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On ‎8‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 8:25 AM, Michael37 said:

 

Julius Caesar was assassinated 15th March 44BC and in 42BC

A major difference ,  and a supernatural one at that , will be that assassination will not work on him .

Satan will be allowed by God to perform his version of bringing the dead back to life :

                                          " 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 . "   ( Revelation 13 : 3 ) 

Apparently this supernatural transformation will convince the majority who may have been ambivalent towards the beast that they indeed have God's long sought  messiah in their presence . 

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15 hours ago, Diaste said:

I know people like this idea of Rome as the final empire but it's just not biblical. Rome has nothing to do with the statue in Dan 2.

First, whoever the beast and his allies are the seat of that government will emanate from the region of Mesopotamia, where Babylon once stood.

The little horn must arise from one of the four notable ones that took power of the Grecian Empire after the death of Alexander. That's going to be Turkey, Egypt, Greece or the Mideast.

Based on this alone Rome is not in consideration for the rise of the beast nor the power base formed after it's rise.

Since the first three empires from the statue all notably ruled from Babylon in Iraq it's likely the fourth either rules from the same city or at least in the region of Mesopotamia. Rome did not, but Islam did.

Since Dan 11 follows the succession of kings of the Seleucid Empire, right to the willful king of Dan 11:36, it's more than reasonable to conclude the beast is Syrian, Iraqi, Saudi, maybe even Jordanian, but certainly not European. 

God's whole plan is Israel-centric, both the nation and true, spiritual Israel, of which we believers are members. Everything that has occurred in scriptural history concerning Israel, in relation to others nations interaction with Israel, has always been centered in Mesopotamia.

It will be again.

Rome is a red herring.

Look to the Mideast, specifically the buffer countries on the east between Israel and the near and far east. 

Hi Diaste, There is a distinction made in Revelation 13 between the metaphorical first beast from the sea and the metaphorical second beast from the earth. The term beast is used because of the characteristics and behaviours it brings to mind and is not used in a literal sense. The numerolgy of the  heads, horns, crowns, mountains, and kingdoms and the mark of the beast is a significant link between the dragon, the beast from the sea, and the false prophet (beast from the earth, man of sin). I believe the Wounded Head of the first beast is a reference to the fall of the Roman Empire, the 6th Head which is eventually revived not literally as its predecessor, but figuratively in its identical aspirations, ideology and implementation, as so ably described @Fidei Defensor .

If the Vatican City is sold off, the position of POPE abolished, and Roman Catholicism abandoned at some point in the future I will concede to being mistaken, but for now I see a global environment developing where historical theological, political, cultural, demographical, and geographical boundaries are so irrelevant as to be meaningless, except for the claims of Israel. Whomever the man of sin is literally, wherever he is from literally, and of whatever ethnicity he is literally will be totally irrelevant apart from fufilling Scripture. It is in the figurative sense of the second beast that he will be another Caesar claiming divinity, and in the figurative sense of the first beast his satanically prescribed global empire will include all that has gone before in terms of imperial control plus the impetus of the great apostasy and removal of restraint prophesied in Scripture.    

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