By studying Daniel 7, one can realise whose the little horn power that is also described in Revelation 13 as the beast that comes up out of the see. In Daniel 7, daniel prophesies of four kingdoms. These four were historically Babylon, medo-persia, greece, and Rome. The third beast split into four kingdoms, that's why it had four heads. When Alexander the great died, his kingdom was taken over by his four generals. Each one took a part of the kingdom. The fourth beast historically was Rome. Which was divided in 476 ad into ten nations --> that's why it had ten horns.
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OP: Mark of the beast is sunday laws.
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Question / Issue
Is there really going to be a national Sunday law?
Answer / Solution
It is something that will never be. The Bible doesn't teach it. Adventists have come up with it as a scare tactic to get people to join their denomination and worship on Saturday.
The seal of God is not the Sabbath, the Bible clearly says it is the Holy Spirit:
"In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation –having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise." Ephesians 1:13
"Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." Ephesians 4:30
"Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge." 2 Corinthians 1:21-22
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"Which was divided in 476 ad into ten nations --> that's why it had ten horns"
what a leap!
the Bible says nothing about any of that.
the ten horns were 10 Caesars who ruled the known world (empire) during the LIFETIME OF JESUS.
beginning with Augustus, and proceeding through to PRINCE Titus (who later became Caesar), and destroyed Jerusalem in 70AD.
ALL of Daniel was about ancient ISRAEL...it is about THEM first and foremost.
it talks about their captivities, and their return to the land in time for the Promised King and Savior,
who in the days of those kings (the 10 horns [Caesars] and 7 heads [Herods])
did set up a kingdom that would not ever be given to another (king), and His kingdom would be an everlasting Kingdom.
Daniel is all fulfilled
. it's not about the Papacy.
Daniel 2:44
Daniel Interprets the Dream
43"And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery. 44"
In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. 45"Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy."
John 12:34
The crowd spoke up, "We have heard from the Law that the Messiah will remain forever, so how can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this 'Son of Man'?"
Luke 1:32
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David
Matthew 3:2
and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near."
Hebrews 12:28
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe..
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anyway - the mark of the beast would be on the followers of the beast, not on followers of Christ.
the Catholic church is not
the beast of Revelation, nor Daniel.
that beast was the confederacy between apostate Judaism (Herods, who made themselves Kings of the Jews) and the Romans.
eventually the Romans hated the Harlot who sat upon the many waters (peoples languages and nations), for God had placed it in their hearts to burn her with fire - the Mosaic Law's punishment on the daughter of a priest who prostitutes herself poured out,
decreed by Jesus:
Luke 19
39Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”40But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”
41When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,42saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.43“For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,44and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
and they did, exactly that. the desolation completed by
Prince Titus (later king-Caesar):
Carrying off the Menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem depicted on a frieze on the Arch of Titus in the Forum Romanum
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any use of Daniel to make anything about the Papacy is eisgesis and speculation.
never gonna make sense of it if we keep using GAP theories
you can hate on the Vatican if you want to, but don't use Daniel to do it
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Daniel 11:36
And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods,
and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
....was (Herod) Agrippa II.
Herod’s Grandchildren (37-96 C.E.) < click
