagate the
understanding knowing that the Word of the LORD is never put forth in vain.
“So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I
sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).
The three “timelines” in which six
successive dominions roll out sequentially, features the knowledge in Daniel 2,
and the well known dream in which Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon saw the future of
Gentile kingdoms.
Most Christians are aware of the details of
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a composite statue of gold, silver, brass, and
iron. However, when the four kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and
Rome (represented by the metallic components of the statue) are added to the two
historic Gentile powers that oppressed the LORD’s chosen of Israel years
before Daniel’s day, the total count is expanded to six kingdoms.
“And Pharaoh said,
Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the
Lord, neither will I let Israel go” (Exodus 5:2)
“Then the king of Assyria
came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three
years” (II Kings 17:5).
This is one of the keys to deciphering the mysterious
passage, for during Daniel’s time, the empires of Egypt and
Assyria had already faded from pre-eminence.
Indeed, the fact that these two Gentile powers
were somewhat segregated from the four better known kingdoms in
Nebuchadnezzar’s famous dream provides a critical understanding to the
very idea of doubling in the realm of Bible Prophecy.
In previous installments of the present work, Double
Double has noted that the tyranny of Egypt and Assyria
was largely borne by the Northern house of Israel, which occurred when the
chosen vessel of the LORD was divided into two houses – Israel
(sometimes called Samaria) in the North, and Judah (encompassing
Jerusalem) in the South.
Conversely, the prophetic dream of the king of Babylon only
addresses the four kingdoms which dominated the Southern kingdom
of Judah.
In fact, this goes to the very heart of the central issue of
doubling, as the prophet Isaiah alludes to the
judgment which fell on the kingdom of Samaria at the hands of the two
kingdoms of Egypt and Assyria, in rather mystical terms when compared
with the judgment meted out by the four kingdoms mentioned in Daniel.
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto
her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she
hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins” (Isaiah
40:1, 2).
The record shows the four kingdoms of Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream – Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome – were the agents of the
LORD which God used to punish Jerusalem for the sins of the Southern kingdom of
Judah.
In the book of Jeremiah, on multiple occasions the LORD
refers to Nebuchadnezzar as “my servant” (Jeremiah 25:9; 27:6),
to say nothing of the well known passage in which the LORD says that Babylon
“hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand” (Jeremiah
51:7). This indicates that the judgment that was inaugurated on Jerusalem
– a judgment which began at the first of four kingdoms -- is double
that which fell on Samaria in the North.
Thus, it can truly be said that Jerusalem “received of
the Lord’s hand double” the judgment which the
Northern kingdom of Samaria received from the two kingdoms of
Egypt and Assyria.
Christian Media has also repeatedly addressed the
phenomena of Twicespeak, in which certain prophecies are
punctuated by the doubled repetition of a phrase or a verse.
Thus, we recognize the Twicespeak phenomena in the verse which precedes
the announcement that Jerusalem’s judgment was doubled.
“Comfort ye, comfort ye
my people, saith your God” (Isaiah 40:1).
Furthermore, it is rather stunning to realize that in the
verse that follows Isaiah’s instruction to speak
“comfortably” to Jerusalem, the prophet utters the very words which
brought great comfort to Jerusalem, when they were doubled
centuries later by John the Baptist.
“The voice of him that crieth in
the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make strait in the desert a
highway for our God” (Isaiah 40:3).
“For this is he that was spoken of
by the prophet Esaias [Isaiah] saying, The voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight” (Matthew
3:3).
We’ve previously noted the rather uncanny similarity
between Joseph, who found himself in slavery in ancient Egypt,
and Daniel, who found himself in slavery in Babylon. Both were
Hebrew men who were held captive by Gentile kings.
Both were in bondage, but both were redeemed from that
captivity through interpreting a dream of the Gentile king, in the midst of a
great crisis. Joseph was raised to the position of Grand Vizier
(the equivalent of a modern Prime Minister), where he was second only to the
Pharaoh, and Daniel was also raised to political prominence.
It’s very significant to note that Joseph
was the patriarch of the Northern tribes which became known as Samaria,
even as Daniel is linked to Judah, in the Southern
kingdom.
“Then the king made Daniel a great
man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province
of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon” (Daniel
2:48).
Not only are Joseph and Daniel’s prophetic lives doubled,
the same thing may be said of the king of Egypt (who oppressed
the Northern kingdom) and the king of Babylon (who oppressed the
Southern kingdom), as the Hebrew prophets in their midst found great favour.
In Pharaoh’s case, a great famine was forecast to
occur for “seven years” (Genesis 41:30). In
Nebuchadnezzar’s case, he suffers a complete mental breakdown, which
lasts for “seven times” (Daniel 4:16).
“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” (Daniel 7:16).
It is interesting to note that in the earlier story of Pharaoh,
his epic dream was doubled, in that we learn he had two dreams
– one which spoke of thin and starving cattle, and one which spoke of a
very sparse crop of “seven ears” of corn that were quite sickly.
Joseph tells the Pharaoh the two dreams are essentially doubled,
as they spoke of a great famine to come, and the Scripture actually states that
Pharaoh’s prophetic dream was doubled!
“And for that the dream was doubled
unto Pharaoh twice” (Genesis 41:32).
Many centuries later, when the parallel circumstances
occurred which brought Daniel to great prominence, we learn that the prophecy
in which Nebuchadnezzar loses his mind for “seven times,” will be doubled
in the parallel kingdom in the second set of six kingdoms.
In the early 1990’s, the LORD further revealed that a
second set of kingdoms, which are detailed in Daniel 7 after a significant
vision, occur in parallel to the four kingdoms of Daniel 2.
Anyone who has read Daniel knows these four kingdoms are represented by four
beasts that are said to come out of the 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…and another beast, a second like to a bear…and
lo another, like a leopard…and behold, a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly” (Daniel 7:3-7).
As we’ve repeatedly asserted, the four beasts were
manifested as the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, the Third Reich of
Germany, and the USA -- and Christian Media’s friends have long
been aware of these identifications.
After extensive research and much material published on the Prophetic
Parallels between the two quartets, the Lord’s pattern of revelation
continued as He subsequently showed us the two kingdoms which preceded this
second quartet are the Holy Roman Empire, and Catholic Spain.
We then learned the third set of powers were imaged in the
four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the White, Red, Black, and Pale Horsemen, as
the identical pattern of revelation continued before we acquired the
knowledge of the parallels to the first two powers that precede the
quartets in the first and 2nd set.
It didn’t take long to connect the White Horse with
the British Empire, or the Red Horse with the Communists of the
Soviet Union. The Black Horse was reminiscent of Hitler’s
Black Shirts, and the Black science of the Nazis.
The Pale Horse, which was the parallel of the
mingled kingdom of America in the 2nd set, became self evident. As Christian
Medians know, the demarcation point of the parallel foursome became rather
obvious as President George HW Bush announced the “New
World Order.”
Bush’s successor Bill Clinton was so far
to the left he was logically seen as the Red Horse, and Bush Junior
nicely manifested the resurgence of the Black Horse, since George W
actually publicly acknowledged he was a “war president” (LA
Times, 02/09/04) – leaving the mingled pretender to the presidency
obviously identified with the Socialist/Islamist/Illegal Alien Barack
Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro.
Thus, as we searched for the two figures to precede the
modern era quartet, there had to be some association with Catholicism, as the
two in the second set testified. Further, as Catholicism was destined to
retreat to make way for the pre-eminence of the Little Horn of
political Israel which surfaced after the six kingdoms of the second set, the
two central Popes associated with the Vatican II reset of
Catholicism – Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II
fit rather nicely, as elaborated on in Part XXV of Double Double.
This left us with the successor to the 6th individual
(Barack Obama) in the form of Donald Jehu Trump, in the 7th
position. In the first set, JESUS
CHRIST Himself is the 7th kingdom, and in the 2nd
set we have the opposite polarity in the Little Horn.
In following the pattern of the 3rd set being
manifested by individuals in our timeline (the two Popes, and four
presidents), Trump fits the bill. It was fascinating to learn that President
Trump represented a respite from the onslaught of Antichrist leaders in Bush,
Clinton, Bush, and Obama – when we realized that Trump parallels the
passage that tells Spiritual Israel – the Christians
– are to be comforted, as her past judgments, which are associated with
the previous four presidents, were doubled.
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,
saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto
her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she
hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins” (Isaiah
40:1, 2).
-- James Lloyd
To Be Continued
